Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in Basingstoke

Platform Engineering
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Basingstoke requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 39 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Basingstoke 0.75% 0.43% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.52% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £513 - -
25th Percentile £531 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% - -
75th Percentile £631 - -
90th Percentile £658 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £570 £519
% change year-on-year -7.89% +9.88% +6.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Basingstoke

Platform Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Basingstoke.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 221 194 206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 83.08% 82.91% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 151 58
10th Percentile £463 £406 £243
25th Percentile £500 £476 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £644 £646
90th Percentile £650 £725 £688
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 13
10th Percentile £12.18 £18.50 -
25th Percentile - £21.88 £15.50
Median hourly rate £17.00 £28.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +60.00% -15.54%
75th Percentile - £32.25 £33.75
90th Percentile £17.37 £34.50 £45.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.71 £62.50 £51.42
% change year-on-year -66.86% +21.55% +14.27%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Platform Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke.

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Basingstoke

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Platform Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Basingstoke

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in Basingstoke over the 6 months to 25 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in Basingstoke

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
1 1 (50.00%) VMware