Platform Engineering Contracts in the North East

Platform Engineering
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 13 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 35 37
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 +19
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 1.06% 0.42% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 0.49% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 £406 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £413 -
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% - -
75th Percentile £575 £419 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 225 205 239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 79.23% 85.42% 86.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 107 172
10th Percentile £225 £270 £319
25th Percentile £419 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -1.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £600
90th Percentile £638 £693 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 24 10
10th Percentile - £14.95 £16.93
25th Percentile £11.60 £18.25 £18.19
Median hourly rate £17.30 £42.23 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.03% +62.40% +57.58%
75th Percentile £20.63 £50.00 £33.75
90th Percentile £47.34 £70.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the North East

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in the North East

Platform Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 13 August 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
Tyne and Wear 0 2 £550 +33.33% 4
Durham - 1 - - 4
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Appium
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer in Test
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (33.33%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) OWASP
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Static Code Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Argo
2 1 (33.33%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Istio
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat