Platform Engineering Contracts in Warwickshire

Platform Engineering
West Midlands > Warwickshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Warwickshire 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 42 47
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 -
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 9 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Warwickshire 2.36% 1.04% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.60% 1.13% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile £458 £517 -
25th Percentile £535 £564 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £643 £750
Median % change year-on-year -11.28% -14.33% -
75th Percentile £688 £721 £775
90th Percentile - £769 -
West Midlands median daily rate £675 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +28.57% -8.70% +5.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 346 353 450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire 90.58% 91.93% 91.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 231 372
10th Percentile £363 £325 £325
25th Percentile £450 £464 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +9.52% +20.69%
75th Percentile £688 £680 £636
90th Percentile £825 £756 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £520 £495
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.05% +16.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 4 15
10th Percentile £13.18 £14.40 £13.70
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.47 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -7.50% +42.86%
75th Percentile £26.95 £25.31 £20.51
90th Percentile £35.00 £28.13 £24.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £20.97 £16.83
% change year-on-year +7.30% +24.64% +5.16%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Warwickshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Warwickshire

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Warwickshire

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in Warwickshire

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Warwickshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in Warwickshire

Platform Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire 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
Warwick -2 7 £623 +28.35%
Platform Engineering
West Midlands

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Warwickshire 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 3 (33.33%) CMS
1 3 (33.33%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
1 5 (55.56%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) IaaS
3 2 (22.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) DNS
2 3 (33.33%) SSL
3 2 (22.22%) Firewall
3 2 (22.22%) VPN
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) Git
2 3 (33.33%) Artifactory
2 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (33.33%) Selenium
2 3 (33.33%) Subversion
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) YAML
2 2 (22.22%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 3 (33.33%) Mobile App
1 3 (33.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
1 3 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) DevOps
1 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (44.44%) Validation
4 3 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 3 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (33.33%) Epics
4 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (33.33%) ITIL
4 3 (33.33%) Kanban
4 3 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (33.33%) Scrum
4 3 (33.33%) SDLC
4 3 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (33.33%) Software Assurance
4 3 (33.33%) Software Delivery
4 3 (33.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Ansible
2 6 (66.67%) Terraform
3 3 (33.33%) Progress Chef
3 3 (33.33%) Puppet
3 3 (33.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) VMware
2 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 3 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 3 (33.33%) SaltStack
2 3 (33.33%) ServiceNow