Platform Engineering Contracts in London

Platform Engineering
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Platform Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 241 211 288
Rank change year-on-year -30 +77 +25
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 158 306 370
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.90% 1.18% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.30% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 250 289
10th Percentile £425 £512 £463
25th Percentile £500 £563 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £635 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% +5.91% +11.11%
75th Percentile £700 £775 £700
90th Percentile £750 £863 £775
England median daily rate £575 £610 £585
% change year-on-year -5.74% +4.27% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £53.85 - -
25th Percentile £55.88 - -
Median hourly rate £60.50 £85.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.82% - -
75th Percentile £63.88 £87.50 -
90th Percentile £65.15 £89.00 -
England median hourly rate £60.50 £81.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -25.77% +35.83% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Platform Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,495 23,478 35,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.66% 90.88% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,110 16,936 26,017
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 270 417
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.84 £38.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.22% +2.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.94 £51.48
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.28 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in London

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in London

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in London

Platform Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Platform Engineering in London

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering 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 +56 34 £600 -5.88% 11
South London -1 3 £550 +10.92%
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
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 7 (4.43%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.80%) Confluence
3 4 (2.53%) Cloud Foundry
4 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.90%) nginx
5 2 (1.27%) IBM Domino
6 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.63%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Shopify
2 1 (0.63%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 63 (39.87%) AWS
2 62 (39.24%) Azure
3 27 (17.09%) Serverless
4 24 (15.19%) GCP
5 18 (11.39%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (11.39%) GitHub
6 15 (9.49%) Azure AKS
7 13 (8.23%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (7.59%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (6.33%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (6.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (6.33%) Azure Functions
10 9 (5.70%) Amazon S3
10 9 (5.70%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (5.70%) IaaS
11 8 (5.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (5.06%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (5.06%) PaaS
11 8 (5.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (3.80%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.49%) Firewall
2 7 (4.43%) FTP
3 6 (3.80%) VPN
4 5 (3.16%) IPv4
5 4 (2.53%) DNS
5 4 (2.53%) HTTP
5 4 (2.53%) ICMP
5 4 (2.53%) POP3
5 4 (2.53%) SMTP
5 4 (2.53%) SSH
5 4 (2.53%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.27%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (1.27%) Network Security
6 2 (1.27%) VLAN
6 2 (1.27%) VSAN
7 1 (0.63%) LAN
7 1 (0.63%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.63%) WAN
7 1 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (3.16%) Tableau
2 4 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.53%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.90%) Airbyte
3 3 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.90%) DynamoDB
3 3 (1.90%) Flink
3 3 (1.90%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.90%) MySQL
3 3 (1.90%) Power BI
4 2 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.27%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.27%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.63%) CockroachDB
5 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.63%) Metadata
5 1 (0.63%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 33 (20.89%) Jenkins
2 27 (17.09%) GitLab
3 16 (10.13%) Git
4 9 (5.70%) Cypress.io
4 9 (5.70%) JIRA
4 9 (5.70%) JMeter
5 2 (1.27%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.63%) CA Gen
6 1 (0.63%) GoCD
6 1 (0.63%) Gradle
6 1 (0.63%) JUnit
6 1 (0.63%) Maven
6 1 (0.63%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.63%) TestNG
6 1 (0.63%) Travis CI
6 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 29 (18.35%) Social Skills
2 24 (15.19%) Finance
3 21 (13.29%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.33%) Banking
5 9 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.90%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.27%) Billing
8 2 (1.27%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.27%) Marketing
8 2 (1.27%) Retail
9 1 (0.63%) Back Office
9 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (51.27%) Platform Engineer
