The first table below looks at the demand for the Platform Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Platform Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Platform Engineer
Rank 375 405 425
Rank change year-on-year
+30 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 2 5 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.009% 0.019% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% 0.020% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
Average daily rate £438 - £403
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £325 -
% change year-on-year
-13.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £36.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.00 - -
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
19937 24898 29250
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.14% 92.45% 92.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 13430 16056 18793
Average daily rate £450 £440 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -7.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 620 684
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Platform Engineer
England

Platform Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Platform Engineer across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

London Platform Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Platform Engineer across the London region.

London Platform Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Platform Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Platform Engineer across the London region.

London Platform Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Platform Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Hammersmith - 1 - -
Platform Engineer
England

Platform Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Platform Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Platform Engineer in their job title.

1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Puppet
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Hudson
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Media
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Spacewalk
2 1 (25.00%) Cobbler
2 1 (25.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (25.00%) Image Processing
2 1 (25.00%) Infoblox
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (25.00%) MCSE
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) LDAP
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange

Platform Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Platform Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Platform Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) LDAP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Hudson
1 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
1 1 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Digital Media
1 1 (25.00%) IaaS
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
1 1 (25.00%) Software Deployment
1 1 (25.00%) Image Processing
1 1 (25.00%) Workflow
1 1 (25.00%) Scrum
1 1 (25.00%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) MCSE
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) NFS
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Spacewalk
2 1 (25.00%) Cobbler
2 1 (25.00%) Nagios
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Dell
1 1 (25.00%) NetApp
1 1 (25.00%) Veritas
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat