Platform Engineer Contracts in the North East

Platform Engineer
England > North East

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in the North East is £413, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 - 53
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 0.31% - 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% - 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £551
25th Percentile £406 - £589
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - £653
75th Percentile £419 - £716
90th Percentile - - £755
England median daily rate £550 £596 £575
% change year-on-year -7.76% +3.70% +6.48%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North 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 North East with a recognized job title 293 338 491
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.71% 96.57% 97.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 255 375
10th Percentile £226 £231 £150
25th Percentile £363 £378 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 4 17
10th Percentile £10.42 - £12.00
25th Percentile £11.50 £31.25 £13.50
Median hourly rate £13.99 £32.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.95% +96.97% +26.92%
75th Percentile £48.75 £36.86 £18.75
90th Percentile £63.13 £42.45 £46.15
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in the North East

Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer in the North East

Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North East 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
Tyne and Wear - 1 £413 -
Platform Engineer
England

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 11 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 12 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 North East region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Reality

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Reality
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes