Senior Platform Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Platform Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Platform Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 337 450 603
Rank change year-on-year +113 +153 -122
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 9 15 14
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.062% 0.062% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.065% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 13
10th Percentile £501 £548 £483
25th Percentile £522 £600 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £626 £554
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +13.04% -23.59%
75th Percentile - £750 £600
90th Percentile £658 - £675
UK median daily rate £630 £640 £575
% change year-on-year -1.56% +11.30% -19.30%

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 13,673 23,018 42,241
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.28% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,245 16,317 30,649
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +2.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 528 572
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £25.53 £19.50
Median hourly rate £44.74 £52.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +47.89% +52.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.94 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £76.80 £68.70
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%

Senior Platform Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior Platform Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior 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 Senior Platform Engineer.

Senior Platform Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Senior Platform Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (66.67%) GCP
1 6 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (55.56%) Go
2 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (44.44%) Cloud Native
3 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (44.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 4 (44.44%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (44.44%) AWS
3 4 (44.44%) Open Source
3 4 (44.44%) Terraform
4 3 (33.33%) Python
4 3 (33.33%) Azure
4 3 (33.33%) GitHub
4 3 (33.33%) DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) Serverless
5 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (22.22%) Bitbucket
5 2 (22.22%) PaaS
5 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
5 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
5 2 (22.22%) GitLab
5 2 (22.22%) Docker
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (11.11%) Snyk
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (11.11%) Argo

Senior 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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) GCP
2 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 3 (33.33%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) GitHub
4 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (22.22%) PaaS
4 2 (22.22%) Serverless
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (11.11%) dbt
5 1 (11.11%) IaaS
5 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
5 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Bitbucket
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Snyk
2 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Native
1 4 (44.44%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (44.44%) Open Source
2 4 (44.44%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (11.11%) API Management
5 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
5 1 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
5 1 (11.11%) GitOps
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Interactive Application Security Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Proactive Maintenance
5 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
5 1 (11.11%) Static Application Security Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Go
2 3 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Bicep
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
1 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (44.44%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Argo
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
1 1 (11.11%) VMware