Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Bridgwater

Platform Engineer
Somerset > Bridgwater

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Bridgwater is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026.

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

 6 months to
17 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bridgwater 2.56% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median daily rate £800 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Bridgwater

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bridgwater. 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 Bridgwater with a recognized job title 39 3 24
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 75.00% 96.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 3 11
10th Percentile £150 £274 -
25th Percentile £249 £309 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £273 £370 £375
Median % change year-on-year -26.23% -1.33% +158.62%
75th Percentile £371 £371 £478
90th Percentile £375 £372 £496
Somerset median daily rate £523 £535 £450
% change year-on-year -2.34% +18.89% -2.17%

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 11 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bridgwater

For the 6 months to 17 August 2026, 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 Bridgwater region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) SQL

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bridgwater 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%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
Platform Engineer jobs