Platform Engineering Contracts in the South West

Platform Engineering
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 145 148 154
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 -23
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 4 20 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.13% 0.55% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.61% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 18 17
10th Percentile £431 £469 £434
25th Percentile £459 £525 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £603 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.01% +9.55% +20.55%
75th Percentile £538 £675 £594
90th Percentile £560 £726 £692
England median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £78.00 -
England median hourly rate £60.50 £81.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -25.77% +35.83% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,653 3,256 3,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.09% 89.72% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,693 2,396 2,335
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +6.21%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £589
90th Percentile £700 £723 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 334 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.19 £16.32 £20.08
Median hourly rate £55.00 £61.50 £48.61
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +26.52% +8.02%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.37 £69.95
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.77 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.19% +51.01% +1.46%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the South West

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in the South West

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in the South West over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in the South West

Platform Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 3 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
Bristol +20 2 £488 -25.00% 10
Gloucestershire +5 2 £500 -15.61% 4
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) PowerApps
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) Snyk
1 2 (50.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) GitOps
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Argo
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft