Platform Engineering Contracts in the North West

Platform Engineering
England > North West

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 104 147
Rank change year-on-year -15 +43 -35
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 16 50 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.59% 1.58% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 1.74% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 40 32
10th Percentile - £488 £475
25th Percentile £550 £550 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% -4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £625
90th Percentile £845 £650 £700
England median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,349 2,873 3,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.30% 90.60% 88.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,497 2,042 2,616
10th Percentile £306 £313 £240
25th Percentile £405 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 140 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.36 £21.91 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.56 £35.50 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -39.28% +71.13% +12.14%
75th Percentile £45.66 £49.43 £43.50
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.78 £58.75
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the North West

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in the North West

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in the North West over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in the North West

Platform Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Manchester -8 11 £613 +6.52% 12
Cheshire +6 3 £582 +111.64%
Lancashire -3 1 £650 +8.33%
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) Alfresco
Cloud Services
1 13 (81.25%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) Azure
3 4 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon ELB
4 3 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (18.75%) Snowflake
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (12.50%) GCP
5 2 (12.50%) GitHub
5 2 (12.50%) Serverless
6 1 (6.25%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) DSL
2 2 (12.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Data Lake
1 3 (18.75%) DynamoDB
1 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) JIRA
2 4 (25.00%) Git
3 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
3 3 (18.75%) Mocha
3 3 (18.75%) SonarQube
4 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
4 2 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) DevOps Engineer
1 7 (43.75%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Operations Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Head of Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Senior
5 2 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Digital Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Jest
1 3 (18.75%) React
1 3 (18.75%) Redux
2 2 (12.50%) SAML
3 1 (6.25%) AWS CDK
3 1 (6.25%) Node.js
3 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
1 3 (18.75%) Public Cloud
1 3 (18.75%) Virtual Team
2 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
1 3 (18.75%) Unix
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) CI/CD
2 10 (62.50%) DevOps
3 6 (37.50%) Knowledge Transfer
3 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (25.00%) Agile
5 4 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
6 3 (18.75%) Cloud Operations
6 3 (18.75%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (18.75%) Identity Management
6 3 (18.75%) IT Strategy
6 3 (18.75%) Migration
6 3 (18.75%) Product Backlog
6 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
6 3 (18.75%) Server Building
6 3 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (18.75%) Technology Strategy
6 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
6 3 (18.75%) Unit Testing
7 2 (12.50%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Go
1 6 (37.50%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) Bash
2 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 3 (18.75%) Ruby
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
1 3 (18.75%) SLA
2 2 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (12.50%) NIST
2 2 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Ansible
1 8 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (37.50%) Terraform
3 3 (18.75%) CFEngine
3 3 (18.75%) HP Fortify
3 3 (18.75%) PowerBroker
3 3 (18.75%) Progress Chef
3 3 (18.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Atlassian
2 3 (18.75%) Splunk