Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in Chester

Platform Engineering
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Chester requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 - 12
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 0.87% - 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% - 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £663 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - £525
75th Percentile £688 - £538
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £409 - £582
% change year-on-year - - +78.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85 61 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 73.91% 88.41% 87.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 24 12
10th Percentile £190 £416 £302
25th Percentile £413 £465 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +0.46% +46.00%
75th Percentile £629 £591 £625
90th Percentile £688 £663 £674
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -10.25% -0.39% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 10
10th Percentile £17.70 £15.53 £17.03
25th Percentile £21.65 £16.75 £17.17
Median hourly rate £26.50 £24.10 £20.56
Median % change year-on-year +9.98% +17.22% +27.91%
75th Percentile £40.00 £35.00 £34.50
90th Percentile £79.80 £40.10 £40.00
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £25.79 £24.81
% change year-on-year -11.39% +3.96% +58.40%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Chester

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

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

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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 1 (100.00%) OpenStack
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk