Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in West London

Platform Engineering
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 33 16
Rank change year-on-year -9 -17 +40
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 1 1 34
As % of all contract jobs in West London 0.35% 0.44% 7.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.51% 7.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 30
10th Percentile - - £513
25th Percentile £713 - £567
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £400 £600
Median % change year-on-year +81.25% -33.33% +16.50%
75th Percentile £738 - £650
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £58.90
25th Percentile - - £60.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £64.75
90th Percentile - - £66.10
London median hourly rate - - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - -32.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West London

Platform Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 252 195 427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 87.20% 86.67% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 135 334
10th Percentile £204 £303 £213
25th Percentile £320 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £455 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.59% -17.27% +6.80%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £622
90th Percentile £625 £633 £700
London median daily rate £533 £550 £569
% change year-on-year -3.18% -3.34% -3.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 11 21
10th Percentile £20.44 £20.75 £18.50
25th Percentile - £22.17 £31.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £26.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.27% -55.17% +28.89%
75th Percentile £32.54 £34.67 £72.00
90th Percentile £40.98 £56.00 £85.00
London median hourly rate £29.00 £37.50 £35.96
% change year-on-year -22.67% +4.30% -8.97%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Platform Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West London.

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in West London

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Platform Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in West London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Platform Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering
Contract Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineering within the West London region over the 6 months to 25 November 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
Hounslow - 1 £725 - 1
Platform Engineering
London

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead DevOps
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Maintenance
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform