Platform Engineer Contracts in the South East

Platform Engineer
England > South East

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in the South East is £530 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 177 181 228
Rank change year-on-year +4 +47 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 24 30 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.43% 0.53% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.56% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 29 18
10th Percentile £418 £460 £421
25th Percentile £445 £581 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +6.67% +9.76%
75th Percentile £570 - £647
90th Percentile £650 £610 £675
England median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £78.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -29.49% +30.00% +9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,205 5,364 7,367
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 94.62% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,082 3,717 5,057
10th Percentile £234 £217 £206
25th Percentile £400 £388 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £604 £590
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 524 238 311
10th Percentile £12.88 £16.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.18 £16.18
Median hourly rate £48.20 £50.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% +150.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £45.56
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £61.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in the South East

Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer in the South East

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineer in the South East

Platform Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Platform Engineer in the South East

Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Thames Valley +28 10 £445 -6.32% 2
Hampshire +7 10 £581 +16.25% 1
Buckinghamshire +34 7 £435 -5.95% 2
East Sussex - 4 £538 -
Berkshire -5 3 £650 -
Platform Engineer
England

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 job ads across the South East region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (95.83%) Platform Engineering
2 14 (58.33%) Ansible
3 13 (54.17%) Linux
4 11 (45.83%) VMware
5 10 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (37.50%) Agile
6 9 (37.50%) SC Cleared
6 9 (37.50%) Security Cleared
6 9 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (37.50%) Python
6 9 (37.50%) Kubernetes
6 9 (37.50%) Bash
7 8 (33.33%) GitLab
7 8 (33.33%) Git
8 7 (29.17%) Red Hat
8 7 (29.17%) Salesforce
8 7 (29.17%) Terraform
8 7 (29.17%) vSphere
8 7 (29.17%) Key Management
8 7 (29.17%) Data Encryption
8 7 (29.17%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (29.17%) Containerisation
9 6 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (25.00%) AWS
9 6 (25.00%) MongoDB
9 6 (25.00%) Packer
9 6 (25.00%) vRealize
9 6 (25.00%) Shell Script
9 6 (25.00%) VMS
9 6 (25.00%) DNS

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (4.17%) Apache
1 1 (4.17%) Confluence
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.17%) nginx
1 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
1 1 (4.17%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) IaaS
3 3 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 3 (12.50%) Datadog
3 3 (12.50%) Route 53
3 3 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.33%) CloudFront
4 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 2 (8.33%) GitHub
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.17%) Fastly
5 1 (4.17%) Nutanix
5 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) DNS
2 2 (8.33%) Firewall
2 2 (8.33%) VSAN
3 1 (4.17%) DHCP
3 1 (4.17%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (4.17%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (4.17%) SAN
3 1 (4.17%) Skype
3 1 (4.17%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 6 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (16.67%) MySQL
2 4 (16.67%) RDBMS
2 4 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 3 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle Database
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 8 (33.33%) Git
1 8 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Aerospace
2 1 (4.17%) Banking
2 1 (4.17%) Finance
2 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) YAML
2 1 (4.17%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.17%) Django
2 1 (4.17%) HornetQ
2 1 (4.17%) LDAP
2 1 (4.17%) Node.js
2 1 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (4.17%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (8.33%) Smart Meter
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (54.17%) Linux
2 9 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (25.00%) Unix
3 6 (25.00%) VMS
4 4 (16.67%) Debian
5 3 (12.50%) Windows
6 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
7 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
7 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (95.83%) Platform Engineering
2 10 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (37.50%) Agile
4 7 (29.17%) Containerisation
4 7 (29.17%) Data Encryption
4 7 (29.17%) Key Management
5 6 (25.00%) Scrum
6 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
7 4 (16.67%) Build Automation
7 4 (16.67%) Project Delivery
7 4 (16.67%) Runbook
8 3 (12.50%) DevOps
9 2 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
9 2 (8.33%) Kanban
9 2 (8.33%) Performance Analysis
9 2 (8.33%) Process Improvement
9 2 (8.33%) Re-Platforming
9 2 (8.33%) Service Management
9 2 (8.33%) Validation
10 1 (4.17%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) Bash
1 9 (37.50%) Python
2 6 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.17%) Bicep
4 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 9 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) vSphere
2 5 (20.83%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
5 2 (8.33%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (4.17%) Docker
6 1 (4.17%) Varnish
6 1 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (4.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (58.33%) Ansible
2 9 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 7 (29.17%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (29.17%) Terraform
4 6 (25.00%) Packer
4 6 (25.00%) vRealize
5 2 (8.33%) WSUS
6 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (4.17%) HAProxy
6 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
6 1 (4.17%) Puppet
6 1 (4.17%) Salt
6 1 (4.17%) SCCM
6 1 (4.17%) vCenter Server
6 1 (4.17%) VxRail
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) VMware
2 7 (29.17%) Red Hat
2 7 (29.17%) Salesforce
3 6 (25.00%) Oracle
4 4 (16.67%) Arqiva
4 4 (16.67%) Veritas
5 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (8.33%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.17%) BMC
6 1 (4.17%) Cisco
6 1 (4.17%) Databricks
6 1 (4.17%) Dell
6 1 (4.17%) EMC
6 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
6 1 (4.17%) Remedy
6 1 (4.17%) SaltStack
6 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
6 1 (4.17%) Splunk
6 1 (4.17%) Veeam