Platform Engineer Contracts in London

Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in London is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 305 331 419
Rank change year-on-year +26 +88 -48
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 90 150 189
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.51% 0.58% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.61% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 117 131
10th Percentile £393 £490 £450
25th Percentile £463 £550 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £586
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +2.39% +6.55%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £688
90th Percentile £665 £725 £775
England median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £71.00 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £80.00 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £85.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 £86.25 -
90th Percentile - £88.50 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £76.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -28.10% +27.50% -

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 16,328 24,595 36,745
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.43% 95.20% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,803 17,870 26,915
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £470
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% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 283 439
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.07 £22.69 £23.12
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +10.62%
75th Percentile £46.05 £62.25 £49.80
90th Percentile £65.32 £80.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +4.55%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in London

Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer in London

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineer in London

Platform Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Platform Engineer in London

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 Platform Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 17 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 +51 20 £550 -12.00% 3
South London +3 2 £588 +18.48%
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 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 London region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 81 (90.00%) Platform Engineering
2 52 (57.78%) Terraform
3 38 (42.22%) Python
4 37 (41.11%) Azure
5 35 (38.89%) AWS
6 33 (36.67%) Kubernetes
7 31 (34.44%) DevOps
8 28 (31.11%) CI/CD
9 25 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
10 21 (23.33%) Docker
11 20 (22.22%) Public Sector
12 19 (21.11%) Security Cleared
13 18 (20.00%) SC Cleared
13 18 (20.00%) Linux
13 18 (20.00%) Serverless
14 14 (15.56%) Agile
15 13 (14.44%) Finance
16 12 (13.33%) ServiceNow
16 12 (13.33%) SQL
16 12 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
17 11 (12.22%) Containerisation
17 11 (12.22%) Jenkins
17 11 (12.22%) Ansible
17 11 (12.22%) GCP
17 11 (12.22%) Azure DevOps
17 11 (12.22%) Social Skills
18 10 (11.11%) Configuration Management
18 10 (11.11%) Git
18 10 (11.11%) PaaS
18 10 (11.11%) Azure AKS

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 4 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.33%) Confluence
2 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.22%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (2.22%) nginx
4 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.11%) ThingWorx
4 1 (1.11%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 37 (41.11%) Azure
2 35 (38.89%) AWS
3 18 (20.00%) Serverless
4 11 (12.22%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (12.22%) GCP
5 10 (11.11%) Azure AKS
5 10 (11.11%) PaaS
6 8 (8.89%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (8.89%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (8.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (7.78%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (7.78%) SaaS
8 6 (6.67%) Amazon S3
8 6 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (6.67%) GitHub
8 6 (6.67%) IaaS
9 5 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (5.56%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.56%) Firewall
2 4 (4.44%) IPv4
3 3 (3.33%) VPN
4 2 (2.22%) DNS
4 2 (2.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.33%) MongoDB
1 3 (3.33%) MySQL
1 3 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (3.33%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (2.22%) MariaDB
2 2 (2.22%) Redis
3 1 (1.11%) Adabas
3 1 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.11%) Bigtable
3 1 (1.11%) CockroachDB
3 1 (1.11%) Couchbase
3 1 (1.11%) CouchDB
3 1 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.11%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 11 (12.22%) Jenkins
2 10 (11.11%) Git
3 5 (5.56%) JIRA
4 4 (4.44%) GitLab
5 3 (3.33%) Cypress.io
5 3 (3.33%) JMeter
6 2 (2.22%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.11%) CA Gen
7 1 (1.11%) GoCD
General
1 20 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 13 (14.44%) Finance
3 11 (12.22%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.56%) Billing
4 5 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.22%) Banking
7 1 (1.11%) Back Office
7 1 (1.11%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.67%) Kafka
2 5 (5.56%) Node.js
3 4 (4.44%) YAML
4 3 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (3.33%) React
4 3 (3.33%) REST
5 2 (2.22%) ADO
5 2 (2.22%) ARM Templates
5 2 (2.22%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.11%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.11%) AWS SAM
6 1 (1.11%) CSS
6 1 (1.11%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.11%) HTML
6 1 (1.11%) JSON
6 1 (1.11%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.11%) RESTful
6 1 (1.11%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.44%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.33%) Machine to Machine
3 3 (3.33%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.22%) Replication
5 1 (1.11%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.11%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.11%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.11%) MPEG
5 1 (1.11%) PKI
5 1 (1.11%) PropTech
5 1 (1.11%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.11%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 18 (20.00%) Linux
2 5 (5.56%) Windows
3 3 (3.33%) VMS
3 3 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (2.22%) Unix
5 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (90.00%) Platform Engineering
2 31 (34.44%) DevOps
3 28 (31.11%) CI/CD
4 25 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (15.56%) Agile
6 11 (12.22%) Containerisation
7 10 (11.11%) Configuration Management
8 9 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (7.78%) DevSecOps
9 7 (7.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (6.67%) Computer Science
10 6 (6.67%) Software Engineering
11 5 (5.56%) Analytics
11 5 (5.56%) Technical Leadership
12 4 (4.44%) Artificial Intelligence
12 4 (4.44%) Data Pipeline
12 4 (4.44%) ERP
12 4 (4.44%) Infrastructure Management
12 4 (4.44%) Task Automation
12 4 (4.44%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 38 (42.22%) Python
2 12 (13.33%) SQL
3 9 (10.00%) Go
4 8 (8.89%) Bash
4 8 (8.89%) Java
4 8 (8.89%) PowerShell
5 5 (5.56%) C++
5 5 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.56%) Ruby
6 3 (3.33%) C#
6 3 (3.33%) Rust
7 2 (2.22%) C
7 2 (2.22%) Scala
7 2 (2.22%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.11%) Clojure
8 1 (1.11%) Groovy
8 1 (1.11%) Haskell
8 1 (1.11%) Natural
8 1 (1.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (21.11%) Security Cleared
2 18 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.78%) Degree
4 4 (4.44%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.22%) NIST
2 1 (1.11%) ISO 22301
2 1 (1.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 21 (23.33%) Docker
2 6 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (5.56%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 52 (57.78%) Terraform
2 33 (36.67%) Kubernetes
3 11 (12.22%) Ansible
4 6 (6.67%) Grafana
5 5 (5.56%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.44%) Argo
6 4 (4.44%) Data Guard
7 3 (3.33%) Consul
7 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (3.33%) Packer
7 3 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (2.22%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.11%) Istio
9 1 (1.11%) Puppet
9 1 (1.11%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 12 (13.33%) ServiceNow
2 6 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.44%) Oracle
4 3 (3.33%) Databricks
4 3 (3.33%) Splunk
5 2 (2.22%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.22%) New Relic
5 2 (2.22%) VMware
6 1 (1.11%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.11%) CA
6 1 (1.11%) Google
6 1 (1.11%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.11%) SAP
6 1 (1.11%) Trend Micro