Platform Engineering Contracts with Work from Home Options

Platform Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Platform Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 247 209 222
Rank change year-on-year -38 +13 -17
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 98 308 544
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.64% 1.19% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 1.33% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 272 452
10th Percentile £447 £500 £444
25th Percentile £475 £525 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £613 £564
Median % change year-on-year -7.55% +8.65% -1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £625
90th Percentile £692 £863 £700
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +1.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £54.15
25th Percentile - - £58.88
Median hourly rate - - £68.00
75th Percentile - - £78.38
90th Percentile - - £83.85
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £78.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year -22.44% +40.54% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Platform Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,483 23,229 40,650
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.87% 89.84% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,996 16,418 29,502
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 579 532 548
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £30.54 £19.98
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.23 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +49.20% -

Platform Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Platform Engineering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering.

Platform Engineering daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Platform Engineering daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering.

Platform Engineering hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineering
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 7 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (7.14%) Confluence
2 2 (2.04%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.02%) nginx
3 1 (1.02%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.02%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 43 (43.88%) AWS
2 40 (40.82%) Azure
3 16 (16.33%) GCP
4 15 (15.31%) Serverless
5 14 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (11.22%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (9.18%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (9.18%) GitHub
8 8 (8.16%) PaaS
9 6 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (6.12%) IaaS
10 5 (5.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (5.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (4.08%) Amazon S3
11 4 (4.08%) Azure AKS
11 4 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (4.08%) Snowflake
11 4 (4.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (3.06%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.12%) Firewall
2 5 (5.10%) DNS
2 5 (5.10%) DSL
3 3 (3.06%) IPv4
3 3 (3.06%) VPN
4 1 (1.02%) FTP
4 1 (1.02%) Internet
4 1 (1.02%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.10%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.06%) Airbyte
3 3 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.06%) Flink
4 2 (2.04%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.04%) MySQL
5 1 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.02%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.02%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.02%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.02%) Metadata
5 1 (1.02%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.02%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 17 (17.35%) GitLab
3 14 (14.29%) Git
4 12 (12.24%) JIRA
5 3 (3.06%) Artifactory
6 2 (2.04%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.04%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.04%) Mocha
6 2 (2.04%) Snyk
6 2 (2.04%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.04%) Terragrunt
6 2 (2.04%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.02%) Hudson
7 1 (1.02%) JMeter
7 1 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.02%) Vagrant
General
1 25 (25.51%) Public Sector
2 21 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 12 (12.24%) Finance
4 8 (8.16%) Banking
5 7 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.08%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.04%) Marketing
8 1 (1.02%) Electronics
8 1 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.02%) Retail
8 1 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (62.24%) Platform Engineer
2 27 (27.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 16 (16.33%) AWS Engineer
4 14 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
4 14 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (13.27%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 13 (13.27%) Developer
6 11 (11.22%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 10 (10.20%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (9.18%) Senior
9 7 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 7 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
10 6 (6.12%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 6 (6.12%) Network Engineer
10 6 (6.12%) Python Developer
10 6 (6.12%) Unix Engineer
10 6 (6.12%) Unix Linux Engineer
11 5 (5.10%) Lead
11 5 (5.10%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.27%) React
2 7 (7.14%) CSS
2 7 (7.14%) HTML
3 6 (6.12%) Django
4 5 (5.10%) Node.js
5 4 (4.08%) ARM Templates
5 4 (4.08%) YAML
6 3 (3.06%) AWS CDK
6 3 (3.06%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (3.06%) Jest
6 3 (3.06%) Kafka
6 3 (3.06%) Redux
7 2 (2.04%) .NET
7 2 (2.04%) AWS SAM
7 2 (2.04%) JSON
8 1 (1.02%) http4s
8 1 (1.02%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (1.02%) SAML
8 1 (1.02%) SPFx
8 1 (1.02%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.14%) Algorithms
1 7 (7.14%) Data Structures
1 7 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (6.12%) Public Cloud
3 5 (5.10%) Virtual Team
4 4 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.04%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.04%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.02%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.02%) Machine to Machine
6 1 (1.02%) NHS
6 1 (1.02%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.02%) PropTech
6 1 (1.02%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 22 (22.45%) Linux
2 13 (13.27%) Unix
3 7 (7.14%) Windows
4 3 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.04%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (47.96%) CI/CD
2 45 (45.92%) DevOps
3 26 (26.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (15.31%) Computer Science
6 14 (14.29%) Agile
7 10 (10.20%) GitOps
8 9 (9.18%) Configuration Management
8 9 (9.18%) Data Science
9 8 (8.16%) Containerisation
10 7 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (7.14%) Data Engineering
10 7 (7.14%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (7.14%) Knowledge Transfer
10 7 (7.14%) Machine Learning
11 6 (6.12%) OO
11 6 (6.12%) Open Source
11 6 (6.12%) Project Delivery
11 6 (6.12%) Software Architecture
11 6 (6.12%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (39.80%) Python
2 13 (13.27%) JavaScript
3 12 (12.24%) Java
4 9 (9.18%) PowerShell
5 8 (8.16%) Bash
5 8 (8.16%) SQL
6 7 (7.14%) Go
6 7 (7.14%) Ruby
7 6 (6.12%) Perl
7 6 (6.12%) TypeScript
8 5 (5.10%) Scala
9 3 (3.06%) Bicep
9 3 (3.06%) C#
10 2 (2.04%) Rust
11 1 (1.02%) C
11 1 (1.02%) C++
11 1 (1.02%) Clojure
11 1 (1.02%) Groovy
11 1 (1.02%) Haskell
11 1 (1.02%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 20 (20.41%) Security Cleared
2 16 (16.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.12%) Degree
4 4 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.06%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.04%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.06%) NCSC
2 2 (2.04%) QA
2 2 (2.04%) SLA
3 1 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.02%) NIST
3 1 (1.02%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (16.33%) Docker
2 3 (3.06%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.06%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.02%) KVM
3 1 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 46 (46.94%) Terraform
2 32 (32.65%) Kubernetes
3 18 (18.37%) Ansible
4 7 (7.14%) Progress Chef
4 7 (7.14%) Puppet
5 6 (6.12%) Grafana
6 5 (5.10%) CFEngine
6 5 (5.10%) PowerBroker
7 4 (4.08%) Argo
8 3 (3.06%) Prometheus
9 2 (2.04%) Consul
9 2 (2.04%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (2.04%) Kibana
9 2 (2.04%) Packer
9 2 (2.04%) Salt
9 2 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (1.02%) Check_MK
10 1 (1.02%) FreeIPA
10 1 (1.02%) Icinga
10 1 (1.02%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 15 (15.31%) ServiceNow
2 9 (9.18%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.16%) Databricks
4 6 (6.12%) Atlassian
5 4 (4.08%) VMware
6 3 (3.06%) BMC
6 3 (3.06%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.04%) Google
7 2 (2.04%) SAP
8 1 (1.02%) Adobe
8 1 (1.02%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.02%) New Relic
8 1 (1.02%) Progress
8 1 (1.02%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.02%) Remedy
8 1 (1.02%) Sitecore
8 1 (1.02%) Splunk
8 1 (1.02%) UiPath