Platform Specialist Contracts in England

Platform Specialist
UK > England

The median Platform Specialist daily rate in England is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 June 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
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 531 617 749
Rank change year-on-year +86 +132 -85
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Specialist 20 25 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.054% 0.052% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.055% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 28
10th Percentile £438 £380 £572
25th Percentile £484 £513 £651
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -17.86% -5.08%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £725
90th Percentile - £750 -
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £700
% change year-on-year -4.35% -17.86% +51.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,083 45,136 67,813
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.56% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,425 32,131 48,554
10th Percentile £284 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,578 1,311 1,787
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.57
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +88.21% +11.73%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.46
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.97% +12.51%

Platform Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Specialist in England

Platform Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Specialist in England

Platform Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Specialist in England over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Specialist in England

Platform Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Platform Specialist in England

Platform Specialist
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 Specialist within the England region over the 6 months to 3 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
South East +22 11 £575 -23.33% 1
London +86 7 £463 -15.91% 5
Midlands +25 2 £541 -5.91%
West Midlands +17 2 £541 -5.91%
Platform Specialist
UK

Platform Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 3 June 2024, Platform Specialist 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 England region featuring Platform Specialist in the job title.

1 13 (65.00%) Linux
2 12 (60.00%) Ansible
3 10 (50.00%) GitLab
3 10 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 9 (45.00%) SC Cleared
5 8 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (40.00%) High Availability
5 8 (40.00%) VMware
5 8 (40.00%) Terraform
6 7 (35.00%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (35.00%) GitHub
6 7 (35.00%) Task Automation
6 7 (35.00%) Clustering
6 7 (35.00%) Migration
6 7 (35.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (35.00%) Oracle
6 7 (35.00%) Red Hat
6 7 (35.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (35.00%) vSphere
6 7 (35.00%) Replication
7 6 (30.00%) Data Migration
7 6 (30.00%) Bash
7 6 (30.00%) SolarWinds
7 6 (30.00%) Capacity Management
7 6 (30.00%) Azure
7 6 (30.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 6 (30.00%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (30.00%) Storage Management
7 6 (30.00%) Database Security

Platform Specialist Skill Set
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 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) GitHub
2 6 (30.00%) Azure
3 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (10.00%) IaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (15.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.00%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (5.00%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (5.00%) MySQL
4 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.00%) Power BI
4 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (5.00%) Tableau
4 1 (5.00%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 10 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (10.00%) Artifactory
2 2 (10.00%) Git
General
1 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Local Government
2 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) SailPoint
1 1 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Clustering
1 7 (35.00%) Replication
2 6 (30.00%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (15.00%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (10.00%) Driving Licence
5 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 13 (65.00%) Linux
2 7 (35.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (20.00%) VMS
4 2 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) High Availability
2 7 (35.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (35.00%) Migration
2 7 (35.00%) Performance Tuning
2 7 (35.00%) Task Automation
3 6 (30.00%) Capacity Management
3 6 (30.00%) Data Migration
3 6 (30.00%) Database Security
3 6 (30.00%) Storage Management
4 5 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (25.00%) Re-Platforming
5 4 (20.00%) Agile
5 4 (20.00%) Data Protection
6 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.00%) Scrum
7 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 1 (5.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Bash
2 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (45.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (35.00%) vSphere
3 4 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
5 1 (5.00%) Docker
5 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (60.00%) Ansible
2 8 (40.00%) Terraform
3 6 (30.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (15.00%) Packer
6 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
6 1 (5.00%) Puppet
6 1 (5.00%) Salt
6 1 (5.00%) SCCM
6 1 (5.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) VMware
2 7 (35.00%) Oracle
2 7 (35.00%) Red Hat
3 6 (30.00%) SolarWinds
4 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.00%) SaltStack
5 1 (5.00%) SAP
5 1 (5.00%) Zscaler