Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Platform Engineering
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 30 37
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 10 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 4.65% 0.62% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.35% 0.71% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £800 £563
Median % change year-on-year -40.63% +42.22% -
75th Percentile £531 - £569
90th Percentile £538 - -
East of England median daily rate £475 £675 £606
% change year-on-year -29.63% +11.34% +34.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 187 140 222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 86.98% 86.42% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 72 153
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £410 £413 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +3.96%
75th Percentile £588 £647 £550
90th Percentile £638 £700 £600
East of England median daily rate £490 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 4
10th Percentile £32.56 £24.30 £51.63
25th Percentile £41.45 £30.00 £52.19
Median hourly rate £80.00 £50.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -9.09% -3.93%
75th Percentile £91.50 £58.75 £58.88
90th Percentile - £67.70 £61.35
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £28.34 £22.00
% change year-on-year -25.89% +28.80% -4.35%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

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

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Shefford - 9 £475 - 6
Dunstable - 1 £500 -
Platform Engineering
East of England

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Lead
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (10.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (10.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) VBScript
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) Veeam
1 1 (10.00%) Zscaler