Senior Platform Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior Platform Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Platform Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 335 462
Rank change year-on-year +52 +127 +158
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 21 10 15
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.065% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.070% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 12
10th Percentile £395 £495 £533
25th Percentile £468 £513 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £606
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +7.22% +3.19%
75th Percentile £575 - £750
90th Percentile £590 £655 -
UK median daily rate £518 £630 £625
% change year-on-year -17.75% +0.80% +4.17%

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 WFH or hybrid 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 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Senior Platform Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Senior Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Platform Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Senior Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Senior Platform Engineer.

Senior Platform Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Senior Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Senior Platform Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
1 14 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 14 (66.67%) Python
2 13 (61.90%) CI/CD
3 12 (57.14%) AWS
3 12 (57.14%) Ansible
4 11 (52.38%) DevOps
4 11 (52.38%) Terraform
5 10 (47.62%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (47.62%) PowerShell
6 8 (38.10%) SC Cleared
6 8 (38.10%) Security Cleared
6 8 (38.10%) Kubernetes
6 8 (38.10%) Bash
7 7 (33.33%) Docker
7 7 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (28.57%) Okta
8 6 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
8 6 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
8 6 (28.57%) Private Cloud
8 6 (28.57%) Jenkins
8 6 (28.57%) Migration
9 5 (23.81%) Linux
9 5 (23.81%) GitHub
9 5 (23.81%) Azure
9 5 (23.81%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
9 5 (23.81%) Containerisation
9 5 (23.81%) Serverless
9 5 (23.81%) AWS Lambda

Senior 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) AWS
2 7 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (23.81%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (23.81%) Azure
3 5 (23.81%) GitHub
3 5 (23.81%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (23.81%) Serverless
4 4 (19.05%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (14.29%) Azure Batch
5 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (9.52%) AWS Control Tower
6 2 (9.52%) AWS KMS
6 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
6 2 (9.52%) GCP
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.76%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.52%) CircleCI
2 2 (9.52%) GitLab
3 1 (4.76%) Git
General
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) AWS CDK
1 2 (9.52%) AWS SAM
2 1 (4.76%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Private Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 14 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 13 (61.90%) CI/CD
3 11 (52.38%) DevOps
4 10 (47.62%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
5 6 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
5 6 (28.57%) Migration
6 5 (23.81%) Containerisation
7 4 (19.05%) Cloud Security
7 4 (19.05%) Configuration Management
7 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
8 3 (14.29%) Mentoring
9 2 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
9 2 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
9 2 (9.52%) Observability
9 2 (9.52%) Software Delivery
9 2 (9.52%) Task Automation
9 2 (9.52%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) Python
2 10 (47.62%) PowerShell
3 8 (38.10%) Bash
4 4 (19.05%) Go
5 3 (14.29%) Bicep
6 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
7 1 (4.76%) Java
7 1 (4.76%) Scala
7 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) SC Cleared
1 8 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.76%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (57.14%) Ansible
2 11 (52.38%) Terraform
3 8 (38.10%) Kubernetes
4 2 (9.52%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Okta
2 2 (9.52%) Red Hat
2 2 (9.52%) VMware
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft