Platform Engineer Contracts in Cardiff

Platform Engineer
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Cardiff is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 44 53
Rank change year-on-year +10 +9 -
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 0.45% 0.58% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.60% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £288 -
25th Percentile £475 £306 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £338 -
Median % change year-on-year +48.15% - -
75th Percentile £525 £369 -
90th Percentile - £388 -
South Wales median daily rate £500 £338 -
% change year-on-year +48.15% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cardiff. 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 Cardiff with a recognized job title 207 334 527
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 96.81% 97.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 265 408
10th Percentile £188 £184 £234
25th Percentile £363 £335 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £549 £533
90th Percentile £620 £625 £638
South Wales median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 6
10th Percentile £11.32 £12.71 £13.75
25th Percentile £11.75 £13.00 £15.97
Median hourly rate £13.50 £16.45 £20.63
Median % change year-on-year -17.91% -20.27% +25.86%
75th Percentile £18.00 £20.92 £25.25
90th Percentile £39.45 £24.25 £37.88
South Wales median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £19.91
% change year-on-year +25.03% -8.89% +13.77%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Cardiff

Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in Cardiff.

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer in Cardiff

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 8 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff

For the 6 months to 19 April 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 Cardiff region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Adabas
1 1 (100.00%) CA
1 1 (100.00%) Natural
1 1 (100.00%) CA Gen
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 (100.00%) WebLogic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) CA Gen
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Natural
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CA