Platform Engineer Contracts in the Thames Valley

Platform Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £445 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 145 157
Rank change year-on-year +20 +12 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 11 7 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.41% 0.24% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.26% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 6
10th Percentile £414 £422 £419
25th Percentile £418 £434 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% -2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £538 £497 £553
90th Percentile £650 £613 £563
South East median daily rate £530 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -9.79% +2.17% +12.20%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,473 2,738 3,376
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.04% 94.48% 95.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,427 1,897 2,306
10th Percentile £206 £313 £190
25th Percentile £370 £409 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £491
% change year-on-year - +1.83% +9.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 77 101
10th Percentile £15.67 £17.11 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.00 £13.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £48.40 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +176.57% -16.86%
75th Percentile £63.09 £66.21 £23.75
90th Percentile £85.45 £79.19 £57.38
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £47.79 £20.00
% change year-on-year -0.61% +138.95% -20.00%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in the Thames Valley

Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer in the Thames Valley

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineer in the Thames Valley

Platform Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Platform Engineer in the Thames Valley

Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 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
Buckinghamshire +27 7 £435 -8.42% 2
Berkshire -2 4 £650 - 3
Platform Engineer
South East

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 5 May 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 Thames Valley region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 7 (63.64%) Salesforce
2 7 (63.64%) Data Encryption
2 7 (63.64%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (63.64%) Key Management
3 3 (27.27%) GitLab
3 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
4 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (18.18%) vSphere
4 2 (18.18%) Bash
4 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
4 2 (18.18%) Oracle Database
4 2 (18.18%) Ansible
4 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
4 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (18.18%) VMware
4 2 (18.18%) Oracle
4 2 (18.18%) Unix
4 2 (18.18%) Linux
4 2 (18.18%) Python
4 2 (18.18%) VMS
4 2 (18.18%) Packer
4 2 (18.18%) Terraform
4 2 (18.18%) vRealize
4 2 (18.18%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (18.18%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (18.18%) Containerisation

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Azure API Management
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Database
1 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 1 (9.09%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
1 1 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Unix
1 2 (18.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 7 (63.64%) Data Encryption
2 7 (63.64%) Key Management
3 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
4 1 (9.09%) Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) API Management
4 1 (9.09%) Boundary Protection
4 1 (9.09%) Change Advisory Board
4 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) GitOps
4 1 (9.09%) High Availability
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (9.09%) Log Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (9.09%) Release Automation
4 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Bash
1 2 (18.18%) Python
1 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
2 1 (9.09%) Bicep
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (18.18%) vSphere
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 2 (18.18%) Ansible
3 2 (18.18%) Packer
3 2 (18.18%) Terraform
3 2 (18.18%) vRealize
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Salesforce
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
2 2 (18.18%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) BMC
3 1 (9.09%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Remedy
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow