Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Platform Engineering
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 37 41
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 +25
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 11 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 2.81% 0.31% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.27% 0.36% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £438 £500 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +16.47%
75th Percentile £760 £600 £518
90th Percentile £900 - -
East of England median daily rate £475 £675 £606
% change year-on-year -29.63% +11.34% +38.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 336 281 397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 85.71% 86.20% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 113 134
10th Percentile £215 £300 £204
25th Percentile £356 £400 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -0.51% +2.63%
75th Percentile £616 £556 £570
90th Percentile £675 £638 £650
East of England median daily rate £491 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.39% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 70 178
10th Percentile £13.33 - £13.41
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £23.61 £21.46 £17.72
90th Percentile £43.69 £28.93 £22.00
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £21.39
% change year-on-year -30.00% +40.29% -9.00%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in Cambridgeshire

Platform Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Platform Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Cambridge -2 11 £550 - 4
Platform Engineering
East of England

Platform Engineering
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (45.45%) Slack
4 2 (18.18%) Azure
5 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
5 1 (9.09%) GCP
5 1 (9.09%) PaaS
5 1 (9.09%) Serverless
5 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) GitLab
General
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Programme Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Programme Manager
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Onboarding
2 4 (36.36%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
3 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
3 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) DevOps
2 8 (72.73%) Observability
3 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (54.55%) AI
4 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
4 6 (54.55%) Dashboard Development
4 6 (54.55%) Migration
4 6 (54.55%) RBAC
5 5 (45.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (36.36%) Data Protection
7 3 (27.27%) Actionable Insight
8 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Culture
8 2 (18.18%) Culture Change
8 2 (18.18%) GitOps
8 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
8 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Transformation
8 2 (18.18%) Programme Governance
8 2 (18.18%) Programme Management
8 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
8 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Python
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Kubernetes
1 8 (72.73%) Terraform
2 6 (54.55%) Prometheus
3 4 (36.36%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Dynatrace
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft