Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Dunstable

Platform Engineer
Bedfordshire > Dunstable

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Dunstable is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dunstable 16.67% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 16.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £488 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £488 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Dunstable

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Dunstable. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Dunstable with a recognized job title 6 18 6
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 100.00% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 6
10th Percentile £428 £192 £416
25th Percentile £450 £290 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £363 £485
Median % change year-on-year +37.93% -25.26% -3.00%
75th Percentile £515 £500 £500
90th Percentile £581 - £569
Bedfordshire median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £84.75 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +30.38% +18.18% -3.51%

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dunstable

For the 6 months to 10 October 2025, Platform Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Dunstable region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) VBScript
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Packaging
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) Software Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dunstable 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%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) VBScript
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler