Senior Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Nottingham

Senior Platform Engineer
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The median Senior Platform Engineer daily rate in Nottingham is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Nottingham 0.66% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £525 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Nottingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Nottingham. 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 Nottingham with a recognized job title 141 136 160
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.38% 90.67% 95.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 71 128
10th Percentile £186 £313 £288
25th Percentile £331 £389 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +1.01% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £650
90th Percentile £638 £613 £745
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £464 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -7.25% +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 5 13
10th Percentile £16.17 £13.16 £11.25
25th Percentile £16.35 £13.52 £13.25
Median hourly rate £17.87 £14.80 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.74% -1.33% +36.36%
75th Percentile - £15.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £25.15 £15.06 £85.00
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate £17.87 £15.05 £17.71
% change year-on-year +18.74% -15.02% +61.00%

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottingham

For the 6 months to 27 November 2025, Senior Platform Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Nottingham region featuring Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) ADO
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ADO
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
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%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet