Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Platform Engineering
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 - 77
Rank change year-on-year - - +24
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.13% - 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% - 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £469
25th Percentile £505 - £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - £538
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.21%
75th Percentile £515 - £584
90th Percentile - - £586
South West median daily rate £575 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -28.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 717 654 903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 90.64% 82.26% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 360 577
10th Percentile £240 £227 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £645
90th Percentile £739 £738 £700
South West median daily rate £519 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.24% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 89 124
10th Percentile £13.69 £35.00 £33.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £60.75 £52.19
Median hourly rate £33.50 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.37% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.25 £76.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Bristol

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

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

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Kong
1 1 (100.00%) Sentry
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform