Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Platform Engineering
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 52 -
Rank change year-on-year -20 - -
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.33% 0.54% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.61% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £443 - -
25th Percentile £469 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -
75th Percentile £531 £488 -
90th Percentile £535 - -
England median daily rate £537 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.58% +4.35% -4.17%

All Process & 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 767 488 603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.32% 87.14% 82.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 296 429
10th Percentile £188 £240 £211
25th Percentile £350 £324 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -5.56% -2.70%
75th Percentile £525 £545 £565
90th Percentile £625 £631 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 23 43
10th Percentile £15.56 £15.48 £11.86
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.44 £22.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.07% +12.50% +18.84%
75th Percentile £24.49 £27.65 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £38.49 £54.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Platform Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Platform Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Platform Engineering

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 12 January 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
Nottinghamshire - 2 £525 - 8
Northamptonshire - 1 £430 - 7
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (66.67%) Confluence
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure AKS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Hive
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) SonarQube
2 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
2 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Ab Initio Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Complex ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Istio
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Ab Initio