Platform Engineering Contracts in the North of England

Platform Engineering
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 167 127 184
Rank change year-on-year -40 +57 -33
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 22 91 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.47% 1.57% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 1.73% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 77 61
10th Percentile £508 £506 £413
25th Percentile £513 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £625
90th Percentile £760 £650 £700
England median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,038 5,267 6,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.77% 90.70% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,470 3,658 4,648
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +5.26% +9.70%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 207 255
10th Percentile £11.05 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.22 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.30 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.52% +58.38% +2.13%
75th Percentile £44.74 £47.25 £30.25
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.24
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the North of England

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in the North of England

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in the North of England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in the North of England

Platform Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineering within the North of England region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
North West -8 16 £582 +1.22% 13
Yorkshire -14 5 £525 -4.55% 11
North East +17 1 £413 -19.51% 3
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) Alfresco
Cloud Services
1 15 (68.18%) AWS
2 10 (45.45%) Azure
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon ELB
4 3 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (13.64%) Snowflake
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) Datadog
5 2 (9.09%) GCP
5 2 (9.09%) GitHub
5 2 (9.09%) Serverless
6 1 (4.55%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.55%) CloudFront
6 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) DSL
2 2 (9.09%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Data Lake
1 3 (13.64%) DynamoDB
1 3 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) JIRA
2 4 (18.18%) Git
3 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
3 3 (13.64%) Mocha
3 3 (13.64%) SonarQube
4 2 (9.09%) Bitbucket
4 2 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 5 (22.73%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (59.09%) Platform Engineer
2 9 (40.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 8 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (31.82%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 5 (22.73%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (22.73%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (13.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Operations Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Windows Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Full Stack Developer
7 2 (9.09%) Head of Engineering
7 2 (9.09%) Senior
7 2 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Jest
1 3 (13.64%) React
1 3 (13.64%) Redux
2 2 (9.09%) SAML
3 1 (4.55%) AWS CDK
3 1 (4.55%) Node.js
3 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
1 3 (13.64%) Public Cloud
1 3 (13.64%) Virtual Team
2 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
1 3 (13.64%) Unix
1 3 (13.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) CI/CD
1 14 (63.64%) DevOps
2 6 (27.27%) Knowledge Transfer
2 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (18.18%) Agile
4 4 (18.18%) Cost Optimisation
5 3 (13.64%) Cloud Operations
5 3 (13.64%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (13.64%) Identity Management
5 3 (13.64%) IT Strategy
5 3 (13.64%) Microservices
5 3 (13.64%) Migration
5 3 (13.64%) Product Backlog
5 3 (13.64%) Project Delivery
5 3 (13.64%) Server Building
5 3 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (13.64%) Technology Strategy
5 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
5 3 (13.64%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) Go
1 6 (27.27%) Python
2 4 (18.18%) Java
3 3 (13.64%) Bash
3 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
3 3 (13.64%) Ruby
3 3 (13.64%) SQL
4 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
1 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) QA
1 3 (13.64%) SLA
2 2 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (9.09%) NIST
2 2 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (40.91%) Kubernetes
2 8 (36.36%) Ansible
3 6 (27.27%) Terraform
4 3 (13.64%) CFEngine
4 3 (13.64%) HP Fortify
4 3 (13.64%) PowerBroker
4 3 (13.64%) Progress Chef
4 3 (13.64%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Atlassian
2 3 (13.64%) Splunk