Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Halifax

Platform Engineer
West Yorkshire > Halifax

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Halifax is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026.

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

 6 months to
17 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Halifax 7.69% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 9.09% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £518 £406 £638
% change year-on-year +27.38% -36.27% +15.91%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Halifax

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Halifax. 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 Halifax with a recognized job title 22 9 19
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.62% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 5 10
10th Percentile £363 £485 £330
25th Percentile £400 - £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -28.57% +27.27%
75th Percentile £505 £550 £738
90th Percentile £528 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £14.75
Median hourly rate - £12.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year - -20.65% -
75th Percentile - - £16.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.94 £27.50 £15.37
% change year-on-year -31.15% +78.98% -56.17%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Halifax

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 Halifax.

Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Halifax

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 Halifax region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) API Management
1 2 (100.00%) Apigee
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 2 (100.00%) Groovy
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Istio
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Swagger
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Halifax 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 (100.00%) Apigee
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Management
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Groovy
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Istio
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (100.00%) Google
Platform Engineer jobs