Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Platform Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 September 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
16 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 18 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 3.04% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £600 -
% change year-on-year -14.17% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 528 686 821
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.19% 96.21% 96.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 449 547
10th Percentile £177 £200 £260
25th Percentile £332 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £540 £625 £600
90th Percentile £639 £733 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £487 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 16 29
10th Percentile - £15.61 £13.46
25th Percentile £12.62 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 £34.56 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.49% +68.60% +13.89%
75th Percentile £26.51 £53.13 £53.75
90th Percentile £34.29 £56.25 £67.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £21.00 £21.24
% change year-on-year +19.76% -1.11% +17.97%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Birmingham

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Platform Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Platform Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 16 September 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 Birmingham region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) AWS
1 18 (100.00%) DevOps
1 18 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 16 (88.89%) Vagrant
2 16 (88.89%) ServiceNow
2 16 (88.89%) Docker
2 16 (88.89%) DFS Replication
2 16 (88.89%) Confluence
2 16 (88.89%) Jenkins
2 16 (88.89%) Amazon ELB
2 16 (88.89%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (88.89%) Prometheus
2 16 (88.89%) Public Sector
2 16 (88.89%) AWS KMS
2 16 (88.89%) Amazon Linux
2 16 (88.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 16 (88.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 16 (88.89%) Patch Management
2 16 (88.89%) Terraform
2 16 (88.89%) Grafana
2 16 (88.89%) Windows
2 16 (88.89%) Linux
2 16 (88.89%) Python
2 16 (88.89%) VMS
2 16 (88.89%) SMTP
2 16 (88.89%) FTP
2 16 (88.89%) HTTP
2 16 (88.89%) DNS
2 16 (88.89%) Configuration Management
2 16 (88.89%) Change Management

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 16 (88.89%) Confluence
2 9 (50.00%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (50.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) AWS
2 16 (88.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 16 (88.89%) Amazon EC2
2 16 (88.89%) Amazon ELB
2 16 (88.89%) Amazon S3
2 16 (88.89%) AWS KMS
2 16 (88.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 9 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
3 9 (50.00%) Azure
3 9 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (50.00%) Route 53
4 7 (38.89%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 16 (88.89%) DNS
1 16 (88.89%) Firewall
1 16 (88.89%) FTP
1 16 (88.89%) HTTP
1 16 (88.89%) SMTP
1 16 (88.89%) SSH
2 9 (50.00%) IMAP
2 9 (50.00%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (88.89%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 9 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (88.89%) Git
1 16 (88.89%) Jenkins
1 16 (88.89%) JIRA
1 16 (88.89%) Vagrant
General
1 16 (88.89%) Public Sector
2 9 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (50.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (88.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (88.89%) Amazon Linux
1 16 (88.89%) Linux
1 16 (88.89%) VMS
1 16 (88.89%) Windows
2 9 (50.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) DevOps
1 18 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 16 (88.89%) Change Management
2 16 (88.89%) Cloud Security
2 16 (88.89%) Configuration Management
2 16 (88.89%) Patch Management
3 9 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 16 (88.89%) Groovy
1 16 (88.89%) PowerShell
1 16 (88.89%) Python
2 9 (50.00%) SQL
3 7 (38.89%) Java
3 7 (38.89%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (88.89%) SC Cleared
1 16 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 9 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 9 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 9 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 16 (88.89%) DFS Replication
1 16 (88.89%) Docker
2 9 (50.00%) Dovecot
2 9 (50.00%) Postfix
2 9 (50.00%) Squid
3 7 (38.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (88.89%) Grafana
1 16 (88.89%) Prometheus
1 16 (88.89%) Terraform
2 9 (50.00%) Nessus
2 9 (50.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 16 (88.89%) ServiceNow
2 9 (50.00%) Jaspersoft
17 Platform Engineer jobs in the West Midlands