Platform Engineering Contracts in London

Platform Engineering
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Platform Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 245 199 303
Rank change year-on-year -46 +104 +18
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 158 332 345
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.89% 1.32% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.45% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 278 276
10th Percentile £425 £509 £463
25th Percentile £500 £563 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £632 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.02% +5.28% +9.09%
75th Percentile £706 £775 £688
90th Percentile £758 £863 £775
England median daily rate £575 £613 £588
% change year-on-year -6.12% +4.26% +8.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £53.85 £86.00 -
25th Percentile £55.88 £87.50 -
Median hourly rate £60.50 £90.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -32.78% - -
75th Percentile £63.88 - -
90th Percentile £65.15 - -
England median hourly rate £60.50 £78.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -22.44% +30.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Platform Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,607 22,862 35,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.27% 90.90% 92.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,159 16,574 26,061
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 267 388
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.09
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.42 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.90% +9.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.83
90th Percentile £67.60 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in London

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in London

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in London

Platform Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Platform Engineering in London

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering within the London region 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
Central London +44 32 £613 -3.92% 8
South London +3 3 £550 +10.92%
West London -33 1 £400 -38.46% 3
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
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 7 (4.43%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.80%) Confluence
3 4 (2.53%) Cloud Foundry
4 3 (1.90%) nginx
5 2 (1.27%) IBM Domino
6 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.63%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Shopify
2 1 (0.63%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 61 (38.61%) AWS
1 61 (38.61%) Azure
2 26 (16.46%) Serverless
3 24 (15.19%) GCP
4 20 (12.66%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (12.03%) GitHub
6 15 (9.49%) Azure AKS
7 13 (8.23%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (7.59%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (6.33%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (6.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (6.33%) Azure Functions
10 9 (5.70%) Amazon S3
10 9 (5.70%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (5.70%) IaaS
10 9 (5.70%) PaaS
11 8 (5.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (5.06%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (4.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (3.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.59%) Firewall
2 6 (3.80%) FTP
3 5 (3.16%) DNS
3 5 (3.16%) IPv4
4 4 (2.53%) HTTP
4 4 (2.53%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.53%) VPN
5 3 (1.90%) ICMP
5 3 (1.90%) POP3
5 3 (1.90%) SMTP
5 3 (1.90%) SSH
6 2 (1.27%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (1.27%) VSAN
7 1 (0.63%) LAN
7 1 (0.63%) Network Security
7 1 (0.63%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.63%) WAN
7 1 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (3.16%) Relational Database
1 5 (3.16%) Tableau
2 3 (1.90%) Airbyte
2 3 (1.90%) BigQuery
2 3 (1.90%) DynamoDB
2 3 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (1.90%) Flink
2 3 (1.90%) MongoDB
2 3 (1.90%) MySQL
2 3 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.90%) Power BI
3 2 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.27%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.63%) Big Data
4 1 (0.63%) Couchbase
4 1 (0.63%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (20.89%) Jenkins
2 29 (18.35%) GitLab
3 14 (8.86%) Git
4 9 (5.70%) Cypress.io
4 9 (5.70%) JIRA
4 9 (5.70%) JMeter
5 2 (1.27%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.63%) CA Gen
6 1 (0.63%) GoCD
6 1 (0.63%) Gradle
6 1 (0.63%) JUnit
6 1 (0.63%) Maven
6 1 (0.63%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.63%) TestNG
6 1 (0.63%) Travis CI
6 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 34 (21.52%) Social Skills
2 24 (15.19%) Finance
3 17 (10.76%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.70%) Banking
6 5 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.90%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.27%) Billing
8 2 (1.27%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.27%) Marketing
8 2 (1.27%) Retail
9 1 (0.63%) Games
9 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (50.63%) Platform Engineer
