Platform Engineering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Platform Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 288 279 264
Rank change year-on-year -9 -15 +44
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 87 154 279
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.71% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.81% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 118 226
10th Percentile £413 £464 £400
25th Percentile £463 £513 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £564
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +6.43% +7.38%
75th Percentile £575 £684 £647
90th Percentile £685 £811 £725
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £95.00
Median hourly rate - £78.00 £100.00
Median % change year-on-year - -22.00% -
75th Percentile - - £105.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £78.00 £96.13
% change year-on-year -29.49% -18.86% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Platform Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,583 19,046 27,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.29% 88.23% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,238 12,560 18,969
10th Percentile £239 £260 £260
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,114 1,289 1,321
10th Percentile £14.89 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.15 £17.72 £15.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £42.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% +80.85% +29.73%
75th Percentile £66.61 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.31 £77.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £42.50 £29.00
% change year-on-year - +46.55% +34.88%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Platform Engineering in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineering within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 September 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
North of England +12 29 £490 -16.60% 26
Scotland +50 26 £484 -14.38% 7
Yorkshire +19 21 £483 -21.22% 6
Midlands +28 17 £643 +23.08% 7
West Midlands +21 17 £643 -3.02% 5
South East -13 12 £550 -8.33% 14
North West +9 8 £500 -14.89% 15
South West -5 7 £550 - 9
Platform Engineering
UK

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (5.75%) Confluence
2 4 (4.60%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.30%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.15%) Alfresco
4 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.15%) nginx
4 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.15%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 31 (35.63%) Azure
2 22 (25.29%) AWS
3 17 (19.54%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (16.09%) OpenShift
5 12 (13.79%) GitHub
6 11 (12.64%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (12.64%) PaaS
7 10 (11.49%) Serverless
8 8 (9.20%) IaaS
8 8 (9.20%) SaaS
9 7 (8.05%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (8.05%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (8.05%) AWS CodeBuild
9 7 (8.05%) AWS CodeDeploy
9 7 (8.05%) AWS CodePipeline
9 7 (8.05%) AWS Fargate
9 7 (8.05%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (6.90%) Azure Key Vault
10 6 (6.90%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.64%) Firewall
2 3 (3.45%) DNS
2 3 (3.45%) Network Security
2 3 (3.45%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.45%) VPN
2 3 (3.45%) WAN
3 1 (1.15%) Calico
3 1 (1.15%) HTTP
3 1 (1.15%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (1.15%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (1.15%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.75%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (4.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (4.60%) InfluxDB
4 2 (2.30%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.15%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.15%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.15%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.15%) Parquet
5 1 (1.15%) Power BI
5 1 (1.15%) Presto
5 1 (1.15%) Redis
5 1 (1.15%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (21.84%) Git
2 8 (9.20%) Jenkins
3 7 (8.05%) Artifactory
4 6 (6.90%) GitLab
5 4 (4.60%) JIRA
5 4 (4.60%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.45%) Mocha
7 1 (1.15%) Maven
7 1 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.15%) Poetry
7 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (13.79%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.20%) Public Sector
3 6 (6.90%) Finance
4 3 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.45%) Banking
4 3 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.15%) Electronics
5 1 (1.15%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 53 (60.92%) Platform Engineer
2 18 (20.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 14 (16.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (14.94%) Azure Engineer
5 10 (11.49%) Lead
6 9 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (9.20%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 7 (8.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 7 (8.05%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 7 (8.05%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (6.90%) Developer
9 6 (6.90%) Network Engineer
9 6 (6.90%) Unix Engineer
9 6 (6.90%) Unix Linux Engineer
10 5 (5.75%) Architect
11 4 (4.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (4.60%) Python Engineer
11 4 (4.60%) Snowflake Engineer
12 3 (3.45%) DevOps Platform Engineer
12 3 (3.45%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.94%) YAML
2 8 (9.20%) AWS CDK
3 6 (6.90%) ARM Templates
4 4 (4.60%) JSON
4 4 (4.60%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (4.60%) React
5 3 (3.45%) Jest
5 3 (3.45%) Kafka
5 3 (3.45%) pytest
5 3 (3.45%) Redux
6 2 (2.30%) Node.js
6 2 (2.30%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.15%) Dask
7 1 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.15%) LAPP Stack
7 1 (1.15%) LDAP
7 1 (1.15%) REST
7 1 (1.15%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.60%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.45%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.30%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.30%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.30%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.15%) IoT
5 1 (1.15%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.15%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 25 (28.74%) Linux
2 14 (16.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (8.05%) Windows
4 6 (6.90%) Ubuntu
4 6 (6.90%) Unix
5 2 (2.30%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.15%) Android
6 1 (1.15%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (47.13%) DevOps
2 38 (43.68%) CI/CD
3 37 (42.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (21.84%) Agile
4 19 (21.84%) Test Automation
5 18 (20.69%) Containerisation
6 11 (12.64%) Infrastructure Automation
7 9 (10.34%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (10.34%) Observability
7 9 (10.34%) Software Delivery
8 8 (9.20%) Validation
9 7 (8.05%) Cloud Security
9 7 (8.05%) Configuration Management
9 7 (8.05%) Deployment Automation
9 7 (8.05%) Kanban
9 7 (8.05%) Mentoring
9 7 (8.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 6 (6.90%) Analytics
10 6 (6.90%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (6.90%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 33 (37.93%) Python
2 18 (20.69%) PowerShell
3 13 (14.94%) Bash
4 10 (11.49%) Java
5 8 (9.20%) Groovy
5 8 (9.20%) JavaScript
6 7 (8.05%) Perl
6 7 (8.05%) SQL
7 6 (6.90%) Scala
8 4 (4.60%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.45%) Bicep
10 2 (2.30%) C++
10 2 (2.30%) Go
11 1 (1.15%) C#
11 1 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (1.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (21.84%) Security Cleared
2 18 (20.69%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.90%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.15%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.15%) Degree
5 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.15%) OCP
5 1 (1.15%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.45%) Disclosure Scotland
1 3 (3.45%) QA
1 3 (3.45%) SLA
2 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.15%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.15%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (17.24%) Docker
2 9 (10.34%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 44 (50.57%) Terraform
2 32 (36.78%) Kubernetes
3 27 (31.03%) Ansible
4 6 (6.90%) Grafana
4 6 (6.90%) Progress Chef
5 5 (5.75%) Kibana
6 4 (4.60%) Puppet
6 4 (4.60%) Salt
7 3 (3.45%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (1.15%) Istio
8 1 (1.15%) Kustomize
8 1 (1.15%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 13 (14.94%) VMware
2 11 (12.64%) Microsoft
3 9 (10.34%) Red Hat
4 6 (6.90%) Databricks
5 5 (5.75%) Google
6 4 (4.60%) Imperva
6 4 (4.60%) SaltStack
7 3 (3.45%) BMC
7 3 (3.45%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.45%) Snow
8 1 (1.15%) IBM
8 1 (1.15%) Palo Alto