Platform Engineering Contracts in the North East

Platform Engineering
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 56 50
Rank change year-on-year +17 -6 -3
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 1 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 0.29% 0.24% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.27% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 £506 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £513 £438
Median % change year-on-year -19.51% +17.14% -18.60%
75th Percentile £419 £519 £589
90th Percentile - - £704
England median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 273 373 433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 80.06% 90.98% 85.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 291 336
10th Percentile £242 £255 £165
25th Percentile £363 £403 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £589 £628 £588
90th Percentile £660 £720 £666
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 2 14
10th Percentile £11.44 £32.98 £10.70
25th Percentile £11.97 £35.56 £12.87
Median hourly rate £16.48 £40.75 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.56% +146.97% +17.61%
75th Percentile £48.75 £45.56 £17.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £47.93 £36.25
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the North East

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in the North East

Platform Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Tyne and Wear +19 1 £413 -19.51% 1
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Reality
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes