Platform Engineering Contracts in the Midlands

Platform Engineering
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 146 194
Rank change year-on-year +28 +48 -45
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 15 10 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.54% 0.31% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.35% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 10
10th Percentile £513 £319 £514
25th Percentile £554 £403 £542
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -8.70% +22.34%
75th Percentile £806 £674 £668
90th Percentile £925 £750 £696
England median daily rate £575 £613 £588
% change year-on-year -6.12% +4.26% +8.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,273 2,848 4,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.44% 87.66% 87.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,529 1,999 3,249
10th Percentile £231 £262 £250
25th Percentile £358 £370 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 97 136
10th Percentile £11.07 £12.30 £10.68
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.50 £13.84
Median hourly rate £19.00 £22.50 £17.85
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +26.05% +19.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £23.63
90th Percentile £55.00 £60.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the Midlands

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in the Midlands

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in the Midlands

Platform Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Midlands +19 15 £675 +28.57% 9
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (20.00%) CMS
1 3 (20.00%) Drupal
2 1 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) GCP
4 2 (13.33%) IaaS
4 2 (13.33%) PaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
5 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 1 (6.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) DNS
2 3 (20.00%) SSL
3 2 (13.33%) Firewall
3 2 (13.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Git
2 3 (20.00%) Artifactory
2 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (20.00%) Selenium
2 3 (20.00%) Subversion
3 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Platform Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) YAML
2 2 (13.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (20.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (20.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
1 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Agile
2 8 (53.33%) DevOps
3 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 5 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 4 (26.67%) Architectural Patterns
5 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (26.67%) Project Management
5 4 (26.67%) Validation
6 3 (20.00%) Community of Practice
6 3 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (20.00%) Epics
6 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (20.00%) SDLC
6 3 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (20.00%) Software Assurance
6 3 (20.00%) Software Delivery
6 3 (20.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) Java
2 1 (6.67%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Ansible
2 6 (40.00%) Terraform
3 3 (20.00%) Progress Chef
3 3 (20.00%) Puppet
3 3 (20.00%) Salt
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) VMware
2 3 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 3 (20.00%) SaltStack
2 3 (20.00%) ServiceNow