Platform Engineer Contracts

Platform Engineer
UK

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in the UK is £537, 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 367 400 410
Rank change year-on-year +33 +10 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 157 184 326
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.42% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.46% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 137 264
10th Percentile £395 £425 £480
25th Percentile £479 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £750 £657 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £536 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.10% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 9
10th Percentile - - £53.75
25th Percentile - £52.50 £56.25
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -26.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £78.00
90th Percentile - - £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £66.25
% change year-on-year - - +33.73%

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in the UK

Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer in the UK

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineer in the UK

Platform Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Platform Engineer in the UK

Platform Engineer
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the UK 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
England +30 115 £537 -2.32% 284
London +17 66 £550 -6.38% 108
Work from Home +32 65 £525 -4.55% 223
UK excluding London +47 53 £536 +2.10% 219
Scotland +9 17 £525 +14.13% 11
Midlands +31 13 £519 +38.27% 32
South East +31 10 £500 -5.66% 64
South West +49 9 £585 +6.36% 25
West Midlands +17 7 £544 +44.93% 18
East Midlands - 6 £488 - 10
North of England +9 4 £540 -1.82% 67
Yorkshire +5 2 £450 -14.29% 16
North West +10 1 £530 -13.47% 43
Wales +1 1 - - 2
North East 0 1 £550 +33.33% 8
East of England - 1 £600 - 21

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

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

1 136 (86.62%) Platform Engineering
2 83 (52.87%) Python
3 76 (48.41%) Terraform
4 68 (43.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 63 (40.13%) DevOps
6 60 (38.22%) CI/CD
7 59 (37.58%) Linux
8 57 (36.31%) AWS
9 56 (35.67%) Ansible
10 55 (35.03%) Kubernetes
11 52 (33.12%) Azure
12 40 (25.48%) PowerShell
13 39 (24.84%) Security Cleared
14 36 (22.93%) Jenkins
15 34 (21.66%) Git
16 33 (21.02%) SC Cleared
17 31 (19.75%) GitHub
18 29 (18.47%) High Availability
19 28 (17.83%) Azure DevOps
19 28 (17.83%) Bash
20 24 (15.29%) Containerisation
20 24 (15.29%) Social Skills
20 24 (15.29%) Configuration Management
21 23 (14.65%) Finance
22 22 (14.01%) VMware
22 22 (14.01%) Docker
22 22 (14.01%) Serverless
23 21 (13.38%) Windows
24 20 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
25 18 (11.46%) Cloud Native

