Platform Engineering Contracts in Derbyshire

Platform Engineering
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Derbyshire 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 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derbyshire 3.09% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.90% - -
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 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £500 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 77 110 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 79.38% 64.71% 87.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 73 102
10th Percentile £172 £167 £134
25th Percentile £200 £200 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £267 £469
Median % change year-on-year +59.18% -43.04% +17.19%
75th Percentile £550 £438 £552
90th Percentile £644 £588 £638
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £419 £450
% change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 37
10th Percentile £15.06 £12.13 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.30 £17.50 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +27.40% +3.98% -15.85%
75th Percentile £24.30 £22.57 £23.00
90th Percentile £24.81 £26.15 £65.00
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
% change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Derbyshire

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in Derbyshire

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Derbyshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in Derbyshire

Platform Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Derby - 3 £475 - 2
Platform Engineering
East Midlands

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derbyshire 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