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Our specialist platform engineering team have over a decade of experience placing people that make your platform reliable, scalable and secure.
As organisations want to achieve faster time-to-market, improve software quality, and enhance operational efficiency, we place strong emphasis on technical assessments, certifications, and references to ensure a candidate's ability to collaborate effectively, troubleshoot complex issues, and deliver high-quality solutions for you.
With over 20 years of combined recruitment experience across our "Platform Team," we've become experts in all things DevOps, SRE, and Cloud. We've seen these roles evolve into essential parts of tech teams, and we've been on that journey with clients of all sizes.
Whether you're a startup needing a principal engineer for a greenfield project, a scale-up looking to build out your team at all levels, or a larger firm undergoing a broad DevOps transformation, we’re capable of supporting you.Platform, DevOps, and Cloud are central to what we do. We offer a range of flexible services – permanent, contract, search and staff augmentation services, to deliver the right solutions for your team
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Our deep understanding of the platform engineering landscape enables us to offer valuable insights beyond recruitment services. Clients and candidates frequently seek our expertise on emerging technologies, market trends, job market dynamics, and compensation benchmarks. Our extensive network within the platform engineering community and genuine passion for the field allow us to share informed perspectives that empower our clients and candidates to make strategic decisions.
| Platform | Permanent | Outside IR35 Day Rate | Inside IR35 Day Rate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low | High | Low | High | Low | High | |
| DevOps Manager | £110,000 | £140,000 | £900 | £1100 | £1000 | £1200 |
| DevOps Lead | £100,000 | £120,000 | £750 | £900 | £850 | £1100 |
| Senior DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer | £80,000 | £110,000 | £650 | £800 | £750 | £1000 |
| DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer | £60,000 | £80,000 | £500 | £650 | £600 | £850 |
| Junior DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer | £35,000 | £55,000 | £400 | £500 | £500 | £700 |
| Senior SysAdmin | £70,000 | £120,000 | £500 | £800 | £600 | £900 |
| SysAdmin | £40,000 | £60,000 | £350 | £600 | £450 | £700 |
| Junior SysAdmin | £30,000 | £40,000 | £300 | £400 | £400 | £550 |
| Entry Level DevOps / SysAdmin (Graduate) | £25,000 | £40,000 | £200 | £300 | £300 | £500 |
| Application Support (3rd line) | £40,000 | £90,000 | £400 | £600 | £400 | £700 |
| 1st & 2nd Line Support | £30,000 | £60,000 | £300 | £500 | £400 | £600 |
| Security & Network Engineer | £50,000 | £120,000 | £400 | £750 | £500 | £950 |
| Database Administrator | £50,000 | £100,000 | £300 | £600 | £400 | £800 |