2 40 (25.32%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 31 (19.62%) DevOps Engineer
4 22 (13.92%) Senior
5 19 (12.03%) Cloud Engineer
6 16 (10.13%) AWS Engineer
6 16 (10.13%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (7.59%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 11 (6.96%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 9 (5.70%) Lead
10 8 (5.06%) Developer
10 8 (5.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (5.06%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 7 (4.43%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (4.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.43%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 7 (4.43%) GCP Engineer
11 7 (4.43%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 7 (4.43%) Software Engineer
12 6 (3.80%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (13.92%) Kafka
2 15 (9.49%) React
3 14 (8.86%) Node.js
4 6 (3.80%) CSS
4 6 (3.80%) HTML
4 6 (3.80%) REST
5 5 (3.16%) Django
5 5 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (3.16%) YAML
6 4 (2.53%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.90%) GraphQL
7 3 (1.90%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (1.90%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.27%) AWS SAM
8 2 (1.27%) http4s
8 2 (1.27%) JSON
8 2 (1.27%) OAuth
8 2 (1.27%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.27%) OpenID
8 2 (1.27%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.39%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (4.43%) Machine to Machine
2 7 (4.43%) Public Cloud
3 5 (3.16%) Algorithms
3 5 (3.16%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.53%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.53%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.53%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.90%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.90%) Replication
5 3 (1.90%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.27%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.27%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.63%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 49 (31.01%) Linux
2 7 (4.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (4.43%) Unix
3 6 (3.80%) Windows
4 1 (0.63%) VMS
4 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (46.84%) CI/CD
2 72 (45.57%) DevOps
3 40 (25.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (22.15%) Agile
5 26 (16.46%) Configuration Management
5 26 (16.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 20 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (12.03%) Containerisation
7 19 (12.03%) Software Engineering
8 18 (11.39%) Analytics
8 18 (11.39%) Computer Science
9 12 (7.59%) Microservices
10 11 (6.96%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (6.96%) Data Science
10 11 (6.96%) Technical Leadership
11 10 (6.33%) Artificial Intelligence
11 10 (6.33%) Machine Learning
12 9 (5.70%) Data Engineering
12 9 (5.70%) Observability
12 9 (5.70%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 73 (46.20%) Python
2 20 (12.66%) JavaScript
2 20 (12.66%) SQL
3 16 (10.13%) Bash
4 14 (8.86%) C#
4 14 (8.86%) Go
4 14 (8.86%) Java
4 14 (8.86%) PowerShell
5 7 (4.43%) Ruby
5 7 (4.43%) Rust
6 5 (3.16%) Scala
7 4 (2.53%) C++
7 4 (2.53%) Clojure
7 4 (2.53%) Haskell
8 3 (1.90%) C
8 3 (1.90%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.27%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.27%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.63%) Groovy
10 1 (0.63%) Natural
Qualifications
1 33 (20.89%) Security Cleared
2 32 (20.25%) SC Cleared
3 18 (11.39%) Degree
4 17 (10.76%) DV Cleared
5 10 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.16%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.53%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.27%) CCNP
8 2 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.27%) NIST
2 1 (0.63%) ISO 22301
2 1 (0.63%) NIST 800
2 1 (0.63%) PMO
2 1 (0.63%) QA
System Software
1 40 (25.32%) Docker
2 5 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.53%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.90%) vSphere
5 2 (1.27%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.27%) KVM
5 2 (1.27%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 95 (60.13%) Terraform
2 66 (41.77%) Kubernetes
3 33 (20.89%) Ansible
4 10 (6.33%) Argo
5 6 (3.80%) Grafana
6 5 (3.16%) Packer
7 4 (2.53%) Consul
7 4 (2.53%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.90%) Kibana
8 3 (1.90%) logstash
8 3 (1.90%) QRadar
9 2 (1.27%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.63%) Istio
10 1 (0.63%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.63%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.63%) Puppet
10 1 (0.63%) Salt
Vendors
1 13 (8.23%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.33%) ServiceNow
3 8 (5.06%) Splunk
4 5 (3.16%) Databricks
4 5 (3.16%) VMware
5 4 (2.53%) SAP
6 3 (1.90%) ArcSight
6 3 (1.90%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.90%) Google
6 3 (1.90%) New Relic
7 2 (1.27%) Adobe
7 2 (1.27%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.27%) Cisco
7 2 (1.27%) Dataiku
7 2 (1.27%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.27%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.63%) CA
8 1 (0.63%) Dell
8 1 (0.63%) Intel
8 1 (0.63%) Juniper