Platform Engineering Contracts in England

Platform Engineering
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Platform Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 322 264 296
Rank change year-on-year -58 +32 +69
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 229 490 634
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.62% 1.00% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 1.11% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 402 500
10th Percentile £421 £495 £450
25th Percentile £500 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £600 £585
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £685 £700 £675
90th Percentile £800 £861 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £585
% change year-on-year -4.17% +2.56% +1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile £53.85 £67.13 -
25th Percentile £55.88 £78.00 £57.50
Median hourly rate £60.50 £81.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.77% +35.83% -
75th Percentile £63.88 £85.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £65.15 £87.50 -
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £81.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -25.77% +35.83% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Platform Engineering 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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,798 44,069 63,755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.49% 90.16% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,831 30,926 45,337
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £446 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,559 1,731
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in England

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in England

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in England

Platform Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in England.

Hourly rate trend for Platform Engineering in England

Platform Engineering
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineering within the England region over the 6 months to 11 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
London -15 152 £600 -5.27% 102
South East -6 32 £531 -15.00% 20
North of England -34 20 £575 +4.55% 29
North West -17 15 £582 +1.22% 14
Midlands +26 11 £675 +22.73% 13
West Midlands +13 11 £675 +22.73% 9
South West -4 4 £500 -17.01% 16
Yorkshire -18 4 £513 -6.82% 12
North East +16 1 £413 -19.51% 3
Platform Engineering
UK

