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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 313 258 320
Rank change year-on-year -55 +62 +41
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 233 489 610
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.63% 1.02% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.14% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 401 488
10th Percentile £418 £481 £458
25th Percentile £500 £534 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £588
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +4.26% +8.80%
75th Percentile £671 £713 £675
90th Percentile £750 £863 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £613 £588
% change year-on-year -6.12% +4.26% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 2
10th Percentile £53.85 £69.30 -
25th Percentile £55.88 - £57.50
Median hourly rate £60.50 £78.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.44% +30.00% -
75th Percentile £63.88 £87.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £65.15 £90.00 -
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £78.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -22.44% +30.00% -

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 31,636 42,957 64,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.67% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,638 30,177 45,793
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,325 1,518 1,713
10th Percentile £12.85 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.41
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -39 153 £600 -4.76% 133
South East -20 32 £525 -12.50% 33
North of England -25 19 £563 +2.27% 37
Midlands +30 15 £675 +28.57% 13
West Midlands +20 15 £675 +28.57% 9
North West -9 13 £613 +6.52% 24
South West -6 7 £525 -12.50% 13
Yorkshire -10 5 £500 -9.09% 12
North East - 1 £413 - 1
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 (4.29%) Confluence
2 7 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.72%) Cloud Foundry
3 4 (1.72%) IBM Domino
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%) Microsoft Exchange
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 86 (36.91%) Azure
2 81 (34.76%) AWS
3 36 (15.45%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (13.30%) GCP
4 31 (13.30%) Serverless
5 26 (11.16%) GitHub
6 20 (8.58%) Azure AKS
7 18 (7.73%) IaaS
8 16 (6.87%) Amazon EC2
8 16 (6.87%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (6.87%) PaaS
9 15 (6.44%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (5.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (5.15%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (4.72%) Amazon S3
13 10 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (4.29%) Azure Functions
13 10 (4.29%) Azure Service Bus
14 9 (3.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (3.43%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.30%) DNS
1 17 (7.30%) Firewall
2 8 (3.43%) VPN
3 6 (2.58%) FTP
3 6 (2.58%) VSAN
4 5 (2.15%) IPv4
5 4 (1.72%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (1.29%) HTTP
6 3 (1.29%) ICMP
6 3 (1.29%) POP3
6 3 (1.29%) SMTP
6 3 (1.29%) SSH
6 3 (1.29%) SSL
6 3 (1.29%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.86%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.43%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (0.43%) Network Security
8 1 (0.43%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (0.43%) Skype
8 1 (0.43%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.30%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (5.15%) MongoDB
3 9 (3.86%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.00%) MySQL
5 6 (2.58%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.15%) RDBMS
6 5 (2.15%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.15%) Tableau
7 4 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.72%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.72%) Power BI
8 3 (1.29%) Airbyte
8 3 (1.29%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.29%) Flink
9 2 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.86%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.43%) Bigtable
10 1 (0.43%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 43 (18.45%) GitLab
2 38 (16.31%) Jenkins
3 37 (15.88%) Git
4 13 (5.58%) JIRA
5 9 (3.86%) Cypress.io
5 9 (3.86%) JMeter
6 5 (2.15%) Artifactory
6 5 (2.15%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.72%) Mocha
8 3 (1.29%) Selenium
8 3 (1.29%) Subversion
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%) Maven
10 1 (0.43%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.43%) Travis CI
General
1 45 (19.31%) Social Skills
2 31 (13.30%) Finance
3 24 (10.30%) Public Sector
4 17 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.86%) Banking
6 5 (2.15%) Financial Institution
6 5 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.72%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.29%) Marketing
9 2 (0.86%) Billing
9 2 (0.86%) Retail
10 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.43%) Electronics
10 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 130 (55.79%) Platform Engineer
2 59 (25.32%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 43 (18.45%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (11.59%) Cloud Engineer
4 27 (11.59%) Senior
5 26 (11.16%) Azure Engineer
6 22 (9.44%) AWS Engineer
