Platform Engineering Contracts in the East of England

Platform Engineering
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 6 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 - 111
Rank change year-on-year - - -10
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 3 0 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.24% - 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% - 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £438 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.83%
75th Percentile £513 - £577
90th Percentile - - £618
England median daily rate £525 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,114 1,349 1,714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 88.41% 83.63% 87.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 516 970
10th Percentile £200 £200 £226
25th Percentile £364 £306 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £551 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £704
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 501 356
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.48 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.98 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +90.48% +5.50%
75th Percentile £65.94 £60.00 £64.63
90th Percentile £81.88 £70.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the East of England

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in the East of England

Platform Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Platform Engineering in the East of England

Platform Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 6 August 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
Cambridgeshire - 3 £475 - 8
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Slack
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) RBAC
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Dynatrace