Senior Platform Engineer Contracts in London

Senior Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Platform Engineer daily rate in London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 381 483
Rank change year-on-year +42 +102 +98
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 14 10 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.056% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.060% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 7
10th Percentile - £515 £525
25th Percentile £494 £550 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £638
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -5.88% -1.92%
75th Percentile £550 £645 £700
90th Percentile £575 £651 £805
England median daily rate £525 £600 £619
% change year-on-year -12.50% -3.03% +5.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Senior Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Platform Engineer in London

Senior Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Platform Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Platform Engineer in London

Senior Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Platform Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South London - 1 £550 -
Senior Platform Engineer
England

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Platform Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (85.71%) DevOps
2 11 (78.57%) Terraform
2 11 (78.57%) AWS
2 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
2 11 (78.57%) Platform Engineering
2 11 (78.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (71.43%) Python
4 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
5 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (42.86%) Azure
6 6 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (42.86%) Jenkins
6 6 (42.86%) Bash
6 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
6 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
7 5 (35.71%) Go
7 5 (35.71%) Docker
7 5 (35.71%) GitHub
7 5 (35.71%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (28.57%) Ansible
8 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
8 4 (28.57%) Configuration Management
8 4 (28.57%) Firewall
9 3 (21.43%) SaaS
9 3 (21.43%) PaaS
9 3 (21.43%) High Availability
9 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
9 3 (21.43%) GitLab

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) AWS
2 6 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
2 6 (42.86%) Azure
3 5 (35.71%) GitHub
3 5 (35.71%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) OCI
5 3 (21.43%) PaaS
5 3 (21.43%) SaaS
5 3 (21.43%) Serverless
6 2 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (14.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (14.29%) AWS Control Tower
6 2 (14.29%) AWS KMS
6 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (14.29%) Azure Batch
6 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
6 2 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) BGP
2 1 (7.14%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) MPLS
2 1 (7.14%) Network Security
2 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
2 1 (7.14%) VPN
2 1 (7.14%) WAN
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 3 (21.43%) GitLab
3 2 (14.29%) CircleCI
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.14%) Billing
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) AWS CDK
2 2 (14.29%) AWS SAM
3 1 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Unix
2 1 (7.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) DevOps
2 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
2 11 (78.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (78.57%) Platform Engineering
3 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (28.57%) Configuration Management
4 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 3 (21.43%) High Availability
5 3 (21.43%) Observability
5 3 (21.43%) Task Automation
6 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security
6 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 2 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (14.29%) Data Transformation
6 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (14.29%) Software Delivery
7 1 (7.14%) ERP
7 1 (7.14%) Load Balancing
7 1 (7.14%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) Python
2 6 (42.86%) Bash
3 5 (35.71%) Go
4 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
5 2 (14.29%) Bicep
5 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
6 1 (7.14%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
2 3 (21.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (78.57%) Terraform
2 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 4 (28.57%) Ansible
4 3 (21.43%) Grafana
5 2 (14.29%) FortiGate
6 1 (7.14%) Data Guard
6 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
2 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto