Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Platform Engineer
Hampshire > Farnborough

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Farnborough is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 1.49% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.58% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £526 - -
25th Percentile £528 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile £615 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £538 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Farnborough

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Farnborough. 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 Farnborough with a recognized job title 190 72 92
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 88.89% 59.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 51 65
10th Percentile £326 - £387
25th Percentile £454 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -12.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £595 £629 £667
90th Percentile £678 £725 £703
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 6
10th Percentile £24.95 £77.63 £20.50
25th Percentile £34.63 £77.81 £22.63
Median hourly rate £40.00 £81.25 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -50.77% +182.61% -25.81%
75th Percentile £45.56 £85.31 £51.25
90th Percentile £55.58 £85.88 £57.50
Hampshire median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £51.42
% change year-on-year -28.57% -31.93% +18.21%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough.

Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Farnborough

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Platform Engineer job vacancies in Farnborough.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Platform Engineer job vacancies in Farnborough

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

For the 6 months to 4 February 2026, 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 Farnborough region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Middleware
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) OpenShift

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat