AWS Platform Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > UK excluding London

The median Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK excluding London is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 383 445 506
Rank change year-on-year +62 +61 -80
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Platform Engineer 15 10 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.072% 0.042% 0.045%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.078% 0.044% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 10
10th Percentile £445 £484 -
25th Percentile £453 £506 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +35.29% -19.05%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £519
90th Percentile £556 £659 £585
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.42% +4.35% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,163 22,551 29,607
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.57% 94.20% 95.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,700 15,818 20,751
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,248 1,160 1,483
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £39.55 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.20
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

AWS Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London

AWS Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for AWS Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London

AWS Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London

AWS Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Platform Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Scotland - 7 £453 -
North of England +32 5 £550 +1.15% 1
South East +25 3 £538 -17.31% 1
North West +20 3 £550 -5.38% 1
Yorkshire +19 2 £525 +3.70%
AWS Platform Engineer
UK

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, AWS 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 UK excluding London region featuring AWS Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) AWS
1 15 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 10 (66.67%) DevOps
2 10 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 10 (66.67%) Python
3 9 (60.00%) Docker
3 9 (60.00%) Terraform
3 9 (60.00%) Snowflake
4 8 (53.33%) Java
5 7 (46.67%) Bash
5 7 (46.67%) Ansible
6 6 (40.00%) Data Engineering
6 6 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (40.00%) Databricks
6 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (40.00%) GitOps
6 6 (40.00%) Azure
6 6 (40.00%) Computer Science
6 6 (40.00%) Scala
6 6 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (40.00%) DataOps
6 6 (40.00%) MLOps
6 6 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (33.33%) Datadog
8 4 (26.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (26.67%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (26.67%) Linux
8 4 (26.67%) Agile
9 3 (20.00%) SQL
9 3 (20.00%) DNS

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 6 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (60.00%) Snowflake
3 6 (40.00%) Azure
4 5 (33.33%) Datadog
5 4 (26.67%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (26.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (6.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
7 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
7 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (20.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Git
1 3 (20.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (6.67%) Artifactory
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
2 3 (20.00%) Debian
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 10 (66.67%) DevOps
3 6 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 6 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (40.00%) DataOps
3 6 (40.00%) GitOps
3 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (40.00%) MLOps
4 4 (26.67%) Agile
5 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
5 3 (20.00%) IT Strategy
5 3 (20.00%) Performance Analysis
5 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (20.00%) Process Improvement
5 3 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
6 2 (13.33%) DevSecOps
6 2 (13.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Python
2 8 (53.33%) Java
3 7 (46.67%) Bash
4 6 (40.00%) Scala
5 3 (20.00%) Go
5 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
5 3 (20.00%) SQL
System Software
1 9 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 9 (60.00%) Terraform
3 7 (46.67%) Ansible
4 3 (20.00%) HP Fortify
5 1 (6.67%) Grafana
5 1 (6.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Databricks
2 3 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (20.00%) Splunk