Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Platform Engineering
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.63% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £356 - -
25th Percentile £384 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £522 - -
90th Percentile £554 - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 285 180 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 90.19% 93.75% 84.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 92 99
10th Percentile £175 £278 £245
25th Percentile £364 £353 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% -7.22% -11.82%
75th Percentile £528 £588 £600
90th Percentile £583 £650 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £442 £452 £475
% change year-on-year -2.21% -4.84% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 1
10th Percentile £14.05 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £17.59 £14.83 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £16.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.00% - -28.89%
75th Percentile £53.75 £19.25 £16.50
90th Percentile £54.50 £19.93 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £27.63 £16.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +72.66% -8.57% -22.22%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Platform Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Platform Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in Newcastle upon Tyne

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Case Management
2 1 (50.00%) Content Management
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Argo
2 1 (50.00%) Istio
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat