Platform Engineering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Platform Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 239 287
Rank change year-on-year -73 +48 +51
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 89 200 235
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.88% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.99% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 168 192
10th Percentile £413 £450 £444
25th Percentile £451 £525 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £578
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% +1.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £648 £675 £625
90th Percentile £688 £791 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £613 £588
% change year-on-year -6.12% +4.26% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £78.00 -
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £78.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -22.44% +30.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Platform Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 -19 30 £525 -12.50% 13
Scotland +48 21 £453 -31.88% 3
North of England -34 19 £563 +2.27% 10
West Midlands +23 15 £675 +28.57% 6
Midlands +22 15 £675 +28.57% 8
North West -9 13 £613 +6.52% 6
South West -12 7 £525 -14.29% 6
Yorkshire -14 5 £500 -9.09% 3
Wales +20 1 £500 +48.15% 2
North East - 1 £413 - 1
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 (10.11%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (6.74%) Confluence
3 3 (3.37%) CMS
3 3 (3.37%) Drupal
4 2 (2.25%) IBM Domino
4 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.25%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.12%) Alfresco
5 1 (1.12%) Skype for Business
5 1 (1.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Maximo
1 1 (1.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 31 (34.83%) Azure
2 28 (31.46%) AWS
3 14 (15.73%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (13.48%) Snowflake
5 9 (10.11%) GCP
6 7 (7.87%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (7.87%) IaaS
7 6 (6.74%) GitHub
7 6 (6.74%) PaaS
8 5 (5.62%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (5.62%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (5.62%) Serverless
9 4 (4.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (4.49%) Azure AKS
10 3 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (3.37%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (3.37%) Amazon S3
10 3 (3.37%) Nutanix
10 3 (3.37%) OpenShift
11 2 (2.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.61%) DNS
2 5 (5.62%) Firewall
3 4 (4.49%) VSAN
4 3 (3.37%) SSL
4 3 (3.37%) VPN
5 2 (2.25%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.12%) DHCP
6 1 (1.12%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.12%) Network Security
6 1 (1.12%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (1.12%) SAN
6 1 (1.12%) Skype
6 1 (1.12%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.36%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (7.87%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.37%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.37%) DynamoDB
3 3 (3.37%) MySQL
3 3 (3.37%) RDBMS
3 3 (3.37%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.25%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.25%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.25%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.12%) Adabas
5 1 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.12%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.12%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.12%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (22.47%) Git
2 14 (15.73%) GitLab
3 7 (7.87%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.74%) JIRA
5 5 (5.62%) Artifactory
5 5 (5.62%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.37%) Mocha
6 3 (3.37%) Selenium
6 3 (3.37%) Subversion
7 2 (2.25%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.25%) Snyk
8 1 (1.12%) CA Gen
8 1 (1.12%) Terragrunt
8 1 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 13 (14.61%) Social Skills
2 6 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (6.74%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.49%) Finance
4 2 (2.25%) Banking
5 1 (1.12%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.12%) Electronics
5 1 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.12%) Marketing
5 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (70.79%) Platform Engineer
2 25 (28.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 15 (16.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (15.73%) AWS Engineer
4 14 (15.73%) Linux Engineer
5 12 (13.48%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 12 (13.48%) Azure Engineer
