Senior Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Senior Platform Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Senior Platform Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 131 -
Rank change year-on-year -32 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.032% 0.040% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% 0.043% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 £408 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £416 -
Median % change year-on-year +26.20% - -
75th Percentile £538 £424 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £575 £615 £600
% change year-on-year -6.50% +2.50% +9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,759 2,333 2,518
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.26% 92.99% 93.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 1,450 1,740
10th Percentile £216 £225 £213
25th Percentile £363 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £507 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 98 116
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.00 £14.19
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.38 £16.92
Median hourly rate £23.00 £23.82 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.44% +19.10% +13.90%
75th Percentile £27.21 £32.13 £31.59
90th Percentile £40.25 £50.75 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Senior Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Senior Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

Senior Platform Engineer
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 Senior Platform Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
East Midlands - 1 £525 - 3
Senior Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, 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 Midlands region featuring Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) ADO
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ADO
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet