Senior Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Senior Platform Engineer
South East > Hampshire

The median Senior Platform Engineer daily rate in Hampshire is £548, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 68 -
Rank change year-on-year -31 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 3 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.18% 0.64% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £524 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £402 -
Median % change year-on-year +36.19% - -
75th Percentile £571 £420 -
90th Percentile - £430 -
South East median daily rate £548 £402 -
% change year-on-year +36.19% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Hampshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hampshire. 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 Hampshire with a recognized job title 1,574 743 1,611
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 95.75% 90.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 938 530 930
10th Percentile £363 £256 £370
25th Percentile £475 £418 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +12.75%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £675
90th Percentile £732 £660 £738
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 49 199
10th Percentile £13.95 £20.89 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.80 £32.94 £26.88
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -8.46% +4.27%
75th Percentile £56.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £64.11 £75.00 £76.99
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £32.05 £50.00
% change year-on-year +56.01% -35.90% -

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Senior Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Senior Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Senior Platform Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Platform Engineer job vacancies in Hampshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Platform Engineer job vacancies in Hampshire

Senior Platform Engineer
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 Senior Platform Engineer within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 12 June 2026. 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
Fareham - 1 - - 1
Senior Platform Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2026, 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 Hampshire region featuring Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (66.67%) BigQuery
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Functions
2 2 (66.67%) CRM
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Data Transformation
2 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (66.67%) ERP
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Fivetran
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (66.67%) NetSuite
2 2 (66.67%) PagerDuty
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Sage
2 2 (66.67%) Sage X3
2 2 (66.67%) Salesforce
2 2 (66.67%) Snowflake
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) NetSuite
1 2 (66.67%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Functions
2 2 (66.67%) Fivetran
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (66.67%) Snowflake
3 1 (33.33%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (66.67%) BigQuery
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (66.67%) Billing
1 2 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) CRM
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Data Transformation
2 2 (66.67%) ERP
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) PagerDuty
1 2 (66.67%) Sage
1 2 (66.67%) Salesforce