Platform Engineering Contracts in England

Platform Engineering
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 316 269 305
Rank change year-on-year -47 +36 +67
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 231 492 641
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.62% 0.97% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 1.08% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 399 499
10th Percentile £425 £496 £450
25th Percentile £500 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £765 £838 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 4
10th Percentile - £64.95 £48.75
25th Percentile - - £54.38
Median hourly rate £66.00 £78.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% -
75th Percentile - £85.00 £68.75
90th Percentile - - £80.00
UK median hourly rate £66.00 £78.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% +40.54% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in England

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in England

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in England

Platform Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in England.

Hourly rate trend for Platform Engineering in England

Platform Engineering
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 28 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
London -17 147 £600 -5.27% 97
South East -2 32 £531 -11.46% 20
North of England -30 29 £582 +5.82% 24
North West -5 23 £582 +1.22% 11
West Midlands +28 11 £675 +22.73% 10
Midlands +24 11 £675 +22.73% 12
Yorkshire -13 5 £525 -4.55% 9
South West -2 2 £500 -15.61% 20
North East +21 1 £413 -19.51% 4
Platform Engineering
UK

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (3.90%) Confluence
2 4 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.73%) IBM Domino
2 4 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.30%) CMS
3 3 (1.30%) Drupal
3 3 (1.30%) nginx
3 3 (1.30%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.87%) Alfresco
4 2 (0.87%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.43%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.43%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Shopify
2 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 91 (39.39%) Azure
2 90 (38.96%) AWS
3 34 (14.72%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (14.29%) Serverless
5 31 (13.42%) GCP
6 27 (11.69%) GitHub
7 19 (8.23%) Azure AKS
8 18 (7.79%) IaaS
9 17 (7.36%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (6.93%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (6.49%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (6.06%) PaaS
13 13 (5.63%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (5.19%) Amazon EKS
15 11 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 10 (4.33%) Azure Functions
16 10 (4.33%) Azure Service Bus
17 9 (3.90%) Datadog
18 8 (3.46%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 21 (9.09%) DNS
2 20 (8.66%) Firewall
3 9 (3.90%) VPN
4 7 (3.03%) DSL
5 6 (2.60%) FTP
5 6 (2.60%) VSAN
6 5 (2.16%) IPv4
6 5 (2.16%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.73%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (1.73%) HTTP
7 4 (1.73%) ICMP
7 4 (1.73%) POP3
7 4 (1.73%) SMTP
7 4 (1.73%) SSH
8 3 (1.30%) DHCP
8 3 (1.30%) SSL
9 2 (0.87%) Network Security
9 2 (0.87%) SAN
9 2 (0.87%) VLAN
10 1 (0.43%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.23%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (5.19%) MongoDB
3 8 (3.46%) MySQL
4 7 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (2.60%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.16%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.73%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.73%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.30%) Airbyte
8 3 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.30%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.30%) Flink
9 2 (0.87%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.87%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.43%) Bigtable
10 1 (0.43%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.43%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 44 (19.05%) GitLab
2 43 (18.61%) Jenkins
3 35 (15.15%) Git
4 16 (6.93%) JIRA
5 9 (3.90%) Cypress.io
5 9 (3.90%) JMeter
6 5 (2.16%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.73%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.73%) Mocha
8 3 (1.30%) Selenium
8 3 (1.30%) Subversion
9 2 (0.87%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.87%) Snyk
9 2 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.43%) CA Gen
10 1 (0.43%) GoCD
10 1 (0.43%) Gradle
10 1 (0.43%) Maven
10 1 (0.43%) Spinnaker
General
1 47 (20.35%) Social Skills
2 40 (17.32%) Finance
3 32 (13.85%) Public Sector
4 21 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.06%) Banking
6 7 (3.03%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.73%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.30%) Marketing
9 2 (0.87%) Billing
9 2 (0.87%) Retail
10 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.43%) Back Office
10 1 (0.43%) Electronics
10 1 (0.43%) Law
10 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Russian Language
Job Titles
1 128 (55.41%) Platform Engineer
2 62 (26.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 38 (16.45%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (12.12%) Senior
5 27 (11.69%) Azure Engineer
