Platform Engineering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 248 302
Rank change year-on-year -59 +54 +27
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 94 226 222
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.94% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 1.05% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 186 178
10th Percentile £418 £459 £413
25th Percentile £453 £525 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £583 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +3.64% +16.88%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +1.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £60.60 £52.84
25th Percentile - £67.13 £57.78
Median hourly rate - £78.00 £67.27
Median % change year-on-year - +15.95% -
75th Percentile - - £78.01
90th Percentile - - £83.70
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £78.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year -22.44% +40.54% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,604 21,548 27,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.74% 89.52% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,521 14,951 19,186
10th Percentile £250 £255 £231
25th Percentile £380 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,048 1,307 1,364
10th Percentile £12.33 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.28 £16.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.34 £36.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.72% +80.00% -8.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £46.11
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +49.20% -

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Platform Engineering in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineering
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 Platform Engineering within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
South East -7 32 £531 -11.46% 20
North of England -26 29 £582 +5.82% 24
North West -8 23 £582 +1.22% 11
Scotland +20 21 £453 -30.31% 17
Midlands +31 11 £675 +22.73% 13
West Midlands +25 11 £675 +22.73% 10
Yorkshire -9 5 £525 -4.55% 9
South West -7 2 £500 -15.61% 21
North East +21 1 £413 -19.51% 4
Wales +16 1 £500 +48.15% 2
Platform Engineering
UK

Platform Engineering
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 9 (9.57%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (6.38%) Confluence
3 3 (3.19%) CMS
3 3 (3.19%) Drupal
4 2 (2.13%) IBM Domino
4 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.13%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.06%) Alfresco
5 1 (1.06%) Skype for Business
5 1 (1.06%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 44 (46.81%) AWS
2 37 (39.36%) Azure
3 12 (12.77%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (12.77%) Snowflake
4 9 (9.57%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (8.51%) IaaS
6 7 (7.45%) GCP
6 7 (7.45%) GitHub
7 5 (5.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (5.32%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (5.32%) Datadog
7 5 (5.32%) PaaS
7 5 (5.32%) Serverless
8 4 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (4.26%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.19%) Amazon ELB
9 3 (3.19%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.19%) Nutanix
9 3 (3.19%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.89%) DNS
2 7 (7.45%) DSL
3 5 (5.32%) Firewall
4 4 (4.26%) VSAN
5 3 (3.19%) SSL
5 3 (3.19%) VPN
6 2 (2.13%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (1.06%) DHCP
7 1 (1.06%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (1.06%) Network Security
7 1 (1.06%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (1.06%) SAN
7 1 (1.06%) Skype
7 1 (1.06%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.83%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (9.57%) MongoDB
3 5 (5.32%) MySQL
4 4 (4.26%) RDBMS
4 4 (4.26%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.19%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.19%) DynamoDB
5 3 (3.19%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.13%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.06%) Adabas
7 1 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.06%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.06%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.06%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.06%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (19.15%) Git
2 17 (18.09%) GitLab
3 14 (14.89%) Jenkins
4 13 (13.83%) JIRA
5 5 (5.32%) Artifactory
5 5 (5.32%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.19%) Mocha
6 3 (3.19%) Selenium
6 3 (3.19%) Subversion
7 2 (2.13%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.13%) Snyk
7 2 (2.13%) Terragrunt
8 1 (1.06%) CA Gen
8 1 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 22 (23.40%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.89%) Finance
3 13 (13.83%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (11.70%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.26%) Banking
6 1 (1.06%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.06%) Electronics
6 1 (1.06%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.06%) Marketing
6 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (61.70%) Platform Engineer
2 27 (28.72%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 17 (18.09%) AWS Engineer
4 16 (17.02%) Linux Engineer
5 15 (15.96%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 14 (14.89%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (13.83%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (11.70%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 9 (9.57%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 8 (8.51%) Network Engineer
11 7 (7.45%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (7.45%) Unix Engineer
11 7 (7.45%) Windows Engineer
12 6 (6.38%) AWS DevOps
12 6 (6.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 6 (6.38%) Unix Linux Engineer
13 5 (5.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 5 (5.32%) Senior
14 4 (4.26%) Python Engineer
14 4 (4.26%) Unix Scripting Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.32%) YAML
2 3 (3.19%) AWS CDK
2 3 (3.19%) Jest
2 3 (3.19%) JSON
2 3 (3.19%) React
2 3 (3.19%) Redux
3 2 (2.13%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.13%) Node.js
3 2 (2.13%) SAML
3 2 (2.13%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.06%) .NET
4 1 (1.06%) LDAP
4 1 (1.06%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.06%) REST
4 1 (1.06%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.70%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (8.51%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (7.45%) Public Cloud
3 7 (7.45%) Virtual Team
4 5 (5.32%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.26%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.19%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.19%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.13%) Clustering
7 2 (2.13%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.13%) Replication
7 2 (2.13%) Smart Meter
8 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.06%) NHS
8 1 (1.06%) PKI
8 1 (1.06%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 33 (35.11%) Linux
2 20 (21.28%) Unix
3 11 (11.70%) Windows
4 10 (10.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (6.38%) VMS
6 4 (4.26%) Debian
7 3 (3.19%) Windows Server
8 2 (2.13%) Ubuntu
8 2 (2.13%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.06%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (43.62%) DevOps
2 34 (36.17%) CI/CD
3 33 (35.11%) Agile
4 21 (22.34%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (14.89%) GitOps
6 13 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (13.83%) Scrum
7 12 (12.77%) Project Delivery
8 10 (10.64%) Computer Science
8 10 (10.64%) Knowledge Transfer
8 10 (10.64%) Roadmaps
9 9 (9.57%) Containerisation
9 9 (9.57%) Data Engineering
9 9 (9.57%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (9.57%) DataOps
9 9 (9.57%) Kanban
9 9 (9.57%) Mentoring
9 9 (9.57%) MLOps
10 8 (8.51%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (8.51%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 36 (38.30%) Python
2 18 (19.15%) Bash
3 17 (18.09%) Java
4 9 (9.57%) PowerShell
4 9 (9.57%) Scala
4 9 (9.57%) SQL
5 7 (7.45%) Ruby
6 6 (6.38%) Go
6 6 (6.38%) Perl
6 6 (6.38%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.19%) Bicep
8 2 (2.13%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.06%) C#
9 1 (1.06%) Groovy
9 1 (1.06%) Natural
Qualifications
1 17 (18.09%) SC Cleared
1 17 (18.09%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.19%) Degree
3 2 (2.13%) CCNP
3 2 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.06%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.06%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.38%) QA
2 3 (3.19%) SLA
3 2 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.13%) NIST
3 2 (2.13%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.06%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.06%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (17.02%) Docker
2 11 (11.70%) vSphere
3 7 (7.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (5.32%) Hyper-V
5 4 (4.26%) Active Directory
5 4 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (3.19%) VMware NSX
7 2 (2.13%) KVM
8 1 (1.06%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 33 (35.11%) Kubernetes
2 32 (34.04%) Terraform
3 31 (32.98%) Ansible
4 8 (8.51%) Puppet
5 7 (7.45%) CFEngine
5 7 (7.45%) PowerBroker
5 7 (7.45%) Progress Chef
5 7 (7.45%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (6.38%) Packer
6 6 (6.38%) vRealize
7 3 (3.19%) Argo
7 3 (3.19%) HP Fortify
8 2 (2.13%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (2.13%) Grafana
8 2 (2.13%) Kibana
8 2 (2.13%) WSUS
9 1 (1.06%) FreeIPA
9 1 (1.06%) Icinga
9 1 (1.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (1.06%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (17.02%) VMware
2 10 (10.64%) Databricks
2 10 (10.64%) Salesforce
3 9 (9.57%) Atlassian
3 9 (9.57%) Oracle
4 8 (8.51%) Red Hat
5 6 (6.38%) Microsoft
6 5 (5.32%) Splunk
7 4 (4.26%) Arqiva
7 4 (4.26%) ServiceNow
7 4 (4.26%) SolarWinds
7 4 (4.26%) Veritas
8 3 (3.19%) BMC
9 2 (2.13%) Cisco
10 1 (1.06%) CA
10 1 (1.06%) Dell
10 1 (1.06%) EMC
10 1 (1.06%) Palo Alto
10 1 (1.06%) SAP
10 1 (1.06%) Veeam