Platform Engineering Contracts in Yorkshire

Platform Engineering
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 95 86 115
Rank change year-on-year -9 +29 -13
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 5 41 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.30% 1.78% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 1.96% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 38 27
10th Percentile £503 £506 £413
25th Percentile £506 £525 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £548
90th Percentile - £664 £675
England median daily rate £582 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -3.00% +4.35% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,459 2,094 2,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.38% 90.85% 89.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 875 1,388 1,763
10th Percentile £265 £296 £263
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +9.71%
75th Percentile £577 £600 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £640
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 61 81
10th Percentile £11.30 - £10.70
25th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -39.74% -9.54%
75th Percentile £22.00 £20.19 £22.75
90th Percentile £53.75 £56.00 £27.50
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -4.00% +53.06% +2.08%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Yorkshire

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in Yorkshire

Platform Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
West Yorkshire -2 5 £525 -4.55% 5
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Datadog
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 5 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) SDLC
2 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java