Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in Nottingham

Platform Engineering
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottingham requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 21 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Nottingham 1.61% 1.63% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.15% 1.82% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £514 - -
25th Percentile £516 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -
75th Percentile £534 - -
90th Percentile £536 - -
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £525 £500 -
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Nottingham

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 Nottingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 186 110 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottingham 75.00% 89.43% 82.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 66 69
10th Percentile £190 £259 £290
25th Percentile £394 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.85% +1.01% -7.48%
75th Percentile £574 £530 £600
90th Percentile £656 £559 £676
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £425 £495 £475
% change year-on-year -14.14% +4.21% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 1 12
10th Percentile £12.95 - £12.45
25th Percentile £13.54 - £13.89
Median hourly rate £16.26 £16.11 £14.86
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +8.41% -6.54%
75th Percentile £16.35 - £18.19
90th Percentile £16.64 - £25.73
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate £16.18 £13.81 £15.00
% change year-on-year +17.13% -7.93% -10.18%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Nottingham

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Nottingham

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

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

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottingham 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 4 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
1 4 (100.00%) SonarQube
2 3 (75.00%) Artifactory
2 3 (75.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps Architect
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (75.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (75.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Istio
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Puppet