Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Platform Engineering
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 0.33% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 - -
75th Percentile £435 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £430 £475 -
% change year-on-year -9.47% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 293 207 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 96.07% 88.84% 94.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 156 127
10th Percentile £302 £340 £213
25th Percentile £350 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -10.53% -0.52%
75th Percentile £450 £520 £538
90th Percentile £550 £598 £588
East Midlands median daily rate £418 £445 £480
% change year-on-year -6.18% -7.29% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 15
10th Percentile - - £13.60
25th Percentile - £23.10 £18.95
Median hourly rate £21.39 £24.20 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.61% -52.55% +56.92%
75th Percentile - £25.30 £51.50
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.84% +3.33% +32.86%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Platform Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
Northampton - 1 £430 -
Platform Engineering
East Midlands

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Ab Initio Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
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%) Complex ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Ab Initio