6 10 (11.24%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 10 (11.24%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 9 (10.11%) Network Engineer
8 8 (8.99%) Unix Engineer
9 7 (7.87%) Snowflake Engineer
9 7 (7.87%) Unix Linux Engineer
10 6 (6.74%) AWS DevOps
10 6 (6.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 6 (6.74%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (6.74%) Senior
11 5 (5.62%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 5 (5.62%) Python Engineer
12 4 (4.49%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.99%) YAML
2 3 (3.37%) AWS CDK
2 3 (3.37%) Jest
2 3 (3.37%) JSON
2 3 (3.37%) React
2 3 (3.37%) Redux
3 2 (2.25%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.25%) Kafka
3 2 (2.25%) Node.js
3 2 (2.25%) SAML
3 2 (2.25%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.12%) LDAP
4 1 (1.12%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.12%) REST
4 1 (1.12%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.36%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (6.74%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (4.49%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.37%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.37%) Private Cloud
4 3 (3.37%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.25%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.25%) Smart Meter
6 1 (1.12%) Clustering
6 1 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.12%) NHS
6 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.12%) PKI
6 1 (1.12%) Replication
6 1 (1.12%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 25 (28.09%) Linux
2 13 (14.61%) Unix
3 10 (11.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (6.74%) Windows
5 5 (5.62%) VMS
6 2 (2.25%) Debian
6 2 (2.25%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.25%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.25%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (2.25%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (41.57%) DevOps
2 29 (32.58%) Agile
3 27 (30.34%) CI/CD
4 25 (28.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (13.48%) GitOps
6 11 (12.36%) Containerisation
7 10 (11.24%) Computer Science
7 10 (11.24%) Roadmaps
7 10 (11.24%) Scrum
8 9 (10.11%) Data Engineering
8 9 (10.11%) Data Pipeline
8 9 (10.11%) DataOps
8 9 (10.11%) MLOps
9 8 (8.99%) Kanban
9 8 (8.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 7 (7.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (7.87%) Deployment Automation
10 7 (7.87%) Mentoring
10 7 (7.87%) OO
10 7 (7.87%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 37 (41.57%) Python
2 18 (20.22%) PowerShell
3 17 (19.10%) Bash
4 16 (17.98%) Java
5 11 (12.36%) Scala
6 8 (8.99%) Go
6 8 (8.99%) SQL
7 7 (7.87%) Perl
8 5 (5.62%) Shell Script
9 4 (4.49%) JavaScript
10 3 (3.37%) Bicep
10 3 (3.37%) Groovy
11 2 (2.25%) C++
12 1 (1.12%) C#
12 1 (1.12%) Natural
Qualifications
1 19 (21.35%) SC Cleared
1 19 (21.35%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.37%) Degree
2 3 (3.37%) DV Cleared
3 2 (2.25%) CCNP
3 2 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.12%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.74%) QA
2 3 (3.37%) SLA
3 2 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.25%) NIST
3 2 (2.25%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.12%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.12%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (17.98%) Docker
2 9 (10.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (10.11%) vSphere
3 6 (6.74%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (5.62%) Active Directory
4 5 (5.62%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.37%) VMware NSX
6 2 (2.25%) KVM
7 1 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 36 (40.45%) Terraform
2 35 (39.33%) Kubernetes
3 26 (29.21%) Ansible
4 7 (7.87%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (5.62%) Packer
5 5 (5.62%) vRealize
6 3 (3.37%) Argo
6 3 (3.37%) Dell DRAC
6 3 (3.37%) HP Fortify
6 3 (3.37%) Progress Chef
6 3 (3.37%) Puppet
6 3 (3.37%) Salt
7 2 (2.25%) Grafana
7 2 (2.25%) Kibana
7 2 (2.25%) WSUS
8 1 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.12%) Istio
8 1 (1.12%) SCCM
8 1 (1.12%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.12%) VxRail
Vendors
1 21 (23.60%) VMware
2 10 (11.24%) Databricks
2 10 (11.24%) Salesforce
3 8 (8.99%) Red Hat
4 7 (7.87%) Microsoft
4 7 (7.87%) Oracle
5 4 (4.49%) BMC
5 4 (4.49%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.49%) Splunk
6 3 (3.37%) Arqiva
6 3 (3.37%) SaltStack
6 3 (3.37%) SolarWinds
6 3 (3.37%) Veritas
7 2 (2.25%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.25%) Cisco
7 2 (2.25%) Google
8 1 (1.12%) CA
8 1 (1.12%) Dell
8 1 (1.12%) EMC
8 1 (1.12%) SAP