Platform Engineer Contracts in Gloucestershire

Platform Engineer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Gloucestershire is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 58 -
Rank change year-on-year +8 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 1 6 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 0.24% 1.23% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 1.34% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £544 -
25th Percentile £475 £573 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £671 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.51% - -
75th Percentile £525 £750 -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £520
% change year-on-year - +5.77% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £78.00 -
South West median hourly rate - £75.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Gloucestershire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire. 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 Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 376 449 504
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.38% 92.39% 95.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 313 409
10th Percentile £300 £325 £176
25th Percentile £425 £460 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £681 £669 £588
90th Percentile £750 £705 £658
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 37 12
10th Percentile £14.45 £35.00 £11.78
25th Percentile £15.75 £50.00 £12.56
Median hourly rate £33.00 £73.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -54.79% +289.33% -62.50%
75th Percentile £68.75 £83.31 £39.43
90th Percentile £73.38 £83.40 £58.52
South West median hourly rate £47.83 £65.00 £45.20
% change year-on-year -26.42% +43.81% +5.73%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Gloucestershire

Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer in Gloucestershire

Platform Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in Gloucestershire.

Hourly rate trend for Platform Engineer in Gloucestershire

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire

For the 6 months to 16 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 Gloucestershire region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Snyk
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Snyk
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware