Platform Engineering Contracts in the East Midlands

Platform Engineering
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 51 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.93% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £620 - -
England median daily rate £550 £582 £600
% change year-on-year -5.50% -3.00% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 462 603 918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.19% 78.01% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 404 692
10th Percentile £200 £192 £213
25th Percentile £323 £269 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £573
90th Percentile £591 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 57 74
10th Percentile - £11.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
Median % change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%
75th Percentile £24.54 £26.15 £31.50
90th Percentile £33.15 £45.79 £58.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the East Midlands

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in the East Midlands

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in the East Midlands

Platform Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands 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
Derbyshire - 3 £475 - 2
Nottinghamshire - 2 £500 - 2
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
4 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Batch
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 5 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) High Availability
3 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
3 2 (40.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (40.00%) Open Source
3 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Server Building
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (60.00%) Bicep
2 3 (60.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft