DevOps Platform Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineer - DevOps
UK > UK excluding London

The median Platform Engineer - DevOps daily rate in the UK excluding 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 334 390 458
Rank change year-on-year +56 +68 +41
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Platform Engineer 2 9 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.016% 0.043% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.047% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 3
10th Percentile £503 £440 £458
25th Percentile £506 £500 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.17% +9.72%
75th Percentile £556 £650 £642
90th Percentile £568 £655 £669
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +3.81%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

DevOps Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

DevOps 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 DevOps Platform Engineer within the UK excluding 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
North of England +13 1 £550 - 1
North East - 1 £550 -
South West - 1 £500 - 2
DevOps Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, DevOps 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 DevOps Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (50.00%) Packer
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Code Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft

DevOps 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Benchmarking
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Code Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Static Code Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Nessus
2 1 (50.00%) Packer
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) VMware