Senior Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Bradford

Senior Platform Engineer
West Yorkshire > Bradford

The median Senior Platform Engineer daily rate in Bradford is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with 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 requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bradford 1.45% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.55% - -
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 £395 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Bradford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bradford. 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 Bradford with a recognized job title 129 61 38
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 93.85% 97.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 27 29
10th Percentile £278 £300 £360
25th Percentile £338 £430 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £495 £465
Median % change year-on-year -6.57% +6.45% -11.43%
75th Percentile £538 £592 £588
90th Percentile £618 £648 £692
West Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -1.52% -1.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 12 0
10th Percentile £23.20 - -
25th Percentile £24.77 - -
Median hourly rate £28.00 £22.14 -
Median % change year-on-year +26.47% - -
75th Percentile £37.13 - -
90th Percentile £46.25 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 £23.57 £28.75
% change year-on-year +9.33% -18.02% +51.32%

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 20 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bradford

For the 6 months to 5 August 2026, Senior 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 Bradford region featuring Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) OCI
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 2 (100.00%) VSAN
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) Automated Trading
2 1 (50.00%) Logistics
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) vMotion

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
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
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
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
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