Platform Engineering Contracts in the Midlands

Platform Engineering
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 123 142
Rank change year-on-year +12 +19 +44
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 14 15 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.68% 0.54% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.66% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 6
10th Percentile £456 £513 £319
25th Percentile £500 £554 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £675 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.44% +28.57% -8.70%
75th Percentile £552 £806 £674
90th Percentile £567 £925 £750
England median daily rate £550 £575 £613
% change year-on-year -4.35% -6.12% +4.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,818 2,267 2,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.42% 81.46% 87.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,531 1,990
10th Percentile £205 £231 £260
25th Percentile £358 £357 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £643 £688 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 173 97
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £12.30
25th Percentile £13.81 £14.00 £14.50
Median hourly rate £18.75 £19.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -15.56% +28.13%
75th Percentile £26.93 £35.00 £46.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £60.50
England median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the Midlands

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in the Midlands

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in the Midlands over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in the Midlands

Platform Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 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
West Midlands +9 11 £537 -20.44% 19
East Midlands - 3 £500 - 7
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
1 6 (42.86%) SaaS
2 5 (35.71%) Azure
3 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (21.43%) GitHub
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon Glacier
6 1 (7.14%) AWS KMS
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Batch
6 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
6 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
6 1 (7.14%) PowerApps
6 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) FTP
1 1 (7.14%) HTTP
1 1 (7.14%) SMTP
1 1 (7.14%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Big Data
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 4 (28.57%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) JIRA
3 1 (7.14%) Vagrant
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.14%) Replication
1 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Ubuntu
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (7.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) DevOps
1 6 (42.86%) Observability
2 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
2 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
2 3 (21.43%) High Availability
3 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 2 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (14.29%) Customer-Centric Approach
3 2 (14.29%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (14.29%) Open Source
3 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (14.29%) Server Building
4 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (7.14%) Data Engineering
4 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
4 1 (7.14%) Patch Management
4 1 (7.14%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) PowerShell
3 2 (14.29%) Bash
4 1 (7.14%) Bicep
4 1 (7.14%) Groovy
4 1 (7.14%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) Perl
4 1 (7.14%) Scala
4 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.14%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Terraform
2 4 (28.57%) Ansible
3 2 (14.29%) Grafana
3 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Dynatrace
2 3 (21.43%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow