Platform Engineering Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Platform Engineering
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Platform Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 47 69
Rank change year-on-year +10 +22 +4
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 1 7 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 0.42% 1.47% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 1.78% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 8
10th Percentile - £409 £423
25th Percentile - £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £321 £435 £475
Median % change year-on-year -26.21% -8.42% -13.64%
75th Percentile - £453 £514
90th Percentile - - £630
South East median daily rate £500 £531 £600
% change year-on-year -5.88% -11.46% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 219 393 821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 92.80% 82.56% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 271 663
10th Percentile £281 £255 £307
25th Percentile £400 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -1.04% +1.05%
75th Percentile £588 £580 £575
90th Percentile £646 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 31 1
10th Percentile - £15.85 -
25th Percentile - £18.50 £9.50
Median hourly rate £14.20 £25.00 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.20% +150.00% -7.15%
75th Percentile £39.13 £30.00 £10.50
90th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 -
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Buckinghamshire

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in Buckinghamshire.

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in Buckinghamshire

Platform Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineering within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes +7 1 £321 -26.21% 9
Platform Engineering
South East

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (100.00%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Data Services
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Server Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SAP