7 21 (9.01%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 17 (7.30%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 15 (6.44%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 13 (5.58%) Developer
11 11 (4.72%) Lead
11 11 (4.72%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 10 (4.29%) AWS DevOps
12 10 (4.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 10 (4.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 9 (3.86%) Linux Engineer
14 8 (3.43%) Senior DevOps
15 7 (3.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 7 (3.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.58%) Kafka
1 20 (8.58%) React
2 18 (7.73%) Node.js
3 17 (7.30%) YAML
4 7 (3.00%) REST
5 6 (2.58%) ARM Templates
5 6 (2.58%) CSS
5 6 (2.58%) HTML
6 5 (2.15%) Django
6 5 (2.15%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (2.15%) JSON
7 4 (1.72%) Jest
7 4 (1.72%) Redux
8 3 (1.29%) GraphQL
8 3 (1.29%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (1.29%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (1.29%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.86%) AWS SAM
9 2 (0.86%) http4s
9 2 (0.86%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.73%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (3.86%) Linux Command Line
3 8 (3.43%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.00%) Machine to Machine
4 7 (3.00%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.58%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.58%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.15%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.15%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.15%) Replication
7 4 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.72%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.29%) Clustering
8 3 (1.29%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.29%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.29%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.86%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.86%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 66 (28.33%) Linux
2 17 (7.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (5.58%) Unix
4 12 (5.15%) Windows
5 7 (3.00%) VMS
6 3 (1.29%) Debian
6 3 (1.29%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.86%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (43.78%) CI/CD
2 98 (42.06%) DevOps
3 67 (28.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (27.47%) Agile
5 31 (13.30%) Configuration Management
6 29 (12.45%) Containerisation
7 26 (11.16%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (10.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 19 (8.15%) Analytics
9 19 (8.15%) Computer Science
9 19 (8.15%) Scrum
10 17 (7.30%) Software Engineering
11 16 (6.87%) Roadmaps
12 14 (6.01%) Continuous Integration
12 14 (6.01%) Disaster Recovery
12 14 (6.01%) Microservices
12 14 (6.01%) Test Automation
13 13 (5.58%) Deployment Automation
13 13 (5.58%) Migration
14 12 (5.15%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 87 (37.34%) Python
2 31 (13.30%) PowerShell
2 31 (13.30%) SQL
3 30 (12.88%) Bash
4 23 (9.87%) JavaScript
5 19 (8.15%) Go
6 17 (7.30%) Java
7 14 (6.01%) C#
8 7 (3.00%) Ruby
8 7 (3.00%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.58%) Rust
10 4 (1.72%) Bicep
10 4 (1.72%) Scala
11 3 (1.29%) C
11 3 (1.29%) C++
11 3 (1.29%) Clojure
11 3 (1.29%) Haskell
11 3 (1.29%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.29%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.43%) Natural
Qualifications
1 55 (23.61%) SC Cleared
1 55 (23.61%) Security Cleared
2 20 (8.58%) Degree
3 17 (7.30%) DV Cleared
4 11 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.58%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.72%) CCNP
6 4 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.29%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.29%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.43%) 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 50 (21.46%) Docker
2 16 (6.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (6.44%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (6.01%) vSphere
5 10 (4.29%) Active Directory
6 7 (3.00%) Hyper-V
7 5 (2.15%) 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
1 124 (53.22%) Terraform
2 89 (38.20%) Kubernetes
3 63 (27.04%) Ansible
4 12 (5.15%) Argo
5 11 (4.72%) Packer
6 7 (3.00%) Grafana
6 7 (3.00%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (2.58%) Progress Chef
7 6 (2.58%) vRealize
8 5 (2.15%) Prometheus
8 5 (2.15%) Puppet
9 4 (1.72%) Consul
9 4 (1.72%) Salt
10 3 (1.29%) HP Fortify
10 3 (1.29%) Kibana
10 3 (1.29%) logstash
10 3 (1.29%) QRadar
11 2 (0.86%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.86%) WSUS
12 1 (0.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (12.45%) VMware
2 19 (8.15%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.87%) ServiceNow
4 12 (5.15%) Red Hat
4 12 (5.15%) Salesforce
4 12 (5.15%) Splunk
5 10 (4.29%) Oracle
6 6 (2.58%) Databricks
7 5 (2.15%) SAP
8 4 (1.72%) Arqiva
8 4 (1.72%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.72%) Cisco
8 4 (1.72%) New Relic
8 4 (1.72%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.72%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.72%) Veritas
9 3 (1.29%) Adobe
9 3 (1.29%) ArcSight
9 3 (1.29%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.29%) Google