2 42 (26.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 30 (18.99%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (12.03%) AWS Engineer
5 18 (11.39%) Cloud Engineer
5 18 (11.39%) Senior
6 15 (9.49%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 14 (8.86%) Azure Engineer
8 12 (7.59%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 11 (6.96%) Developer
10 10 (6.33%) Lead
11 8 (5.06%) Python Developer
12 7 (4.43%) AWS DevOps
12 7 (4.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 7 (4.43%) DevOps Platform Engineer
12 7 (4.43%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 7 (4.43%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 6 (3.80%) GCP Engineer
13 6 (3.80%) Software Engineer
14 5 (3.16%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (13.92%) Kafka
2 18 (11.39%) React
3 15 (9.49%) Node.js
4 7 (4.43%) CSS
4 7 (4.43%) HTML
4 7 (4.43%) REST
5 6 (3.80%) Django
5 6 (3.80%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (3.16%) YAML
7 3 (1.90%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.90%) GraphQL
7 3 (1.90%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (1.90%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.27%) AWS SAM
8 2 (1.27%) http4s
8 2 (1.27%) JSON
8 2 (1.27%) OAuth
8 2 (1.27%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.27%) OpenID
8 2 (1.27%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.13%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (4.43%) Machine to Machine
2 7 (4.43%) Public Cloud
3 6 (3.80%) Algorithms
3 6 (3.80%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.53%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.90%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.90%) Replication
6 3 (1.90%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.27%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.27%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.63%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.63%) PropTech
8 1 (0.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 47 (29.75%) Linux
2 9 (5.70%) Windows
3 8 (5.06%) Unix
4 4 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.53%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (2.53%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (1.90%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.63%) VMS
6 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (43.04%) CI/CD
2 63 (39.87%) DevOps
3 34 (21.52%) Agile
3 34 (21.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (15.19%) Configuration Management
5 23 (14.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 20 (12.66%) Computer Science
7 18 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (10.13%) Software Engineering
9 15 (9.49%) Analytics
10 13 (8.23%) Containerisation
11 12 (7.59%) Cybersecurity
12 11 (6.96%) Data Science
12 11 (6.96%) Machine Learning
12 11 (6.96%) Technical Leadership
13 10 (6.33%) Microservices
14 9 (5.70%) Data Engineering
14 9 (5.70%) DevSecOps
14 9 (5.70%) Test Automation
15 8 (5.06%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (43.04%) Python
2 24 (15.19%) JavaScript
3 23 (14.56%) SQL
4 15 (9.49%) Java
5 14 (8.86%) C#
6 12 (7.59%) Bash
6 12 (7.59%) Go
6 12 (7.59%) PowerShell
7 8 (5.06%) Ruby
8 6 (3.80%) Rust
9 5 (3.16%) Scala
10 4 (2.53%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.90%) C
11 3 (1.90%) C++
11 3 (1.90%) Clojure
11 3 (1.90%) Haskell
11 3 (1.90%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.27%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.63%) Groovy
13 1 (0.63%) Natural
Qualifications
1 34 (21.52%) SC Cleared
1 34 (21.52%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.76%) Degree
3 14 (8.86%) DV Cleared
4 10 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.90%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.90%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.27%) CCNP
6 2 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.27%) NIST
2 1 (0.63%) ISO 22301
2 1 (0.63%) NIST 800
2 1 (0.63%) PMO
2 1 (0.63%) QA
System Software
1 37 (23.42%) Docker
2 6 (3.80%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.90%) vSphere
6 2 (1.27%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.27%) KVM
6 2 (1.27%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 88 (55.70%) Terraform
2 58 (36.71%) Kubernetes
3 30 (18.99%) Ansible
4 10 (6.33%) Argo
5 6 (3.80%) Grafana
5 6 (3.80%) Packer
6 4 (2.53%) Consul
6 4 (2.53%) Kibana
6 4 (2.53%) logstash
6 4 (2.53%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.53%) QRadar
7 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.90%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.27%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.27%) Puppet
9 1 (0.63%) Istio
9 1 (0.63%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.63%) Salt
9 1 (0.63%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 13 (8.23%) ServiceNow
2 12 (7.59%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.43%) Splunk
4 5 (3.16%) VMware
5 4 (2.53%) ArcSight
5 4 (2.53%) Databricks
5 4 (2.53%) SAP
6 3 (1.90%) Aruba
6 3 (1.90%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.90%) New Relic
7 2 (1.27%) Adobe
7 2 (1.27%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.27%) Barracuda Networks
7 2 (1.27%) Cisco
7 2 (1.27%) Google
7 2 (1.27%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.27%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.27%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.63%) CA
8 1 (0.63%) Juniper