Platform Engineer Contracts in West London

Platform Engineer
London > West London

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in West London is £663, 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 29 - 36
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 2 0 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 0.95% - 4.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% - 4.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 22
10th Percentile £541 - -
25th Percentile £584 - £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 - £600
75th Percentile £734 - £650
90th Percentile £774 - -
London median daily rate £550 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -6.38% -2.08% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £69.00
25th Percentile - - £75.00
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate - £55.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year - -35.29% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West 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 West London with a recognized job title 198 336 551
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.29% 94.65% 97.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 244 399
10th Percentile £206 £200 £300
25th Percentile £307 £270 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £456 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.33% -17.05% +10.00%
75th Percentile £475 £569 £638
90th Percentile £600 £646 £700
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 25 52
10th Percentile £20.03 £16.25 £25.13
25th Percentile £20.35 £16.86 £38.88
Median hourly rate £22.27 £32.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.48% -49.22% +197.67%
75th Percentile £30.79 £46.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £53.10 £59.00 £84.75
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in West London

Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer in West London

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

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

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineer in West London

Platform Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for Platform Engineer in West London

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

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 across the West London region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Qualys
2 1 (50.00%) Data Extraction
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Server Patching
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) dbt

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) dbt
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CDK
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Extraction
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Server Patching
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Qualys