Platform Specialist Contracts in the UK excluding London

Platform Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Platform Specialist daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 438 502
Rank change year-on-year +70 +64 -56
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Specialist 17 8 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.084% 0.035% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.090% 0.037% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 2
10th Percentile - £543 £651
25th Percentile £525 £563 £652
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £658
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +2.66% +87.86%
75th Percentile £588 £719 £667
90th Percentile - £750 £670
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £700
% change year-on-year -2.22% -19.64% +27.27%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,796 21,663 29,128
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.29% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,463 15,116 20,427
10th Percentile £213 £225 £203
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,267 1,107 1,446
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.02 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.92
90th Percentile £73.85 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Platform Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Platform Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Specialist in the UK excluding London

Platform Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Specialist in the UK excluding London

Platform Specialist
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 Specialist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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 +24 11 £575 -23.33%
Northern Ireland - 5 £550 -
Midlands +30 1 £525 -8.70%
West Midlands +25 1 £525 -8.70%
Platform Specialist
UK

Platform Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, Platform Specialist 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 UK excluding London region featuring Platform Specialist in the job title.

1 10 (58.82%) Linux
2 9 (52.94%) Ansible
3 8 (47.06%) GitLab
3 8 (47.06%) Security Cleared
4 7 (41.18%) Migration
4 7 (41.18%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (41.18%) SC Cleared
5 6 (35.29%) Data Migration
5 6 (35.29%) Replication
5 6 (35.29%) VMware
5 6 (35.29%) Clustering
5 6 (35.29%) Oracle
5 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
5 6 (35.29%) Red Hat
5 6 (35.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (35.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (35.29%) SolarWinds
5 6 (35.29%) Azure
5 6 (35.29%) vSphere
5 6 (35.29%) Bash
5 6 (35.29%) High Availability
5 6 (35.29%) Capacity Management
5 6 (35.29%) GitHub
5 6 (35.29%) Database Security
5 6 (35.29%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (35.29%) Task Automation
5 6 (35.29%) Terraform
5 6 (35.29%) Storage Management
5 6 (35.29%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (29.41%) Power Platform

Platform Specialist Skill Set
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:

Business Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Azure
1 6 (35.29%) GitHub
2 5 (29.41%) Power Platform
3 2 (11.76%) IaaS
4 1 (5.88%) AWS
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.88%) MySQL
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) GitLab
2 1 (5.88%) Artifactory
2 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Clustering
1 6 (35.29%) Linux Command Line
1 6 (35.29%) Replication
2 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 10 (58.82%) Linux
2 5 (29.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (17.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Migration
2 6 (35.29%) Capacity Management
2 6 (35.29%) Data Migration
2 6 (35.29%) Database Security
2 6 (35.29%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (35.29%) High Availability
2 6 (35.29%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (35.29%) Storage Management
2 6 (35.29%) Task Automation
3 5 (29.41%) Validation
4 3 (17.65%) Agile
4 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
4 3 (17.65%) Re-Platforming
5 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
5 2 (11.76%) Scrum
6 1 (5.88%) Data Protection
6 1 (5.88%) E-business
6 1 (5.88%) Identity Management
6 1 (5.88%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Bash
2 1 (5.88%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 7 (41.18%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (35.29%) vSphere
2 2 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.88%) Docker
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) Ansible
2 6 (35.29%) Terraform
3 5 (29.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
5 2 (11.76%) Packer
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (5.88%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle
1 6 (35.29%) Red Hat
1 6 (35.29%) SolarWinds
1 6 (35.29%) VMware
2 1 (5.88%) Zscaler