Platform Engineering Contracts in Leeds

Platform Engineering
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 57 60 88
Rank change year-on-year +3 +28 -9
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 5 37 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 0.63% 2.78% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 3.06% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 35 21
10th Percentile £503 - -
25th Percentile £506 £525 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £545
90th Percentile - £690 £550
West Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 693 1,211 1,443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 86.84% 90.98% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 872 1,055
10th Percentile £300 £388 £313
25th Percentile £413 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 12 19
10th Percentile £11.75 £12.38 £17.95
25th Percentile £12.15 £16.87 £20.56
Median hourly rate £12.30 £58.25 £22.55
Median % change year-on-year -78.88% +158.37% +3.70%
75th Percentile £12.53 £70.00 £28.00
90th Percentile £15.24 - £28.85
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £12.53 £25.25 £18.00
% change year-on-year -50.38% +40.28% -22.40%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Leeds

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in Leeds

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Datadog
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 5 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) SDLC
2 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java