5 27 (11.69%) Cloud Engineer
6 23 (9.96%) AWS Engineer
6 23 (9.96%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 20 (8.66%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 16 (6.93%) Developer
9 14 (6.06%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 14 (6.06%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 11 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
11 10 (4.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 9 (3.90%) AWS DevOps
12 9 (3.90%) Lead
13 8 (3.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 7 (3.03%) GCP Engineer
14 7 (3.03%) Python Developer
14 7 (3.03%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.39%) React
2 20 (8.66%) Node.js
3 19 (8.23%) Kafka
4 12 (5.19%) YAML
5 9 (3.90%) REST
6 7 (3.03%) CSS
6 7 (3.03%) HTML
7 6 (2.60%) Django
7 6 (2.60%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (2.16%) ARM Templates
8 5 (2.16%) JSON
9 4 (1.73%) Jest
9 4 (1.73%) Redux
10 3 (1.30%) AWS CDK
10 3 (1.30%) GraphQL
10 3 (1.30%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (1.30%) Spring Boot
11 2 (0.87%) AWS SAM
11 2 (0.87%) http4s
11 2 (0.87%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.49%) Public Cloud
2 13 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.90%) Cloud Native
3 9 (3.90%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.03%) Machine to Machine
4 7 (3.03%) Virtual Team
5 6 (2.60%) Algorithms
5 6 (2.60%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.16%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.16%) Replication
7 4 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.73%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.30%) Clustering
8 3 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.30%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.87%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.87%) PKI
9 2 (0.87%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 67 (29.00%) Linux
2 21 (9.09%) Windows
3 20 (8.66%) Unix
4 9 (3.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.03%) VMS
6 5 (2.16%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.16%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (2.16%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.73%) Debian
7 4 (1.73%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.87%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.43%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (43.29%) CI/CD
2 88 (38.10%) DevOps
3 57 (24.68%) Agile
4 56 (24.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (9.96%) Containerisation
7 22 (9.52%) Configuration Management
8 19 (8.23%) Computer Science
8 19 (8.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 19 (8.23%) Scrum
9 16 (6.93%) Software Engineering
10 15 (6.49%) Disaster Recovery
11 14 (6.06%) Analytics
11 14 (6.06%) Migration
12 13 (5.63%) Cybersecurity
12 13 (5.63%) Microservices
12 13 (5.63%) Project Delivery
12 13 (5.63%) Roadmaps
12 13 (5.63%) Technical Leadership
13 12 (5.19%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 78 (33.77%) Python
2 30 (12.99%) JavaScript
3 29 (12.55%) Bash
4 26 (11.26%) SQL
5 23 (9.96%) PowerShell
6 22 (9.52%) Java
7 16 (6.93%) Go
8 14 (6.06%) C#
9 10 (4.33%) Ruby
10 7 (3.03%) TypeScript
11 6 (2.60%) Rust
11 6 (2.60%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.73%) Scala
13 3 (1.30%) Bicep
13 3 (1.30%) C
13 3 (1.30%) C++
13 3 (1.30%) Clojure
13 3 (1.30%) Haskell
14 2 (0.87%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.43%) Perl
Qualifications
1 53 (22.94%) SC Cleared
1 53 (22.94%) Security Cleared
2 18 (7.79%) Degree
3 12 (5.19%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.60%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.73%) CCNP
6 4 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.30%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.43%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.46%) QA
2 4 (1.73%) NIST
2 4 (1.73%) SLA
3 3 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.43%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.43%) PMO
System Software
1 43 (18.61%) Docker
2 14 (6.06%) vSphere
3 13 (5.63%) Active Directory
4 12 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (4.33%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (3.46%) Hyper-V
7 5 (2.16%) KVM
7 5 (2.16%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 112 (48.48%) Terraform
2 77 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 60 (25.97%) Ansible
4 13 (5.63%) Argo
5 12 (5.19%) Packer
6 10 (4.33%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (3.90%) Progress Chef
8 8 (3.46%) Puppet
9 7 (3.03%) CFEngine
9 7 (3.03%) Grafana
9 7 (3.03%) PowerBroker
10 6 (2.60%) vRealize
11 5 (2.16%) Prometheus
12 4 (1.73%) Consul
12 4 (1.73%) Kibana
12 4 (1.73%) logstash
12 4 (1.73%) QRadar
13 3 (1.30%) HP Fortify
13 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (1.30%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (9.09%) VMware
2 20 (8.66%) Microsoft
3 18 (7.79%) ServiceNow
4 12 (5.19%) Salesforce
5 11 (4.76%) Red Hat
6 10 (4.33%) Atlassian
6 10 (4.33%) Oracle
7 9 (3.90%) Splunk
8 5 (2.16%) SAP
9 4 (1.73%) ArcSight
9 4 (1.73%) Arqiva
9 4 (1.73%) Cisco
9 4 (1.73%) Databricks
9 4 (1.73%) New Relic
9 4 (1.73%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.73%) Veritas
10 3 (1.30%) Adobe
10 3 (1.30%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.30%) Google
11 2 (0.87%) Dell