Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in Bournemouth

Platform Engineering
Dorset > Bournemouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bournemouth requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - 21
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Bournemouth 1.23% - 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% - 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £500
75th Percentile - - £525
90th Percentile - - -
Dorset median daily rate £525 - £500

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bournemouth

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 Bournemouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 57 47 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bournemouth 70.37% 90.38% 87.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 30 62
10th Percentile £298 £381 £172
25th Percentile £375 £413 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £481 £298
Median % change year-on-year -15.01% +61.76% -38.97%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £806
90th Percentile £680 £675 £825
Dorset median daily rate £463 £475 £519
% change year-on-year -2.63% -8.43% +4.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 18
10th Percentile - - £11.07
25th Percentile - £14.41 £14.29
Median hourly rate £22.00 £14.81 £15.31
Median % change year-on-year +48.55% -3.27% -25.32%
75th Percentile £33.41 £20.11 £17.49
90th Percentile £40.25 £23.04 £18.92
Dorset median hourly rate £25.15 £14.81 £56.49
% change year-on-year +69.82% -73.78% +0.36%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Bournemouth

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Bournemouth

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Bournemouth

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

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

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bournemouth 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 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes