Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Platform Engineer
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Cambridge is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 0.91% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £474 - -
25th Percentile £491 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - -
75th Percentile £591 - -
90th Percentile £611 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £538 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Cambridge

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridge. 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 Cambridge with a recognized job title 187 140 189
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.39% 86.96% 90.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 80 92
10th Percentile £280 £250 £226
25th Percentile £410 £418 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £420
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +20.83% -6.67%
75th Percentile £573 £591 £535
90th Percentile £675 £700 £638
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £500 £488 £420
% change year-on-year +2.56% +16.07% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 7 29
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.30 £17.50
25th Percentile £16.03 £16.65 £25.00
Median hourly rate £23.72 £60.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.47% +51.90% +122.91%
75th Percentile £38.47 £62.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £68.00
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £15.92 £16.36 £21.37
% change year-on-year -2.66% -23.47% +37.87%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Platform Engineer job vacancies in Cambridge.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Platform Engineer job vacancies in Cambridge

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in Cambridge over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineer in Cambridge

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge

For the 6 months to 13 July 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 Cambridge region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp
1 2 (100.00%) OpenStack
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp