Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Platform Engineering
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 - 54
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 12 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 3.39% - 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.83% - 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile £554 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £738 - -
90th Percentile £850 - -
South West median daily rate £575 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -28.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
South West median hourly rate - - £78.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 313 356 398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 88.42% 88.56% 88.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 203 250
10th Percentile £278 £400 £360
25th Percentile £406 £473 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £590 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% +7.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £676 £675
90th Percentile £704 £750 £750
South West median daily rate £519 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.24% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 25 52
10th Percentile £19.69 £24.70 £30.30
25th Percentile £27.07 £28.00 £48.72
Median hourly rate £34.34 £33.00 £51.86
Median % change year-on-year +4.06% -36.37% -11.11%
75th Percentile £67.92 £70.00 £78.09
90th Percentile £68.40 £73.75 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in Gloucestershire

Platform Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

Platform Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 5 November 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
Gloucester - 12 £700 - 4
Platform Engineering
South West

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) Azure
1 10 (83.33%) GitHub
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Big Data
1 2 (16.67%) Hadoop
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Hive
2 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (83.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Junior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (83.33%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (91.67%) Containerisation
3 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 10 (83.33%) DevSecOps
3 10 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (83.33%) Regulatory Compliance
3 10 (83.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) Kanban
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
5 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (8.33%) Task Automation
5 1 (8.33%) Tech Ops
5 1 (8.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 12 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (83.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (83.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (91.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (91.67%) Kubernetes
2 10 (83.33%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) Argo
3 1 (8.33%) Grafana
3 1 (8.33%) Nagios
3 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (8.33%) Rancher