Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Platform Engineering
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 76 90
Rank change year-on-year +14 +14 +24
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 28 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 2.33% 0.39% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.73% 0.47% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 4 2
10th Percentile - £530 £457
25th Percentile £418 £556 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £519
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +9.88% +6.41%
75th Percentile £619 £574 £555
90th Percentile £635 £581 £556
South East median daily rate £500 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% +4.76%

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 1,027 848 1,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 85.37% 82.25% 87.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 665 569 637
10th Percentile £311 £359 £300
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £520
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.96% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 60 85
10th Percentile £16.17 £21.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £31.04 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.71 £62.50 £51.42
Median % change year-on-year -66.86% +21.55% +14.27%
75th Percentile £25.15 £75.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £49.25 - £70.00
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £57.38 £53.50
% change year-on-year -61.66% +7.24% +22.99%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in Hampshire over the 6 months to 25 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in Hampshire

Platform Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

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 25 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
Farnborough +5 13 £598 +4.82%
Portsmouth - 7 £435 - 1
Basingstoke -2 2 £575 -1.71% 4
Platform Engineering
South East

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 20 (71.43%) OpenShift
2 14 (50.00%) Azure
3 11 (39.29%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (28.57%) GitHub
5 4 (14.29%) AWS
6 2 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.57%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.57%) Cohesity
7 1 (3.57%) GCP
7 1 (3.57%) Nutanix
7 1 (3.57%) Rubrik
7 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (25.00%) Redis
2 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.71%) GitLab
3 2 (7.14%) Git
4 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (60.71%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Security Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (3.57%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Consultant
6 1 (3.57%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Site Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (32.14%) Middleware
1 9 (32.14%) React
2 7 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (25.00%) Kafka
2 7 (25.00%) Keycloak
3 6 (21.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (42.86%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.57%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Linux
2 3 (10.71%) Windows
3 1 (3.57%) VMS
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (82.14%) CI/CD
2 21 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (60.71%) Containerisation
4 13 (46.43%) Migration
5 11 (39.29%) DevOps
6 10 (35.71%) Configuration Management
6 10 (35.71%) High Availability
7 9 (32.14%) Deployment Automation
7 9 (32.14%) Observability
8 8 (28.57%) Agile
9 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (21.43%) Immutable Infrastructure
10 6 (21.43%) Open Source
10 6 (21.43%) Scrum
11 4 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 3 (10.71%) DevSecOps
13 2 (7.14%) Software Engineering
14 1 (3.57%) Incident Management
14 1 (3.57%) Software Testing
14 1 (3.57%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (57.14%) Python
2 15 (53.57%) PowerShell
3 12 (42.86%) JavaScript
4 10 (35.71%) Bash
4 10 (35.71%) SQL
5 9 (32.14%) C#
5 9 (32.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 6 (21.43%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.57%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 21 (75.00%) Ansible
3 11 (39.29%) Grafana
3 11 (39.29%) Prometheus
4 10 (35.71%) Terraform
5 6 (21.43%) Packer
6 2 (7.14%) Kibana
7 1 (3.57%) Argo
7 1 (3.57%) Cilium
7 1 (3.57%) Istio
7 1 (3.57%) linkerd
7 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.57%) Puppet
7 1 (3.57%) Rsyslog
7 1 (3.57%) SCOM
7 1 (3.57%) vRealize
Vendors
1 17 (60.71%) Red Hat
2 9 (32.14%) Splunk
3 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
4 5 (17.86%) VMware
5 1 (3.57%) NVIDIA
5 1 (3.57%) Veeam