Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Platform Engineer
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Cambridgeshire 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 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.56% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% - -
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 - -
East of England median daily rate £600 £475 -
% change year-on-year +26.32% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. 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 Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 309 268 406
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.04% 83.49% 82.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 122 145
10th Percentile £220 £250 £220
25th Percentile £412 £379 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £420
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +16.07% -6.67%
75th Percentile £604 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £619
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £434
% change year-on-year - +15.27% -8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 56 153
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.48
Median hourly rate £15.92 £16.36 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year -2.66% -23.47% +37.87%
75th Percentile £33.83 £31.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £48.00 £51.88 £57.50
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £43.90
% change year-on-year -5.88% -3.19% +1.35%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineer in Cambridgeshire

Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 13 July 2026. 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
Cambridge - 2 £538 - 4
Platform Engineer
East of England

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

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 Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire 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