Platform Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Platform Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £337, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
15 Aug 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 85 92
Rank change year-on-year +8 +7 +46
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 8 6 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.79% 0.50% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 0.52% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 17
10th Percentile £287 £510 £535
25th Percentile £309 £563 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £337 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -48.23% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £401 £675 £594
90th Percentile £424 - -
North West median daily rate £400 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -38.46% +13.04% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 931 1,146 1,685
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.18% 95.58% 94.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 594 736 1,246
10th Percentile £286 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £412 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £706 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 51 59
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.63 £14.52
25th Percentile £13.70 £23.68 £16.46
Median hourly rate £20.26 £45.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.99% +136.84% +8.57%
75th Percentile £34.63 £62.50 £36.88
90th Percentile £73.75 £83.00 £66.80
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £29.65
% change year-on-year -28.14% +18.04% +27.75%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Manchester

Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer in Manchester

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineer in Manchester

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 15 August 2025, Platform Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) IBM
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) SDLC
2 5 (62.50%) Time Sharing Option
2 5 (62.50%) CLIST
2 5 (62.50%) CICS
2 5 (62.50%) REXX
2 5 (62.50%) zOS
2 5 (62.50%) JCL
2 5 (62.50%) Mainframe
2 5 (62.50%) VSAM
2 5 (62.50%) OMEGAMON
2 5 (62.50%) Problem Management
2 5 (62.50%) ISPF
3 4 (50.00%) Release Management
3 4 (50.00%) IBM Mainframe
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (50.00%) CA Endevor
4 3 (37.50%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
4 3 (37.50%) Git
4 3 (37.50%) AWS
4 3 (37.50%) WebSphere
4 3 (37.50%) Banking
4 3 (37.50%) Finance
4 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
4 3 (37.50%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (37.50%) Linux
5 2 (25.00%) Python

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 5 (62.50%) CICS
2 3 (37.50%) WebSphere
2 3 (37.50%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (12.50%) Apache
3 1 (12.50%) IIS
3 1 (12.50%) iPlanet
3 1 (12.50%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) IBM Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Calico
2 1 (12.50%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) GitLab
2 2 (25.00%) Maven
3 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (12.50%) CA Release Automation
General
1 3 (37.50%) Banking
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) ISPF
2 1 (12.50%) LDAP
2 1 (12.50%) OAuth
2 1 (12.50%) OpenID
2 1 (12.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Mainframe
1 5 (62.50%) VSAM
2 4 (50.00%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) zOS
2 3 (37.50%) Linux
3 2 (25.00%) Android
3 2 (25.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (12.50%) Windows
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Problem Management
2 5 (62.50%) SDLC
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (50.00%) Release Management
4 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
4 3 (37.50%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (25.00%) Agile
5 2 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
5 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Systems Thinking
6 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
6 1 (12.50%) Migration
6 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) CLIST
1 5 (62.50%) JCL
1 5 (62.50%) REXX
2 2 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (12.50%) COBOL
3 1 (12.50%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (25.00%) Docker
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) OMEGAMON
2 4 (50.00%) CA Endevor
3 2 (25.00%) Istio
3 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (25.00%) Terraform
4 1 (12.50%) CA Single Sign-On
4 1 (12.50%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) IBM
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) AppDynamics
3 1 (12.50%) Broadcom
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Splunk
24 Platform Engineer jobs in the North West