Platform Engineering Contracts in Cheshire

Platform Engineering
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for Platform Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 62 55
Rank change year-on-year +12 -7 -8
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 7 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.39% 0.19% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 0.21% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £566 - -
25th Percentile - £263 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £275 £400
Median % change year-on-year +111.64% -31.25% -7.94%
75th Percentile - £288 -
90th Percentile £583 - -
North West median daily rate £582 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +1.22% -4.17% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Platform Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 423 483 457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 84.26% 91.13% 86.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 328 264
10th Percentile £277 £275 £214
25th Percentile £400 £400 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £538
90th Percentile £637 £660 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 23 26
10th Percentile £13.70 £19.06 £10.28
25th Percentile £16.61 £23.15 £15.55
Median hourly rate £26.66 £30.54 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +29.96% -22.79%
75th Percentile £42.31 £35.00 £33.62
90th Percentile £44.13 £39.20 £60.88
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.49
% change year-on-year -40.00% +70.82% +10.76%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Cheshire

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in Cheshire

Platform Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Knutsford - 7 £582 -
Platform Engineering
North West

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) DSL
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 7 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Build Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Build Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Public Cloud
1 7 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Unix
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 7 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 7 (100.00%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Ruby
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Ansible
1 7 (100.00%) CFEngine
1 7 (100.00%) PowerBroker
1 7 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 7 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Atlassian