Platform Engineering Contracts in Manchester

Platform Engineering
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 80 116
Rank change year-on-year -6 +36 -39
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 13 36 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.84% 1.90% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 2.07% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 32 26
10th Percentile £550 £507 £500
25th Percentile £553 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £672 £600 £625
90th Percentile £888 £650 £700
North West median daily rate £582 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +1.22% -4.17% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,341 1,737 2,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.13% 91.81% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 914 1,272 1,807
10th Percentile £313 £315 £263
25th Percentile £406 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £492
Median % change year-on-year - +1.73% +9.22%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £694 £663 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 61 51
10th Percentile £12.42 £14.65 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £24.19 £37.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.15% +140.65% -3.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £24.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £33.75
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.49
% change year-on-year -40.00% +70.82% +10.76%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Manchester

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in Manchester

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in Manchester over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in Manchester

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (15.38%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) Alfresco
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon ELB
3 3 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (23.08%) Azure
3 3 (23.08%) Snowflake
4 2 (15.38%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.69%) IaaS
5 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Data Lake
1 3 (23.08%) DynamoDB
1 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
2 3 (23.08%) Mocha
2 3 (23.08%) SonarQube
3 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket
3 2 (15.38%) GitLab
3 2 (15.38%) JIRA
General
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Head of Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Operations Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Digital Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Head of Software Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Jest
1 3 (23.08%) React
1 3 (23.08%) Redux
2 2 (15.38%) SAML
3 1 (7.69%) Node.js
3 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Product Ownership
2 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
2 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (38.46%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) Cost Optimisation
5 3 (23.08%) Cloud Operations
5 3 (23.08%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (23.08%) IT Strategy
5 3 (23.08%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Product Backlog
5 3 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) Technology Strategy
5 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
5 3 (23.08%) Unit Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Budget Management
6 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
6 2 (15.38%) Data Migration
6 2 (15.38%) Identity Management
6 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) Go
3 3 (23.08%) Bash
3 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
3 3 (23.08%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) Java
5 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) QA
1 3 (23.08%) SLA
2 2 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (15.38%) NIST
2 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Kubernetes
2 7 (53.85%) Terraform
3 5 (38.46%) Ansible
4 3 (23.08%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Splunk
2 2 (15.38%) Atlassian