Platform Engineer Contracts in the South East

Platform Engineer
England > South East

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in the South East is £530 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 174 199 243
Rank change year-on-year +25 +44 -37
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 25 25 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.45% 0.43% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.45% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 23 18
10th Percentile £418 £463 £421
25th Percentile £445 £578 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £588 £594
Median % change year-on-year -9.79% -1.05% +15.85%
75th Percentile £556 £600 £669
90th Percentile £650 £640 £699
England median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
England median hourly rate - £75.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +25.00% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 5,138 5,513 7,438
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 94.48% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,081 3,840 5,034
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £615 £603 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 241 339
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 £15.81
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -13.40%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.59 £43.85
90th Percentile £76.87 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in the South East

Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer in the South East

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineer in the South East

Platform Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Platform Engineer in the South East

Platform Engineer
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 Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 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 +17 11 £445 -6.32% 5
Hampshire +11 8 £623 -
Buckinghamshire +31 7 £435 -8.42% 2
East Sussex - 6 £538 -
Berkshire -4 4 £650 - 3
Platform Engineer
England

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 26 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 South East region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (92.00%) Platform Engineering
2 14 (56.00%) Linux
2 14 (56.00%) Ansible
3 11 (44.00%) Bash
4 10 (40.00%) Agile
4 10 (40.00%) Python
5 9 (36.00%) VMware
5 9 (36.00%) AWS
5 9 (36.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (36.00%) GitLab
5 9 (36.00%) Kubernetes
5 9 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (32.00%) Git
6 8 (32.00%) SC Cleared
6 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
6 8 (32.00%) DNS
6 8 (32.00%) Red Hat
6 8 (32.00%) Shell Script
7 7 (28.00%) Salesforce
7 7 (28.00%) vSphere
7 7 (28.00%) Terraform
7 7 (28.00%) Data Encryption
7 7 (28.00%) Containerisation
7 7 (28.00%) Key Management
7 7 (28.00%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (24.00%) vRealize
8 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
8 6 (24.00%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (24.00%) Packer
8 6 (24.00%) MongoDB

Platform Engineer Skill Set
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 (8.00%) Apache
1 2 (8.00%) nginx
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) AWS
2 5 (20.00%) Datadog
3 4 (16.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (16.00%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (16.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (16.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.00%) IaaS
3 4 (16.00%) Route 53
3 4 (16.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (12.00%) CloudFront
4 3 (12.00%) GitHub
5 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (8.00%) Fastly
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (32.00%) DNS
2 2 (8.00%) Firewall
2 2 (8.00%) VSAN
3 1 (4.00%) DHCP
3 1 (4.00%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (4.00%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (4.00%) SAN
3 1 (4.00%) Skype
3 1 (4.00%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) MongoDB
1 6 (24.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (16.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (16.00%) MySQL
2 4 (16.00%) RDBMS
2 4 (16.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 9 (36.00%) GitLab
2 8 (32.00%) Git
3 2 (8.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (4.00%) Banking
2 1 (4.00%) Finance
2 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) Django
1 2 (8.00%) HornetQ
1 2 (8.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (8.00%) VCL
1 2 (8.00%) YAML
2 1 (4.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.00%) LDAP
2 1 (4.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (8.00%) Smart Meter
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (56.00%) Linux
2 9 (36.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (24.00%) Debian
3 6 (24.00%) Unix
3 6 (24.00%) VMS
4 2 (8.00%) Windows
4 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
5 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (92.00%) Platform Engineering
2 10 (40.00%) Agile
3 9 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (28.00%) Containerisation
4 7 (28.00%) Data Encryption
4 7 (28.00%) Key Management
5 6 (24.00%) Scrum
6 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 4 (16.00%) Build Automation
7 4 (16.00%) DevOps
7 4 (16.00%) Project Delivery
7 4 (16.00%) Runbook
8 3 (12.00%) Performance Analysis
8 3 (12.00%) Process Improvement
9 2 (8.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 2 (8.00%) Kanban
9 2 (8.00%) Re-Platforming
9 2 (8.00%) Service Management
10 1 (4.00%) Identity Management
10 1 (4.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) Bash
2 10 (40.00%) Python
3 8 (32.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.00%) Bicep
5 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) vSphere
2 4 (16.00%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (12.00%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (8.00%) Varnish
5 1 (4.00%) Docker
5 1 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (4.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (56.00%) Ansible
2 9 (36.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (28.00%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (28.00%) Terraform
4 6 (24.00%) Packer
4 6 (24.00%) vRealize
5 2 (8.00%) HAProxy
5 2 (8.00%) WSUS
6 1 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (4.00%) SCCM
6 1 (4.00%) vCenter Server
6 1 (4.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) VMware
2 8 (32.00%) Red Hat
3 7 (28.00%) Salesforce
4 6 (24.00%) Oracle
5 4 (16.00%) Arqiva
5 4 (16.00%) Veritas
6 2 (8.00%) Cisco
6 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (8.00%) SolarWinds
7 1 (4.00%) BMC
7 1 (4.00%) Databricks
7 1 (4.00%) Dell
7 1 (4.00%) EMC
7 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto
7 1 (4.00%) Remedy
7 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow
7 1 (4.00%) Splunk
7 1 (4.00%) Veeam