Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Platform Engineering
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Farnborough requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 25 23
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 -
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 13 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 7.83% 1.01% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.63% 1.23% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 1
10th Percentile £475 - -
25th Percentile £528 - £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £570 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.39% +6.05% -
75th Percentile £619 - £556
90th Percentile £625 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £570 £394
% change year-on-year -7.89% +44.76% -17.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Farnborough

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 Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 135 81 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 81.33% 81.82% 96.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 52 73
10th Percentile £313 £350 £300
25th Percentile £385 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £551 £588
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% -6.30% +17.50%
75th Percentile £619 £632 £667
90th Percentile £675 £725 £705
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 12
10th Percentile - £69.00 £16.73
25th Percentile £19.25 £74.06 £21.04
Median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +66.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile - - £63.44
90th Percentile £53.35 £77.25 £79.75
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.71 £45.00 £51.42
% change year-on-year -53.98% -12.49% +18.21%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Farnborough

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Platform Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Platform Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering
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 10 (76.92%) Azure
2 9 (69.23%) OpenShift
3 7 (53.85%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.69%) AWS
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
Development Applications
1 8 (61.54%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Security Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Site Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) Middleware
1 7 (53.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (76.92%) Private Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) CI/CD
2 9 (69.23%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (69.23%) Migration
3 8 (61.54%) High Availability
4 7 (53.85%) Configuration Management
4 7 (53.85%) Deployment Automation
5 6 (46.15%) Containerisation
6 5 (38.46%) Open Source
7 2 (15.38%) DevOps
7 2 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 1 (7.69%) Observability
8 1 (7.69%) Security Operations
8 1 (7.69%) Task Automation
8 1 (7.69%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) PowerShell
1 10 (76.92%) Python
2 8 (61.54%) JavaScript
3 7 (53.85%) C#
3 7 (53.85%) Java
3 7 (53.85%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (92.31%) SC Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (84.62%) Kubernetes
2 9 (69.23%) Ansible
3 3 (23.08%) Grafana
3 3 (23.08%) Prometheus
4 2 (15.38%) Kibana
4 2 (15.38%) Terraform
5 1 (7.69%) vRealize
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Red Hat
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) VMware