Platform Engineering Contracts in the West Midlands

Platform Engineering
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 101 120 152
Rank change year-on-year +19 +32 -20
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 15 10 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.77% 0.45% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.51% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 7
10th Percentile £513 £319 £530
25th Percentile £554 £403 £551
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -8.70% +5.50%
75th Percentile £806 £674 £663
90th Percentile £925 £750 £714
England median daily rate £575 £613 £588
% change year-on-year -6.12% +4.26% +8.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,613 1,965 3,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.93% 87.84% 90.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,075 1,334 2,338
10th Percentile £263 £263 £278
25th Percentile £371 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.05% +16.47%
75th Percentile £625 £609 £586
90th Percentile £745 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 49 63
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.50 £12.05
25th Percentile £14.22 £13.70 £13.94
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.97 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% +23.35% +6.25%
75th Percentile £40.81 £28.75 £19.93
90th Percentile £58.75 £48.75 £24.05
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the West Midlands

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in the West Midlands

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in the West Midlands

Platform Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West 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
Warwickshire +7 9 £570 -11.28%
Birmingham +15 5 £850 +151.85% 5
Worcestershire - 1 £550 - 1
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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