Platform Engineer Contracts in Central London

Platform Engineer
London > Central London

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Central London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 156 171
Rank change year-on-year +37 +15 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 18 18 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.75% 0.49% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 0.51% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 13
10th Percentile £448 £480 £406
25th Percentile £506 £563 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £672 £600
90th Percentile £680 £700 £630
London median daily rate £581 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -3.13% - +7.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,286 3,527 4,236
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.45% 95.09% 94.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,606 2,407 3,210
10th Percentile £340 £325 £354
25th Percentile £438 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £724 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 23 49
10th Percentile £20.07 £15.50 £15.38
25th Percentile £21.44 £18.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £27.41 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.70% -13.58% +125.31%
75th Percentile £28.98 £61.25 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.88 £87.64 £64.35
London median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings that featured Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Central London

Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer in Central London

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineer in Central London

Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +44 14 £600 -4.95% 5
City of Westminster -1 2 £550 -12.00%
Platform Engineer
London

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 job ads across the Central London region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (94.44%) Platform Engineering
2 15 (83.33%) Python
2 15 (83.33%) Terraform
3 11 (61.11%) Kubernetes
4 10 (55.56%) CI/CD
5 9 (50.00%) Linux
5 9 (50.00%) Azure
6 8 (44.44%) AWS
7 7 (38.89%) Docker
7 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (38.89%) Azure AKS
8 6 (33.33%) DevOps
9 5 (27.78%) GitHub
10 4 (22.22%) Finance
10 4 (22.22%) Public Cloud
10 4 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (22.22%) Serverless
10 4 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
11 3 (16.67%) Azure Functions
11 3 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
11 3 (16.67%) DevSecOps
11 3 (16.67%) Kafka
11 3 (16.67%) Argo
11 3 (16.67%) Architectural Design
11 3 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (16.67%) React
11 3 (16.67%) Machine to Machine
11 3 (16.67%) JMeter

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Azure
2 8 (44.44%) AWS
3 7 (38.89%) Azure AKS
4 5 (27.78%) GitHub
5 4 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (22.22%) Serverless
6 3 (16.67%) Azure Functions
6 3 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (11.11%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (11.11%) SaaS
8 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (5.56%) GCP
8 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Cypress.io
1 3 (16.67%) JMeter
2 2 (11.11%) GitLab
3 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 4 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) Kafka
1 3 (16.67%) Node.js
1 3 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Public Cloud
2 3 (16.67%) Machine to Machine
3 1 (5.56%) MPEG
3 1 (5.56%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (94.44%) Platform Engineering
2 10 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (33.33%) DevOps
5 3 (16.67%) Architectural Design
5 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 3 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 3 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (11.11%) Task Automation
7 1 (5.56%) Analytics
7 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1 (5.56%) Computer Science
7 1 (5.56%) Identity Access Management
7 1 (5.56%) Machine Learning
7 1 (5.56%) Mathematics
7 1 (5.56%) Resource Management
7 1 (5.56%) Structured Programming
7 1 (5.56%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 15 (83.33%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) Bash
3 2 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) C#
4 1 (5.56%) Clojure
4 1 (5.56%) Go
4 1 (5.56%) Haskell
4 1 (5.56%) Java
4 1 (5.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
1 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (83.33%) Terraform
2 11 (61.11%) Kubernetes
3 3 (16.67%) Argo