Platform Engineering Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Platform Engineering
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 - 47
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 5 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 1.52% - 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% - 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £438 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 - £425
75th Percentile £900 - £475
90th Percentile - - £535
East of England median daily rate £663 - £475
% change year-on-year - - -20.83%

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 292 350 495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 89.02% 82.35% 90.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 107 227
10th Percentile £203 £215 £220
25th Percentile £359 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.94% -5.56% -3.23%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £550
90th Percentile £688 £638 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 153 181
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.84 £15.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.43% +11.93% -
75th Percentile £24.40 £21.37 £20.56
90th Percentile £48.63 £48.60 £28.75
East of England median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.81
% change year-on-year -11.76% +114.54% -3.37%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Cambridgeshire

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in Cambridgeshire

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 11 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in Cambridgeshire

Platform Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in Cambridgeshire.

Hourly rate trend for Platform Engineering in Cambridgeshire

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 11 August 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 - 5 £663 - 7
Platform Engineering
East of England

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Slack
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Programme Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Programme Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Observability
2 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Dashboard Development
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) RBAC
2 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (40.00%) Culture Change
3 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (40.00%) GitOps
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 2 (40.00%) Programme Governance
3 2 (40.00%) Programme Management
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Dynatrace