Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Platform Engineering
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.73% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £476 - -
25th Percentile £497 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - -
75th Percentile £572 - -
90th Percentile £589 - -
East of England median daily rate £438 £800 £563
% change year-on-year -45.31% +42.22% +3.88%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 646 295 713
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 78.40% 85.51% 90.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 139 289
10th Percentile £300 £306 £239
25th Percentile £413 £425 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +24.71% -16.91%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £600
90th Percentile £738 £675 £715
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 93 279
10th Percentile £16.35 £25.98 £38.12
25th Percentile £18.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £66.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.58% +32.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £68.00 £76.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £80.00
East of England median hourly rate £22.63 £55.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -58.85% +44.28% +52.48%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in Hertfordshire

Platform Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 11 April 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
Hatfield - 3 - -
Stevenage - 1 £600 -
Platform Engineering
East of England

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 2 (33.33%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DHCP
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
2 1 (16.67%) Internet
2 1 (16.67%) Modbus
2 1 (16.67%) RS-232
2 1 (16.67%) RS-422
2 1 (16.67%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Electronics
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) GCP DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) IoT Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) PKI
1 2 (33.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) IoT
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) VMS
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Zero Trust
3 2 (33.33%) GitOps
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (33.33%) Secrets Management
3 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) API Development
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 1 (16.67%) TDD
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) C
3 1 (16.67%) C++
3 1 (16.67%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) Argo
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (33.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Google
2 2 (33.33%) Citrix
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Wyse