Hybrid/Remote Senior Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends

Senior Platform Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Platform Engineer daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
19 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 292 370
Rank change year-on-year -5 +78 +168
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 17 22 4
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.17% 0.19% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.20% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 4
10th Percentile £520 £466 £483
25th Percentile £538 £475 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% +3.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £659
90th Percentile £820 - £699
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%

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 remote/hybrid work 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 9,533 10,861 16,124
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.27% 93.14% 94.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,194 6,881 11,057
10th Percentile £329 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £622 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 197 360
10th Percentile £15.18 £18.50 £17.59
25th Percentile £20.50 £23.50 £27.19
Median hourly rate £45.46 £37.00 £53.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% -30.52% -3.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £87.55
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £34.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% -23.60% +48.33%

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Platform Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Senior Platform Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Senior Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Senior Platform Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Senior Platform Engineer job vacancies

Senior Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Senior Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Senior Platform Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, Senior Platform Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (94.12%) CI/CD
1 16 (94.12%) Platform Engineering
2 15 (88.24%) AWS
2 15 (88.24%) Terraform
3 14 (82.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (70.59%) Grafana
4 12 (70.59%) Observability
4 12 (70.59%) Python
5 11 (64.71%) Go
5 11 (64.71%) Java
6 10 (58.82%) Clean Code
6 10 (58.82%) CloudFront
6 10 (58.82%) gRPC
6 10 (58.82%) Kafka
6 10 (58.82%) Open Source
6 10 (58.82%) Prometheus
6 10 (58.82%) Software Delivery
6 10 (58.82%) Software Engineering
7 4 (23.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (23.53%) Azure
7 4 (23.53%) DevOps
7 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
8 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
8 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
9 2 (11.76%) Agile
9 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (11.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (11.76%) Ansible
9 2 (11.76%) AWS CDK

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Confluence
1 1 (5.88%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 15 (88.24%) AWS
2 10 (58.82%) CloudFront
3 4 (23.53%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (23.53%) Azure
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (11.76%) AWS KMS
5 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) GCP
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.88%) VLAN
1 1 (5.88%) VoIP
1 1 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Artifactory
1 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
1 1 (5.88%) Git
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
1 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
1 1 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Front Office
3 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (58.82%) gRPC
1 10 (58.82%) Kafka
2 2 (11.76%) AWS CDK
3 1 (5.88%) ADO
3 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.88%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (58.82%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (11.76%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Clustering
3 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (5.88%) IBM XIV
3 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) CI/CD
1 16 (94.12%) Platform Engineering
2 14 (82.35%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (70.59%) Observability
4 10 (58.82%) Clean Code
4 10 (58.82%) Open Source
4 10 (58.82%) Software Delivery
4 10 (58.82%) Software Engineering
5 4 (23.53%) DevOps
6 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
7 2 (11.76%) Agile
7 2 (11.76%) Data Protection
7 2 (11.76%) Incident Management
7 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Management
7 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
7 2 (11.76%) Migration
7 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (5.88%) Electronic Trading
8 1 (5.88%) Multithreading
8 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) Python
2 11 (64.71%) Go
2 11 (64.71%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) GDPR
1 2 (11.76%) NIST
2 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
1 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (88.24%) Terraform
2 12 (70.59%) Grafana
3 10 (58.82%) Prometheus
4 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
5 2 (11.76%) Ansible
6 1 (5.88%) Istio
6 1 (5.88%) Puppet
6 1 (5.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Citrix
1 1 (5.88%) IBM
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.88%) VMware
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