AWS Platform Engineer Contracts in England

Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > England

The median Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in England is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 508 610 723
Rank change year-on-year +102 +113 -138
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Platform Engineer 23 36 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.063% 0.074% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.079% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 31 45
10th Percentile £335 £500 £418
25th Percentile £463 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +4.35% +2.22%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £600
90th Percentile £625 £725 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,767 45,838 67,777
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.60% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,422 32,556 48,342
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,441 1,340 1,860
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.05 £64.78
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

AWS Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Platform Engineer in England

AWS Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Platform Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for AWS Platform Engineer in England

AWS Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Platform Engineer in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Platform Engineer in England

AWS Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Platform Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
London +96 15 £525 -19.23% 3
North of England +26 4 £550 +6.80%
South East +21 3 £538 -17.31% 1
North West +16 3 £550 -5.38%
Yorkshire +15 1 £525 +2.44%
AWS Platform Engineer
UK

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, AWS 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 England region featuring AWS Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) AWS
1 23 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 15 (65.22%) Terraform
3 14 (60.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (56.52%) CI/CD
4 13 (56.52%) Ansible
4 13 (56.52%) Python
5 12 (52.17%) Linux
5 12 (52.17%) Kubernetes
6 10 (43.48%) Docker
6 10 (43.48%) Bash
7 9 (39.13%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (39.13%) DevOps
8 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (34.78%) Agile
9 7 (30.43%) Git
9 7 (30.43%) Jenkins
10 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
10 6 (26.09%) Splunk
10 6 (26.09%) Amazon S3
10 6 (26.09%) SC Cleared
10 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
10 6 (26.09%) Configuration Management
10 6 (26.09%) SQL
11 5 (21.74%) Shell Script
11 5 (21.74%) Go
11 5 (21.74%) DevSecOps
11 5 (21.74%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (21.74%) Containerisation
12 4 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (13.04%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (39.13%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (26.09%) Amazon S3
4 5 (21.74%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (17.39%) Datadog
6 3 (13.04%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (13.04%) Amazon ELB
6 3 (13.04%) Serverless
6 3 (13.04%) Snowflake
6 3 (13.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (8.70%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (8.70%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (8.70%) SaaS
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon Glacier
8 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (4.35%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (4.35%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (4.35%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) DNS
2 2 (8.70%) Firewall
3 1 (4.35%) IPv4
3 1 (4.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Data Lake
1 3 (13.04%) DynamoDB
1 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
2 2 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Git
1 7 (30.43%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.04%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (8.70%) Kafka
3 1 (4.35%) AWS SAM
3 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.35%) React
3 1 (4.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Virtual Team
2 1 (4.35%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (52.17%) Linux
2 3 (13.04%) Debian
3 1 (4.35%) Unix
3 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 14 (60.87%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (56.52%) CI/CD
4 9 (39.13%) DevOps
5 8 (34.78%) Agile
5 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (26.09%) Configuration Management
7 5 (21.74%) Containerisation
7 5 (21.74%) DevSecOps
8 3 (13.04%) Cloud Operations
8 3 (13.04%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (13.04%) ETL
8 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Management
8 3 (13.04%) IT Strategy
8 3 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (13.04%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) Python
2 10 (43.48%) Bash
3 6 (26.09%) SQL
4 5 (21.74%) Go
4 5 (21.74%) Shell Script
5 4 (17.39%) Java
6 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
7 1 (4.35%) C
7 1 (4.35%) C++
7 1 (4.35%) Groovy
7 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
7 1 (4.35%) Ruby
7 1 (4.35%) Rust
7 1 (4.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) SC Cleared
1 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.70%) Degree
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 10 (43.48%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (65.22%) Terraform
2 13 (56.52%) Ansible
3 12 (52.17%) Kubernetes
4 3 (13.04%) HP Fortify
5 2 (8.70%) Grafana
5 2 (8.70%) Packer
5 2 (8.70%) Progress Chef
5 2 (8.70%) Prometheus
6 1 (4.35%) Consul
6 1 (4.35%) Karpenter
6 1 (4.35%) Puppet
6 1 (4.35%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Splunk
2 4 (17.39%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.35%) SAP
3 1 (4.35%) Trend Micro