Platform Engineering Contracts in Hampshire

Platform Engineering
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire requiring Platform Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 84 93
Rank change year-on-year +21 +9 +31
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 6 11 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.80% 0.68% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.82% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile £429 £349 £468
25th Percentile £435 £497 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £623 £500
Median % change year-on-year -25.46% +24.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £488 £715 £525
90th Percentile £490 £781 -
South East median daily rate £500 £531 £600
% change year-on-year -5.88% -11.46% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £57.50
% change year-on-year - - -32.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 671 1,348 1,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 89.95% 83.73% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 715 797
10th Percentile £325 £388 £240
25th Percentile £450 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £581 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.25% +10.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £618 £675 £625
90th Percentile £675 £738 £696
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 162 104
10th Percentile £20.10 £13.05 £18.25
25th Percentile £29.38 £25.52 £22.85
Median hourly rate £57.63 £57.35 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +8.21% +113.80%
75th Percentile £71.88 £62.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.63
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Hampshire

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in Hampshire.

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in Hampshire

Platform Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in Hampshire.

Hourly rate trend for Platform Engineering in Hampshire

Platform Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Winchester -2 2 - -
Portsmouth - 1 £478 - 2
Platform Engineering
South East

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
1 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) YAML
2 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) Keycloak
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Workflow
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Immutable Infrastructure
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) Power Management
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (16.67%) Packer
3 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) Juniper
2 1 (16.67%) NETGEAR
2 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) TP-LINK
2 1 (16.67%) VMware