Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in Sutton

Platform Engineering
South London > Sutton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sutton requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sutton 20.00% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South London median daily rate £525 £615 £625
% change year-on-year -14.63% -1.60% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sutton

Platform Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Sutton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5 7 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sutton 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 6
10th Percentile £261 £205 £256
25th Percentile £423 £210 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £230 £463
Median % change year-on-year +129.35% -50.27% +21.71%
75th Percentile £545 £284 £566
90th Percentile - £375 £638
South London median daily rate £513 £525 £511
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.69% -7.05%

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sutton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) PagerDuty