Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Platform Engineering
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 25 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 14 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 4.40% 3.08% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.19% 4.08% -
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 0
10th Percentile £509 - -
25th Percentile £525 £418 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £435 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.89% - -
75th Percentile £580 £453 -
90th Percentile £636 £472 -
Hampshire median daily rate £562 £500 £581
% change year-on-year +12.30% -13.98% +16.25%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 226 147 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 71.07% 75.38% 92.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 90 92
10th Percentile £361 £378 £400
25th Percentile £461 £452 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £568
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -5.29% +13.50%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £678
90th Percentile £686 £629 £845
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £539 £582
% change year-on-year +2.09% -7.43% +10.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 27 84
10th Percentile £15.72 £25.15 £51.06
25th Percentile £48.32 £32.94 £53.40
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -12.82% -0.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £56.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.55 £61.50 £76.86
Hampshire median hourly rate £47.50 £41.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +15.85% -28.51% +9.24%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

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

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 27 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in Portsmouth

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (85.71%) AWS
2 11 (78.57%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.14%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Site Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) Keycloak
2 1 (7.14%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Windows
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 9 (64.29%) DevSecOps
2 9 (64.29%) Machine Learning
3 8 (57.14%) AI
3 8 (57.14%) DevOps
4 7 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
5 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (35.71%) SFIA
7 4 (28.57%) Agile
7 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (14.29%) Migration
9 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
9 2 (14.29%) Software Delivery
9 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
10 1 (7.14%) Incident Management
10 1 (7.14%) Logistics
10 1 (7.14%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) Python
2 7 (50.00%) Bash
3 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (78.57%) Security Cleared
2 7 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 11 (78.57%) Docker
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 6 (42.86%) Terraform
3 4 (28.57%) Ansible
4 2 (14.29%) Argo
4 2 (14.29%) Grafana
4 2 (14.29%) Progress Chef
4 2 (14.29%) Puppet
5 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
5 1 (7.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) VMware
2 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
2 1 (7.14%) Splunk