Platform Engineer Contracts in the North West

Platform Engineer
England > North West

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in the North West is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 140 172
Rank change year-on-year +10 +32 -59
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 7 23 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.26% 0.73% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.76% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 19 8
10th Percentile - £263 £409
25th Percentile £550 £550 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.00%
75th Percentile £650 £594 £700
90th Percentile £660 - £730
England median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +8.24%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 North West with a recognized job title 2,556 3,008 3,897
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.39% 94.86% 96.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,663 2,155 2,851
10th Percentile £280 £300 £213
25th Percentile £389 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £568
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 129 166
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.63 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £20.32
Median % change year-on-year -23.83% +72.29% +13.49%
75th Percentile £46.18 £50.25 £42.50
90th Percentile £67.25 £66.00 £57.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in the North West

Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer in the North West

Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the North West 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
Manchester +5 6 £563 -2.17% 8
Lancashire +4 1 £650 +136.36%
Platform Engineer
England

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 6 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 North West region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 6 (85.71%) Python
2 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 6 (85.71%) Go
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) Ansible
3 5 (71.43%) Docker
3 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
3 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (57.14%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (42.86%) Azure
5 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
5 3 (42.86%) Git
5 3 (42.86%) Bash
5 3 (42.86%) Identity Management
5 3 (42.86%) Migration
5 3 (42.86%) DynamoDB
5 3 (42.86%) Amazon ELB
5 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (42.86%) Splunk
5 3 (42.86%) SQL
5 3 (42.86%) Technology Strategy
5 3 (42.86%) Snowflake
5 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
5 3 (42.86%) SonarQube
5 3 (42.86%) HP Fortify
5 3 (42.86%) Data Lake

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon ELB
3 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) Snowflake
4 2 (28.57%) GCP
4 2 (28.57%) GitHub
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Data Lake
1 3 (42.86%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
1 3 (42.86%) SonarQube
2 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
2 2 (28.57%) GitLab
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (42.86%) Cloud Operations
4 3 (42.86%) Identity Management
4 3 (42.86%) IT Strategy
4 3 (42.86%) Migration
4 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (28.57%) Agile
5 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
5 2 (28.57%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (28.57%) Security Operations
6 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
6 1 (14.29%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Go
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Bash
2 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
1 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 5 (71.43%) Ansible
2 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
3 3 (42.86%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Splunk
2 2 (28.57%) Atlassian