§ Contractor calculator · DevOps / Platform Engineer
DevOps / Platform Engineer
take-home calculator.
DevOps engineers, SREs, platform engineers, cloud architects. £450–£750/day with seniority; principal-level platform leads £900+/day. Higher rates for AWS/Azure/GCP specialists with security clearance.
§ Quick answer — typical £600/day rate
At £600/day (5 days × 46 weeks = £138,000 gross), the most tax-efficient structure is permanent salary at £84,298 net annual — effective tax rate 38.91%.
- Outside IR35 (Ltd)
- £83,155/yr
- Inside IR35 (Umbrella)
- £75,650/yr
- Permanent salary
- £84,298/yr
Persistent skills shortage — supply hasn't kept pace with cloud-migration demand. Premium for FinOps, K8s, observability specialists.
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