Platform Engineering Contracts in South London

Platform Engineering
London > South London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London with a requirement for Platform Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 44 49
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 -14
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 3 10 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 1.27% 2.59% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 2.87% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 7
10th Percentile £530 - £555
25th Percentile £538 £496 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £510 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.75% -14.93% -4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £630 - -
London median daily rate £600 £630 £600
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

Platform Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in South London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 221 349 326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 93.25% 90.41% 88.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 281 248
10th Percentile £213 £300 £333
25th Percentile £413 £453 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £533
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +1.41% +1.43%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £638
90th Percentile £638 £775 £704
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 12
10th Percentile £17.00 £18.75 £39.34
25th Percentile £21.25 £20.00 £40.93
Median hourly rate £23.50 £23.46 £47.44
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% -50.54% +2.20%
75th Percentile £75.00 £50.42 £48.90
90th Percentile £83.75 £52.46 £55.29
London median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +10.77%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South London.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in South London

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in South London

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in South London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in South London

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering within the South London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Croydon -3 2 £538 +5.30%
Bromley - 1 £650 -
Platform Engineering
London

Platform Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
1 1 (33.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Route 53
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) GitOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) C
3 1 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) Go
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) Consul
3 1 (33.33%) Packer
3 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace