Platform Engineering Contracts in England

Platform Engineering
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 257 300
Rank change year-on-year -50 +43 +79
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 232 482 636
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.64% 1.00% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.11% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 394 502
10th Percentile £418 £495 £450
25th Percentile £500 £527 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £611 £585
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% +4.49% +11.43%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £765 £863 £750
UK median daily rate £566 £613 £585
% change year-on-year -7.55% +4.70% +1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile £53.85 £67.13 -
25th Percentile £55.88 £78.00 £57.50
Median hourly rate £60.50 £81.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.77% +35.83% -
75th Percentile £63.88 £85.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £65.15 £87.50 -
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £81.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -25.77% +35.83% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,464 43,415 63,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.38% 90.10% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,624 30,476 45,458
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,526 1,738
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.20 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in England

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in England

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in England

Platform Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Platform Engineering in England

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering 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 -16 158 £600 -5.58% 146
South East +9 31 £531 -18.27% 53
North of England -35 19 £563 +2.27% 45
North West -14 14 £582 +1.22% 27
West Midlands +22 11 £675 +27.06% 7
Midlands +22 11 £675 +27.06% 10
South West -12 4 £500 -16.67% 11
Yorkshire -19 4 £513 -6.82% 16
North East +13 1 £413 -19.51% 2
Platform Engineering
UK