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (3.93%) Confluence
2 5 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.75%) IBM Domino
3 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.31%) Cloud Foundry
4 3 (1.31%) CMS
4 3 (1.31%) Drupal
4 3 (1.31%) nginx
4 3 (1.31%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.87%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.44%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.44%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Shopify
2 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.44%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 90 (39.30%) AWS
2 84 (36.68%) Azure
3 33 (14.41%) Serverless
4 32 (13.97%) GCP
5 31 (13.54%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (12.23%) GitHub
7 18 (7.86%) Azure AKS
8 17 (7.42%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (6.99%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (6.99%) IaaS
10 15 (6.55%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (6.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (6.11%) PaaS
12 13 (5.68%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (5.24%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (4.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (4.37%) Azure Functions
15 10 (4.37%) Azure Service Bus
16 9 (3.93%) Amazon S3
17 7 (3.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (8.30%) DNS
1 19 (8.30%) Firewall
2 9 (3.93%) VPN
3 6 (2.62%) FTP
3 6 (2.62%) VSAN
4 5 (2.18%) IPv4
5 4 (1.75%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (1.75%) HTTP
5 4 (1.75%) ICMP
5 4 (1.75%) POP3
5 4 (1.75%) SMTP
5 4 (1.75%) SSH
5 4 (1.75%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.31%) SSL
7 2 (0.87%) DHCP
7 2 (0.87%) DSL
7 2 (0.87%) Network Security
7 2 (0.87%) VLAN
8 1 (0.44%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (0.44%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.86%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (4.80%) MongoDB
3 7 (3.06%) MySQL
4 6 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.62%) DynamoDB
4 6 (2.62%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.75%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.75%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.75%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.31%) Airbyte
7 3 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.31%) Flink
8 2 (0.87%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.87%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.87%) Power BI
8 2 (0.87%) Tableau
9 1 (0.44%) Big Data
9 1 (0.44%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 45 (19.65%) GitLab
2 40 (17.47%) Jenkins
3 35 (15.28%) Git
4 12 (5.24%) JIRA
5 9 (3.93%) Cypress.io
5 9 (3.93%) JMeter
6 5 (2.18%) Artifactory
6 5 (2.18%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.75%) Mocha
8 3 (1.31%) Selenium
8 3 (1.31%) Subversion
9 2 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.87%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.87%) Snyk
9 2 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.44%) CA Gen
10 1 (0.44%) GoCD
10 1 (0.44%) Gradle
10 1 (0.44%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.44%) Travis CI
General
1 43 (18.78%) Social Skills
2 35 (15.28%) Finance
3 30 (13.10%) Public Sector
4 17 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.68%) Banking
6 7 (3.06%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.75%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.31%) Marketing
10 2 (0.87%) Billing
10 2 (0.87%) Retail
11 1 (0.44%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.44%) Back Office
11 1 (0.44%) Electronics
11 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 126 (55.02%) Platform Engineer
2 59 (25.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 41 (17.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (11.79%) Cloud Engineer
5 26 (11.35%) AWS Engineer
6 25 (10.92%) Senior
7 23 (10.04%) Azure Engineer
8 21 (9.17%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 19 (8.30%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 17 (7.42%) Developer
11 14 (6.11%) DevOps Platform Engineer
12 11 (4.80%) AWS DevOps
12 11 (4.80%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 10 (4.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 10 (4.37%) Linux Engineer
13 10 (4.37%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 9 (3.93%) Lead
15 8 (3.49%) Python Developer
16 7 (3.06%) GCP Engineer
17 6 (2.62%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.48%) React
2 22 (9.61%) Kafka
3 20 (8.73%) Node.js
4 12 (5.24%) YAML
5 9 (3.93%) REST
6 7 (3.06%) CSS
6 7 (3.06%) HTML
7 6 (2.62%) Django
7 6 (2.62%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (2.18%) JSON
9 4 (1.75%) ARM Templates
9 4 (1.75%) Jest
9 4 (1.75%) Redux
10 3 (1.31%) AWS CDK
10 3 (1.31%) GraphQL
10 3 (1.31%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (1.31%) Spring Boot
11 2 (0.87%) OAuth
11 2 (0.87%) OAuth2
11 2 (0.87%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.99%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (4.37%) Public Cloud
3 9 (3.93%) Cloud Native
3 9 (3.93%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (3.06%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.06%) Machine to Machine
5 6 (2.62%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.18%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.18%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.18%) Replication
7 3 (1.31%) Clustering
7 3 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.31%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.31%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.31%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.87%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.87%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 64 (27.95%) Linux
2 16 (6.99%) Unix
3 14 (6.11%) Windows
4 11 (4.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.06%) VMS
6 5 (2.18%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.75%) Debian
7 4 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.31%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.87%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.87%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.44%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (44.10%) CI/CD
2 89 (38.86%) DevOps
3 59 (25.76%) Agile
4 55 (24.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (10.92%) Containerisation
6 24 (10.48%) Configuration Management
6 24 (10.48%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (9.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 19 (8.30%) Computer Science
9 18 (7.86%) Scrum
10 17 (7.42%) Software Engineering
11 15 (6.55%) Disaster Recovery
11 15 (6.55%) Microservices
12 14 (6.11%) Analytics
12 14 (6.11%) Roadmaps
13 13 (5.68%) Cybersecurity
13 13 (5.68%) Migration
13 13 (5.68%) Technical Leadership
13 13 (5.68%) Test Automation
14 12 (5.24%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 82 (35.81%) Python
2 30 (13.10%) JavaScript
3 29 (12.66%) Bash
4 28 (12.23%) SQL
5 22 (9.61%) Java
6 20 (8.73%) PowerShell
7 19 (8.30%) Go
8 15 (6.55%) C#
9 9 (3.93%) Ruby
10 7 (3.06%) Shell Script
10 7 (3.06%) TypeScript
11 6 (2.62%) Rust
12 5 (2.18%) Scala
13 3 (1.31%) Bicep
13 3 (1.31%) C
13 3 (1.31%) C++
13 3 (1.31%) Clojure
13 3 (1.31%) Haskell
13 3 (1.31%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.44%) Natural
Qualifications
1 53 (23.14%) SC Cleared
1 53 (23.14%) Security Cleared
2 18 (7.86%) Degree
3 14 (6.11%) DV Cleared
4 8 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.75%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.75%) CCNP
5 4 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.31%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.44%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.44%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.49%) QA
2 4 (1.75%) NIST
2 4 (1.75%) SLA
3 3 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.44%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.44%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.44%) PMO
System Software
1 46 (20.09%) Docker
2 14 (6.11%) vSphere
3 12 (5.24%) Active Directory
3 12 (5.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (4.37%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (3.06%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.18%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.75%) KVM
8 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 113 (49.34%) Terraform
2 82 (35.81%) Kubernetes
3 57 (24.89%) Ansible
4 13 (5.68%) Argo
5 12 (5.24%) Packer
6 10 (4.37%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (2.62%) Grafana
7 6 (2.62%) vRealize
8 5 (2.18%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.75%) Consul
9 4 (1.75%) Kibana
9 4 (1.75%) logstash
9 4 (1.75%) Prometheus
9 4 (1.75%) Puppet
9 4 (1.75%) QRadar
10 3 (1.31%) HP Fortify
10 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.87%) CFEngine
11 2 (0.87%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.87%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 21 (9.17%) VMware
2 18 (7.86%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.86%) ServiceNow
3 12 (5.24%) Salesforce
4 11 (4.80%) Red Hat
5 10 (4.37%) Oracle
5 10 (4.37%) Splunk
6 6 (2.62%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.18%) Databricks
7 5 (2.18%) SAP
8 4 (1.75%) ArcSight
8 4 (1.75%) Arqiva
8 4 (1.75%) Cisco
8 4 (1.75%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.75%) Veritas
9 3 (1.31%) Adobe
9 3 (1.31%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.31%) Google
9 3 (1.31%) New Relic
10 2 (0.87%) Aruba