Platform Engineering Contracts in the South East

Platform Engineering
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 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 171 167 229
Rank change year-on-year -4 +62 -39
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 32 54 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.58% 0.93% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 1.04% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 48 22
10th Percentile £409 £463 £414
25th Percentile £418 £569 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% +7.14% +1.82%
75th Percentile £594 £700 £656
90th Percentile £659 £838 £675
England median daily rate £582 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -3.00% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £56.25 £82.50
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -32.35% -
75th Percentile - £58.75 £87.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £66.00 £78.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,709 5,189 6,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.80% 89.30% 89.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,741 3,601 4,704
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 432 219 286
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.21
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.83 £15.53
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.45
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.72% -18.36%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.83 £63.50
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the South East

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in the South East

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in the South East over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in the South East

Platform Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Platform Engineering in the South East

Platform Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Thames Valley +10 12 £440 -7.37% 9
Hampshire +6 11 £623 +24.50% 5
Buckinghamshire +24 7 £435 -8.42% 3
Berkshire -2 5 £588 -9.62% 5
East Sussex - 4 £538 -
West Sussex - 3 - - 3
Surrey -19 2 - - 2
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.25%) IBM Domino
2 1 (3.13%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.13%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) AWS
2 5 (15.63%) Azure
2 5 (15.63%) IaaS
3 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (9.38%) Datadog
3 3 (9.38%) GitHub
3 3 (9.38%) Nutanix
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon S3
4 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.25%) Route 53
4 2 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.13%) Azure API Management
5 1 (3.13%) CloudFront
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.88%) DNS
2 4 (12.50%) VSAN
3 3 (9.38%) Firewall
4 2 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (3.13%) DHCP
5 1 (3.13%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (3.13%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (3.13%) SAN
5 1 (3.13%) Skype
5 1 (3.13%) Unified Communications
5 1 (3.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (28.13%) MongoDB
1 9 (28.13%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (12.50%) MySQL
2 4 (12.50%) RDBMS
2 4 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 3 (9.38%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (34.38%) GitLab
2 7 (21.88%) Git
3 1 (3.13%) JIRA
3 1 (3.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (3.13%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.13%) Banking
3 1 (3.13%) Electronics
3 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
3 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.13%) Marketing
3 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (71.88%) Platform Engineer
2 10 (31.25%) Linux Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Data Centre Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Network Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Database Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Database Specialist
7 1 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Platform Specialist
7 1 (3.13%) Senior
7 1 (3.13%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) YAML
2 2 (6.25%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.13%) JSON
3 1 (3.13%) LDAP
3 1 (3.13%) Node.js
3 1 (3.13%) REST
3 1 (3.13%) Spring
3 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (6.25%) Clustering
2 2 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.25%) Replication
2 2 (6.25%) Smart Meter
3 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.13%) NHS
3 1 (3.13%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (43.75%) Linux
2 7 (21.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (18.75%) Unix
3 6 (18.75%) VMS
4 4 (12.50%) Debian
5 3 (9.38%) Windows
6 2 (6.25%) Windows Server
6 2 (6.25%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (3.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) Agile
2 10 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (28.13%) Scrum
4 7 (21.88%) Containerisation
4 7 (21.88%) Data Encryption
4 7 (21.88%) Key Management
5 6 (18.75%) CI/CD
6 5 (15.63%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (15.63%) Kanban
6 5 (15.63%) Mentoring
7 4 (12.50%) Build Automation
7 4 (12.50%) Migration
7 4 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
7 4 (12.50%) Project Delivery
7 4 (12.50%) Runbook
8 3 (9.38%) DevOps
8 3 (9.38%) High Availability
8 3 (9.38%) Performance Analysis
8 3 (9.38%) Process Improvement
9 2 (6.25%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (40.63%) Bash
2 10 (31.25%) Python
3 6 (18.75%) Shell Script
4 5 (15.63%) SQL
5 3 (9.38%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.13%) Bicep
6 1 (3.13%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (34.38%) SC Cleared
1 11 (34.38%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.38%) Degree
3 2 (6.25%) CCNP
3 2 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 11 (34.38%) vSphere
2 7 (21.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 4 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (9.38%) Hyper-V
4 3 (9.38%) VMware NSX
5 2 (6.25%) KVM
6 1 (3.13%) Docker
6 1 (3.13%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (43.75%) Ansible
2 10 (31.25%) Kubernetes
3 9 (28.13%) Terraform
4 7 (21.88%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (18.75%) Packer
5 6 (18.75%) vRealize
6 2 (6.25%) WSUS
7 1 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (3.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (3.13%) SCCM
7 1 (3.13%) vCenter Server
7 1 (3.13%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (43.75%) VMware
2 9 (28.13%) Oracle
3 8 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 7 (21.88%) Salesforce
5 4 (12.50%) Arqiva
5 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 4 (12.50%) SolarWinds
5 4 (12.50%) Veritas
6 2 (6.25%) Cisco
7 1 (3.13%) BMC
7 1 (3.13%) Databricks
7 1 (3.13%) Dell
7 1 (3.13%) EMC
7 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto
7 1 (3.13%) Remedy
7 1 (3.13%) SAP
7 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
7 1 (3.13%) Splunk
7 1 (3.13%) Veeam