Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Blandford Forum

Platform Engineer
Dorset > Blandford Forum

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Blandford Forum is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Blandford Forum 16.67% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 16.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Dorset median daily rate £550 - £500

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Blandford Forum

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Blandford Forum. 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 Blandford Forum with a recognized job title 6 2 6
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 100.00% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 6
10th Percentile £510 - -
25th Percentile £513 £513 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £375
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +40.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £565 £538 £513
90th Percentile £571 - £576
Dorset median daily rate £488 £488 £531
% change year-on-year - -8.24% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
Dorset median hourly rate £15.50 £15.62 £56.49
% change year-on-year -0.77% -72.35% +16.19%

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Blandford Forum

For the 6 months to 18 October 2025, 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 Blandford Forum region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Packer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Podman
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Proxmox
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Blandford Forum 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Packer
1 1 (100.00%) Podman
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Proxmox
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware