DevOps Platform Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineer - DevOps
UK > UK excluding London

The median Platform Engineer - DevOps daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 379 449 494
Rank change year-on-year +70 +45 -81
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Platform Engineer 9 4 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.044% 0.017% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.048% 0.018% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 10
10th Percentile £440 £458 £453
25th Percentile £500 £507 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £563
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +5.33% +12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £642 £620
90th Percentile £655 £669 £655
UK median daily rate £563 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,947 22,165 29,135
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,483 20,411
10th Percentile £213 £225 £202
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,261 1,134 1,449
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.31
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +2.56%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.03
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%

DevOps Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured DevOps Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevOps Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for DevOps Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevOps Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevOps Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Platform Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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 of England +30 7 £550 -18.52%
North West +27 6 £600 -11.11%
Scotland - 2 £440 -
Yorkshire - 1 £500 -
DevOps Platform Engineer
UK

DevOps Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, DevOps 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 UK excluding London region featuring DevOps Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
1 9 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 8 (88.89%) Python
3 7 (77.78%) Docker
3 7 (77.78%) AWS
3 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
3 7 (77.78%) Terraform
4 6 (66.67%) Azure
4 6 (66.67%) Go
4 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
5 5 (55.56%) Snowflake
5 5 (55.56%) Ansible
5 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (44.44%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
7 3 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
7 3 (33.33%) IT Strategy
7 3 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
7 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (33.33%) Data Lake
7 3 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (33.33%) SonarQube
7 3 (33.33%) Splunk
7 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (33.33%) HP Fortify
7 3 (33.33%) DynamoDB
7 3 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (33.33%) Bash

DevOps Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) Azure
3 5 (55.56%) Snowflake
4 3 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
4 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (22.22%) GCP
5 2 (22.22%) GitHub
6 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 3 (33.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
1 3 (33.33%) SonarQube
2 2 (22.22%) Bitbucket
2 2 (22.22%) GitLab
2 2 (22.22%) JIRA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
3 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
1 9 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
4 3 (33.33%) Identity Management
4 3 (33.33%) IT Strategy
4 3 (33.33%) Migration
4 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (22.22%) Agile
5 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
5 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
5 2 (22.22%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
5 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (22.22%) DataOps
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (22.22%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 6 (66.67%) Go
3 3 (33.33%) Bash
3 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 3 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (22.22%) Java
4 2 (22.22%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (22.22%) NIST
1 2 (22.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
1 7 (77.78%) Terraform
2 5 (55.56%) Ansible
3 3 (33.33%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Splunk
2 2 (22.22%) Atlassian
2 2 (22.22%) Databricks