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 4 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (2.55%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.27%) Apache
2 2 (1.27%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.64%) Camunda
3 1 (0.64%) CMS
3 1 (0.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 57 (36.31%) AWS
2 52 (33.12%) Azure
3 31 (19.75%) GitHub
4 28 (17.83%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (14.01%) Serverless
6 17 (10.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (10.19%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (9.55%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (8.92%) GCP
10 13 (8.28%) SaaS
11 10 (6.37%) Amazon S3
11 10 (6.37%) Power Platform
12 9 (5.73%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (5.73%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (5.73%) IaaS
12 9 (5.73%) OpenShift
12 9 (5.73%) Power Automate
13 8 (5.10%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (5.10%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 6 (3.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.28%) Firewall
2 5 (3.18%) Network Security
3 3 (1.91%) DNS
4 2 (1.27%) VPN
5 1 (0.64%) BGP
5 1 (0.64%) MPLS
5 1 (0.64%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.64%) SNMP
5 1 (0.64%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.46%) Big Data
1 7 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (3.82%) Power BI
3 5 (3.18%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.55%) BigQuery
4 4 (2.55%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.91%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.27%) InfluxDB
6 2 (1.27%) SAP HANA
6 2 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.64%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.64%) Flink
7 1 (0.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (22.93%) Jenkins
2 34 (21.66%) Git
3 12 (7.64%) GitLab
4 6 (3.82%) Artifactory
5 4 (2.55%) JIRA
6 2 (1.27%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.27%) MLflow
6 2 (1.27%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.27%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.64%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.64%) Terragrunt
General
1 24 (15.29%) Social Skills
2 23 (14.65%) Finance
3 11 (7.01%) Public Sector
4 6 (3.82%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (1.91%) Multimedia
7 2 (1.27%) Banking
7 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.64%) Billing
8 1 (0.64%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.64%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.64%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.37%) AWS CDK
2 5 (3.18%) Kafka
3 3 (1.91%) .NET
3 3 (1.91%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.91%) JSON
3 3 (1.91%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (1.91%) REST
3 3 (1.91%) Spring
4 2 (1.27%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.27%) AWS SAM
4 2 (1.27%) Node.js
4 2 (1.27%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.27%) YAML
5 1 (0.64%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.64%) React
5 1 (0.64%) Redfish
5 1 (0.64%) RESTful
5 1 (0.64%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.46%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.82%) Private Cloud
3 6 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.18%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.18%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.55%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.91%) Podcast
6 3 (1.91%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.27%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.64%) Derivative
8 1 (0.64%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.64%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.64%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.64%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 59 (37.58%) Linux
2 21 (13.38%) Windows
3 14 (8.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (7.64%) Ubuntu
4 12 (7.64%) Unix
4 12 (7.64%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.64%) Solaris
5 1 (0.64%) VMS
5 1 (0.64%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (86.62%) Platform Engineering
2 68 (43.31%) Infrastructure as Code
3 63 (40.13%) DevOps
4 60 (38.22%) CI/CD
5 29 (18.47%) High Availability
6 24 (15.29%) Configuration Management
6 24 (15.29%) Containerisation
7 20 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (10.83%) Agile
8 17 (10.83%) Infrastructure Automation
9 14 (8.92%) GitOps
10 13 (8.28%) Migration
11 12 (7.64%) Artificial Intelligence
11 12 (7.64%) Software Engineering
12 11 (7.01%) Observability
12 11 (7.01%) Software Delivery
13 10 (6.37%) Deployment Automation
13 10 (6.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 10 (6.37%) Mentoring
14 9 (5.73%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 83 (52.87%) Python
2 40 (25.48%) PowerShell
3 28 (17.83%) Bash
4 13 (8.28%) Go
5 10 (6.37%) Perl
5 10 (6.37%) SQL
6 9 (5.73%) Bicep
7 7 (4.46%) Java
7 7 (4.46%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.82%) Groovy
9 4 (2.55%) C#
9 4 (2.55%) Erlang
9 4 (2.55%) Prolog
10 3 (1.91%) Rust
10 3 (1.91%) Scala
11 2 (1.27%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.64%) C++
12 1 (0.64%) Clojure
12 1 (0.64%) C-shell
12 1 (0.64%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 39 (24.84%) Security Cleared
2 33 (21.02%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 7 (4.46%) Degree
5 6 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.55%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.27%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.27%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.27%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.64%) CEH
9 1 (0.64%) CISSP
9 1 (0.64%) MCSA
9 1 (0.64%) MCSE
9 1 (0.64%) OCA
9 1 (0.64%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.91%) Data Quality
1 3 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.27%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.64%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.64%) GDPR
3 1 (0.64%) NCSC
3 1 (0.64%) QA
System Software
1 22 (14.01%) Docker
2 9 (5.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.91%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.27%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.64%) Firmware
5 1 (0.64%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.64%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 76 (48.41%) Terraform
2 56 (35.67%) Ansible
3 55 (35.03%) Kubernetes
4 13 (8.28%) Grafana
5 9 (5.73%) Prometheus
6 8 (5.10%) Rancher
7 4 (2.55%) FortiGate
7 4 (2.55%) PowerCLI
8 3 (1.91%) Argo
8 3 (1.91%) Kibana
8 3 (1.91%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.91%) vRealize
9 2 (1.27%) Consul
9 2 (1.27%) logstash
9 2 (1.27%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.64%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.64%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.64%) Nessus
10 1 (0.64%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (14.01%) VMware
2 14 (8.92%) Microsoft
3 11 (7.01%) Databricks
4 9 (5.73%) Dynatrace
4 9 (5.73%) Google
4 9 (5.73%) Red Hat
5 6 (3.82%) Okta
6 5 (3.18%) Oracle
7 4 (2.55%) Dataiku
7 4 (2.55%) Splunk
8 3 (1.91%) SAP
8 3 (1.91%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.27%) Imperva
9 2 (1.27%) Qualys
10 1 (0.64%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.64%) Cisco
10 1 (0.64%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.64%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.64%) Veeam
10 1 (0.64%) Veritas
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