Senior Platform Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Platform Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Platform Engineer daily rate in England is £590 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 537 624 761
Rank change year-on-year +87 +137 -119
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 14 13 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.038% 0.027% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.029% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 10
10th Percentile £498 £513 £453
25th Percentile £525 £544 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £625 £565
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% +10.72% +10.15%
75th Percentile £649 £684 £663
90th Percentile £661 £725 £694
UK median daily rate £630 £640 £575
% change year-on-year -1.56% +11.30% -19.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £57.50 -

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 34,226 44,888 67,264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,546 31,942 48,134
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,576 1,314 1,782
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.51
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.57 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Platform Engineer in England

Senior Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Platform Engineer in England

Senior Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Platform Engineer in England

Senior Platform Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Platform Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Platform Engineer in England

Senior 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 Senior Platform Engineer within the England 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
London +97 10 £590 -8.35% 11
North of England +22 2 £663 +15.22% 2
North West +21 2 £663 +20.45% 2
South West +6 1 £500 -27.27% 1
Senior Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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 job ads across the England region featuring Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (78.57%) Platform Engineering
2 9 (64.29%) Terraform
3 8 (57.14%) Serverless
3 8 (57.14%) AWS
3 8 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
4 7 (50.00%) Python
4 7 (50.00%) Azure
4 7 (50.00%) DevOps
5 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
5 6 (42.86%) Docker
5 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
5 6 (42.86%) PaaS
6 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
6 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (28.57%) AWS CloudTrail
7 4 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (28.57%) Git
7 4 (28.57%) Billing
8 3 (21.43%) Data Guard
8 3 (21.43%) Migration
8 3 (21.43%) Oracle
8 3 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (21.43%) Agile
8 3 (21.43%) SaaS
8 3 (21.43%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
8 3 (21.43%) DevSecOps

Senior 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 1 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
1 1 (7.14%) ThingWorx
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) AWS
1 8 (57.14%) Serverless
2 7 (50.00%) Azure
3 6 (42.86%) PaaS
4 4 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (28.57%) AWS CloudTrail
4 4 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (21.43%) OCI
5 3 (21.43%) SaaS
6 2 (14.29%) Azure AKS
6 2 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
6 2 (14.29%) GCP
6 2 (14.29%) GitHub
6 2 (14.29%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
3 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.14%) JIRA
3 1 (7.14%) Snyk
3 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (28.57%) Billing
2 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (7.14%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Platform Engineering
2 7 (50.00%) DevOps
3 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
4 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (21.43%) Agile
5 3 (21.43%) DevSecOps
5 3 (21.43%) Migration
6 2 (14.29%) API Management
6 2 (14.29%) Cost Reduction
6 2 (14.29%) Data Migration
6 2 (14.29%) GitOps
6 2 (14.29%) Identity Management
6 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Scrum
6 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
7 1 (7.14%) Cost Optimisation
7 1 (7.14%) Data Pipeline
7 1 (7.14%) DataOps
7 1 (7.14%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) Go
2 2 (14.29%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) Bicep
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
1 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Docker
2 3 (21.43%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (64.29%) Terraform
2 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 3 (21.43%) Data Guard
4 1 (7.14%) Ansible
4 1 (7.14%) Argo
4 1 (7.14%) Consul
4 1 (7.14%) Packer
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
2 1 (7.14%) Databricks
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) VMware