Platform Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Platform Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 96 135
Rank change year-on-year +7 +39 -56
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 7 17 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.46% 0.89% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.92% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 17 4
10th Percentile - £535 £483
25th Percentile £550 £563 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £656 £594 £700
90th Percentile £668 - -
North West median daily rate £613 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +6.52% - +15.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,465 1,851 2,502
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.69% 96.71% 97.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,025 1,381 1,991
10th Percentile £313 £313 £213
25th Percentile £400 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £694 £663 £650
North West median daily rate £495 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -1.00% +8.11% +10.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 59 58
10th Percentile £12.02 £14.57 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £25.10 £37.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.08% +114.29% +9.38%
75th Percentile £60.94 £56.88 £20.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £34.13
North West median hourly rate £26.39 £30.74 £20.00
% change year-on-year -14.15% +53.70% +11.73%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Manchester

Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer in Manchester

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 19 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 Manchester region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
1 7 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (85.71%) Python
2 6 (85.71%) AWS
3 5 (71.43%) Go
3 5 (71.43%) Ansible
3 5 (71.43%) Docker
3 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
4 4 (57.14%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (42.86%) Azure
5 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
5 3 (42.86%) Git
5 3 (42.86%) SQL
5 3 (42.86%) DynamoDB
5 3 (42.86%) Amazon ELB
5 3 (42.86%) Bash
5 3 (42.86%) Splunk
5 3 (42.86%) SonarQube
5 3 (42.86%) HP Fortify
5 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (42.86%) Data Lake
5 3 (42.86%) IT Strategy
5 3 (42.86%) Technology Strategy
5 3 (42.86%) Snowflake
5 3 (42.86%) Cloud Operations
5 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon ELB
3 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) Snowflake
4 2 (28.57%) GCP
4 2 (28.57%) GitHub
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (14.29%) IaaS
5 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Data Lake
1 3 (42.86%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
1 3 (42.86%) SonarQube
2 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
2 2 (28.57%) GitLab
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 5 (71.43%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) Cloud Operations
4 3 (42.86%) IT Strategy
4 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (28.57%) Agile
5 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
5 2 (28.57%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
5 2 (28.57%) Identity Management
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (28.57%) Migration
5 2 (28.57%) Security Operations
6 1 (14.29%) Change Control
6 1 (14.29%) Change Management
6 1 (14.29%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) Go
3 3 (42.86%) Bash
3 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
3 3 (42.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
1 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
2 5 (71.43%) Ansible
2 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
3 3 (42.86%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Splunk
2 2 (28.57%) Atlassian