Re-Platforming Contracts

Re-Platforming
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Re-Platforming skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Re-Platforming over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 528 532 594
Rank change year-on-year +4 +62 -43
Contract jobs citing Re-Platforming 63 176 256
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.30% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.34% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 128 209
10th Percentile £425 £429 £418
25th Percentile £500 £506 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £566 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.96% -1.52% +12.75%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £825 £804 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £538 £600
% change year-on-year - -10.42% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Re-Platforming is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,140 52,105 79,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.25% 89.83% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,924 36,124 55,482
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,724 1,874
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.17 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

Re-Platforming
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Re-Platforming as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Re-Platforming in the UK

Re-Platforming
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Re-Platforming.

Daily rate trend for Re-Platforming in the UK

Re-Platforming
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Re-Platforming over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Re-Platforming in the UK

Re-Platforming
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Re-Platforming.

Hourly rate trend for Re-Platforming in the UK

Re-Platforming
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Re-Platforming within the UK 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
England +24 54 £600 +4.35% 21
London +33 29 £605 -0.21% 11
UK excluding London +9 25 £538 - 9
Work from Home +60 22 £600 +11.63% 15
South East +22 13 £475 -16.67%
North of England +19 5 £575 +6.98% 5
Scotland +31 3 - -
North West +11 3 £650 +19.54% 3
Midlands +22 2 £700 +30.23% 2
South West +15 2 £575 -14.81% 2
Yorkshire +14 2 £475 -24.00% 1
West Midlands +13 2 £700 +30.23% 1

Re-Platforming
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.35%) CMS
2 2 (3.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Magento
1 1 (1.59%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.59%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 12 (19.05%) Azure
2 11 (17.46%) AWS
3 6 (9.52%) GCP
3 6 (9.52%) IaaS
4 5 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (7.94%) Serverless
5 3 (4.76%) CloudFront
6 2 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.17%) Contentful
6 2 (3.17%) GitHub
6 2 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.59%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.59%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.59%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.59%) DNS
2 1 (1.59%) Intranet
2 1 (1.59%) NetScaler
2 1 (1.59%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (17.46%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (11.11%) MySQL
3 6 (9.52%) Relational Database
4 5 (7.94%) MongoDB
4 5 (7.94%) Oracle Database
5 4 (6.35%) RDBMS
5 4 (6.35%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.17%) DB2
6 2 (3.17%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.59%) Big Data
7 1 (1.59%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.59%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 6 (9.52%) GitLab
2 4 (6.35%) Git
3 2 (3.17%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.59%) GoCD
4 1 (1.59%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 16 (25.40%) Finance
2 8 (12.70%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.35%) Banking
3 4 (6.35%) Telecoms
4 3 (4.76%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.59%) Law
6 1 (1.59%) Legal
6 1 (1.59%) Marketing
6 1 (1.59%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (12.70%) Architect
1 8 (12.70%) Developer
2 6 (9.52%) Programme Manager
3 5 (7.94%) Platform Specialist
3 5 (7.94%) Project Manager
4 4 (6.35%) .NET Developer
4 4 (6.35%) Consultant
4 4 (6.35%) DBA
4 4 (6.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (6.35%) Lead
4 4 (6.35%) Oracle DBA
4 4 (6.35%) Product Manager
5 3 (4.76%) Analyst
5 3 (4.76%) Automation Specialist
5 3 (4.76%) Azure Consultant
5 3 (4.76%) Business Analyst
5 3 (4.76%) Communications Manager
5 3 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (3.17%) Telecoms Manager
6 2 (3.17%) Telecoms Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.94%) .NET
2 3 (4.76%) AWS CDK
3 2 (3.17%) React
4 1 (1.59%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.59%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.59%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.59%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (1.59%) EJB
4 1 (1.59%) Hibernate
4 1 (1.59%) JSON
4 1 (1.59%) JSON Schema
4 1 (1.59%) Kafka
4 1 (1.59%) REST
4 1 (1.59%) Spring
4 1 (1.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (6.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (6.35%) Hedge funds
3 3 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.76%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (4.76%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.76%) Smart Meter
3 3 (4.76%) Tandem
4 2 (3.17%) Clustering
4 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.17%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.17%) Replication
4 2 (3.17%) Social Media
5 1 (1.59%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.59%) Equities
5 1 (1.59%) Life Science
5 1 (1.59%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 12 (19.05%) Linux
2 7 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (7.94%) VMS
4 3 (4.76%) Ubuntu
4 3 (4.76%) Unix
5 2 (3.17%) Windows
6 1 (1.59%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (25.40%) CI/CD
2 15 (23.81%) Migration
3 12 (19.05%) Agile
4 9 (14.29%) DevOps
4 9 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 8 (12.70%) Containerisation
5 8 (12.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (9.52%) Database Migration
8 5 (7.94%) Microservices
8 5 (7.94%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (6.35%) Data Migration
9 4 (6.35%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 4 (6.35%) End-to-End Testing
9 4 (6.35%) Product Management
9 4 (6.35%) Project Delivery
9 4 (6.35%) Strategic Roadmap
10 3 (4.76%) Computer Science
10 3 (4.76%) Performance Tuning
10 3 (4.76%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.87%) SQL
2 8 (12.70%) Java
2 8 (12.70%) Python
3 5 (7.94%) Bash
4 4 (6.35%) C#
4 4 (6.35%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.76%) Perl
6 2 (3.17%) VBA
7 1 (1.59%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.59%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.59%) R
7 1 (1.59%) Scala
7 1 (1.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 7 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.35%) Degree
3 3 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.59%) CEH
4 1 (1.59%) CISM
4 1 (1.59%) CISSP
4 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.59%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.59%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.11%) QA
2 2 (3.17%) MiFID
3 1 (1.59%) Basel II
3 1 (1.59%) Basel III
3 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.59%) GDPR
3 1 (1.59%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (7.94%) Docker
2 4 (6.35%) vSphere
3 3 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.17%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.59%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.59%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.59%) XenApp
5 1 (1.59%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (12.70%) Kubernetes
2 7 (11.11%) Terraform
3 6 (9.52%) Ansible
4 5 (7.94%) Packer
5 3 (4.76%) Grafana
5 3 (4.76%) vRealize
6 2 (3.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.59%) SysTrack
7 1 (1.59%) VxRail
Vendors
1 9 (14.29%) Oracle
2 7 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.94%) VMware
4 4 (6.35%) Google
5 3 (4.76%) Arqiva
5 3 (4.76%) Veritas
6 2 (3.17%) BT
6 2 (3.17%) Cisco
6 2 (3.17%) Dell
6 2 (3.17%) NetCracker
6 2 (3.17%) Virgin Media
6 2 (3.17%) webMethods
7 1 (1.59%) Adobe
7 1 (1.59%) Altiris
7 1 (1.59%) McAfee
7 1 (1.59%) OpenText
7 1 (1.59%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.59%) SAP
7 1 (1.59%) Symantec
7 1 (1.59%) Wyse