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 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 262 306 316
Rank change year-on-year +44 +10 -33
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 75 163 334
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.50% 0.64% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.67% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 146 268
10th Percentile £443 £508 £423
25th Percentile £500 £525 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £551
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +8.84% -4.13%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £600
90th Percentile £650 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +1.77%

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 14,162 24,375 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.31% 95.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,491 17,215 30,853
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £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 £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 559 603
10th Percentile £14.33 £17.97 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.75 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.60%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 62 (82.67%) Platform Engineering
2 38 (50.67%) DevOps
3 33 (44.00%) Terraform
4 31 (41.33%) Python
5 30 (40.00%) Kubernetes
6 28 (37.33%) AWS
7 27 (36.00%) CI/CD
8 26 (34.67%) Azure
9 21 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (25.33%) Public Sector
11 18 (24.00%) Linux
12 15 (20.00%) Security Cleared
12 15 (20.00%) Ansible
12 15 (20.00%) Containerisation
13 14 (18.67%) Docker
13 14 (18.67%) ServiceNow
14 13 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
15 11 (14.67%) SC Cleared
15 11 (14.67%) Bash
15 11 (14.67%) Serverless
16 10 (13.33%) GCP
16 10 (13.33%) GitLab
16 10 (13.33%) Jenkins
16 10 (13.33%) OpenShift
16 10 (13.33%) Agile
17 9 (12.00%) Microsoft
17 9 (12.00%) Go
17 9 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
18 8 (10.67%) Databricks
18 8 (10.67%) Grafana

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 (6.67%) Confluence
2 4 (5.33%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.67%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 28 (37.33%) AWS
2 26 (34.67%) Azure
3 11 (14.67%) Serverless
4 10 (13.33%) GCP
4 10 (13.33%) OpenShift
5 9 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (10.67%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (9.33%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (9.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (8.00%) Amazon S3
9 5 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (6.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (6.67%) GitHub
9 5 (6.67%) PaaS
9 5 (6.67%) Snowflake
10 4 (5.33%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (5.33%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (5.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (5.33%) IaaS
11 3 (4.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.33%) Firewall
2 4 (5.33%) SAN
3 2 (2.67%) DNS
3 2 (2.67%) IPv4
4 1 (1.33%) Network Security
4 1 (1.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (4.00%) InfluxDB
2 3 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.33%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.33%) Metadata
4 1 (1.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (13.33%) GitLab
1 10 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.00%) Artifactory
2 6 (8.00%) Git
3 5 (6.67%) JIRA
4 3 (4.00%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.33%) Hudson
5 1 (1.33%) Snyk
5 1 (1.33%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.33%) Terragrunt
5 1 (1.33%) Vagrant
General
1 19 (25.33%) Public Sector
2 8 (10.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.00%) Banking
4 2 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.67%) Finance
4 2 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.33%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.67%) AWS CDK
1 5 (6.67%) REST
2 3 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (2.67%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.67%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.67%) YAML
4 1 (1.33%) AWS SAM
4 1 (1.33%) CSS
4 1 (1.33%) HTML
4 1 (1.33%) SAML
4 1 (1.33%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.67%) Cloud Native
1 5 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.33%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.33%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.33%) MPEG
3 1 (1.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.33%) PropTech
3 1 (1.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.33%) Taxonomies
3 1 (1.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 18 (24.00%) Linux
2 7 (9.33%) Unix
3 6 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (6.67%) Ubuntu
5 4 (5.33%) Windows
5 4 (5.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (82.67%) Platform Engineering
2 38 (50.67%) DevOps
3 27 (36.00%) CI/CD
4 21 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 13 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (13.33%) Agile
8 8 (10.67%) Data Pipeline
8 8 (10.67%) GitOps
9 7 (9.33%) Configuration Management
9 7 (9.33%) Open Source
10 6 (8.00%) Computer Science
10 6 (8.00%) OO
10 6 (8.00%) Test Automation
11 5 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
11 5 (6.67%) Data Engineering
12 4 (5.33%) DataOps
12 4 (5.33%) Observability
12 4 (5.33%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 31 (41.33%) Python
2 11 (14.67%) Bash
3 9 (12.00%) Go
4 7 (9.33%) Java
5 6 (8.00%) Perl
6 5 (6.67%) PowerShell
7 4 (5.33%) Groovy
7 4 (5.33%) Scala
8 2 (2.67%) Bicep
8 2 (2.67%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.67%) Ruby
8 2 (2.67%) SQL
9 1 (1.33%) C#
9 1 (1.33%) Clojure
9 1 (1.33%) Haskell
9 1 (1.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 15 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (14.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.00%) Azure Certification
4 3 (4.00%) Degree
5 2 (2.67%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.00%) NCSC
2 1 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.33%) NIST
2 1 (1.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (18.67%) Docker
2 6 (8.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.33%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.33%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 33 (44.00%) Terraform
2 30 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 15 (20.00%) Ansible
4 8 (10.67%) Grafana
5 5 (6.67%) Kibana
6 3 (4.00%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.67%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (2.67%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.67%) Puppet
7 2 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.33%) Argo
8 1 (1.33%) Consul
8 1 (1.33%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (1.33%) FreeIPA
8 1 (1.33%) Icinga
8 1 (1.33%) Packer
8 1 (1.33%) Rundeck
8 1 (1.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 14 (18.67%) ServiceNow
2 9 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.67%) Databricks
4 5 (6.67%) VMware
5 4 (5.33%) CyberArk
6 3 (4.00%) BMC
7 2 (2.67%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.33%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.33%) Google
8 1 (1.33%) Progress
8 1 (1.33%) Remedy
8 1 (1.33%) Splunk
8 1 (1.33%) UiPath