AWS Platform Engineer Contracts

Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 550 662 766
Rank change year-on-year +112 +104 -145
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Platform Engineer 32 41 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.074% 0.071% 0.084%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% 0.075% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 37 62
10th Percentile £439 £490 £414
25th Percentile £453 £525 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £572 £650 £600
90th Percentile £625 £718 £623
UK excluding London median daily rate £503 £575 £425
% change year-on-year -12.61% +35.29% -19.05%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 39,888 54,783 83,316
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,953 38,247 58,493
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,534 2,048
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

AWS Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Platform Engineer in the UK

AWS Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Platform Engineer in the UK

AWS Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Platform Engineer in the UK

AWS Platform Engineer
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England +83 21 £538 -10.42% 5
UK excluding London +60 14 £503 -12.61% 3
Work from Home +107 13 £503 -16.25% 4
London +87 13 £538 -17.31% 3
Scotland - 7 £453 -
North of England +32 4 £550 +1.15%
North West +24 3 £550 -5.38%
South East +21 3 £538 -17.31% 1
Yorkshire +16 1 £525 +3.70%

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 featuring AWS Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) AWS
1 32 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 20 (62.50%) DevOps
2 20 (62.50%) Terraform
3 19 (59.38%) Python
4 18 (56.25%) Kubernetes
5 17 (53.13%) Docker
6 16 (50.00%) CI/CD
6 16 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (37.50%) Ansible
7 12 (37.50%) Bash
8 11 (34.38%) Linux
8 11 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
9 10 (31.25%) Agile
9 10 (31.25%) Java
9 10 (31.25%) Security Cleared
10 9 (28.13%) Databricks
10 9 (28.13%) Snowflake
11 8 (25.00%) Git
11 8 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (21.88%) SC Cleared
12 7 (21.88%) Scala
12 7 (21.88%) Computer Science
12 7 (21.88%) Apache Airflow
12 7 (21.88%) Azure
12 7 (21.88%) Containerisation
12 7 (21.88%) GitOps
12 7 (21.88%) Distributed Systems
13 6 (18.75%) Social Skills

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (21.88%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (12.50%) Confluence
3 1 (3.13%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 32 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (28.13%) Snowflake
3 8 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (21.88%) Azure
5 6 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (15.63%) Amazon S3
7 4 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (12.50%) Datadog
7 4 (12.50%) Serverless
8 3 (9.38%) Amazon ELB
8 3 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (9.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (6.25%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (6.25%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (6.25%) OpenShift
9 2 (6.25%) SaaS
10 1 (3.13%) Amazon Macie
10 1 (3.13%) AWS CodeCommit
10 1 (3.13%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) DNS
2 2 (6.25%) Firewall
2 2 (6.25%) Network Security
3 1 (3.13%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Data Lake
1 3 (9.38%) DynamoDB
2 2 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (25.00%) Git
2 6 (18.75%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.50%) JIRA
4 3 (9.38%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.13%) Artifactory
5 1 (3.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (3.13%) GitLab
General
1 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.13%) Banking
2 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (3.13%) AWS CDK
2 1 (3.13%) AWS SAM
2 1 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.13%) React
2 1 (3.13%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.13%) PKI
2 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (34.38%) Linux
2 3 (9.38%) Debian
3 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.13%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.13%) Unix
3 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 20 (62.50%) DevOps
3 16 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 16 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (31.25%) Agile
5 10 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (21.88%) Computer Science
6 7 (21.88%) Containerisation
6 7 (21.88%) GitOps
7 6 (18.75%) Data Engineering
7 6 (18.75%) DataOps
7 6 (18.75%) MLOps
8 5 (15.63%) DevSecOps
9 4 (12.50%) Configuration Management
9 4 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
10 3 (9.38%) Cloud Operations
10 3 (9.38%) Open Source
10 3 (9.38%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 19 (59.38%) Python
2 12 (37.50%) Bash
3 10 (31.25%) Java
4 7 (21.88%) Scala
5 5 (15.63%) Go
6 4 (12.50%) Shell Script
6 4 (12.50%) SQL
7 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
8 1 (3.13%) C
8 1 (3.13%) C++
8 1 (3.13%) Groovy
8 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
8 1 (3.13%) Ruby
8 1 (3.13%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.88%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 2 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (53.13%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (62.50%) Terraform
2 18 (56.25%) Kubernetes
3 12 (37.50%) Ansible
4 4 (12.50%) Grafana
5 3 (9.38%) HP Fortify
5 3 (9.38%) Prometheus
6 2 (6.25%) Packer
6 2 (6.25%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.13%) Consul
7 1 (3.13%) Kibana
7 1 (3.13%) Puppet
7 1 (3.13%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 9 (28.13%) Databricks
2 4 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 4 (12.50%) Splunk
3 1 (3.13%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.13%) SAP
3 1 (3.13%) Trend Micro