Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in Bradford

Platform Engineering
West Yorkshire > Bradford

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

 6 months to
5 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bradford 1.45% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £613 £413
% change year-on-year -20.41% +48.48% -25.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bradford

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 Bradford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 118 60 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bradford 85.51% 92.31% 89.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 28 27
10th Percentile £281 £300 £383
25th Percentile £324 £432 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.21% -11.63%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £620 £647 £697
West Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -0.91% -1.60% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 0
10th Percentile £22.80 - -
25th Percentile £24.00 - -
Median hourly rate £25.54 £22.14 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.36% - -
75th Percentile £28.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £22.14 £12.90
% change year-on-year +8.40% +71.63% -30.27%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Bradford

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Bradford

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bradford 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 2 (100.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VSAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Automated Trading
2 1 (50.00%) Logistics
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) vMotion
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
Platform Engineering jobs