Senior Platform Engineer Contracts

Senior Platform Engineer
UK

The median Senior Platform Engineer daily rate in the UK is £630 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 560 666 835
Rank change year-on-year +106 +169 -152
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 19 28 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.045% 0.049% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.048% 0.052% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 22 19
10th Percentile £505 £551 £475
25th Percentile £525 £600 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £639 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% +11.09% -19.30%
75th Percentile £650 £744 £650
90th Percentile £655 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £613 £538
% change year-on-year +6.12% +13.95% +4.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £57.50 -

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 39,468 54,175 84,246
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.61% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,716 37,826 59,224
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,504 2,051
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.82
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +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% +4.19%

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Platform Engineer in the UK

Senior Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Platform Engineer in the UK

Senior Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Platform Engineer in the UK

Senior Platform Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Platform Engineer in the UK

Senior Platform Engineer
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England +113 14 £590 -5.60% 24
London +103 10 £590 -8.35% 19
Work from Home +109 9 £650 +6.12% 16
UK excluding London +44 3 £650 +6.12% 10
North of England +27 2 £663 +15.22% 3
North West +14 2 £663 +20.45% 3
South West +9 1 £500 -27.27%

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 featuring Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (57.89%) Platform Engineering
2 10 (52.63%) Kubernetes
3 9 (47.37%) Terraform
3 9 (47.37%) AWS
4 8 (42.11%) DevOps
4 8 (42.11%) Python
4 8 (42.11%) SC Cleared
4 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
4 8 (42.11%) Serverless
5 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
5 7 (36.84%) Azure
6 6 (31.58%) Docker
6 6 (31.58%) Go
6 6 (31.58%) GCP
6 6 (31.58%) PaaS
6 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (26.32%) Containerisation
8 4 (21.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (21.05%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (21.05%) Cloud Native
8 4 (21.05%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (21.05%) Open Source
8 4 (21.05%) Git
8 4 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (21.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (21.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (21.05%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (21.05%) Billing
9 3 (15.79%) Agile

Senior 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 1 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.26%) Confluence
1 1 (5.26%) ThingWorx
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) AWS
2 8 (42.11%) Serverless
3 7 (36.84%) Azure
4 6 (31.58%) GCP
4 6 (31.58%) PaaS
5 4 (21.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (21.05%) AWS CloudTrail
5 4 (21.05%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (21.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (21.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (15.79%) GitHub
6 3 (15.79%) OCI
6 3 (15.79%) SaaS
7 2 (10.53%) Azure AKS
7 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
7 2 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (10.53%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) DNS
1 1 (5.26%) Firewall
1 1 (5.26%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) Bitbucket
2 2 (10.53%) GitLab
3 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.26%) JIRA
3 1 (5.26%) Snyk
3 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (21.05%) Billing
2 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (5.26%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Cloud Native
1 4 (21.05%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Platform Engineering
2 8 (42.11%) DevOps
3 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
4 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (26.32%) Containerisation
5 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (21.05%) Open Source
7 3 (15.79%) Agile
7 3 (15.79%) DevSecOps
7 3 (15.79%) Migration
8 2 (10.53%) Cost Reduction
8 2 (10.53%) Data Engineering
8 2 (10.53%) Data Pipeline
8 2 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (10.53%) GitOps
8 2 (10.53%) Identity Management
8 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (10.53%) Scrum
8 2 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Python
2 6 (31.58%) Go
3 2 (10.53%) Java
3 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
3 2 (10.53%) SQL
4 1 (5.26%) Bash
4 1 (5.26%) Bicep
4 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) SC Cleared
1 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Azure Certification
2 2 (10.53%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (5.26%) NIST
1 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Docker
2 3 (15.79%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (52.63%) Kubernetes
2 9 (47.37%) Terraform
3 3 (15.79%) Data Guard
4 1 (5.26%) Ansible
4 1 (5.26%) Argo
4 1 (5.26%) Consul
4 1 (5.26%) Packer
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.26%) Databricks
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) VMware