Hybrid/Remote DevOps Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends

Platform Engineer - DevOps
UK > Work from Home

The median Platform Engineer - DevOps daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 325 400
Rank change year-on-year +17 +75 +167
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Platform Engineer 5 1 12
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.050% 0.008% 0.064%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.009% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 8
10th Percentile - - £478
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £588 £488 £631
90th Percentile £633 - £650
UK median daily rate £525 £516 £550
% change year-on-year +1.74% -6.18% -12.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,356 11,262 17,605
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.73% 93.16% 94.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,132 7,061 12,313
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £644
90th Percentile £725 £738 £740
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 196 389
10th Percentile £14.82 £19.15 £17.11
25th Percentile £20.50 £24.76 £25.18
Median hourly rate £41.68 £40.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.20% -20.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.65% -20.79% +53.98%

DevOps Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Platform Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

DevOps Platform Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

DevOps Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid DevOps Platform Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid DevOps Platform Engineer job vacancies

DevOps Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 9 November 2025, DevOps Platform Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring DevOps Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Datadog
3 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (60.00%) Terraform
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (40.00%) Azure
4 2 (40.00%) Bash
4 2 (40.00%) Confluent
4 2 (40.00%) Docker
4 2 (40.00%) Kafka
4 2 (40.00%) Microservices
4 2 (40.00%) Python
4 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (40.00%) Splunk
4 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (40.00%) Unix
5 1 (20.00%) CircleCI
5 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (20.00%) GCP
5 1 (20.00%) Go

DevOps Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Datadog
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
4 1 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) CircleCI
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
2 1 (20.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) Microservices
4 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
5 1 (20.00%) Observability
5 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) Go
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
2 1 (20.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (20.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Confluent
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk