DevOps Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Durham

Platform Engineer - DevOps
North East > Durham

The median Platform Engineer - DevOps daily rate in Durham is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Platform Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Durham 1.20% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.28% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £513 £550 -
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Durham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Durham. 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 Durham with a recognized job title 78 36 43
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 92.31% 86.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 31 22
10th Percentile £225 £180 £190
25th Percentile £325 £225 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £365 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% -14.12% +4.94%
75th Percentile £525 £488 £528
90th Percentile £600 £545 £633
North East median daily rate £450 £465 £450
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 9
10th Percentile £12.92 - -
25th Percentile £29.95 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £10.42
75th Percentile £72.50 - £11.44
90th Percentile - - £33.02
North East median hourly rate £65.00 £13.25 £40.64
% change year-on-year +390.75% -67.40% +26.00%

DevOps Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Platform Engineer within the Durham region over the 6 months to 13 August 2026. 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
Peterlee - 1 £513 -
DevOps Platform Engineer
North East

DevOps Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham

For the 6 months to 13 August 2026, DevOps 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 Durham region featuring DevOps Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Control
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

DevOps Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Control
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform