Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in Westminster

Platform Engineering
City of Westminster > Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Westminster requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Westminster 3.03% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.03% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £663 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile - - -
City of Westminster median daily rate £675 - £550
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33 11 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Westminster 100.00% 91.67% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 11 1
10th Percentile £440 £413 -
25th Percentile £513 £518 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +49.43%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £675
90th Percentile £683 £800 -
City of Westminster median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £26.11 - -
City of Westminster median hourly rate £39.56 - £40.00

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Westminster

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Westminster

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Westminster 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%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Claude Code
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform