Senior Platform Engineer Contracts

Senior Platform Engineer
UK

The median Senior Platform Engineer daily rate in the UK is £518, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 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
23 Jun 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 558 664
Rank change year-on-year +43 +106 +174
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 24 22 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.080% 0.050% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.087% 0.054% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 16 24
10th Percentile £400 £506 £536
25th Percentile £402 £525 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £640 £645
Median % change year-on-year -19.03% -0.78% +14.26%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £750
90th Percentile £600 £667 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £650 £626
% change year-on-year -38.15% +3.79% +16.51%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - - £57.50

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 27,656 40,547 52,404
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 92.93% 94.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,731 25,981 36,472
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 -3.60% -1.45% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,204 2,979 1,502
10th Percentile £13.80 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.37 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.36 £37.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.03% -14.77% +76.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £65.57
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -1.23% +102.50%

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Platform Engineer in the UK

Senior Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Platform Engineer in the UK

Senior Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 23 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Platform Engineer in the UK

Senior Platform Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Platform Engineer in the UK

Senior Platform Engineer
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 23 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 +76 21 £525 -16.66% 177
Work from Home +38 17 £525 -19.23% 71
UK excluding London +48 13 £402 -38.15% 90
London +50 8 £550 -12.69% 92
North of England +19 5 £402 -39.32% 26
South East - 5 £402 - 26
North West +3 2 £401 -39.47% 21
Yorkshire - 2 £450 - 5
East Midlands - 2 £534 - 4
Midlands - 2 £534 - 11
Scotland +3 1 £479 - 5
North East - 1 £550 -

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 featuring Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (91.67%) Python
2 21 (87.50%) CI/CD
3 20 (83.33%) Platform Engineering
3 20 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (70.83%) DevOps
5 16 (66.67%) AWS
6 15 (62.50%) Kubernetes
7 14 (58.33%) Terraform
7 14 (58.33%) Jenkins
8 13 (54.17%) Azure
9 12 (50.00%) Docker
9 12 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (37.50%) Containerisation
10 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
10 9 (37.50%) Mentoring
10 9 (37.50%) Ansible
10 9 (37.50%) Bash
10 9 (37.50%) PowerShell
11 8 (33.33%) Linux
12 7 (29.17%) Agile
12 7 (29.17%) GitHub
12 7 (29.17%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (25.00%) GitLab
13 6 (25.00%) Cloud Native
13 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
13 6 (25.00%) Java
13 6 (25.00%) SQL
13 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
13 6 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Automation

Senior 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 2 (8.33%) WebSphere
1 2 (8.33%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (4.17%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 16 (66.67%) AWS
2 13 (54.17%) Azure
3 7 (29.17%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (29.17%) GitHub
4 6 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (20.83%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (20.83%) Serverless
6 4 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (16.67%) GCP
7 3 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (12.50%) Amazon S3
7 3 (12.50%) Azure Batch
7 3 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (12.50%) OpenShift
8 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
8 2 (8.33%) IBM Cloud
8 2 (8.33%) npm
9 1 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Calico
2 1 (4.17%) DNS
2 1 (4.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.17%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 14 (58.33%) Jenkins
2 6 (25.00%) GitLab
3 4 (16.67%) Git
4 2 (8.33%) CircleCI
4 2 (8.33%) Maven
5 1 (4.17%) Artifactory
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Banking
3 3 (12.50%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) Kafka
1 3 (12.50%) Middleware
1 3 (12.50%) React
2 2 (8.33%) AWS CDK
3 1 (4.17%) ARM Templates
3 1 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.50%) Private Cloud
2 3 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Linux
2 3 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (8.33%) Android
3 2 (8.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 20 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 20 (83.33%) Platform Engineering
3 17 (70.83%) DevOps
4 12 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (37.50%) Containerisation
5 9 (37.50%) Mentoring
6 7 (29.17%) Agile
7 5 (20.83%) Configuration Management
7 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Automation
7 5 (20.83%) Migration
8 4 (16.67%) Cloud Security
8 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
8 4 (16.67%) Validation
9 3 (12.50%) Data Governance
9 3 (12.50%) Data Integration
9 3 (12.50%) Data Validation
9 3 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
9 3 (12.50%) High Availability
9 3 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 22 (91.67%) Python
2 9 (37.50%) Bash
2 9 (37.50%) PowerShell
3 6 (25.00%) Java
3 6 (25.00%) SQL
4 3 (12.50%) Bicep
4 3 (12.50%) C#
4 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (12.50%) Scala
5 2 (8.33%) Go
5 2 (8.33%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.17%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 4 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (16.67%) Degree
4 3 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 14 (58.33%) Terraform
3 9 (37.50%) Ansible
4 3 (12.50%) Grafana
5 2 (8.33%) Istio
5 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
6 1 (4.17%) Argo
6 1 (4.17%) Consul
6 1 (4.17%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (4.17%) logstash
6 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Red Hat
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) Dynatrace
3 2 (8.33%) IBM
3 2 (8.33%) VMware
4 1 (4.17%) Google
4 1 (4.17%) SAP
4 1 (4.17%) Splunk
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