AWS Platform Engineer Contracts

Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK is £480, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 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
12 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 557 646 802
Rank change year-on-year +89 +156 -147
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Platform Engineer 27 51 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.062% 0.092% 0.053%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.097% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 47 39
10th Percentile £376 £504 £450
25th Percentile £447 £525 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £556 £650 £613
90th Percentile £598 £717 £676
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £575 £515
% change year-on-year -18.26% +11.65% -1.90%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

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 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Platform Engineer in the UK

AWS Platform Engineer
Top 8 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 12 June 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 +59 17 £538 -17.31% 7
Work from Home +95 12 £503 -22.69% 6
UK excluding London +28 12 £470 -18.26% 3
London +65 11 £475 -26.92% 3
Scotland - 7 £453 -
North West +15 3 £550 -5.38%
North of England +12 3 £550 +6.80%
South East +14 2 £538 -17.31% 1

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 27 (100.00%) AWS
1 27 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 19 (70.37%) Terraform
2 19 (70.37%) Kubernetes
2 19 (70.37%) Python
3 18 (66.67%) DevOps
4 16 (59.26%) Docker
5 15 (55.56%) CI/CD
5 15 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (40.74%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (40.74%) Data Pipeline
6 11 (40.74%) Ansible
6 11 (40.74%) Linux
7 10 (37.04%) Agile
7 10 (37.04%) Bash
8 9 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
8 9 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (33.33%) Snowflake
9 8 (29.63%) Computer Science
9 8 (29.63%) Databricks
10 7 (25.93%) GitOps
10 7 (25.93%) Git
10 7 (25.93%) Security Cleared
10 7 (25.93%) Java
10 7 (25.93%) Azure
10 7 (25.93%) Containerisation
11 6 (22.22%) Scala
11 6 (22.22%) Splunk
11 6 (22.22%) SQL

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 9 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (11.11%) Confluence
3 1 (3.70%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 27 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 9 (33.33%) Snowflake
3 7 (25.93%) Azure
4 6 (22.22%) Amazon S3
5 5 (18.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (14.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (14.81%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (14.81%) Serverless
7 3 (11.11%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (7.41%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (7.41%) Datadog
8 2 (7.41%) SaaS
8 2 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (3.70%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (3.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (3.70%) AWS Control Tower
9 1 (3.70%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) DNS
2 1 (3.70%) Firewall
2 1 (3.70%) IPv4
2 1 (3.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 3 (11.11%) DynamoDB
1 3 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) Git
2 5 (18.52%) Jenkins
3 3 (11.11%) JIRA
3 3 (11.11%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.70%) Artifactory
4 1 (3.70%) GitLab
General
1 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.70%) Banking
2 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.70%) AWS CDK
3 1 (3.70%) AWS SAM
3 1 (3.70%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 9 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (40.74%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Debian
3 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.70%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 18 (66.67%) DevOps
3 15 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 15 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (40.74%) Data Pipeline
4 11 (40.74%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (37.04%) Agile
6 8 (29.63%) Computer Science
7 7 (25.93%) Containerisation
7 7 (25.93%) GitOps
8 6 (22.22%) Data Engineering
8 6 (22.22%) DataOps
8 6 (22.22%) MLOps
9 5 (18.52%) Configuration Management
10 3 (11.11%) Cloud Operations
10 3 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
10 3 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (11.11%) Database Tuning
10 3 (11.11%) ETL
10 3 (11.11%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 19 (70.37%) Python
2 10 (37.04%) Bash
3 7 (25.93%) Java
4 6 (22.22%) Scala
4 6 (22.22%) SQL
5 5 (18.52%) Go
6 4 (14.81%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.70%) C
7 1 (3.70%) C++
7 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) AWS Certification
3 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (59.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (70.37%) Kubernetes
1 19 (70.37%) Terraform
2 11 (40.74%) Ansible
3 4 (14.81%) Grafana
4 3 (11.11%) HP Fortify
4 3 (11.11%) Prometheus
5 2 (7.41%) Karpenter
6 1 (3.70%) Consul
6 1 (3.70%) Kibana
6 1 (3.70%) Packer
6 1 (3.70%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Databricks
2 6 (22.22%) Splunk
3 2 (7.41%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.70%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.70%) SAP
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