AWS Platform Engineer Contracts in London

Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services
England > London

The median Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in London is £525 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 371 467 592
Rank change year-on-year +96 +125 -130
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Platform Engineer 15 20 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.086% 0.077% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.092% 0.081% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 18
10th Percentile £307 £506 £438
25th Percentile £360 £611 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £581
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +11.97% +3.20%
75th Percentile £625 £713 £625
90th Percentile £645 £737 £688
England median daily rate £538 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.42% +4.35% +2.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,330 24,760 37,101
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 95.17% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,815 17,998 27,187
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 281 441
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.07 £22.50 £23.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +13.45%
75th Percentile £46.05 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.32 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%

AWS Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Platform Engineer in London

AWS Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Platform Engineer in London

AWS Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS Platform Engineer in London

AWS Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +39 3 £600 -14.29%
South London +7 2 £588 +11.90%
AWS Platform Engineer
England

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

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 London region featuring AWS Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) AWS
1 15 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 11 (73.33%) Terraform
3 10 (66.67%) Python
4 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
5 8 (53.33%) Kubernetes
5 8 (53.33%) Linux
6 7 (46.67%) Jenkins
6 7 (46.67%) Ansible
6 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (40.00%) Docker
7 6 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (40.00%) Amazon S3
7 6 (40.00%) Configuration Management
7 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
7 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
8 5 (33.33%) Agile
8 5 (33.33%) DevOps
8 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (33.33%) Containerisation
9 4 (26.67%) DevSecOps
9 4 (26.67%) Git
9 4 (26.67%) Bash
10 3 (20.00%) Splunk
10 3 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (20.00%) Database Tuning
10 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
10 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
10 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
10 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration

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

Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (13.33%) SaaS
4 2 (13.33%) Serverless
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CodeCommit
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (6.67%) Azure
5 1 (6.67%) GCP
5 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
5 1 (6.67%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) IPv4
2 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (26.67%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (13.33%) Kafka
3 1 (6.67%) AWS SAM
3 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (6.67%) React
3 1 (6.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (6.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Unix
2 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (40.00%) Configuration Management
5 5 (33.33%) Agile
5 5 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 5 (33.33%) DevOps
5 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (26.67%) DevSecOps
7 3 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (20.00%) Database Tuning
7 3 (20.00%) ETL
7 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
7 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
8 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
9 1 (6.67%) ISMS
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) Bash
3 3 (20.00%) Java
3 3 (20.00%) SQL
4 2 (13.33%) Go
4 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
5 1 (6.67%) C
5 1 (6.67%) C++
5 1 (6.67%) Groovy
5 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.67%) Ruby
5 1 (6.67%) Rust
5 1 (6.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (73.33%) Terraform
2 8 (53.33%) Kubernetes
3 7 (46.67%) Ansible
4 2 (13.33%) Grafana
4 2 (13.33%) Packer
4 2 (13.33%) Progress Chef
4 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (6.67%) Consul
5 1 (6.67%) Karpenter
5 1 (6.67%) Puppet
5 1 (6.67%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Splunk
2 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (6.67%) SAP
2 1 (6.67%) Trend Micro