Platform Engineer Contracts in Hampshire

Platform Engineer
South East > Hampshire

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Hampshire is £581 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 98 122
Rank change year-on-year +8 +24 -
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 10 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.58% 0.078% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.084% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £530 - -
25th Percentile £556 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 - -
75th Percentile £624 - -
90th Percentile £657 - -
South East median daily rate £530 £600 £594
% change year-on-year -11.67% +1.05% +15.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
South East median hourly rate - £57.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hampshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Hampshire. 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 Hampshire with a recognized job title 1,560 1,190 1,873
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.33% 93.41% 94.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 900 769 1,143
10th Percentile £363 £235 £275
25th Percentile £450 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.65% +3.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £675 £610 £600
90th Percentile £738 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 98 153
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.00 £13.40
25th Percentile £26.25 £20.68 £16.25
Median hourly rate £57.35 £53.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.70% +150.00% -33.85%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £46.12
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £63.25
South East median hourly rate £48.00 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% +150.00% -20.00%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Hampshire

Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer in Hampshire

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in Hampshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineer in Hampshire

Platform Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Platform Engineer in Hampshire

Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 31 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
Winchester - 5 - -
Farnborough - 3 £570 -
Aldershot - 1 £593 -
Platform Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 Hampshire region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 9 (90.00%) VMware
3 8 (80.00%) Ansible
4 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (70.00%) Agile
4 7 (70.00%) Linux
4 7 (70.00%) SC Cleared
4 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
5 6 (60.00%) Scrum
5 6 (60.00%) Git
5 6 (60.00%) Python
5 6 (60.00%) GitLab
5 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
6 5 (50.00%) Terraform
6 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
6 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
6 5 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (50.00%) vSphere
7 4 (40.00%) Bash
7 4 (40.00%) MongoDB
7 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (40.00%) MySQL
7 4 (40.00%) Oracle
7 4 (40.00%) Unix
7 4 (40.00%) VMS
7 4 (40.00%) RDBMS
7 4 (40.00%) Veritas
7 4 (40.00%) Runbook
7 4 (40.00%) Project Delivery
7 4 (40.00%) Relational Database

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 1 (10.00%) Confluence
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (10.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) IaaS
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (10.00%) Nutanix
4 1 (10.00%) Route 53
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) VSAN
2 1 (10.00%) DHCP
2 1 (10.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (10.00%) SAN
2 1 (10.00%) Skype
2 1 (10.00%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (40.00%) MySQL
1 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (40.00%) RDBMS
1 4 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Git
1 6 (60.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) YAML
2 1 (10.00%) LDAP
2 1 (10.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (20.00%) Smart Meter
3 1 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Linux
2 5 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (40.00%) Unix
3 4 (40.00%) VMS
4 3 (30.00%) Windows
5 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
6 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
6 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 7 (70.00%) Agile
2 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (60.00%) Scrum
4 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (40.00%) Build Automation
5 4 (40.00%) Project Delivery
5 4 (40.00%) Runbook
6 2 (20.00%) Kanban
6 2 (20.00%) Re-Platforming
6 2 (20.00%) Validation
7 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
7 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (10.00%) DevOps
7 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (10.00%) Migration
7 1 (10.00%) Service Management
7 1 (10.00%) Software Delivery
7 1 (10.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) Bash
3 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) vSphere
2 3 (30.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (10.00%) Docker
4 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (10.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Ansible
2 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (50.00%) Terraform
4 4 (40.00%) Packer
4 4 (40.00%) vRealize
5 2 (20.00%) WSUS
6 1 (10.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
6 1 (10.00%) Puppet
6 1 (10.00%) Salt
6 1 (10.00%) SCCM
6 1 (10.00%) vCenter Server
6 1 (10.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) VMware
2 4 (40.00%) Arqiva
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle
2 4 (40.00%) Veritas
3 2 (20.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (10.00%) Dell
4 1 (10.00%) EMC
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (10.00%) SaltStack
4 1 (10.00%) Splunk
4 1 (10.00%) Veeam