Platform Manager Contract Job Trends

Platform Manager
UK

The median Platform Manager daily rate in the UK is £533, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 555 527 594
Rank change year-on-year -28 +67 +173
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Manager 31 8 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.084% 0.024% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.093% 0.025% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 4
10th Percentile £428 - £560
25th Percentile £511 £500 £586
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -19.23% +8.33%
75th Percentile £634 £550 £706
90th Percentile £780 £625 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £533 £500 £545
% change year-on-year +6.50% -8.26% -0.91%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 33,430 31,506 40,926
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.01% 92.78% 93.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,135 19,373 27,542
10th Percentile £291 £300 £285
25th Percentile £404 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £640
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,981 981 1,444
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.53 £15.04
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.05 £19.11
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.79% -26.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.71 £72.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -22.62% -29.16% +83.52%

Platform Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Platform Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Platform Manager job vacancy trend in the UK

Platform Manager
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Platform Manager job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Platform Manager job vacancies in the UK

Platform Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Manager over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Manager in the UK

Platform Manager
Top 10 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 21 December 2025. 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
England -7 30 £533 +1.43% 21
UK excluding London -14 16 £533 +6.50% 13
London +3 14 £571 +3.86% 9
South West - 11 £533 -
South East -14 2 £650 +30.00% 1
West Midlands - 2 £400 - 6
Midlands - 2 £400 - 12
Work from Home -13 1 - - 10
North of England - 1 - -
North East - 1 - -

Platform Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 21 December 2025, Platform Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Platform Manager in the job title.

1 18 (58.06%) Security Cleared
2 16 (51.61%) DV Cleared
2 16 (51.61%) Network Management
2 16 (51.61%) Windows
3 13 (41.94%) Change Management
3 13 (41.94%) Network Security
3 13 (41.94%) Security Patching
4 6 (19.35%) Agile
4 6 (19.35%) ITIL
5 5 (16.13%) Analytics
5 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
5 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (12.90%) AWS
6 4 (12.90%) Data Governance
6 4 (12.90%) Roadmaps
6 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (9.68%) Azure
7 3 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (9.68%) DevOps
7 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (9.68%) Machine Learning
7 3 (9.68%) RBAC
8 2 (6.45%) AI
8 2 (6.45%) Ansible
8 2 (6.45%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (6.45%) CI/CD
8 2 (6.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (6.45%) Cost Optimisation
8 2 (6.45%) Data Architecture

Platform Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.23%) CMS
1 1 (3.23%) Confluence
1 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.90%) AWS
2 3 (9.68%) Azure
3 2 (6.45%) IaaS
3 2 (6.45%) Nutanix
4 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (41.94%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) Data Hub
2 1 (3.23%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (3.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (6.45%) Finance
3 1 (3.23%) Billing
3 1 (3.23%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 13 (41.94%) PKI
2 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.23%) CUDA
3 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.23%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (3.23%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (51.61%) Windows
2 1 (3.23%) CentOS
2 1 (3.23%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (51.61%) Network Management
2 13 (41.94%) Change Management
2 13 (41.94%) Security Patching
3 6 (19.35%) Agile
3 6 (19.35%) ITIL
4 5 (16.13%) Analytics
4 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (12.90%) Data Governance
5 4 (12.90%) Roadmaps
5 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (9.68%) DevOps
6 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (9.68%) Machine Learning
6 3 (9.68%) RBAC
7 2 (6.45%) CI/CD
7 2 (6.45%) Cost Optimisation
7 2 (6.45%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (6.45%) SIAM
Qualifications
1 18 (58.06%) Security Cleared
2 16 (51.61%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) Data Quality
1 2 (6.45%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) vSphere
2 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Ansible
1 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Grafana
2 1 (3.23%) Kibana
2 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.45%) Informatica
2 2 (6.45%) LogRhythm
2 2 (6.45%) NVIDIA
2 2 (6.45%) VMware
3 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.23%) Splunk