Platform Engineer Contracts in South London

Platform Engineer
London > South London

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in South London is £638, 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 33 40 53
Rank change year-on-year +7 +13 -
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 1.08% 0.83% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 0.85% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £566 £538 £499
25th Percentile £591 £556 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £588 £510
Median % change year-on-year +8.51% +15.10% -
75th Percentile £691 £619 £518
90th Percentile £719 £638 £522
London median daily rate £550 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -6.38% -2.08% +4.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South 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 South London with a recognized job title 171 236 355
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 97.52% 92.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 157 278
10th Percentile £224 £202 £213
25th Percentile £425 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £749 £638 £775
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 17 14
10th Percentile £22.49 £17.00 £16.13
25th Percentile £24.41 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.61 £23.50 £22.98
Median % change year-on-year +17.47% +2.26% -51.55%
75th Percentile £30.80 £75.00 £50.42
90th Percentile £32.72 £83.75 £52.21
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in South London

Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer in South London

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in South London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineer in South London

Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the South 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
Bromley -6 1 £725 +11.54%
Platform Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 South London region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) AWS KMS
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CDK
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Go
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle