Platform Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Platform Engineer
England > North of England

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £402, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 161 159
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 +56
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 13 17 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.33% 0.39% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.42% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 34
10th Percentile £301 £406 £502
25th Percentile £313 £420 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -28.53% -2.17% -2.13%
75th Percentile £500 £648 £594
90th Percentile £569 £668 £684
England median daily rate £538 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 3,616 4,002 5,094
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 92.36% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,337 2,475 3,469
10th Percentile £254 £263 £263
25th Percentile £368 £392 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% -2.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £643 £664 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 317 202
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.44 £15.30
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.32 £26.00 £22.84
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% +13.84% +12.43%
75th Percentile £45.13 £48.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £75.79 £70.00 £55.23
England median hourly rate £26.30 £43.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -38.84% -1.71% +70.97%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in the North of England

Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer in the North of England

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 28 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineer in the North of England

Platform Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Platform Engineer in the North of England

Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 28 July 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
North West -4 10 £386 -40.58% 20
Yorkshire -21 2 £613 +38.03% 7
North East -1 1 £550 +33.33% 4
Platform Engineer
England

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 28 July 2025, Platform Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 12 (92.31%) DevOps
3 7 (53.85%) IBM
4 6 (46.15%) Azure
4 6 (46.15%) AWS
4 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
5 5 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (38.46%) VSAM
5 5 (38.46%) ISPF
5 5 (38.46%) OMEGAMON
5 5 (38.46%) Problem Management
5 5 (38.46%) Python
5 5 (38.46%) CICS
5 5 (38.46%) REXX
5 5 (38.46%) zOS
5 5 (38.46%) Mainframe
5 5 (38.46%) JCL
5 5 (38.46%) Jenkins
5 5 (38.46%) SDLC
5 5 (38.46%) Time Sharing Option
5 5 (38.46%) CLIST
5 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (30.77%) Terraform
6 4 (30.77%) Docker
6 4 (30.77%) GCP
6 4 (30.77%) Configuration Management
6 4 (30.77%) Agile
6 4 (30.77%) Release Management
6 4 (30.77%) IBM Mainframe
6 4 (30.77%) CA Endevor

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (38.46%) CICS
2 2 (15.38%) Apache Spark
2 2 (15.38%) WebSphere
2 2 (15.38%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (7.69%) Apache
3 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (7.69%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Magento
1 1 (7.69%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) GCP
3 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) IBM Cloud
3 2 (15.38%) npm
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (7.69%) BigCommerce
4 1 (7.69%) Cloudflare
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
4 1 (7.69%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Calico
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (7.69%) BigQuery
1 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
1 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 4 (30.77%) Git
3 3 (23.08%) GitLab
4 2 (15.38%) Maven
5 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (7.69%) CA Release Automation
5 1 (7.69%) JIRA
5 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
5 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (7.69%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (23.08%) Banking
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) ISPF
2 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
2 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
2 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Mainframe
1 5 (38.46%) VSAM
2 4 (30.77%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) zOS
2 3 (23.08%) Linux
3 2 (15.38%) Android
3 2 (15.38%) Apple iOS
4 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 12 (92.31%) DevOps
3 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
4 5 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (38.46%) Problem Management
4 5 (38.46%) SDLC
5 4 (30.77%) Agile
5 4 (30.77%) Configuration Management
5 4 (30.77%) Release Management
6 3 (23.08%) Knowledge Transfer
6 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
7 2 (15.38%) Analytical Thinking
7 2 (15.38%) Analytics
7 2 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (15.38%) Systems Thinking
7 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) CLIST
1 5 (38.46%) JCL
1 5 (38.46%) Python
1 5 (38.46%) REXX
2 2 (15.38%) Bash
2 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.69%) Bicep
3 1 (7.69%) COBOL
3 1 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Time Sharing Option
2 4 (30.77%) Docker
3 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) OMEGAMON
2 4 (30.77%) CA Endevor
2 4 (30.77%) Terraform
3 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
4 2 (15.38%) Ansible
4 2 (15.38%) Istio
5 1 (7.69%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (7.69%) Grafana
5 1 (7.69%) Kibana
5 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
5 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) IBM
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Adobe
3 1 (7.69%) AppDynamics
3 1 (7.69%) Cloudera
3 1 (7.69%) Databricks
3 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.69%) Salesforce
3 1 (7.69%) SAP
3 1 (7.69%) Splunk
3 1 (7.69%) Virgin Media
3 1 (7.69%) WooCommerce