Senior Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Senior Platform Engineer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Senior Platform Engineer daily rate in Gloucestershire is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.28% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £538 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £575 - £663
% change year-on-year - - +26.19%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Gloucestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Gloucestershire. 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 Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 309 385 427
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.29% 95.77% 94.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 212 259
10th Percentile £234 £383 £359
25th Percentile £397 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £660 £676 £675
90th Percentile £725 £749 £750
South West median daily rate £523 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.55% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 39 52
10th Percentile £13.50 £30.00 £30.30
25th Percentile £20.23 £51.88 £48.72
Median hourly rate £33.17 £67.50 £50.61
Median % change year-on-year -50.86% +33.37% -15.65%
75th Percentile £47.38 £72.50 £78.09
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £28.79 £65.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -55.71% +15.06% -8.15%

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Senior Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Senior Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Platform Engineer job vacancies in Gloucestershire

Senior Platform Engineer
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 Senior Platform Engineer 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 - 1 £575 - 1
Senior Platform Engineer
South West

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire

For the 6 months to 5 November 2025, Senior 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 Gloucestershire region featuring Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Rancher
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
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 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Rancher