Platform Engineer Contracts in East Sussex

Platform Engineer
South East > East Sussex

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in East Sussex is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East Sussex 7.14% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 7.32% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £515 - -
25th Percentile £516 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - -
75th Percentile £556 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £530 £588 £594
% change year-on-year -9.79% -1.05% +15.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Sussex

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in East Sussex. 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 East Sussex with a recognized job title 82 115 201
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.62% 97.46% 93.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 82 141
10th Percentile £301 £205 £200
25th Percentile £351 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £572 £700 £600
90th Percentile £710 £811 £668
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 3
10th Percentile £11.00 £35.15 £16.20
25th Percentile £15.38 £45.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.25 £53.75 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.02% +144.32% -37.14%
75th Percentile £26.88 £60.00 £23.00
90th Percentile £51.50 £64.50 -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.24 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.53% +129.71% -12.50%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in East Sussex

Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in East Sussex.

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer in East Sussex

Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in East Sussex

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 East Sussex region over the 6 months to 25 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
Brighton - 6 £538 -
Platform Engineer
South East

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East Sussex

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 East Sussex region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 6 (100.00%) Debian
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Ansible
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (83.33%) Datadog
2 5 (83.33%) Bash
2 5 (83.33%) Shell Script
2 5 (83.33%) DNS
3 4 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (50.00%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
4 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (50.00%) Agile
4 3 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (50.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (50.00%) CloudFront
4 3 (50.00%) Process Improvement
4 3 (50.00%) Route 53
4 3 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (33.33%) HornetQ
5 2 (33.33%) HAProxy
5 2 (33.33%) DevOps
5 2 (33.33%) GitHub
5 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket
5 2 (33.33%) Varnish

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East Sussex 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 2 (33.33%) Apache
1 2 (33.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) Datadog
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (50.00%) CloudFront
3 3 (50.00%) Route 53
3 3 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (33.33%) Fastly
4 2 (33.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Django
1 2 (33.33%) HornetQ
1 2 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (33.33%) VCL
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Debian
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) Process Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Bash
1 5 (83.33%) Shell Script
2 2 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (33.33%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) HAProxy
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco