Re-Platforming Contracts

Re-Platforming
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Re-Platforming skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Re-Platforming over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 525 513 594
Rank change year-on-year -12 +81 -39
Contract jobs citing Re-Platforming 60 180 257
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.31% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.34% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 133 209
10th Percentile £425 £426 £418
25th Percentile £503 £503 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +12.75%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £825 £810 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £538 £600
% change year-on-year - -10.42% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Re-Platforming 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,956 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,793 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Re-Platforming
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Re-Platforming as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Re-Platforming in the UK

Re-Platforming
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Re-Platforming.

Daily rate trend for Re-Platforming in the UK

Re-Platforming
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Re-Platforming over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Re-Platforming in the UK

Re-Platforming
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Re-Platforming.

Hourly rate trend for Re-Platforming in the UK

Re-Platforming
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Re-Platforming within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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
England +4 52 £600 +4.35% 22
London +30 28 £605 -0.21% 11
UK excluding London +26 25 £538 - 10
Work from Home +54 20 £600 +11.63% 15
South East +17 13 £475 -16.67%
North of England +13 5 £575 +15.00% 5
Scotland +35 3 - -
North West +19 3 £650 +19.54% 3
Yorkshire +21 2 £475 -24.00% 1
Midlands +20 2 £700 +30.23% 2
South West +16 2 £575 -14.81% 3
West Midlands +16 2 £700 +30.23% 1

Re-Platforming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (6.67%) CMS
2 2 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Magento
1 1 (1.67%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.67%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.33%) Azure
2 10 (16.67%) AWS
3 6 (10.00%) IaaS
4 5 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (8.33%) GCP
4 5 (8.33%) Serverless
5 3 (5.00%) CloudFront
6 2 (3.33%) Contentful
6 2 (3.33%) GitHub
6 2 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.67%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.67%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.67%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) DNS
1 1 (1.67%) Intranet
1 1 (1.67%) NetScaler
1 1 (1.67%) SAN
1 1 (1.67%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.33%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (11.67%) MySQL
3 6 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 5 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 5 (8.33%) Oracle Database
5 4 (6.67%) RDBMS
5 4 (6.67%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.33%) DB2
6 2 (3.33%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.67%) Big Data
7 1 (1.67%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.67%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 6 (10.00%) GitLab
2 4 (6.67%) Git
3 2 (3.33%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.67%) GoCD
4 1 (1.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 16 (26.67%) Finance
2 7 (11.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.67%) Banking
4 3 (5.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (5.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.67%) Law
6 1 (1.67%) Legal
6 1 (1.67%) Marketing
6 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (13.33%) Developer
2 7 (11.67%) Architect
3 5 (8.33%) Platform Specialist
3 5 (8.33%) Programme Manager
3 5 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 4 (6.67%) .NET Developer
4 4 (6.67%) Consultant
4 4 (6.67%) DBA
4 4 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (6.67%) Lead
4 4 (6.67%) Oracle DBA
4 4 (6.67%) Product Manager
5 3 (5.00%) Analyst
5 3 (5.00%) Automation Specialist
5 3 (5.00%) Azure Consultant
5 3 (5.00%) Business Analyst
5 3 (5.00%) Communications Manager
5 3 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (3.33%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.33%) .NET
2 3 (5.00%) AWS CDK
3 2 (3.33%) React
4 1 (1.67%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.67%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.67%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.67%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (1.67%) EJB
4 1 (1.67%) Hibernate
4 1 (1.67%) JSON
4 1 (1.67%) JSON Schema
4 1 (1.67%) Kafka
4 1 (1.67%) REST
4 1 (1.67%) Spring
4 1 (1.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (6.67%) Hedge funds
1 4 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.00%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (5.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.00%) Smart Meter
2 3 (5.00%) Tandem
3 2 (3.33%) Clustering
3 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.33%) Driving Licence
3 2 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.33%) Replication
3 2 (3.33%) Social Media
4 1 (1.67%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.67%) Equities
4 1 (1.67%) Life Science
4 1 (1.67%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 12 (20.00%) Linux
2 7 (11.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (8.33%) VMS
4 3 (5.00%) Ubuntu
4 3 (5.00%) Unix
5 2 (3.33%) Windows
6 1 (1.67%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (23.33%) Migration
3 12 (20.00%) Agile
4 8 (13.33%) DevOps
4 8 (13.33%) Roadmaps
5 7 (11.67%) Containerisation
5 7 (11.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (11.67%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (8.33%) Database Migration
6 5 (8.33%) Microservices
6 5 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (6.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 4 (6.67%) End-to-End Testing
7 4 (6.67%) Product Management
7 4 (6.67%) Project Delivery
8 3 (5.00%) Data Migration
8 3 (5.00%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (5.00%) Runbook
8 3 (5.00%) SDLC
8 3 (5.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.67%) SQL
2 8 (13.33%) Java
3 7 (11.67%) Python
4 4 (6.67%) Bash
4 4 (6.67%) C#
5 3 (5.00%) Perl
5 3 (5.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.33%) VBA
7 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.67%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.67%) R
7 1 (1.67%) Scala
7 1 (1.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (11.67%) SC Cleared
1 7 (11.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.00%) Degree
3 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.67%) CEH
4 1 (1.67%) CISM
4 1 (1.67%) CISSP
4 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.67%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.67%) QA
2 2 (3.33%) MiFID
3 1 (1.67%) Basel II
3 1 (1.67%) Basel III
3 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.67%) GDPR
3 1 (1.67%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (6.67%) Docker
1 4 (6.67%) vSphere
2 3 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.67%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.67%) XenApp
4 1 (1.67%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (11.67%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.00%) Ansible
2 6 (10.00%) Terraform
3 5 (8.33%) Packer
4 3 (5.00%) Grafana
4 3 (5.00%) vRealize
5 2 (3.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.67%) SysTrack
6 1 (1.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 9 (15.00%) Oracle
2 7 (11.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.33%) VMware
4 3 (5.00%) Arqiva
4 3 (5.00%) Google
4 3 (5.00%) Veritas
5 2 (3.33%) Dell
5 2 (3.33%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.67%) Adobe
6 1 (1.67%) BT
6 1 (1.67%) Cisco
6 1 (1.67%) Citrix
6 1 (1.67%) McAfee
6 1 (1.67%) OpenText
6 1 (1.67%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.67%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.67%) SAP
6 1 (1.67%) Symantec
6 1 (1.67%) webMethods
6 1 (1.67%) Wyse