Platform Specialist Contracts in the Midlands

Platform Specialist
England > Midlands

The median Platform Specialist daily rate in the Midlands is £541 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 157 -
Rank change year-on-year +26 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Specialist 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.072% 0.031% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.078% 0.032% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £517 - -
25th Percentile £524 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% - -
75th Percentile £552 £588 -
90th Percentile £555 - -
England median daily rate £550 £575 £700
% change year-on-year -4.35% -17.86% -5.08%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,573 3,091 4,831
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.16% 94.53% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,741 2,185 3,522
10th Percentile £213 £228 £210
25th Percentile £338 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £475 £469
Median % change year-on-year -2.74% +1.23% +15.86%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £569
90th Percentile £675 £690 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 108 153
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.50 £11.40
25th Percentile £14.13 £14.52 £14.61
Median hourly rate £19.06 £20.41 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% +13.39% +20.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £52.01 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%

Platform Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Specialist in the Midlands

Platform Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Specialist in the Midlands

Platform Specialist
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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
West Midlands +16 2 £541 -5.91%
Platform Specialist
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 Midlands region featuring Platform Specialist in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Zscaler
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) VMS
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) YAML
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365

Platform Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) SailPoint
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Email Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
1 1 (50.00%) Salt
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) SaltStack
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
1 1 (50.00%) Zscaler