Platform Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Platform Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 May 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
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 270 317 364
Rank change year-on-year +47 +47 -75
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 75 149 275
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.51% 0.61% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.64% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 136 209
10th Percentile £439 £507 £424
25th Percentile £498 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £554
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +8.30% -3.65%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £627
90th Percentile £650 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £593 £575
% change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,688 23,105 42,192
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.50% 95.27% 95.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,248 16,369 30,559
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £448 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 533 576
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £25.71 £19.39
Median hourly rate £44.74 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.15 £77.90 £68.20
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +87.50% +6.90%

Platform Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Platform Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Platform Engineer.

Platform Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Platform Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Platform Engineer.

Platform Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 29 May 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 62 (82.67%) Platform Engineering
2 36 (48.00%) Terraform
2 36 (48.00%) DevOps
3 32 (42.67%) Python
4 31 (41.33%) Kubernetes
5 27 (36.00%) AWS
6 25 (33.33%) CI/CD
7 24 (32.00%) Azure
8 23 (30.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 19 (25.33%) Linux
10 18 (24.00%) Ansible
11 16 (21.33%) Security Cleared
11 16 (21.33%) Public Sector
12 15 (20.00%) Containerisation
13 14 (18.67%) Docker
14 13 (17.33%) SC Cleared
15 12 (16.00%) ServiceNow
15 12 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
16 11 (14.67%) Serverless
16 11 (14.67%) Bash
17 10 (13.33%) Jenkins
17 10 (13.33%) OpenShift
17 10 (13.33%) GCP
17 10 (13.33%) Go
18 9 (12.00%) PowerShell
18 9 (12.00%) VMware
18 9 (12.00%) Agile
18 9 (12.00%) Microsoft
19 8 (10.67%) Unix
19 8 (10.67%) GitLab

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (5.33%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (5.33%) Confluence
1 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.67%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 27 (36.00%) AWS
2 24 (32.00%) Azure
3 11 (14.67%) Serverless
4 10 (13.33%) GCP
4 10 (13.33%) OpenShift
5 8 (10.67%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (10.67%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (9.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (8.00%) Amazon S3
8 5 (6.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 5 (6.67%) GitHub
8 5 (6.67%) PaaS
8 5 (6.67%) Snowflake
9 4 (5.33%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (5.33%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (5.33%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (5.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (5.33%) IaaS
10 3 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.33%) Firewall
2 4 (5.33%) SAN
3 2 (2.67%) DNS
3 2 (2.67%) IPv4
4 1 (1.33%) Network Security
4 1 (1.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (4.00%) InfluxDB
2 3 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 10 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 8 (10.67%) GitLab
3 6 (8.00%) Artifactory
3 6 (8.00%) Git
4 4 (5.33%) JIRA
5 3 (4.00%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.33%) Hudson
6 1 (1.33%) Snyk
6 1 (1.33%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.33%) Vagrant
General
1 16 (21.33%) Public Sector
2 8 (10.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.00%) Banking
4 2 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.67%) Finance
4 2 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.33%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.67%) AWS CDK
1 5 (6.67%) REST
2 3 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (4.00%) YAML
3 2 (2.67%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.67%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.33%) AWS SAM
4 1 (1.33%) CSS
4 1 (1.33%) HTML
4 1 (1.33%) SAML
4 1 (1.33%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.67%) Cloud Native
1 5 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.33%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.33%) MPEG
4 1 (1.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.33%) PropTech
4 1 (1.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.33%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 19 (25.33%) Linux
2 8 (10.67%) Unix
3 6 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (6.67%) Ubuntu
4 5 (6.67%) Windows
5 4 (5.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (82.67%) Platform Engineering
2 36 (48.00%) DevOps
3 25 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 23 (30.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 12 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (12.00%) Agile
8 7 (9.33%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (9.33%) OO
9 6 (8.00%) Configuration Management
9 6 (8.00%) GitOps
9 6 (8.00%) Open Source
9 6 (8.00%) Test Automation
10 5 (6.67%) Computer Science
10 5 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
10 5 (6.67%) Data Engineering
11 4 (5.33%) DataOps
11 4 (5.33%) Deployment Automation
11 4 (5.33%) Observability
11 4 (5.33%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 32 (42.67%) Python
2 11 (14.67%) Bash
3 10 (13.33%) Go
4 9 (12.00%) PowerShell
5 7 (9.33%) Perl
6 6 (8.00%) Java
7 4 (5.33%) Groovy
7 4 (5.33%) Scala
8 2 (2.67%) Bicep
8 2 (2.67%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.67%) Ruby
8 2 (2.67%) SQL
9 1 (1.33%) C#
9 1 (1.33%) Clojure
9 1 (1.33%) Haskell
9 1 (1.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 16 (21.33%) Security Cleared
2 13 (17.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.00%) Azure Certification
3 3 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.67%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.67%) Degree
4 2 (2.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.67%) NCSC
2 1 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.33%) NIST
2 1 (1.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (18.67%) Docker
2 6 (8.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (5.33%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (5.33%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.33%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (48.00%) Terraform
2 31 (41.33%) Kubernetes
3 18 (24.00%) Ansible
4 8 (10.67%) Grafana
5 5 (6.67%) Kibana
6 3 (4.00%) Dell DRAC
6 3 (4.00%) Progress Chef
6 3 (4.00%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.67%) Karpenter
7 2 (2.67%) Puppet
7 2 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.33%) Argo
8 1 (1.33%) Consul
8 1 (1.33%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (1.33%) Packer
8 1 (1.33%) Rundeck
8 1 (1.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 12 (16.00%) ServiceNow
2 9 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.00%) VMware
3 7 (9.33%) Databricks
4 4 (5.33%) BMC
4 4 (5.33%) CyberArk
5 2 (2.67%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.33%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.33%) Google
6 1 (1.33%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.33%) Remedy
6 1 (1.33%) SaltStack
6 1 (1.33%) UiPath