Platform Engineer Contracts in England

Platform Engineer
UK > England

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in England is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 389 456
Rank change year-on-year +1 +67 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 143 266 345
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.55% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.58% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 213 247
10th Percentile £409 £471 £445
25th Percentile £463 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £650 £713 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +1.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 2
10th Percentile - £53.75 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £58.44 £57.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £76.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.10% +27.50% -
75th Percentile £57.50 £83.25 £62.50
90th Percentile - £85.50 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £76.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -28.10% +27.50% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,787 45,579 67,163
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.59% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,417 32,381 47,891
10th Percentile £284 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.36%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,334 1,845
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +6.38%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in England

Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer in England

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineer in England

Platform Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Platform Engineer in England

Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 18 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
London +41 90 £575 -4.17% 69
South East +34 24 £530 -9.79% 27
North of England -12 12 £550 - 27
South West -7 8 £550 - 7
North West +5 7 £575 - 18
West Midlands +23 4 £375 -21.05% 2
Midlands +23 4 £375 -21.05% 2
Yorkshire -15 4 £513 -6.82% 9
North East - 1 £413 -
Platform Engineer
UK

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Platform Engineer 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 England region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 126 (88.11%) Platform Engineering
2 72 (50.35%) Terraform
3 57 (39.86%) Kubernetes
4 56 (39.16%) Python
5 55 (38.46%) DevOps
5 55 (38.46%) Azure
6 53 (37.06%) AWS
7 52 (36.36%) CI/CD
8 46 (32.17%) Infrastructure as Code
9 37 (25.87%) Ansible
9 37 (25.87%) Linux
10 32 (22.38%) Agile
11 31 (21.68%) Docker
12 28 (19.58%) Security Cleared
13 27 (18.88%) SC Cleared
14 26 (18.18%) Containerisation
15 23 (16.08%) Bash
15 23 (16.08%) Git
15 23 (16.08%) Serverless
15 23 (16.08%) Public Sector
16 20 (13.99%) Azure DevOps
16 20 (13.99%) Social Skills
16 20 (13.99%) SQL
17 17 (11.89%) PowerShell
17 17 (11.89%) Finance
17 17 (11.89%) VMware
17 17 (11.89%) Amazon EC2
18 16 (11.19%) Go
18 16 (11.19%) GitLab
19 15 (10.49%) GCP

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (6.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (4.90%) Confluence
3 5 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.80%) nginx
5 3 (2.10%) Apache
5 3 (2.10%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.40%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (1.40%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.70%) ThingWorx
7 1 (0.70%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 55 (38.46%) Azure
2 53 (37.06%) AWS
3 23 (16.08%) Serverless
4 20 (13.99%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (11.89%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (10.49%) GCP
7 14 (9.79%) PaaS
8 13 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (9.09%) Azure AKS
8 13 (9.09%) GitHub
8 13 (9.09%) IaaS
9 12 (8.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 11 (7.69%) Amazon S3
10 11 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (6.99%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (5.59%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (5.59%) SaaS
13 7 (4.90%) Datadog
14 6 (4.20%) AWS CloudTrail
14 6 (4.20%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.49%) DNS
2 13 (9.09%) Firewall
3 5 (3.50%) SAN
3 5 (3.50%) VPN
4 4 (2.80%) IPv4
5 2 (1.40%) DHCP
5 2 (1.40%) Network Security
5 2 (1.40%) Skype
5 2 (1.40%) Unified Communications
5 2 (1.40%) VSAN
6 1 (0.70%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.70%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.29%) MongoDB
1 9 (6.29%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.59%) Relational Database
3 7 (4.90%) MySQL
4 6 (4.20%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.50%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.10%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.10%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.40%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.40%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.40%) Redis
8 1 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.70%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.70%) Bigtable
8 1 (0.70%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.70%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.70%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 23 (16.08%) Git
2 16 (11.19%) GitLab
3 12 (8.39%) Jenkins
4 9 (6.29%) JIRA
5 4 (2.80%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.80%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.10%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.10%) JMeter
7 2 (1.40%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.70%) CA Gen
8 1 (0.70%) GoCD
8 1 (0.70%) Snyk
General
1 23 (16.08%) Public Sector
2 20 (13.99%) Social Skills
3 17 (11.89%) Finance
4 6 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.50%) Billing
5 5 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.80%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.10%) Banking
8 1 (0.70%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.70%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.99%) YAML
2 8 (5.59%) REST
3 6 (4.20%) Kafka
3 6 (4.20%) Node.js
4 5 (3.50%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (2.10%) ARM Templates
5 3 (2.10%) JSON
5 3 (2.10%) React
6 2 (1.40%) ADO
6 2 (1.40%) Django
6 2 (1.40%) HornetQ
6 2 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.40%) SAML
6 2 (1.40%) VCL
7 1 (0.70%) CSS
7 1 (0.70%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.70%) HTML
7 1 (0.70%) LDAP
7 1 (0.70%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.79%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (4.20%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (2.80%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.10%) Machine to Machine
4 3 (2.10%) PKI
4 3 (2.10%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.10%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.40%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.40%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.40%) Replication
5 2 (1.40%) Smart Meter
6 1 (0.70%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.70%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.70%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.70%) MPEG
6 1 (0.70%) PropTech
6 1 (0.70%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 37 (25.87%) Linux
2 12 (8.39%) Windows
3 10 (6.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (6.29%) VMS
5 8 (5.59%) Unix
5 8 (5.59%) Windows Server
6 6 (4.20%) Debian
7 5 (3.50%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (2.10%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (2.10%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.40%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.70%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (88.11%) Platform Engineering
2 55 (38.46%) DevOps
3 52 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 46 (32.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (22.38%) Agile
6 26 (18.18%) Containerisation
7 13 (9.09%) Configuration Management
8 12 (8.39%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (6.99%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (6.99%) Scrum
10 8 (5.59%) DevSecOps
10 8 (5.59%) Migration
11 7 (4.90%) Analytics
11 7 (4.90%) Data Encryption
11 7 (4.90%) Disaster Recovery
11 7 (4.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 7 (4.90%) Key Management
11 7 (4.90%) Software Engineering
12 6 (4.20%) Computer Science
12 6 (4.20%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (39.16%) Python
2 23 (16.08%) Bash
3 20 (13.99%) SQL
4 17 (11.89%) PowerShell
5 16 (11.19%) Go
6 10 (6.99%) Shell Script
7 9 (6.29%) Java
8 6 (4.20%) JavaScript
9 5 (3.50%) C++
9 5 (3.50%) Ruby
10 4 (2.80%) C#
11 3 (2.10%) Rust
12 2 (1.40%) Bicep
12 2 (1.40%) C
12 2 (1.40%) Scala
13 1 (0.70%) Clojure
13 1 (0.70%) Groovy
13 1 (0.70%) Haskell
13 1 (0.70%) Natural
13 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (19.58%) Security Cleared
2 27 (18.88%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.59%) Degree
4 5 (3.50%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.70%) CCNA
6 1 (0.70%) CCNP
6 1 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.70%) MCSE
6 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.80%) NIST
2 2 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.40%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.70%) ISO 22301
3 1 (0.70%) NIST 800
System Software
1 31 (21.68%) Docker
2 14 (9.79%) Active Directory
3 12 (8.39%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (6.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (4.90%) vSphere
6 5 (3.50%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (3.50%) VMware NSX
7 4 (2.80%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (1.40%) Varnish
9 1 (0.70%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 72 (50.35%) Terraform
2 57 (39.86%) Kubernetes
3 37 (25.87%) Ansible
4 10 (6.99%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (6.29%) Packer
6 7 (4.90%) Grafana
7 6 (4.20%) Prometheus
7 6 (4.20%) vRealize
8 5 (3.50%) Argo
9 4 (2.80%) Data Guard
10 3 (2.10%) Consul
10 3 (2.10%) HP Fortify
10 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (2.10%) WSUS
11 2 (1.40%) HAProxy
11 2 (1.40%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.40%) SCCM
12 1 (0.70%) Puppet
12 1 (0.70%) Rundeck
12 1 (0.70%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (11.89%) VMware
2 15 (10.49%) Microsoft
3 13 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 10 (6.99%) Oracle
5 9 (6.29%) Red Hat
6 8 (5.59%) Splunk
7 7 (4.90%) Salesforce
8 5 (3.50%) Databricks
9 4 (2.80%) Arqiva
9 4 (2.80%) Atlassian
9 4 (2.80%) CyberArk
9 4 (2.80%) Veritas
10 3 (2.10%) Cisco
10 3 (2.10%) New Relic
10 3 (2.10%) SolarWinds
11 2 (1.40%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.40%) Google
11 2 (1.40%) Veeam
12 1 (0.70%) Remedy
12 1 (0.70%) webMethods