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 5 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 333 245 316
Rank change year-on-year -88 +71 +67
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 231 485 612
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.63% 1.03% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 1.15% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 397 490
10th Percentile £418 £481 £452
25th Percentile £500 £538 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £588
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +4.26% +8.80%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £675
90th Percentile £776 £863 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £613 £588
% change year-on-year -6.12% +4.26% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 2
10th Percentile £53.85 £69.30 -
25th Percentile £55.88 - £57.50
Median hourly rate £60.50 £78.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.44% +30.00% -
75th Percentile £63.88 £87.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £65.15 £90.00 -
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £78.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -22.44% +30.00% -

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 31,636 42,259 64,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.61% 89.98% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,577 29,660 45,742
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £444 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,328 1,505 1,722
10th Percentile £12.82 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +46.16% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +10.64%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -62 153 £600 -4.76% 79
South East -5 30 £525 -12.50% 12
North of England -34 19 £563 +2.27% 34
Midlands +25 15 £675 +28.57% 11
West Midlands +21 15 £675 +28.57% 7
North West -8 13 £613 +6.52% 25
South West -7 7 £525 -13.40% 11
Yorkshire -12 5 £500 -9.09% 8
North East - 1 £413 - 1
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 10 (4.33%) Confluence
2 7 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.73%) Cloud Foundry
3 4 (1.73%) IBM Domino
4 3 (1.30%) CMS
4 3 (1.30%) Drupal
4 3 (1.30%) nginx
4 3 (1.30%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.87%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.43%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.43%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Shopify
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.43%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 85 (36.80%) Azure
2 80 (34.63%) AWS
3 36 (15.58%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (13.42%) GCP
4 31 (13.42%) Serverless
5 26 (11.26%) GitHub
6 20 (8.66%) Azure AKS
7 18 (7.79%) IaaS
8 16 (6.93%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (6.93%) PaaS
9 15 (6.49%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (6.49%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (5.19%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (4.33%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (4.33%) Amazon S3
11 10 (4.33%) Azure Functions
11 10 (4.33%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (3.46%) Entra ID
12 8 (3.46%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.79%) DNS
2 16 (6.93%) Firewall
3 7 (3.03%) VPN
4 6 (2.60%) FTP
4 6 (2.60%) VSAN
5 5 (2.16%) IPv4
6 4 (1.73%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (1.73%) HTTP
6 4 (1.73%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.30%) ICMP
7 3 (1.30%) POP3
7 3 (1.30%) SMTP
7 3 (1.30%) SSH
7 3 (1.30%) SSL
8 2 (0.87%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.43%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.43%) Network Security
9 1 (0.43%) OpenLDAP
9 1 (0.43%) Skype
9 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.36%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (5.19%) MongoDB
3 9 (3.90%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.03%) MySQL
5 6 (2.60%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.16%) RDBMS
6 5 (2.16%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.16%) Tableau
7 4 (1.73%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.73%) Power BI
8 3 (1.30%) Airbyte
8 3 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.30%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.30%) Flink
9 2 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.87%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.43%) CouchDB
10 1 (0.43%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 43 (18.61%) GitLab
2 38 (16.45%) Jenkins
3 37 (16.02%) Git
4 13 (5.63%) JIRA
5 9 (3.90%) Cypress.io
5 9 (3.90%) JMeter
6 5 (2.16%) Artifactory
6 5 (2.16%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.73%) Mocha
8 3 (1.30%) Selenium
8 3 (1.30%) Subversion
9 2 (0.87%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.87%) Snyk
9 2 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.43%) CA Gen
10 1 (0.43%) GoCD
10 1 (0.43%) Gradle
10 1 (0.43%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.43%) Travis CI
General
1 44 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 32 (13.85%) Finance
3 23 (9.96%) Public Sector
4 17 (7.36%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.76%) Banking
6 5 (2.16%) Financial Institution
6 5 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.73%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.30%) Marketing
9 2 (0.87%) Billing
9 2 (0.87%) Retail
10 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.43%) Electronics
10 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 127 (54.98%) Platform Engineer
