Platform Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 316 399
Rank change year-on-year -10 +83 -31
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 70 132 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.56% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.60% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 111 84
10th Percentile £418 £450 £413
25th Percentile £453 £519 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £626
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +1.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £66.25 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £76.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -28.10% +27.50% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,944 22,126 29,093
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,489 20,369
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,258 1,140 1,432
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.72 £17.86 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.07
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East +26 25 £530 -9.79% 7
Scotland +44 21 £460 -10.68% 3
North of England -15 13 £550 - 14
South West +2 8 £550 - 11
North West 0 7 £575 - 8
Yorkshire -11 5 £525 -4.55% 6
Midlands +34 4 £375 -31.82% 5
West Midlands +21 4 £375 -31.82% 3
Wales +18 1 £500 +48.15% 2
North East - 1 £413 -
Platform Engineer
UK

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 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 UK excluding London region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 59 (84.29%) Platform Engineering
2 36 (51.43%) Python
2 36 (51.43%) DevOps
3 34 (48.57%) Kubernetes
4 33 (47.14%) AWS
5 31 (44.29%) Linux
6 29 (41.43%) Ansible
7 28 (40.00%) Terraform
8 25 (35.71%) CI/CD
9 22 (31.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 22 (31.43%) Azure
10 20 (28.57%) Bash
10 20 (28.57%) Agile
11 18 (25.71%) GitLab
12 17 (24.29%) Containerisation
13 16 (22.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 15 (21.43%) VMware
15 14 (20.00%) Git
15 14 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
15 14 (20.00%) Docker
16 13 (18.57%) Unix
16 13 (18.57%) DNS
17 11 (15.71%) Java
17 11 (15.71%) GitOps
17 11 (15.71%) Social Skills
17 11 (15.71%) Snowflake
18 10 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
18 10 (14.29%) OpenShift
18 10 (14.29%) Amazon S3
18 10 (14.29%) SC Cleared

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (11.43%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (8.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (7.14%) Confluence
4 2 (2.86%) Apache
4 2 (2.86%) nginx
4 2 (2.86%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.86%) Skype for Business
5 1 (1.43%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 33 (47.14%) AWS
2 22 (31.43%) Azure
3 14 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (15.71%) Snowflake
5 10 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 10 (14.29%) OpenShift
6 9 (12.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (11.43%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (11.43%) Serverless
8 7 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (10.00%) Datadog
9 6 (8.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 6 (8.57%) GitHub
9 6 (8.57%) IaaS
10 5 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
10 5 (7.14%) Route 53
11 4 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (4.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.57%) DNS
2 8 (11.43%) Firewall
3 5 (7.14%) SAN
4 2 (2.86%) DHCP
4 2 (2.86%) Skype
4 2 (2.86%) Unified Communications
4 2 (2.86%) VPN
4 2 (2.86%) VSAN
5 1 (1.43%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.43%) Network Security
5 1 (1.43%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.86%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.57%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (8.57%) MongoDB
3 5 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (7.14%) MySQL
4 4 (5.71%) RDBMS
4 4 (5.71%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.29%) Data Lake
5 3 (4.29%) DynamoDB
5 3 (4.29%) InfluxDB
6 2 (2.86%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.43%) Adabas
7 1 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.43%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 18 (25.71%) GitLab
2 14 (20.00%) Git
3 7 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 6 (8.57%) Artifactory
5 5 (7.14%) JIRA
6 4 (5.71%) Bitbucket
6 4 (5.71%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.43%) CA Gen
7 1 (1.43%) Snyk
7 1 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.43%) Terragrunt
General
1 11 (15.71%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.43%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.86%) Banking
4 1 (1.43%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.43%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.43%) Finance
4 1 (1.43%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.57%) AWS CDK
2 5 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (5.71%) REST
3 4 (5.71%) YAML
4 2 (2.86%) Django
4 2 (2.86%) HornetQ
4 2 (2.86%) JSON
4 2 (2.86%) SAML
4 2 (2.86%) VCL
5 1 (1.43%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.43%) LDAP
5 1 (1.43%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (8.57%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (4.29%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.86%) PKI
4 2 (2.86%) Smart Meter
5 1 (1.43%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.43%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 31 (44.29%) Linux
2 16 (22.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (18.57%) Unix
4 7 (10.00%) Windows
4 7 (10.00%) Windows Server
5 6 (8.57%) Debian
5 6 (8.57%) Ubuntu
5 6 (8.57%) VMS
6 2 (2.86%) Windows 10
6 2 (2.86%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.43%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (84.29%) Platform Engineering
2 36 (51.43%) DevOps
3 25 (35.71%) CI/CD
4 22 (31.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (28.57%) Agile
6 17 (24.29%) Containerisation
7 11 (15.71%) GitOps
8 8 (11.43%) Computer Science
8 8 (11.43%) Data Engineering
8 8 (11.43%) Data Pipeline
8 8 (11.43%) DataOps
8 8 (11.43%) MLOps
8 8 (11.43%) Scrum
9 7 (10.00%) Data Encryption
9 7 (10.00%) Key Management
10 6 (8.57%) OO
11 5 (7.14%) Software Delivery
11 5 (7.14%) Test Automation
12 4 (5.71%) Project Delivery
12 4 (5.71%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 36 (51.43%) Python
2 20 (28.57%) Bash
3 11 (15.71%) Java
4 8 (11.43%) PowerShell
4 8 (11.43%) Scala
4 8 (11.43%) Shell Script
5 6 (8.57%) Go
5 6 (8.57%) Perl
6 5 (7.14%) Groovy
6 5 (7.14%) SQL
7 2 (2.86%) Bicep
8 1 (1.43%) C#
8 1 (1.43%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.43%) Natural
Qualifications
1 10 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 10 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.43%) CCNA
2 1 (1.43%) CCNP
2 1 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (1.43%) Degree
2 1 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (1.43%) MCSE
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (2.86%) NIST
1 2 (2.86%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (20.00%) Docker
2 8 (11.43%) Active Directory
2 8 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (10.00%) vSphere
4 5 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (7.14%) VMware NSX
5 4 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (5.71%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (2.86%) Varnish
7 1 (1.43%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 34 (48.57%) Kubernetes
2 29 (41.43%) Ansible
3 28 (40.00%) Terraform
4 7 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (8.57%) Grafana
5 6 (8.57%) Kibana
5 6 (8.57%) Packer
5 6 (8.57%) vRealize
6 3 (4.29%) HP Fortify
6 3 (4.29%) WSUS
7 2 (2.86%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (2.86%) HAProxy
7 2 (2.86%) SCCM
8 1 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.43%) Argo
8 1 (1.43%) FreeIPA
8 1 (1.43%) Icinga
8 1 (1.43%) SCOM
8 1 (1.43%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.43%) VxRail
Vendors
1 15 (21.43%) VMware
2 9 (12.86%) Databricks
3 8 (11.43%) Microsoft
3 8 (11.43%) Red Hat
4 7 (10.00%) Salesforce
5 6 (8.57%) Oracle
6 5 (7.14%) Splunk
7 4 (5.71%) Arqiva
7 4 (5.71%) CyberArk
7 4 (5.71%) Veritas
8 3 (4.29%) Atlassian
8 3 (4.29%) BMC
8 3 (4.29%) Cisco
8 3 (4.29%) SolarWinds
9 2 (2.86%) Veeam
10 1 (1.43%) CA
10 1 (1.43%) Dell
10 1 (1.43%) EMC
10 1 (1.43%) Remedy
10 1 (1.43%) ServiceNow