AWS Platform Engineer Contracts

Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK is £537, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 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
22 Jun 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 521 556 652
Rank change year-on-year +35 +96 +166
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Platform Engineer 22 26 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.073% 0.059% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% 0.064% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 21 51
10th Percentile £369 £360 £506
25th Percentile £499 £440 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +12.97% -20.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £550 £650
90th Percentile £742 £588 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £460 £575
% change year-on-year +8.70% -20.00% +11.65%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,642 40,746 52,377
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 92.92% 94.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,729 26,106 36,473
10th Percentile £288 £281 £313
25th Percentile £402 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,199 2,996 1,499
10th Percentile £13.84 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.39 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.35 £37.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.07% -14.77% +76.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £76.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -1.23% +102.50%

AWS Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Platform Engineer in the UK

AWS Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Platform Engineer.

Daily rate trend for AWS Platform Engineer in the UK

AWS Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Platform Engineer in the UK

AWS Platform Engineer
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 22 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
England +71 19 £537 -0.16% 59
London +50 13 £563 +18.42% 34
Work from Home +32 9 £523 +9.01% 56
UK excluding London +38 6 £500 +8.70% 30
South East +53 4 £500 -6.98% 13
Midlands - 3 £500 -
East Midlands - 2 £500 -
Scotland -2 1 - - 2
West Midlands - 1 £450 -

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 22 June 2025, 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 featuring AWS Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) AWS
1 22 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 19 (86.36%) Terraform
3 12 (54.55%) DevOps
3 12 (54.55%) Python
4 11 (50.00%) Jenkins
4 11 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 10 (45.45%) GitHub
5 10 (45.45%) Security Cleared
5 10 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (40.91%) Git
7 8 (36.36%) Azure
7 8 (36.36%) Linux
7 8 (36.36%) Configuration Management
8 7 (31.82%) Ansible
8 7 (31.82%) Docker
8 7 (31.82%) Kubernetes
9 6 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (27.27%) Windows
9 6 (27.27%) PowerShell
9 6 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (22.73%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (22.73%) Cloud Security
10 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
10 5 (22.73%) Open Source
10 5 (22.73%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (22.73%) Amazon S3
10 5 (22.73%) High Availability
10 5 (22.73%) Finance

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (4.55%) Camunda
1 1 (4.55%) Confluence
1 1 (4.55%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (45.45%) GitHub
3 8 (36.36%) Azure
4 6 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (22.73%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (22.73%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (22.73%) Amazon S3
5 5 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (18.18%) Serverless
7 3 (13.64%) AWS KMS
7 3 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (13.64%) GCP
8 2 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (9.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
8 2 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
1 1 (4.55%) IMAP
1 1 (4.55%) OpenLDAP
1 1 (4.55%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) Big Data
2 2 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (40.91%) Git
3 3 (13.64%) GitLab
4 2 (9.09%) CircleCI
4 2 (9.09%) JIRA
5 1 (4.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
5 1 (4.55%) Terragrunt
5 1 (4.55%) Vagrant
General
1 5 (22.73%) Finance
2 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) AWS CDK
1 1 (4.55%) JSON
1 1 (4.55%) Keycloak
1 1 (4.55%) LDAP
1 1 (4.55%) Node.js
1 1 (4.55%) React
1 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (36.36%) Linux
2 6 (27.27%) Windows
3 5 (22.73%) Ubuntu
3 5 (22.73%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 12 (54.55%) DevOps
3 11 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 10 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (36.36%) Configuration Management
6 5 (22.73%) Cloud Security
6 5 (22.73%) Continuous Delivery
6 5 (22.73%) Customer-Centric Approach
6 5 (22.73%) Customer-Centricity
6 5 (22.73%) High Availability
6 5 (22.73%) Mentoring
6 5 (22.73%) Open Source
6 5 (22.73%) Server Building
7 4 (18.18%) Agile
7 4 (18.18%) Scrum
7 4 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (13.64%) Software Delivery
8 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
9 2 (9.09%) Auto-Scaling
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) PowerShell
3 4 (18.18%) Go
4 2 (9.09%) Bash
4 2 (9.09%) Java
5 1 (4.55%) Groovy
5 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.55%) OCP
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Dovecot
2 1 (4.55%) Postfix
2 1 (4.55%) Squid
Systems Management
1 19 (86.36%) Terraform
2 7 (31.82%) Ansible
2 7 (31.82%) Kubernetes
3 2 (9.09%) FortiGate
3 2 (9.09%) Grafana
4 1 (4.55%) Nessus
4 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.55%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Databricks
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) Dataiku
3 1 (4.55%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
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