Platform Engineer Contracts in Cheltenham

Platform Engineer
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Cheltenham is £630 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 27 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 1.01% 2.05% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% 2.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £750 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £630 £600 -
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheltenham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham. 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 Cheltenham with a recognized job title 184 142 113
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 97.26% 92.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 97 93
10th Percentile £357 £344 £166
25th Percentile £503 £513 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +20.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £671 £700 £588
90th Percentile £743 £755 £675
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 2
10th Percentile £62.30 £55.25 £12.08
25th Percentile £68.13 £63.13 £12.19
Median hourly rate £71.00 £85.50 £12.75
Median % change year-on-year -16.96% +570.59% -74.50%
75th Percentile £72.50 £91.13 £13.69
90th Percentile £73.88 £93.15 £14.03
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £40.00 £73.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -45.21% +143.33% -40.00%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Cheltenham

Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer in Cheltenham

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham

For the 6 months to 23 May 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 Cheltenham region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes