Senior Platform Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Platform Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Platform Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £615, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 393 577
Rank change year-on-year +86 +184 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 15 6 11
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.032% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.034% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 10
10th Percentile £460 £544 £425
25th Percentile £475 £628 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £725 £625
Median % change year-on-year -15.17% +16.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £713 £750 £747
90th Percentile - - £788
UK median daily rate £615 £663 £590
% change year-on-year -7.17% +12.38% -1.75%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 11,313 17,773 36,914
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 94.50% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,133 12,477 26,633
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £645 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 389 527
10th Percentile £19.39 £16.93 £15.15
25th Percentile £25.52 £24.97 £25.00
Median hourly rate £41.53 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% - +101.61%
75th Percentile £66.00 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

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 October 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 October 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 15 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 11 (73.33%) Terraform
3 8 (53.33%) Python
4 6 (40.00%) E-Commerce
4 6 (40.00%) VMware
4 6 (40.00%) Load Balancing
4 6 (40.00%) JSON
4 6 (40.00%) YAML
4 6 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (40.00%) Linux
4 6 (40.00%) Fastly
4 6 (40.00%) Cloudflare
4 6 (40.00%) AWS
4 6 (40.00%) CloudFront
4 6 (40.00%) Ansible
4 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 5 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
6 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
6 4 (26.67%) Data Centre
6 4 (26.67%) Docker
6 4 (26.67%) Data Structures
6 4 (26.67%) Bash
6 4 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (26.67%) ITIL
6 4 (26.67%) Red Hat
6 4 (26.67%) FastAPI
6 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (26.67%) OpenShift
7 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
7 3 (20.00%) Azure AKS

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 2 (13.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) AWS
1 6 (40.00%) Cloudflare
1 6 (40.00%) CloudFront
1 6 (40.00%) Fastly
2 4 (26.67%) OpenShift
3 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 3 (20.00%) Azure AKS
4 2 (13.33%) Anthropic Claude
4 2 (13.33%) ChatGPT
4 2 (13.33%) Kong
4 2 (13.33%) OCI
5 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Cucumber
1 2 (13.33%) Git
1 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
1 2 (13.33%) Newman
1 2 (13.33%) Postman
1 2 (13.33%) SonarQube
1 2 (13.33%) Sonatype Nexus
1 2 (13.33%) Vagrant
2 1 (6.67%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) JSON
1 6 (40.00%) YAML
2 4 (26.67%) FastAPI
3 2 (13.33%) LangChain
3 2 (13.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Data Centre
1 4 (26.67%) Data Structures
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Linux
1 6 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (13.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (40.00%) E-Commerce
2 6 (40.00%) Load Balancing
3 5 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
4 4 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (26.67%) ITIL
5 3 (20.00%) Customer Service
5 3 (20.00%) DevOps
5 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (13.33%) API Development
6 2 (13.33%) Dashboard Development
6 2 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (13.33%) Generative AI
6 2 (13.33%) Observability
6 2 (13.33%) Prompt Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) Bash
3 2 (13.33%) PHP
3 2 (13.33%) PL/SQL
3 2 (13.33%) Rust
3 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
4 1 (6.67%) C#
4 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
2 2 (13.33%) VirtualBox
2 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (73.33%) Terraform
2 6 (40.00%) Ansible
3 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
4 2 (13.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Puppet
5 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) VMware
2 4 (26.67%) Red Hat
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 2 (13.33%) Splunk
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.67%) Perforce