Platform Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Platform Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Platform Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 441 501
Rank change year-on-year +60 +60 -78
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Manager 14 11 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.067% 0.045% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.048% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 10
10th Percentile £547 £523 £488
25th Percentile £563 £525 £641
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% -3.57% +69.70%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £738
90th Percentile - - £888
UK median daily rate £575 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -17.86% +7.69% +26.83%

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 19,260 22,774 29,857
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 94.07% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,836 15,954 20,879
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £594 £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 2,214 1,200 1,503
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.06
25th Percentile £15.66 £18.12 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%

Platform Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Manager in the UK excluding London

Platform Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Manager in the UK excluding London

Platform Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Manager in the UK excluding London

Platform Manager
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 Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 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 West +28 11 £575 -
North of England +39 1 £545 -0.91% 3
Yorkshire +25 1 £545 -0.91% 1
South East +13 1 £800 +49.53% 4
Scotland - 1 £350 - 1
Platform Manager
UK

Platform Manager Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Platform Manager 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 Platform Manager in the job title.

1 11 (78.57%) Windows
1 11 (78.57%) Security Patching
1 11 (78.57%) PKI
2 10 (71.43%) Network Security
2 10 (71.43%) DV Cleared
2 10 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 10 (71.43%) Change Management
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Legal
3 1 (7.14%) Migration
3 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Mainframe
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) SaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Data Analytics
3 1 (7.14%) Analytics
3 1 (7.14%) Data Transformation
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Data Engineering
3 1 (7.14%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 1 (7.14%) Data Strategy
3 1 (7.14%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (7.14%) Data Science
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (7.14%) Technology Transformation
3 1 (7.14%) Customer Service
3 1 (7.14%) Data Migration
3 1 (7.14%) SQL

Platform Manager 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (71.43%) Network Security
General
1 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (7.14%) Banking
1 1 (7.14%) Finance
1 1 (7.14%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 11 (78.57%) PKI
2 1 (7.14%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 11 (78.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Security Patching
2 10 (71.43%) Change Management
3 1 (7.14%) Analytics
3 1 (7.14%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 1 (7.14%) Customer Service
3 1 (7.14%) Data Analytics
3 1 (7.14%) Data Engineering
3 1 (7.14%) Data Migration
3 1 (7.14%) Data Science
3 1 (7.14%) Data Strategy
3 1 (7.14%) Data Transformation
3 1 (7.14%) Migration
3 1 (7.14%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (7.14%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (71.43%) DV Cleared
1 10 (71.43%) Security Cleared