Platform Manager Contracts

Platform Manager
UK

The median Platform Manager daily rate in the UK is £575 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 562 673 815
Rank change year-on-year +111 +142 -159
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Manager 17 27 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.045% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.048% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 20 32
10th Percentile £525 £524 £390
25th Percentile £558 £600 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +7.69% +26.83%
75th Percentile £588 £775 £700
90th Percentile £631 £878 £795
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -14.81% -3.57% +69.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £36.60
25th Percentile - - £47.63
Median hourly rate - - £66.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Platform Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Manager in the UK

Platform Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Manager.

Daily rate trend for Platform Manager in the UK

Platform Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Manager over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Manager in the UK

Platform Manager
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Manager within the UK 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
England +102 14 £575 -17.86% 12
UK excluding London +72 14 £575 -14.81% 5
South West +33 11 £575 -
Work from Home +119 4 £550 -21.43% 12
London +98 1 £650 -7.14% 6
North of England +26 1 £545 -0.91% 2
South East +25 1 £800 +49.53% 2
Yorkshire +19 1 £545 -0.91% 1
Scotland - 1 £350 - 1

Platform Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Platform Manager 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 featuring Platform Manager in the job title.

1 13 (76.47%) Windows
2 11 (64.71%) PKI
2 11 (64.71%) Security Patching
3 10 (58.82%) Network Security
3 10 (58.82%) DV Cleared
3 10 (58.82%) Security Cleared
3 10 (58.82%) Change Management
4 3 (17.65%) Finance
4 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (11.76%) People Management
5 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (11.76%) Line Management
5 2 (11.76%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (11.76%) Migration
5 2 (11.76%) Firewall
5 2 (11.76%) Unix
6 1 (5.88%) Agile
6 1 (5.88%) Banking
6 1 (5.88%) Business Analysis
6 1 (5.88%) Programme Management
6 1 (5.88%) Matrix Management
6 1 (5.88%) Azure
6 1 (5.88%) SaaS
6 1 (5.88%) SQL
6 1 (5.88%) Front Office
6 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (5.88%) Scrum

Platform Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) Azure
1 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (58.82%) Network Security
2 2 (11.76%) Firewall
General
1 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Banking
2 1 (5.88%) Front Office
2 1 (5.88%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 11 (64.71%) PKI
2 1 (5.88%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 13 (76.47%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Security Patching
2 10 (58.82%) Change Management
3 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
3 2 (11.76%) Continuous Deployment
3 2 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (11.76%) Line Management
3 2 (11.76%) Migration
3 2 (11.76%) People Management
3 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (5.88%) Budgeting
4 1 (5.88%) Customer Service
4 1 (5.88%) Data Science
4 1 (5.88%) Data Strategy
4 1 (5.88%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (5.88%) Roadmaps
4 1 (5.88%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (5.88%) Technology Transformation
4 1 (5.88%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) DV Cleared
1 10 (58.82%) Security Cleared