Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Guildford

Platform Engineer
Surrey > Guildford

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Guildford is £275, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Guildford 1.19% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £263 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 - -
75th Percentile £288 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Surrey median daily rate £275 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Guildford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Guildford. 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 Guildford with a recognized job title 84 40 54
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 100.00% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 25 45
10th Percentile £376 £320 £190
25th Percentile £409 £450 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.19% +8.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £519 £588 £663
90th Percentile £550 £600 £738
Surrey median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% -6.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 6 0
10th Percentile £50.87 £26.00 -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £69.50 £28.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +148.21% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - £29.00 -
Surrey median hourly rate £62.50 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% - +12.37%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

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 Guildford.

Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Guildford

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

For the 6 months to 8 September 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 Guildford region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Parquet
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Pulumi
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) Python

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Guildford 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Parquet
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Pulumi
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks