Platform Engineering Contracts in Lancashire

Platform Engineering
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 25 31 27
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +14
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 4 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 2.29% 0.51% 2.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 0.65% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 7
10th Percentile £513 - £435
25th Percentile £514 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +8.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £588 - £613
90th Percentile - - £633
North West median daily rate £528 £582 £575
% change year-on-year -9.36% +1.22% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 158 154 211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 90.29% 78.97% 87.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 74 118
10th Percentile £400 £313 £339
25th Percentile £463 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £538 £533
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% +0.94% +11.52%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £630 £747 £700
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 51 42
10th Percentile £14.62 - £22.31
25th Percentile £23.87 £16.06 £28.85
Median hourly rate £28.75 £19.18 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.90% -54.87% +7.59%
75th Percentile £43.94 £46.03 £49.52
90th Percentile £60.59 £48.00 £53.43
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Lancashire

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in Lancashire

Platform Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire 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
Lancaster - 1 £530 -
Platform Engineering
North West

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Virgin Media