Platform Engineering
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 10 (4.31%) Confluence
2 7 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.72%) Cloud Foundry
3 4 (1.72%) IBM Domino
3 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.29%) CMS
4 3 (1.29%) Drupal
4 3 (1.29%) nginx
4 3 (1.29%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.86%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.43%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.43%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.86%) Shopify
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.43%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 89 (38.36%) AWS
2 87 (37.50%) Azure
3 33 (14.22%) Serverless
4 32 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (13.79%) GCP
5 27 (11.64%) GitHub
6 19 (8.19%) Azure AKS
7 17 (7.33%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (7.33%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (7.33%) IaaS
8 16 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (6.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 14 (6.03%) PaaS
10 13 (5.60%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (4.74%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (4.74%) Amazon S3
11 11 (4.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 10 (4.31%) Azure Functions
12 10 (4.31%) Azure Service Bus
13 7 (3.02%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.62%) Firewall
2 18 (7.76%) DNS
3 9 (3.88%) VPN
4 7 (3.02%) FTP
5 6 (2.59%) VSAN
6 5 (2.16%) IPv4
7 4 (1.72%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (1.72%) HTTP
7 4 (1.72%) ICMP
7 4 (1.72%) POP3
7 4 (1.72%) SMTP
7 4 (1.72%) SSH
7 4 (1.72%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.29%) SSL
9 2 (0.86%) Network Security
9 2 (0.86%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.86%) VLAN
10 1 (0.43%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (0.43%) Skype
10 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.19%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (5.17%) MongoDB
3 8 (3.45%) MySQL
3 8 (3.45%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.59%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.16%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.16%) Tableau
6 4 (1.72%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.72%) Power BI
6 4 (1.72%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.29%) Airbyte
7 3 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.29%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.29%) Flink
8 2 (0.86%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.43%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 44 (18.97%) GitLab
2 41 (17.67%) Jenkins
3 35 (15.09%) Git
4 14 (6.03%) JIRA
5 9 (3.88%) Cypress.io
5 9 (3.88%) JMeter
6 5 (2.16%) Artifactory
6 5 (2.16%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.72%) Mocha
8 3 (1.29%) Selenium
8 3 (1.29%) Subversion
9 2 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.86%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.86%) Snyk
9 2 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.43%) CA Gen
10 1 (0.43%) GoCD
10 1 (0.43%) Gradle
10 1 (0.43%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.43%) Travis CI
General
1 44 (18.97%) Social Skills
2 35 (15.09%) Finance
3 28 (12.07%) Public Sector
4 17 (7.33%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.60%) Banking
6 7 (3.02%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.72%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.29%) Marketing
10 2 (0.86%) Billing
10 2 (0.86%) Retail
11 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.43%) Back Office
11 1 (0.43%) Electronics
11 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 126 (54.31%) Platform Engineer
2 62 (26.72%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 41 (17.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (12.07%) AWS Engineer
5 27 (11.64%) Cloud Engineer
6 25 (10.78%) Senior
7 24 (10.34%) Azure Engineer
8 23 (9.91%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 20 (8.62%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 17 (7.33%) Developer
11 14 (6.03%) DevOps Platform Engineer
12 11 (4.74%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 10 (4.31%) AWS DevOps
13 10 (4.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 10 (4.31%) Lead
13 10 (4.31%) Linux Engineer
13 10 (4.31%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 8 (3.45%) Python Developer
15 7 (3.02%) GCP Engineer
16 6 (2.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.34%) React
2 22 (9.48%) Kafka
3 20 (8.62%) Node.js
4 12 (5.17%) YAML
5 9 (3.88%) REST
6 7 (3.02%) CSS
6 7 (3.02%) HTML
7 6 (2.59%) Django
7 6 (2.59%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (2.16%) ARM Templates
8 5 (2.16%) JSON
9 4 (1.72%) Jest
9 4 (1.72%) Redux
10 3 (1.29%) AWS CDK
10 3 (1.29%) GraphQL
10 3 (1.29%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (1.29%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (1.29%) Spring Boot
11 2 (0.86%) OAuth2
11 2 (0.86%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.76%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (3.88%) Linux Command Line
3 8 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.45%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.02%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.02%) Machine to Machine
5 6 (2.59%) Algorithms
5 6 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.16%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.16%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.16%) Replication
7 4 (1.72%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.29%) Clustering
8 3 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.29%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.29%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.86%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.86%) PKI
9 2 (0.86%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 65 (28.02%) Linux
2 15 (6.47%) Unix
3 14 (6.03%) Windows
4 11 (4.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.02%) VMS
6 6 (2.59%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.72%) Debian
7 4 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.29%) Windows Server
8 3 (1.29%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.86%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (43.97%) CI/CD
2 90 (38.79%) DevOps
3 65 (28.02%) Agile
4 58 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (11.64%) Configuration Management
6 25 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (10.34%) Containerisation
8 23 (9.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 21 (9.05%) Computer Science
10 19 (8.19%) Scrum
11 17 (7.33%) Analytics
11 17 (7.33%) Software Engineering
12 15 (6.47%) Microservices
12 15 (6.47%) Roadmaps
13 14 (6.03%) Continuous Integration
13 14 (6.03%) Disaster Recovery
13 14 (6.03%) Test Automation
14 13 (5.60%) Cybersecurity
14 13 (5.60%) Migration
15 12 (5.17%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 87 (37.50%) Python
2 34 (14.66%) SQL
3 30 (12.93%) JavaScript
4 29 (12.50%) Bash
5 22 (9.48%) Java
6 21 (9.05%) PowerShell
7 20 (8.62%) Go
8 15 (6.47%) C#
9 9 (3.88%) Ruby
10 8 (3.45%) Shell Script
11 7 (3.02%) TypeScript
12 6 (2.59%) Rust
13 5 (2.16%) Scala
14 3 (1.29%) Bicep
14 3 (1.29%) C
14 3 (1.29%) C++
14 3 (1.29%) Clojure
14 3 (1.29%) Haskell
14 3 (1.29%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.43%) Natural
Qualifications
1 51 (21.98%) SC Cleared
1 51 (21.98%) Security Cleared
2 20 (8.62%) Degree
3 14 (6.03%) DV Cleared
4 11 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.72%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.72%) CCNP
5 4 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.29%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.29%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.45%) QA
2 4 (1.72%) NIST
2 4 (1.72%) SLA
3 2 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.86%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.43%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.43%) PMO
System Software
1 48 (20.69%) Docker
2 14 (6.03%) vSphere
3 12 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (4.74%) Active Directory
5 10 (4.31%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (3.02%) Hyper-V
7 5 (2.16%) VMware NSX
8 4 (1.72%) KVM
9 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 115 (49.57%) Terraform
2 86 (37.07%) Kubernetes
3 58 (25.00%) Ansible
4 12 (5.17%) Argo
4 12 (5.17%) Packer
5 10 (4.31%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (3.02%) Grafana
7 6 (2.59%) vRealize
8 5 (2.16%) Prometheus
9 4 (1.72%) Consul
9 4 (1.72%) Kibana
9 4 (1.72%) logstash
9 4 (1.72%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.72%) QRadar
10 3 (1.29%) HP Fortify
10 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (1.29%) Puppet
11 2 (0.86%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.86%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.86%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (9.05%) VMware
2 18 (7.76%) Microsoft
3 17 (7.33%) ServiceNow
4 12 (5.17%) Salesforce
4 12 (5.17%) Splunk
5 10 (4.31%) Oracle
5 10 (4.31%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.16%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.16%) Databricks
6 5 (2.16%) SAP
7 4 (1.72%) ArcSight
7 4 (1.72%) Arqiva
7 4 (1.72%) Cisco
7 4 (1.72%) New Relic
7 4 (1.72%) SolarWinds
7 4 (1.72%) Veritas
8 3 (1.29%) Adobe
8 3 (1.29%) Aruba
8 3 (1.29%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.29%) Google