Platform Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Platform Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £628, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 November 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
14 Nov 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 135 179
Rank change year-on-year +16 +44 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 8 15 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.38% 0.54% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.57% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 15
10th Percentile £429 £415 £431
25th Percentile £479 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £628 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.58% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £753 £675 £700
90th Percentile £766 £835 £775
Central London median daily rate £628 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +4.58% - +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £91.13
Median hourly rate - - £92.25
75th Percentile - - £93.38
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £92.25

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. 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 City of London with a recognized job title 1,978 2,612 4,256
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.17% 94.06% 94.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,214 1,841 2,835
10th Percentile £363 £350 £356
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £792
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £575
% change year-on-year - - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 55
10th Percentile £15.95 £17.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £28.06 £17.97 £18.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £38.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.63% -9.52% +29.63%
75th Percentile £112.00 £50.63 £58.13
90th Percentile £137.50 £71.75 £78.75
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £38.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -7.89% -6.17% +20.90%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in the City of London

Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer in the City of London

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineer in the City of London

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 14 November 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 job ads across the City of London region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (87.50%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (75.00%) Python
3 5 (62.50%) Linux
3 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
3 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
4 4 (50.00%) Docker
4 4 (50.00%) Agile
4 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
5 3 (37.50%) Windows
5 3 (37.50%) DevOps
5 3 (37.50%) AWS
5 3 (37.50%) Ansible
5 3 (37.50%) Terraform
5 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
6 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (25.00%) Go
6 2 (25.00%) Splunk
6 2 (25.00%) GitLab
6 2 (25.00%) Firewall
6 2 (25.00%) Finance
6 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 1 (12.50%) nginx
7 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
7 1 (12.50%) Azure

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) Anthos
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
3 1 (12.50%) Datadog
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Artifactory
2 1 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Windows
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
6 1 (12.50%) GitOps
6 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
6 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
6 1 (12.50%) Kanban
6 1 (12.50%) Observability
6 1 (12.50%) RBAC
6 1 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 1 (12.50%) Scrum
6 1 (12.50%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Go
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Bicep
3 1 (12.50%) C
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Perl
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (37.50%) Ansible
2 3 (37.50%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) Consul
3 1 (12.50%) Grafana
3 1 (12.50%) Packer
3 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) VMware
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