Platform Engineer Contracts in Lancashire

Platform Engineer
North West > Lancashire

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Lancashire is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 36 37
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 0.50% 0.40% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.45% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £275 £800
Median % change year-on-year +136.36% -65.63% +146.15%
North West median daily rate £575 £575 £575
% change year-on-year - - +15.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Lancashire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Lancashire. 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 Lancashire with a recognized job title 171 223 242
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.93% 89.92% 96.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 119 160
10th Percentile £200 £221 £203
25th Percentile £350 £384 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +26.67%
75th Percentile £625 £602 £575
90th Percentile £720 £700 £700
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +13.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 42 39
10th Percentile £13.93 £24.14 £14.75
25th Percentile £24.32 £29.30 £17.39
Median hourly rate £42.91 £42.33 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% +22.69% +56.82%
75th Percentile £46.18 £52.13 £45.70
90th Percentile £62.59 £56.38 £66.20
North West median hourly rate £27.00 £32.88 £24.75
% change year-on-year -17.88% +32.84% +36.63%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Lancashire

Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer in Lancashire

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 10 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire

For the 6 months to 11 May 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 Lancashire region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python