Platform Engineer Contracts in Bedfordshire

Platform Engineer
East of England > Bedfordshire

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Bedfordshire is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 0.67% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £538 - £542
% change year-on-year - - -5.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bedfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bedfordshire. 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 Bedfordshire with a recognized job title 130 211 167
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.67% 87.55% 97.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 121 114
10th Percentile £250 £263 £182
25th Percentile £500 £363 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £500 £456
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% +9.59% -8.75%
75th Percentile £663 £573 £575
90th Percentile £738 £650 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 35 5
10th Percentile £20.26 £15.33 £17.80
25th Percentile £43.97 £15.39 £22.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £31.80 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +135.85% -57.60% +36.36%
75th Percentile £85.25 £65.38 £90.00
90th Percentile £90.70 £66.80 -
East of England median hourly rate £44.10 £43.00 £41.81
% change year-on-year +2.56% +2.85% +161.31%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Job postings that featured Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Bedfordshire

Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 22 May 2025. 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
Luton - 1 £475 - 1
Platform Engineer
East of England

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 13 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire

For the 6 months to 22 May 2025, Platform Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Bedfordshire region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) EPoS
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM