Platform Engineer Contracts in London

Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in London is £581 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 305 333 425
Rank change year-on-year +28 +92 -43
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 88 163 176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.50% 0.64% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.67% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 130 126
10th Percentile £408 £480 £450
25th Percentile £463 £550 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% - +6.95%
75th Percentile £626 £656 £688
90th Percentile £675 £725 £775
England median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £71.00 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £80.00 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £87.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.14% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 £90.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £78.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -29.49% +30.00% +9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,399 24,342 36,962
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.15% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,837 17,773 27,187
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 278 414
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.18 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £82.33 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in London

Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer in London

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineer in London

Platform Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in London.

Hourly rate trend for Platform Engineer in London

Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London +34 18 £550 -12.00% 5
South London +5 2 £588 +15.10%
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 London region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 77 (87.50%) Platform Engineering
2 52 (59.09%) Terraform
3 38 (43.18%) Python
4 35 (39.77%) Azure
4 35 (39.77%) Kubernetes
5 33 (37.50%) DevOps
6 32 (36.36%) AWS
7 29 (32.95%) CI/CD
8 25 (28.41%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (23.86%) Docker
10 19 (21.59%) Security Cleared
11 17 (19.32%) Linux
11 17 (19.32%) Serverless
11 17 (19.32%) Public Sector
12 16 (18.18%) SC Cleared
13 14 (15.91%) Agile
14 13 (14.77%) Finance
15 12 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
15 12 (13.64%) Social Skills
15 12 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
16 11 (12.50%) Containerisation
16 11 (12.50%) ServiceNow
16 11 (12.50%) GCP
17 10 (11.36%) Go
17 10 (11.36%) Ansible
17 10 (11.36%) Azure AKS
17 10 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
17 10 (11.36%) SQL
17 10 (11.36%) PaaS
17 10 (11.36%) Jenkins

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 4 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.41%) Confluence
3 2 (2.27%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (2.27%) nginx
4 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.14%) ThingWorx
4 1 (1.14%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 35 (39.77%) Azure
2 32 (36.36%) AWS
3 17 (19.32%) Serverless
4 12 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (12.50%) GCP
6 10 (11.36%) Azure AKS
6 10 (11.36%) PaaS
7 8 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (7.95%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (7.95%) SaaS
8 7 (7.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (6.82%) Amazon S3
9 6 (6.82%) GitHub
9 6 (6.82%) IaaS
10 5 (5.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (5.68%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (5.68%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (4.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.55%) Firewall
1 4 (4.55%) IPv4
2 3 (3.41%) VPN
3 2 (2.27%) DNS
4 1 (1.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.55%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.41%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.41%) MySQL
2 3 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.27%) MariaDB
3 2 (2.27%) Redis
4 1 (1.14%) Adabas
4 1 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.14%) Bigtable
4 1 (1.14%) CockroachDB
4 1 (1.14%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.14%) CouchDB
4 1 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.14%) Metadata
4 1 (1.14%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (11.36%) Jenkins
2 9 (10.23%) Git
3 5 (5.68%) GitLab
3 5 (5.68%) JIRA
4 3 (3.41%) Cypress.io
4 3 (3.41%) JMeter
5 2 (2.27%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.14%) CA Gen
6 1 (1.14%) GoCD
General
1 17 (19.32%) Public Sector
2 13 (14.77%) Finance
3 12 (13.64%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.68%) Billing
4 5 (5.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.27%) Banking
7 1 (1.14%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.82%) Kafka
2 5 (5.68%) Node.js
3 4 (4.55%) YAML
4 3 (3.41%) ARM Templates
4 3 (3.41%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (3.41%) React
4 3 (3.41%) REST
5 2 (2.27%) ADO
5 2 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.14%) AWS SAM
6 1 (1.14%) CSS
6 1 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.14%) HTML
6 1 (1.14%) JSON
6 1 (1.14%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.14%) RESTful
6 1 (1.14%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.55%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.41%) Machine to Machine
3 3 (3.41%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.41%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.27%) Replication
5 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.14%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.14%) MPEG
5 1 (1.14%) PropTech
5 1 (1.14%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.14%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 17 (19.32%) Linux
2 3 (3.41%) VMS
3 2 (2.27%) Unix
4 1 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.14%) Windows
4 1 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (87.50%) Platform Engineering
2 33 (37.50%) DevOps
3 29 (32.95%) CI/CD
4 25 (28.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (15.91%) Agile
6 11 (12.50%) Containerisation
7 10 (11.36%) Analytics
7 10 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (10.23%) Configuration Management
8 9 (10.23%) Software Engineering
9 7 (7.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (6.82%) Computer Science
10 6 (6.82%) Data Analytics
10 6 (6.82%) DevSecOps
11 5 (5.68%) Artificial Intelligence
11 5 (5.68%) Technical Leadership
12 4 (4.55%) Data Pipeline
12 4 (4.55%) ERP
12 4 (4.55%) Infrastructure Management
12 4 (4.55%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 38 (43.18%) Python
2 10 (11.36%) Go
2 10 (11.36%) SQL
3 9 (10.23%) PowerShell
4 8 (9.09%) Bash
5 7 (7.95%) Java
6 5 (5.68%) C++
7 4 (4.55%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.55%) Ruby
8 3 (3.41%) C#
8 3 (3.41%) Rust
9 2 (2.27%) C
9 2 (2.27%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.14%) Bicep
10 1 (1.14%) Clojure
10 1 (1.14%) Haskell
10 1 (1.14%) Natural
10 1 (1.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (21.59%) Security Cleared
2 16 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.95%) Degree
4 5 (5.68%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.41%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.27%) NIST
2 1 (1.14%) ISO 22301
2 1 (1.14%) NIST 800
System Software
1 21 (23.86%) Docker
2 6 (6.82%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.41%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 52 (59.09%) Terraform
2 35 (39.77%) Kubernetes
3 10 (11.36%) Ansible
4 6 (6.82%) Grafana
5 5 (5.68%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.55%) Argo
6 4 (4.55%) Data Guard
7 3 (3.41%) Consul
7 3 (3.41%) Packer
8 1 (1.14%) Istio
8 1 (1.14%) Karpenter
8 1 (1.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 6 (6.82%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.55%) Databricks
3 4 (4.55%) Oracle
3 4 (4.55%) Splunk
4 2 (2.27%) Dataiku
4 2 (2.27%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.27%) New Relic
4 2 (2.27%) VMware
5 1 (1.14%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.14%) CA
5 1 (1.14%) Google
5 1 (1.14%) SAP