Platform Engineering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 299 243 299
Rank change year-on-year -56 +56 +24
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 86 217 226
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.94% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 1.05% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 180 181
10th Percentile £414 £456 £431
25th Percentile £450 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% +2.17% +15.00%
75th Percentile £650 £673 £625
90th Percentile £743 £728 £675
UK median daily rate £566 £613 £585
% change year-on-year -7.55% +4.70% +1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £78.00 -
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £81.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -25.77% +35.83% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,112 20,583 27,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.30% 89.45% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,187 18,951
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,254 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.74 £61.52
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Platform Engineering in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East +9 31 £531 -18.27% 53
Scotland +35 22 £453 -30.31% 8
North of England -35 19 £563 +2.27% 45
North West -14 14 £582 +1.22% 27
Midlands +22 11 £675 +27.06% 10
West Midlands +22 11 £675 +27.06% 7
South West -12 4 £500 -16.67% 11
Yorkshire -19 4 £513 -6.82% 16
Wales +17 1 £500 +48.15% 2
North East +13 1 £413 -19.51% 2
Platform Engineering
UK

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (10.47%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (6.98%) Confluence
3 3 (3.49%) CMS
3 3 (3.49%) Drupal
4 2 (2.33%) IBM Domino
4 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.33%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.16%) Alfresco
5 1 (1.16%) Skype for Business
5 1 (1.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 33 (38.37%) AWS
2 30 (34.88%) Azure
3 12 (13.95%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (13.95%) Snowflake
4 8 (9.30%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (8.14%) GCP
5 7 (8.14%) GitHub
5 7 (8.14%) IaaS
6 5 (5.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (5.81%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (5.81%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (5.81%) PaaS
6 5 (5.81%) Serverless
7 4 (4.65%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.65%) Datadog
8 3 (3.49%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (3.49%) Amazon ELB
8 3 (3.49%) Nutanix
8 3 (3.49%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.49%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 14 (16.28%) DNS
2 5 (5.81%) Firewall
3 4 (4.65%) VSAN
4 3 (3.49%) SSL
4 3 (3.49%) VPN
5 2 (2.33%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.16%) DHCP
6 1 (1.16%) DSL
6 1 (1.16%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.16%) Network Security
6 1 (1.16%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (1.16%) SAN
6 1 (1.16%) Skype
6 1 (1.16%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.12%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (10.47%) MongoDB
3 4 (4.65%) MySQL
3 4 (4.65%) RDBMS
3 4 (4.65%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.49%) Data Lake
4 3 (3.49%) DynamoDB
4 3 (3.49%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.33%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.16%) Adabas
6 1 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.16%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.16%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.16%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (19.77%) Git
2 16 (18.60%) GitLab
3 8 (9.30%) Jenkins
4 7 (8.14%) JIRA
5 5 (5.81%) Artifactory
5 5 (5.81%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.49%) Mocha
6 3 (3.49%) Selenium
6 3 (3.49%) Subversion
7 2 (2.33%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.33%) Snyk
8 1 (1.16%) CA Gen
8 1 (1.16%) Terragrunt
8 1 (1.16%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 16 (18.60%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (8.14%) Finance
2 7 (8.14%) Public Sector
3 3 (3.49%) Banking
4 1 (1.16%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.16%) Electronics
4 1 (1.16%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (1.16%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.16%) Marketing
4 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (67.44%) Platform Engineer
2 25 (29.07%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 18 (20.93%) Linux Engineer
4 16 (18.60%) AWS Engineer
5 14 (16.28%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 14 (16.28%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (13.95%) Azure Engineer
7 10 (11.63%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 10 (11.63%) Network Engineer
8 9 (10.47%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 9 (10.47%) Unix Engineer
9 8 (9.30%) Unix Linux Engineer
10 7 (8.14%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (6.98%) AWS DevOps
11 6 (6.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 5 (5.81%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 5 (5.81%) Python Engineer
12 5 (5.81%) Senior
12 5 (5.81%) Unix Scripter
12 5 (5.81%) Unix Scripting Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.81%) YAML
2 3 (3.49%) AWS CDK
2 3 (3.49%) Jest
2 3 (3.49%) JSON
2 3 (3.49%) React
2 3 (3.49%) Redux
3 2 (2.33%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.33%) Node.js
3 2 (2.33%) SAML
3 2 (2.33%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.16%) .NET
4 1 (1.16%) LDAP
4 1 (1.16%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.16%) REST
4 1 (1.16%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.79%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (9.30%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (4.65%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.65%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.49%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.49%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.33%) Clustering
5 2 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.33%) Replication
5 2 (2.33%) Smart Meter
6 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.16%) NHS
6 1 (1.16%) PKI
6 1 (1.16%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.16%) Virtual Reality
6 1 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (31.40%) Linux
2 16 (18.60%) Unix
3 9 (10.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (6.98%) VMS
5 4 (4.65%) Debian
5 4 (4.65%) Windows
6 2 (2.33%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.33%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.33%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (2.33%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.16%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (39.53%) DevOps
2 33 (38.37%) Agile
3 27 (31.40%) CI/CD
4 19 (22.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (15.12%) Scrum
6 12 (13.95%) GitOps
7 10 (11.63%) Computer Science
7 10 (11.63%) Roadmaps
8 9 (10.47%) Containerisation
8 9 (10.47%) Data Engineering
8 9 (10.47%) Data Pipeline
8 9 (10.47%) DataOps
8 9 (10.47%) Kanban
8 9 (10.47%) MLOps
9 8 (9.30%) Mentoring
9 8 (9.30%) Migration
9 8 (9.30%) OO
10 7 (8.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (8.14%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (8.14%) Data Encryption
Programming Languages
1 37 (43.02%) Python
2 18 (20.93%) Bash
3 15 (17.44%) Java
4 9 (10.47%) Scala
4 9 (10.47%) SQL
5 8 (9.30%) Perl
5 8 (9.30%) PowerShell
6 6 (6.98%) Go
6 6 (6.98%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.49%) Bicep
8 2 (2.33%) C#
8 2 (2.33%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.16%) Groovy
9 1 (1.16%) Natural
9 1 (1.16%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (18.60%) SC Cleared
1 16 (18.60%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.49%) Degree
3 2 (2.33%) CCNP
3 2 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.16%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.98%) QA
2 3 (3.49%) SLA
3 2 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.33%) NIST
3 2 (2.33%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.16%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.16%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (18.60%) Docker
2 11 (12.79%) vSphere
3 7 (8.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (5.81%) Hyper-V
5 4 (4.65%) Active Directory
5 4 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (3.49%) VMware NSX
7 2 (2.33%) KVM
8 1 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 33 (38.37%) Kubernetes
2 29 (33.72%) Terraform
3 25 (29.07%) Ansible
4 7 (8.14%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (6.98%) Packer
5 6 (6.98%) vRealize
6 3 (3.49%) Argo
6 3 (3.49%) Dell DRAC
6 3 (3.49%) HP Fortify
7 2 (2.33%) Grafana
7 2 (2.33%) Kibana
7 2 (2.33%) WSUS
8 1 (1.16%) CFEngine
8 1 (1.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (1.16%) PowerBroker
8 1 (1.16%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.16%) Puppet
8 1 (1.16%) SCCM
8 1 (1.16%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.16%) VxRail
Vendors
1 16 (18.60%) VMware
2 10 (11.63%) Databricks
2 10 (11.63%) Salesforce
3 9 (10.47%) Oracle
4 8 (9.30%) Red Hat
5 7 (8.14%) Microsoft
6 4 (4.65%) Arqiva
6 4 (4.65%) BMC
6 4 (4.65%) ServiceNow
6 4 (4.65%) SolarWinds
6 4 (4.65%) Splunk
6 4 (4.65%) Veritas
7 3 (3.49%) Atlassian
8 2 (2.33%) Cisco
9 1 (1.16%) CA
9 1 (1.16%) Dell
9 1 (1.16%) EMC
9 1 (1.16%) Remedy
9 1 (1.16%) SAP
9 1 (1.16%) Veeam