Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Auchterarder

Platform Engineer
Perth and Kinross > Auchterarder

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Auchterarder is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Auchterarder 28.57% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 28.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Perth and Kinross median daily rate £375 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Auchterarder

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Auchterarder. 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 Auchterarder with a recognized job title 7 4 0
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 100.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £176 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £178 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year -60.56% - -
75th Percentile £335 - -
90th Percentile £388 - -
Perth and Kinross median daily rate £178 £563 £638
% change year-on-year -68.44% -11.76% +15.91%

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Auchterarder

For the 6 months to 5 February 2026, Platform Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Auchterarder region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) dbt
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Matillion
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (50.00%) SQL

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Auchterarder by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) dbt
1 1 (50.00%) Matillion
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle