Platform Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Platform Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 320 305
Rank change year-on-year +42 -15 -37
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 76 164 348
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.49% 0.63% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.66% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 147 282
10th Percentile £448 £504 £425
25th Percentile £475 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £600
90th Percentile £650 £725 £663
UK median daily rate £550 £588 £563
% change year-on-year -6.38% +4.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £75.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 14,427 24,808 42,542
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.30% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,637 17,506 30,709
10th Percentile £325 £358 £355
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £745 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 561 577 607
10th Percentile £14.27 £18.31 £12.85
25th Percentile £22.58 £26.25 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

Platform Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Platform Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Platform Engineer.

Platform Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Platform Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Platform Engineer.

Platform Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 63 (82.89%) Platform Engineering
2 37 (48.68%) DevOps
3 36 (47.37%) Terraform
4 32 (42.11%) Python
5 29 (38.16%) Kubernetes
5 29 (38.16%) AWS
6 26 (34.21%) CI/CD
7 24 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
7 24 (31.58%) Azure
8 21 (27.63%) Linux
9 19 (25.00%) Security Cleared
9 19 (25.00%) Ansible
9 19 (25.00%) Public Sector
10 16 (21.05%) Containerisation
11 15 (19.74%) Docker
11 15 (19.74%) SC Cleared
12 14 (18.42%) ServiceNow
13 13 (17.11%) Bash
13 13 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (14.47%) Serverless
15 10 (13.16%) GCP
15 10 (13.16%) GitLab
15 10 (13.16%) Jenkins
15 10 (13.16%) OpenShift
16 9 (11.84%) Go
16 9 (11.84%) VMware
16 9 (11.84%) Agile
16 9 (11.84%) Azure DevOps
17 8 (10.53%) Grafana
17 8 (10.53%) Databricks

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (6.58%) Confluence
2 4 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.63%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 29 (38.16%) AWS
2 24 (31.58%) Azure
3 11 (14.47%) Serverless
4 10 (13.16%) GCP
4 10 (13.16%) OpenShift
5 9 (11.84%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (9.21%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (9.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (7.89%) Amazon S3
9 5 (6.58%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (6.58%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (6.58%) Datadog
9 5 (6.58%) PaaS
9 5 (6.58%) Snowflake
10 4 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (5.26%) GitHub
10 4 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (5.26%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.21%) Firewall
2 4 (5.26%) SAN
3 3 (3.95%) DNS
3 3 (3.95%) Internet
4 2 (2.63%) IPv4
5 1 (1.32%) LAN
5 1 (1.32%) Network Security
5 1 (1.32%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.58%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (3.95%) InfluxDB
2 3 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.32%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.32%) Metadata
4 1 (1.32%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (13.16%) GitLab
1 10 (13.16%) Jenkins
2 6 (7.89%) Artifactory
2 6 (7.89%) Git
3 5 (6.58%) JIRA
4 3 (3.95%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.32%) Hudson
5 1 (1.32%) Snyk
5 1 (1.32%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.32%) Terragrunt
5 1 (1.32%) Vagrant
General
1 19 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 8 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 3 (3.95%) Banking
4 2 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.63%) Finance
4 2 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.32%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.58%) AWS CDK
1 5 (6.58%) REST
2 3 (3.95%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (2.63%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.63%) YAML
4 1 (1.32%) AWS SAM
4 1 (1.32%) CSS
4 1 (1.32%) HTML
4 1 (1.32%) SAML
4 1 (1.32%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.58%) Cloud Native
1 5 (6.58%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.63%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.32%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.32%) MPEG
4 1 (1.32%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.32%) PropTech
4 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.32%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.32%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 21 (27.63%) Linux
2 7 (9.21%) Unix
3 6 (7.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (6.58%) Ubuntu
5 4 (5.26%) Windows
5 4 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (82.89%) Platform Engineering
2 37 (48.68%) DevOps
3 26 (34.21%) CI/CD
4 24 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (21.05%) Containerisation
6 13 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (11.84%) Agile
8 8 (10.53%) Data Pipeline
8 8 (10.53%) GitOps
9 7 (9.21%) Configuration Management
9 7 (9.21%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (9.21%) Open Source
10 6 (7.89%) Computer Science
10 6 (7.89%) OO
10 6 (7.89%) Test Automation
11 5 (6.58%) Data Engineering
12 4 (5.26%) Continuous Improvement
12 4 (5.26%) DataOps
12 4 (5.26%) Observability
12 4 (5.26%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 32 (42.11%) Python
2 13 (17.11%) Bash
3 9 (11.84%) Go
4 8 (10.53%) Perl
5 7 (9.21%) Java
6 5 (6.58%) PowerShell
7 4 (5.26%) Groovy
7 4 (5.26%) Scala
8 2 (2.63%) Bicep
8 2 (2.63%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.63%) Ruby
8 2 (2.63%) SQL
9 1 (1.32%) C#
9 1 (1.32%) Clojure
9 1 (1.32%) Haskell
9 1 (1.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (19.74%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.95%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.95%) Degree
5 2 (2.63%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.95%) NCSC
2 1 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.32%) NIST
2 1 (1.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (19.74%) Docker
2 8 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (7.89%) Active Directory
4 4 (5.26%) KVM
4 4 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (5.26%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (47.37%) Terraform
2 29 (38.16%) Kubernetes
3 19 (25.00%) Ansible
4 8 (10.53%) Grafana
5 5 (6.58%) Kibana
5 5 (6.58%) Salt
6 4 (5.26%) Check_MK
6 4 (5.26%) ZABBIX
7 3 (3.95%) Prometheus
8 2 (2.63%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (2.63%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.63%) Puppet
8 2 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.32%) Argo
9 1 (1.32%) Consul
9 1 (1.32%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (1.32%) FreeIPA
9 1 (1.32%) Icinga
9 1 (1.32%) Packer
9 1 (1.32%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 14 (18.42%) ServiceNow
2 9 (11.84%) VMware
3 8 (10.53%) Databricks
3 8 (10.53%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.26%) CyberArk
5 3 (3.95%) BMC
6 2 (2.63%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.32%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.32%) Google
7 1 (1.32%) Progress
7 1 (1.32%) Remedy
7 1 (1.32%) Splunk
7 1 (1.32%) UiPath