Platform Specialist Contracts in England

Platform Specialist
UK > England

The median Platform Specialist daily rate in England is £420, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 501 510 597
Rank change year-on-year +9 +87 +174
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Platform Specialist 10 17 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.036% 0.051% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.055% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 12
10th Percentile £316 £416 £356
25th Percentile £366 £447 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -23.68% +7.32% -26.79%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £588
90th Percentile £551 - £678
UK median daily rate £425 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -22.73% -4.35% -17.86%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 25,214 30,848 40,947
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.50% 92.97% 94.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,267 19,886 28,799
10th Percentile £281 £300 £306
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -1.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,364 1,685 1,325
10th Percentile £13.71 £14.16 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.42 £20.50 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £44.00 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year -42.84% +0.32% +68.69%
75th Percentile £55.00 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.32
% change year-on-year -41.51% -0.73% +66.60%

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
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Platform Specialist job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Platform Specialist job vacancies in England

Platform Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Specialist in England over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Specialist in England

Platform Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Platform Specialist job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Platform Specialist job vacancies in England

Platform Specialist
DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +23 5 £500 +12.61% 2
South West - 2 - -
Midlands -11 1 £400 -26.06%
North West - 1 £373 -
North of England - 1 £373 -
Platform Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 August 2025, 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 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (30.00%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (30.00%) Power Automate
3 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (30.00%) ITIL
3 3 (30.00%) Windows
3 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (20.00%) SCCM
4 2 (20.00%) Supplier Management
4 2 (20.00%) Local Government
4 2 (20.00%) Marketing
4 2 (20.00%) Internet
4 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (20.00%) Budget Control
4 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Server

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 4 (40.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (10.00%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (30.00%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (30.00%) Power Automate
3 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (10.00%) OneDrive
4 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (10.00%) CA Release Automation
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (10.00%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Local Government
2 2 (20.00%) Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (10.00%) Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) ITIL
2 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (20.00%) Budget Control
3 2 (20.00%) Budget Management
3 2 (20.00%) Change Advisory Board
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) IT Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (20.00%) Supplier Management
3 2 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Creative Thinking
4 1 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (10.00%) Runbook
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) Perl
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (20.00%) SCCM
2 1 (10.00%) Kibana
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (10.00%) Cloudera
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk