DevOps Platform Engineer Contracts

Platform Engineer - DevOps
UK

The median Platform Engineer - DevOps daily rate in the UK is £557, 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 566 669 795
Rank change year-on-year +103 +126 -119
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Platform Engineer 18 28 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.050% 0.061%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.053% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 37
10th Percentile £454 £500 £471
25th Percentile £500 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £557 £600 £631
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% -4.84% +5.08%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £813
90th Percentile £660 £724 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £521 £642
% change year-on-year +5.52% -18.81% +28.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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%

DevOps Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Platform Engineer in the UK

DevOps Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Platform Engineer in the UK

DevOps Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Platform Engineer in the UK

DevOps Platform Engineer
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps 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 +73 15 £566 -5.67% 3
UK excluding London +37 10 £550 +5.52%
London +63 7 £588 -2.08% 3
North of England - 7 £550 -
Work from Home +108 6 £600 - 1
North West - 6 £600 -
Scotland - 2 £440 -
West Midlands - 1 £557 -
Yorkshire - 1 £500 -
Midlands - 1 £557 -

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, DevOps 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 DevOps Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) DevOps
1 18 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 16 (88.89%) Terraform
3 14 (77.78%) Kubernetes
3 14 (77.78%) Docker
3 14 (77.78%) Python
4 13 (72.22%) AWS
5 12 (66.67%) CI/CD
6 10 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (50.00%) Go
7 9 (50.00%) Git
8 8 (44.44%) Ansible
9 7 (38.89%) Azure
10 6 (33.33%) Bash
10 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
10 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
10 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (27.78%) Linux
11 5 (27.78%) Configuration Management
11 5 (27.78%) Snowflake
12 4 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
12 4 (22.22%) Java
12 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
12 4 (22.22%) JIRA
12 4 (22.22%) Confluence
12 4 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (16.67%) GitLab

DevOps 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 4 (22.22%) Confluence
2 2 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (11.11%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) AWS
2 7 (38.89%) Azure
3 5 (27.78%) Snowflake
4 4 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (16.67%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (11.11%) GCP
6 2 (11.11%) GitHub
6 2 (11.11%) Serverless
7 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (5.56%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
7 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
7 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) DNS
1 2 (11.11%) IPv4
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 3 (16.67%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) Git
2 4 (22.22%) JIRA
3 3 (16.67%) GitLab
3 3 (16.67%) SonarQube
4 2 (11.11%) Bitbucket
4 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Banking
2 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (11.11%) Kafka
1 2 (11.11%) SAML
2 1 (5.56%) AWS SAM
2 1 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Unix
3 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) DevOps
1 18 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 12 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 10 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (27.78%) Configuration Management
6 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
7 3 (16.67%) Agile
7 3 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
7 3 (16.67%) Identity Management
7 3 (16.67%) IT Strategy
7 3 (16.67%) Migration
7 3 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
8 2 (11.11%) Data Engineering
8 2 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (11.11%) GitOps
8 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
8 2 (11.11%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 14 (77.78%) Python
2 9 (50.00%) Go
3 6 (33.33%) Bash
4 4 (22.22%) Java
4 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
5 3 (16.67%) SQL
6 2 (11.11%) C
6 2 (11.11%) C++
6 2 (11.11%) Rust
6 2 (11.11%) Scala
7 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (11.11%) NIST
1 2 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (77.78%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (88.89%) Terraform
2 14 (77.78%) Kubernetes
3 8 (44.44%) Ansible
4 3 (16.67%) HP Fortify
5 2 (11.11%) Consul
5 2 (11.11%) Grafana
5 2 (11.11%) Karpenter
5 2 (11.11%) Packer
5 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
6 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
6 1 (5.56%) Puppet
6 1 (5.56%) Salt
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Splunk
2 2 (11.11%) Atlassian
2 2 (11.11%) Databricks
2 2 (11.11%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.56%) SaltStack
3 1 (5.56%) VMware
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