DevOps Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends 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 £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 August 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
31 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 361 414
Rank change year-on-year 0 +53 +92
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Platform Engineer 12 6 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.033% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.086% 0.036% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 7
10th Percentile £372 £390 £470
25th Percentile £422 £469 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £604 £525
Median % change year-on-year -25.43% +14.95% -16.00%
75th Percentile £463 £650 £538
90th Percentile £485 £663 £561
UK median daily rate £513 £557 £600
% change year-on-year -7.99% -7.17% -4.38%

All DemandTrendContract 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 13,894 16,635 20,346
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.07% 92.36% 94.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,511 9,912 13,684
10th Percentile £213 £220 £226
25th Percentile £362 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,261 1,563 1,152
10th Percentile £13.46 £14.05 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.30 £18.50 £17.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £44.04 £38.65
Median % change year-on-year -42.89% +13.95% +79.77%
75th Percentile £53.99 £66.16 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.17
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.96% +62.20%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Platform Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Platform Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

DevOps Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 31 August 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
Midlands -3 9 £450 -19.21%
West Midlands -7 9 £450 -19.21%
Scotland +3 1 - -
North West -11 1 £373 -42.69%
North of England -20 1 £373 -42.69%
South West - 1 £500 -
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 31 August 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 12 (100.00%) DevOps
1 12 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 11 (91.67%) Terraform
2 11 (91.67%) AWS
2 11 (91.67%) Linux
3 10 (83.33%) Python
3 10 (83.33%) Change Management
3 10 (83.33%) Nessus
3 10 (83.33%) JIRA
3 10 (83.33%) SC Cleared
3 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
3 10 (83.33%) Git
3 10 (83.33%) Jenkins
3 10 (83.33%) Docker
3 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
4 9 (75.00%) Cloud Security
4 9 (75.00%) AWS KMS
4 9 (75.00%) Amazon ECS
4 9 (75.00%) Grafana
4 9 (75.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 9 (75.00%) Prometheus
4 9 (75.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (75.00%) Groovy
4 9 (75.00%) Amazon Linux
4 9 (75.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 9 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
4 9 (75.00%) Vagrant
4 9 (75.00%) ServiceNow
4 9 (75.00%) Amazon ELB

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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (75.00%) Confluence
1 9 (75.00%) nginx
2 1 (8.33%) JBoss
Applications
1 9 (75.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) AWS
2 9 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 9 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
2 9 (75.00%) Amazon ECS
2 9 (75.00%) Amazon ELB
2 9 (75.00%) Amazon S3
2 9 (75.00%) AWS KMS
2 9 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (75.00%) Route 53
2 9 (75.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 8 (66.67%) Azure
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) IaaS
4 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (75.00%) IMAP
1 9 (75.00%) OpenLDAP
1 9 (75.00%) SMTP
2 7 (58.33%) DNS
2 7 (58.33%) Firewall
2 7 (58.33%) FTP
2 7 (58.33%) HTTP
2 7 (58.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (75.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 9 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (83.33%) Git
1 10 (83.33%) Jenkins
1 10 (83.33%) JIRA
2 9 (75.00%) Vagrant
3 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (8.33%) CA Release Automation
3 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (8.33%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (58.33%) Presentation Skills
1 7 (58.33%) Public Sector
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (75.00%) LDAP
2 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Linux
2 9 (75.00%) Amazon Linux
2 9 (75.00%) VMS
2 9 (75.00%) Windows
3 8 (66.67%) Ubuntu
4 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
1 12 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 10 (83.33%) Change Management
2 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 9 (75.00%) Cloud Security
3 9 (75.00%) Configuration Management
3 9 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
4 7 (58.33%) Patch Management
5 2 (16.67%) Observability
6 1 (8.33%) Code Quality
6 1 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (8.33%) FinOps
6 1 (8.33%) GitOps
6 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (8.33%) Microservices
6 1 (8.33%) Runbook
6 1 (8.33%) Security Hardening
6 1 (8.33%) Service Management
6 1 (8.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Python
2 9 (75.00%) Groovy
2 9 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 9 (75.00%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (58.33%) AWS Certification
2 7 (58.33%) Azure Certification
2 7 (58.33%) Degree
System Software
1 10 (83.33%) Docker
2 9 (75.00%) Dovecot
2 9 (75.00%) Postfix
2 9 (75.00%) Squid
3 7 (58.33%) DFS Replication
4 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (91.67%) Terraform
2 10 (83.33%) Nessus
3 9 (75.00%) Grafana
3 9 (75.00%) Prometheus
4 7 (58.33%) Proxmox
5 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
6 1 (8.33%) Ansible
6 1 (8.33%) Kibana
6 1 (8.33%) Packer
6 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Jaspersoft
1 9 (75.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) AppDynamics
2 1 (8.33%) Cloudera
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk
2 1 (8.33%) VMware