Platform Engineer Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Platform Engineer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Platform Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Platform Engineer
Rank 519 569 577
Rank change year-on-year
+50 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 11 9 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.024% 0.015% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.017% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
Average daily rate £300 £325 £405
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -19.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £268 £305 £403
10% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £345 £407
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £325 -
% change year-on-year
-13.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £36.00 £36.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.36% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.00 - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 42797 53993 56874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.65% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24561 29781 30909
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2134 2552 2929
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%

Platform Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Platform Engineer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Platform Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Platform Engineer within the UK.

Platform Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Platform Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Platform Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Platform Engineer within the UK.

Platform Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Platform Engineer
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +50 11 £300 -7.69%
South East +24 5 - -
Hampshire - 4 - -
Sheffield - 3 £300 -
Berkshire - 3 - -
South Yorkshire - 3 £300 -
Yorkshire - 3 £300 -
London +19 2 £438 -
Surrey +19 1 - -
Hammersmith - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £260 -
Nottinghamshire - 1 £260 -
Staines - 1 - -
Nottingham - 1 £260 -

Platform Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Platform Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Platform Engineer in their job title.

1 15 (55.56%) Windows
2 14 (51.85%) Windows Server 2003
2 14 (51.85%) Windows Server 2008
3 12 (44.44%) XenApp
3 12 (44.44%) VMware
3 12 (44.44%) Active Directory
4 11 (40.74%) Citrix
5 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 9 (33.33%) Configuration Management
5 9 (33.33%) SQL Server
5 9 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
5 9 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
6 8 (29.63%) Linux
6 8 (29.63%) Telecoms
7 6 (22.22%) SQL Server 2000
7 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (22.22%) MCSE
7 6 (22.22%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 6 (22.22%) LTE
8 5 (18.52%) Digital Media
8 5 (18.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (18.52%) SCCM
8 5 (18.52%) MS Excel
8 5 (18.52%) IBM
8 5 (18.52%) Windows 2000
8 5 (18.52%) SAN
8 5 (18.52%) HP
9 4 (14.81%) CCA
9 4 (14.81%) Citrix Certification
9 4 (14.81%) UTRAN

Platform Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Platform Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Platform Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (3.704%) XML
1 1 (3.704%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 3 (11.11%) MS Exchange
2 2 (7.407%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (7.407%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (7.407%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.704%) Apache
3 1 (3.704%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (3.704%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 5 (18.52%) MS Excel
2 4 (14.81%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (7.407%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.704%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) LTE
2 5 (18.52%) SAN
3 4 (14.81%) Radio Access Network
3 4 (14.81%) UTRAN
4 3 (11.11%) INAP
4 3 (11.11%) 3G
4 3 (11.11%) 3GPP
5 2 (7.407%) DNS
6 1 (3.704%) SSL
6 1 (3.704%) Network Security
6 1 (3.704%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 9 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
1 9 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 6 (22.22%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (3.704%) DTS
Development Applications
1 1 (3.704%) Subversion
1 1 (3.704%) Maven
1 1 (3.704%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (3.704%) Git (software)
1 1 (3.704%) Hudson
General
1 8 (29.63%) Telecoms
2 2 (7.407%) Banking
2 2 (7.407%) Investment Banking
3 1 (3.704%) Finance
3 1 (3.704%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Digital Media
2 2 (7.407%) Clustering
3 1 (3.704%) SaaS
3 1 (3.704%) PaaS
3 1 (3.704%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 15 (55.56%) Windows
2 14 (51.85%) Windows Server 2008
2 14 (51.85%) Windows Server 2003
3 8 (29.63%) Linux
4 5 (18.52%) Windows 2000
5 4 (14.81%) Windows XP
5 4 (14.81%) Windows 7
6 3 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (7.407%) Windows 2000 Server
8 1 (3.704%) CentOS
8 1 (3.704%) Solaris
8 1 (3.704%) Apple iOS
8 1 (3.704%) Windows 8
8 1 (3.704%) Windows CE
8 1 (3.704%) Windows Mobile
8 1 (3.704%) Windows Vista
8 1 (3.704%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 4 (14.81%) Service Delivery
3 3 (11.11%) Validation
3 3 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (11.11%) Resource Management
4 2 (7.407%) Problem Management
4 2 (7.407%) Load Balancing
4 2 (7.407%) Project Management
4 2 (7.407%) CRM
4 2 (7.407%) Capacity Management
5 1 (3.704%) Software Deployment
5 1 (3.704%) RDF
5 1 (3.704%) Service Management
5 1 (3.704%) Migration
5 1 (3.704%) Workflow
5 1 (3.704%) ITIL
5 1 (3.704%) Scrum
5 1 (3.704%) Incident Management
5 1 (3.704%) Time Management
5 1 (3.704%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.11%) VBScript
1 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 2 (7.407%) SQL
2 2 (7.407%) Perl
2 2 (7.407%) Java
3 1 (3.704%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.704%) C
3 1 (3.704%) C++
3 1 (3.704%) Python
3 1 (3.704%) Embedded C
3 1 (3.704%) Embedded C++
3 1 (3.704%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.704%) Ruby
3 1 (3.704%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) MCSE
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (18.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 4 (14.81%) MCITP
3 4 (14.81%) CCA
3 4 (14.81%) Citrix Certification
System Software
1 12 (44.44%) Active Directory
1 12 (44.44%) XenApp
2 6 (22.22%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 4 (14.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (14.81%) Terminal Services
4 2 (7.407%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.704%) XenDesktop
5 1 (3.704%) vSphere
5 1 (3.704%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (3.704%) Xen
5 1 (3.704%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) SCCM
2 2 (7.407%) SCOM
2 2 (7.407%) Puppet
3 1 (3.704%) Splunk
3 1 (3.704%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (3.704%) Red Hat Spacewalk
3 1 (3.704%) Cobbler
3 1 (3.704%) Nagios
3 1 (3.704%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (44.44%) VMware
2 11 (40.74%) Citrix
3 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 5 (18.52%) HP
4 5 (18.52%) IBM
5 4 (14.81%) Nokia Siemens Networks
6 2 (7.407%) Red Hat
6 2 (7.407%) Huawei
6 2 (7.407%) Ericsson
7 1 (3.704%) NetApp
7 1 (3.704%) Veritas
7 1 (3.704%) Sun
7 1 (3.704%) Oracle
7 1 (3.704%) Cisco
7 1 (3.704%) Infoblox
7 1 (3.704%) AppSense
7 1 (3.704%) Reuters
7 1 (3.704%) Bloomberg
7 1 (3.704%) Dell
Platform Engineer
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
This will include auditing, monitoring, capacity management, planning, security, patching and problem management. Key Skills Required:- -In depth experience of Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 -Experience on Active...
Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Rate: £245 - £275 per day
Posted: 13 May 2013
Platform Senior Graphics Engineer
Middlesex
Expertise in Graphics with experience in design and development of Graphic stacks for embedded systems including low-level graphics acceleration, OpenGL and its extensions, and GLSL programming... A...
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Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 17 May 2013
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