Senior Platform Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Platform Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Platform Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £402, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 June 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
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 401 433
Rank change year-on-year +55 +32 +65
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 11 4 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.081% 0.019% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.020% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 8
10th Percentile £393 £510 £513
25th Percentile - £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £650 £626
Median % change year-on-year -38.15% +3.79% +16.51%
75th Percentile £479 £663 £668
90th Percentile £600 £670 £756
UK median daily rate £518 £640 £645
% change year-on-year -19.03% -0.78% +14.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £57.50

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 12,381 19,636 21,542
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.37% 92.47% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,743 11,699 14,909
10th Percentile £220 £213 £231
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 969 2,517 1,118
10th Percentile £13.49 £12.56 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.96 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% - +100.00%
75th Percentile £58.58 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.44 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -27.03% -12.79% +72.00%

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Senior Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

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

Senior Platform Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Platform Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
South East - 5 £402 - 8
North of England +28 3 £402 -39.32% 8
North West +8 2 £401 -39.47% 7
East Midlands - 2 £534 - 1
Midlands - 2 £534 - 3
Scotland +2 1 £479 - 1
North East - 1 £550 -
Senior Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 2025, Senior 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 Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Python
2 10 (90.91%) Jenkins
2 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
3 9 (81.82%) Kubernetes
4 8 (72.73%) Platform Engineering
4 8 (72.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (63.64%) Docker
5 7 (63.64%) DevOps
5 7 (63.64%) Azure
6 6 (54.55%) AWS
6 6 (54.55%) Java
6 6 (54.55%) SQL
6 6 (54.55%) Linux
6 6 (54.55%) Agile
6 6 (54.55%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
7 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
7 5 (45.45%) Mentoring
7 5 (45.45%) Ansible
8 4 (36.36%) Terraform
8 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
8 4 (36.36%) Validation
8 4 (36.36%) Red Hat
8 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
9 3 (27.27%) Product Ownership
9 3 (27.27%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (27.27%) Git
9 3 (27.27%) Scala
9 3 (27.27%) Visualisation

Senior 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 2 (18.18%) WebSphere
1 2 (18.18%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) AWS
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon EMR
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon Kinesis
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
3 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (27.27%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (27.27%) OpenShift
3 3 (27.27%) Serverless
4 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) GCP
4 2 (18.18%) IBM Cloud
4 2 (18.18%) npm
5 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Batch
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (90.91%) Jenkins
2 3 (27.27%) Git
3 2 (18.18%) GitLab
3 2 (18.18%) Maven
General
1 6 (54.55%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Banking
3 3 (27.27%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Finance
5 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Kafka
1 3 (27.27%) Middleware
1 3 (27.27%) React
2 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 3 (27.27%) Private Cloud
2 3 (27.27%) Product Ownership
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Android
2 2 (18.18%) Apple iOS
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 8 (72.73%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (72.73%) Platform Engineering
3 7 (63.64%) DevOps
4 6 (54.55%) Agile
4 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
5 5 (45.45%) Mentoring
6 4 (36.36%) Validation
7 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
7 3 (27.27%) Configuration Management
7 3 (27.27%) Data Integration
7 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
7 3 (27.27%) Data Security
7 3 (27.27%) Data Validation
7 3 (27.27%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (27.27%) ETL
7 3 (27.27%) Migration
7 3 (27.27%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (54.55%) Java
2 6 (54.55%) SQL
3 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
4 3 (27.27%) Bash
4 3 (27.27%) C#
4 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 3 (27.27%) Scala
5 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
6 1 (9.09%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) AWS Certification
1 3 (27.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) Kubernetes
2 5 (45.45%) Ansible
3 4 (36.36%) Terraform
4 2 (18.18%) Istio
5 1 (9.09%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (9.09%) Grafana
5 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Red Hat
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) IBM
4 1 (9.09%) Dynatrace
4 1 (9.09%) VMware