Platform Engineering Contracts in Derby

Platform Engineering
Derbyshire > Derby

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Derby 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derby 3.66% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £594 - -
90th Percentile £658 - -
Derbyshire median daily rate £475 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Derby

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 Derby.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64 90 138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 78.05% 61.22% 91.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 64 70
10th Percentile £184 £167 £115
25th Percentile £200 £200 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £272 £480
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% -43.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £550 £450 £578
90th Percentile £628 £588 £650
Derbyshire median daily rate £425 £267 £469
% change year-on-year +59.18% -43.04% +17.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 32
10th Percentile £21.38 - £13.16
25th Percentile £23.00 £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £24.18 £17.50 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +38.17% +3.98% -15.85%
75th Percentile £24.66 £18.75 £19.35
90th Percentile £24.95 £18.88 £65.00
Derbyshire median hourly rate £22.30 £17.50 £16.83
% change year-on-year +27.40% +3.98% -15.85%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Derby

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Derby

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in Derby

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Derby

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in Derby over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in Derby

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derby 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Batch
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bicep
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft