Senior Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Senior Platform Engineer
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Senior Platform Engineer daily rate in Milton Keynes is £615, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.86% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £598 - -
25th Percentile £607 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 - -
75th Percentile £622 - -
90th Percentile £636 - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £615 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Milton Keynes

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Milton Keynes. 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 Milton Keynes with a recognized job title 682 228 273
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.71% 94.61% 94.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 155 199
10th Percentile £365 £217 £248
25th Percentile £456 £353 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £430 £450
Median % change year-on-year +22.09% -4.44% -10.00%
75th Percentile £595 £538 £538
90th Percentile £629 £638 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +20.00% -2.78% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 8
10th Percentile - £14.23 £17.52
25th Percentile £15.05 £15.12 £18.65
Median hourly rate £38.63 £15.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year +149.23% -40.95% +93.44%
75th Percentile £43.75 £18.00 £36.19
90th Percentile £58.75 £25.15 £37.12
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £22.50 £15.25 £19.35
% change year-on-year +47.54% -21.19% +14.16%

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Senior Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes

For the 6 months to 13 September 2026, 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 Milton Keynes region featuring Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (83.33%) Bicep
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) Terraform
3 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
3 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Firewall
3 4 (66.67%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (50.00%) Analytics
4 3 (50.00%) ARM Templates
4 3 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (50.00%) Bash
4 3 (50.00%) Data Collection
4 3 (50.00%) Degree
4 3 (50.00%) DHCP
4 3 (50.00%) DNS
4 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 3 (50.00%) Linux
4 3 (50.00%) Log Analytics
4 3 (50.00%) Migration

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) DHCP
2 3 (50.00%) DNS
2 3 (50.00%) Network Security
2 3 (50.00%) SSH
2 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (33.33%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (50.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (33.33%) ARM Cortex
3 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (16.67%) PKI
4 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
3 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (50.00%) Analytics
4 3 (50.00%) Data Collection
4 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 3 (50.00%) Migration
4 3 (50.00%) Observability
4 3 (50.00%) Resource Management
4 3 (50.00%) Security Hardening
4 3 (50.00%) Security Operations
4 3 (50.00%) Server Patching
4 3 (50.00%) Task Automation
4 3 (50.00%) Validation
4 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Bicep
2 3 (50.00%) Bash
2 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (33.33%) SCCM
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) CrowdStrike