Platform Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Platform Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 273 304 341
Rank change year-on-year +31 +37 -39
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 72 151 296
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.49% 0.61% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.64% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 138 228
10th Percentile £442 £511 £419
25th Percentile £491 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £650 £750 £690
UK median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +1.77%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,806 23,471 42,177
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.27% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,297 16,589 30,510
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 538 592
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.44 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.33
Median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.14 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.43 £68.70
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Platform Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Platform Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Platform Engineer.

Platform Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Platform Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Platform Engineer.

Platform Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 18 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 59 (81.94%) Platform Engineering
2 36 (50.00%) DevOps
3 33 (45.83%) Python
4 30 (41.67%) Terraform
4 30 (41.67%) Kubernetes
5 26 (36.11%) AWS
6 25 (34.72%) CI/CD
7 24 (33.33%) Azure
8 20 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
9 19 (26.39%) Linux
10 17 (23.61%) Public Sector
11 15 (20.83%) Containerisation
12 14 (19.44%) Ansible
12 14 (19.44%) Docker
13 13 (18.06%) ServiceNow
13 13 (18.06%) Security Cleared
13 13 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (15.28%) Bash
14 11 (15.28%) Serverless
15 10 (13.89%) OpenShift
15 10 (13.89%) GCP
15 10 (13.89%) Agile
16 9 (12.50%) SC Cleared
16 9 (12.50%) Unix
16 9 (12.50%) Microsoft
16 9 (12.50%) Go
16 9 (12.50%) Jenkins
17 8 (11.11%) Social Skills
17 8 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
17 8 (11.11%) Grafana

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (6.94%) Confluence
2 4 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.78%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 26 (36.11%) AWS
2 24 (33.33%) Azure
3 11 (15.28%) Serverless
4 10 (13.89%) GCP
4 10 (13.89%) OpenShift
5 8 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (9.72%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (8.33%) Amazon S3
8 5 (6.94%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 5 (6.94%) GitHub
8 5 (6.94%) PaaS
8 5 (6.94%) Snowflake
9 4 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (5.56%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (5.56%) IaaS
10 3 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.72%) Firewall
2 4 (5.56%) SAN
3 2 (2.78%) DNS
3 2 (2.78%) IPv4
4 1 (1.39%) Network Security
4 1 (1.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.94%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (4.17%) InfluxDB
2 3 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.39%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 8 (11.11%) GitLab
3 6 (8.33%) Artifactory
4 5 (6.94%) Git
4 5 (6.94%) JIRA
5 3 (4.17%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.39%) Hudson
6 1 (1.39%) Snyk
6 1 (1.39%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.39%) Vagrant
General
1 17 (23.61%) Public Sector
2 8 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.17%) Banking
4 2 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.78%) Finance
4 2 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.39%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.94%) AWS CDK
1 5 (6.94%) REST
2 3 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (2.78%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.78%) YAML
4 1 (1.39%) AWS SAM
4 1 (1.39%) CSS
4 1 (1.39%) HTML
4 1 (1.39%) SAML
4 1 (1.39%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.94%) Cloud Native
1 5 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.39%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.39%) MPEG
4 1 (1.39%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.39%) PropTech
4 1 (1.39%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.39%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.39%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 19 (26.39%) Linux
2 9 (12.50%) Unix
3 5 (6.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (6.94%) Ubuntu
4 4 (5.56%) Windows
4 4 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (81.94%) Platform Engineering
2 36 (50.00%) DevOps
3 25 (34.72%) CI/CD
4 20 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (20.83%) Containerisation
6 13 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (13.89%) Agile
8 8 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
8 8 (11.11%) OO
9 7 (9.72%) Open Source
10 6 (8.33%) GitOps
10 6 (8.33%) Test Automation
11 5 (6.94%) Computer Science
11 5 (6.94%) Configuration Management
11 5 (6.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (6.94%) Cybersecurity
11 5 (6.94%) Data Engineering
12 4 (5.56%) Deployment Automation
12 4 (5.56%) Observability
12 4 (5.56%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 33 (45.83%) Python
2 11 (15.28%) Bash
3 9 (12.50%) Go
4 8 (11.11%) Perl
5 6 (8.33%) Java
6 5 (6.94%) PowerShell
7 4 (5.56%) Groovy
7 4 (5.56%) Scala
8 2 (2.78%) Bicep
8 2 (2.78%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.78%) Ruby
8 2 (2.78%) SQL
9 1 (1.39%) C#
9 1 (1.39%) Clojure
9 1 (1.39%) Haskell
9 1 (1.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 13 (18.06%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.17%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.78%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.17%) NCSC
2 1 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.39%) NIST
2 1 (1.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (19.44%) Docker
2 6 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.56%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.39%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 30 (41.67%) Kubernetes
1 30 (41.67%) Terraform
2 14 (19.44%) Ansible
3 8 (11.11%) Grafana
4 5 (6.94%) Kibana
5 3 (4.17%) Dell DRAC
5 3 (4.17%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.78%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.39%) Argo
7 1 (1.39%) Consul
7 1 (1.39%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.39%) Packer
7 1 (1.39%) Puppet
7 1 (1.39%) Rundeck
7 1 (1.39%) Salt
Vendors
1 13 (18.06%) ServiceNow
2 9 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 8 (11.11%) Databricks
4 5 (6.94%) VMware
5 4 (5.56%) BMC
5 4 (5.56%) CyberArk
6 2 (2.78%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.39%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.39%) Google
7 1 (1.39%) Remedy
7 1 (1.39%) UiPath