2 57 (24.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 43 (18.61%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (12.12%) Senior
5 27 (11.69%) Cloud Engineer
6 26 (11.26%) Azure Engineer
7 22 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
8 20 (8.66%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 17 (7.36%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 15 (6.49%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 13 (5.63%) Developer
12 11 (4.76%) Lead
12 11 (4.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 10 (4.33%) AWS DevOps
13 10 (4.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 10 (4.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 8 (3.46%) Linux Engineer
14 8 (3.46%) Senior DevOps
15 7 (3.03%) GCP Engineer
15 7 (3.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.09%) Kafka
2 20 (8.66%) React
3 18 (7.79%) Node.js
4 16 (6.93%) YAML
5 8 (3.46%) REST
6 6 (2.60%) ARM Templates
6 6 (2.60%) CSS
6 6 (2.60%) HTML
7 5 (2.16%) Django
7 5 (2.16%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (2.16%) JSON
8 4 (1.73%) Jest
8 4 (1.73%) Redux
9 3 (1.30%) GraphQL
9 3 (1.30%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (1.30%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (1.30%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.87%) AWS SAM
10 2 (0.87%) http4s
10 2 (0.87%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.66%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (3.90%) Linux Command Line
3 8 (3.46%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.03%) Machine to Machine
4 7 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.03%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.60%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.16%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.16%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.16%) Replication
7 4 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.73%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.30%) Clustering
8 3 (1.30%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.30%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.30%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.87%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 65 (28.14%) Linux
2 16 (6.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (5.63%) Unix
4 12 (5.19%) Windows
5 7 (3.03%) VMS
6 3 (1.30%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.87%) Debian
7 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (44.16%) CI/CD
2 98 (42.42%) DevOps
3 67 (29.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (27.27%) Agile
5 31 (13.42%) Configuration Management
6 28 (12.12%) Containerisation
7 26 (11.26%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (10.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 20 (8.66%) Analytics
10 19 (8.23%) Computer Science
11 18 (7.79%) Scrum
11 18 (7.79%) Software Engineering
12 16 (6.93%) Roadmaps
13 14 (6.06%) Microservices
13 14 (6.06%) Test Automation
14 13 (5.63%) Continuous Integration
14 13 (5.63%) Deployment Automation
14 13 (5.63%) Disaster Recovery
15 12 (5.19%) Migration
15 12 (5.19%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 88 (38.10%) Python
2 31 (13.42%) PowerShell
2 31 (13.42%) SQL
3 30 (12.99%) Bash
4 23 (9.96%) JavaScript
5 19 (8.23%) Go
6 18 (7.79%) Java
7 15 (6.49%) C#
8 7 (3.03%) Ruby
8 7 (3.03%) Rust
8 7 (3.03%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.73%) Bicep
9 4 (1.73%) Clojure
9 4 (1.73%) Haskell
9 4 (1.73%) Scala
10 3 (1.30%) C
10 3 (1.30%) C++
10 3 (1.30%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.30%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.43%) Natural
Qualifications
1 54 (23.38%) SC Cleared
1 54 (23.38%) Security Cleared
2 21 (9.09%) Degree
3 17 (7.36%) DV Cleared
4 11 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.03%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.73%) CCNP
6 4 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.73%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.30%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.46%) QA
2 4 (1.73%) NIST
2 4 (1.73%) SLA
3 2 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.43%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.43%) PMO
System Software
1 49 (21.21%) Docker
2 16 (6.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (6.06%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (6.06%) vSphere
4 10 (4.33%) Active Directory
5 7 (3.03%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.16%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.73%) KVM
8 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 124 (53.68%) Terraform
2 90 (38.96%) Kubernetes
3 62 (26.84%) Ansible
4 12 (5.19%) Argo
5 11 (4.76%) Packer
6 7 (3.03%) Grafana
6 7 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (2.60%) Progress Chef
7 6 (2.60%) vRealize
8 5 (2.16%) Prometheus
8 5 (2.16%) Puppet
9 4 (1.73%) Consul
9 4 (1.73%) Salt
10 3 (1.30%) HP Fortify
10 3 (1.30%) Kibana
10 3 (1.30%) logstash
10 3 (1.30%) QRadar
11 2 (0.87%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.87%) WSUS
12 1 (0.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (12.55%) VMware
2 19 (8.23%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.49%) ServiceNow
4 12 (5.19%) Salesforce
4 12 (5.19%) Splunk
5 11 (4.76%) Red Hat
6 10 (4.33%) Oracle
7 6 (2.60%) Databricks
8 5 (2.16%) SAP
9 4 (1.73%) Arqiva
9 4 (1.73%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.73%) Cisco
9 4 (1.73%) New Relic
9 4 (1.73%) SaltStack
9 4 (1.73%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.73%) Veritas
10 3 (1.30%) Adobe
10 3 (1.30%) ArcSight
10 3 (1.30%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.30%) Google