Platform Engineering Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Platform Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Platform Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 207 247 209
Rank change year-on-year +40 -38 +13
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 97 98 308
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.98% 0.64% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.73% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 74 272
10th Percentile £416 £447 £500
25th Percentile £492 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £566 £613
Median % change year-on-year -2.87% -7.55% +8.65%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £700
90th Percentile £713 £692 £863
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Platform Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Platform Engineering trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 3 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (3.09%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.06%) Apache
3 1 (1.03%) IIS
3 1 (1.03%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 40 (41.24%) AWS
2 37 (38.14%) Azure
3 20 (20.62%) GitHub
4 16 (16.49%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (16.49%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (14.43%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (13.40%) GCP
7 11 (11.34%) Serverless
8 9 (9.28%) SaaS
9 8 (8.25%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (7.22%) Snowflake
11 6 (6.19%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (6.19%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 6 (6.19%) OpenShift
12 5 (5.15%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (5.15%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (4.12%) Amazon S3
13 4 (4.12%) Azure AKS
13 4 (4.12%) IaaS
13 4 (4.12%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.37%) Firewall
2 5 (5.15%) DNS
3 4 (4.12%) Network Security
3 4 (4.12%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.12%) VPN
4 1 (1.03%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.25%) Hadoop
2 7 (7.22%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (6.19%) Big Data
3 6 (6.19%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (4.12%) Data Lake
4 4 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.06%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.06%) InfluxDB
5 2 (2.06%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.03%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.03%) Flink
6 1 (1.03%) MySQL
6 1 (1.03%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.03%) Redis
6 1 (1.03%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 25 (25.77%) Jenkins
2 19 (19.59%) GitLab
3 17 (17.53%) Git
4 4 (4.12%) Artifactory
5 3 (3.09%) CircleCI
5 3 (3.09%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (3.09%) Spinnaker
5 3 (3.09%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (2.06%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.06%) JIRA
6 2 (2.06%) MLflow
7 1 (1.03%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.03%) Vagrant
General
1 16 (16.49%) Finance
2 15 (15.46%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.19%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.09%) Banking
4 3 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.06%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.03%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.03%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (58.76%) Platform Engineer
2 28 (28.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 24 (24.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (21.65%) Senior
5 17 (17.53%) AWS Engineer
6 15 (15.46%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 14 (14.43%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 10 (10.31%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (10.31%) Senior DevOps
8 10 (10.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 9 (9.28%) AWS DevOps
9 9 (9.28%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 8 (8.25%) Architect
10 8 (8.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 8 (8.25%) Linux Engineer
11 6 (6.19%) Network Engineer
11 6 (6.19%) Unix Engineer
11 6 (6.19%) Unix Linux Engineer
11 6 (6.19%) Unix Scripter
11 6 (6.19%) Unix Scripting Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.15%) AWS CDK
2 3 (3.09%) .NET
2 3 (3.09%) Kafka
3 2 (2.06%) AWS SAM
3 2 (2.06%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.06%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (2.06%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (2.06%) WPF
3 2 (2.06%) YAML
4 1 (1.03%) Django
4 1 (1.03%) JSON
4 1 (1.03%) Keycloak
4 1 (1.03%) Node.js
4 1 (1.03%) React
4 1 (1.03%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.15%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (4.12%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.12%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.09%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.06%) Credit Risk
4 2 (2.06%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.06%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.03%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.03%) Clustering
5 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.03%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 36 (37.11%) Linux
2 10 (10.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (9.28%) Unix
4 7 (7.22%) Ubuntu
5 5 (5.15%) Windows
6 4 (4.12%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.03%) CentOS
7 1 (1.03%) Solaris
7 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (53.61%) DevOps
2 50 (51.55%) CI/CD
3 37 (38.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (19.59%) Containerisation
5 17 (17.53%) Agile
6 15 (15.46%) Observability
7 13 (13.40%) Infrastructure Automation
8 12 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (10.31%) Software Delivery
10 9 (9.28%) Configuration Management
10 9 (9.28%) Microservices
11 8 (8.25%) Cloud Security
11 8 (8.25%) High Availability
12 7 (7.22%) Analytics
12 7 (7.22%) Machine Learning
12 7 (7.22%) OO
12 7 (7.22%) The Twelve-Factor App
13 6 (6.19%) Artificial Intelligence
13 6 (6.19%) Continuous Integration
13 6 (6.19%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 55 (56.70%) Python
2 25 (25.77%) Bash
3 16 (16.49%) PowerShell
4 10 (10.31%) JavaScript
5 9 (9.28%) Go
6 6 (6.19%) Bicep
6 6 (6.19%) Perl
7 4 (4.12%) C#
7 4 (4.12%) SQL
8 3 (3.09%) Groovy
9 2 (2.06%) Java
9 2 (2.06%) Rust
9 2 (2.06%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.03%) C++
10 1 (1.03%) Clojure
10 1 (1.03%) Elixir
10 1 (1.03%) Haskell
10 1 (1.03%) Scala
10 1 (1.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (23.71%) Security Cleared
2 22 (22.68%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.12%) Degree
4 3 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.03%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.03%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.06%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.03%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.03%) NCSC
2 1 (1.03%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (21.65%) Docker
2 3 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.03%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.03%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.03%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 51 (52.58%) Terraform
2 47 (48.45%) Kubernetes
3 24 (24.74%) Ansible
4 11 (11.34%) Grafana
5 6 (6.19%) Prometheus
6 5 (5.15%) Argo
7 3 (3.09%) Consul
7 3 (3.09%) Kibana
8 2 (2.06%) Packer
8 2 (2.06%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.03%) FortiGate
9 1 (1.03%) Istio
9 1 (1.03%) Kubeflow
9 1 (1.03%) linkerd
9 1 (1.03%) logstash
9 1 (1.03%) Nagios
9 1 (1.03%) Puppet
9 1 (1.03%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (10.31%) Databricks
2 9 (9.28%) Dynatrace
3 8 (8.25%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.19%) Red Hat
4 6 (6.19%) VMware
5 3 (3.09%) Splunk
6 2 (2.06%) Google
6 2 (2.06%) Imperva
6 2 (2.06%) SAP
6 2 (2.06%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.03%) Dell
7 1 (1.03%) HP
7 1 (1.03%) IBM
7 1 (1.03%) New Relic
7 1 (1.03%) Oracle
7 1 (1.03%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.03%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.03%) Veritas