Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Platform Engineering
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 - 40
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 6 0 17
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.87% - 4.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% - 4.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 13
10th Percentile £326 - £540
25th Percentile £343 - £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 - £582
Median % change year-on-year - - +78.53%
75th Percentile £463 - £586
90th Percentile £578 - £595
North West median daily rate £550 £638 £586
% change year-on-year -13.73% +8.79% +12.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 608 435 342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 88.24% 88.41% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 259 217
10th Percentile £268 £328 £265
25th Percentile £358 £384 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £537 £568 £560
90th Percentile £688 £642 £600
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 23 22
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.05 £17.14
25th Percentile £16.53 £21.05 £18.14
Median hourly rate £22.85 £27.39 £24.81
Median % change year-on-year -16.56% +10.40% +58.40%
75th Percentile £40.00 £39.38 £35.56
90th Percentile £70.55 £70.75 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -15.43% - +48.27%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in Cheshire over the 6 months to 26 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in Cheshire

Platform Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 26 November 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
Knutsford - 4 £409 - 1
Warrington - 1 £370 - 8
Chester - 1 £675 - 7
Platform Engineering
North West

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 3 (50.00%) JBoss
2 2 (33.33%) Apache
3 1 (16.67%) IIS
3 1 (16.67%) iPlanet
3 1 (16.67%) OpenStack
3 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
3 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
3 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) SSL
2 1 (16.67%) Kerberos
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
1 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
1 1 (16.67%) Redis
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (33.33%) CA Release Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) Pylint
3 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
3 1 (16.67%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) LangChain
1 1 (16.67%) LangGraph
1 1 (16.67%) LDAP
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
1 1 (16.67%) OpenID
1 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) SAML
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) PKI
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Unix
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (16.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) High Availability
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) AI
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Build Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) Perl
3 1 (16.67%) Groovy
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Tivoli Directory Server
2 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (16.67%) CA Single Sign-On
3 1 (16.67%) CA Wily
3 1 (16.67%) Kibana
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (16.67%) SCCM
3 1 (16.67%) SCOM
3 1 (16.67%) SCOrch
3 1 (16.67%) Tivoli
3 1 (16.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) AppDynamics
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
1 3 (50.00%) Splunk
2 2 (33.33%) IBM
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) Broadcom
3 1 (16.67%) Cloudera
3 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
3 1 (16.67%) Veeam
3 1 (16.67%) VMware