Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Platform Engineering
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
21 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 37 -
Rank change year-on-year -48 - -
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 3 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.42% 2.03% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 2.20% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £465 £491 -
25th Percentile £468 £549 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £599 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.67% - -
75th Percentile £513 £623 -
90th Percentile £528 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £599 £650
% change year-on-year -20.67% -7.88% +16.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 686 273 368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.28% 92.54% 96.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 153 232
10th Percentile £319 £220 £389
25th Percentile £400 £421 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.27% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £650
90th Percentile £613 £690 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £478 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -6.37% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £19.10
25th Percentile £14.71 £14.35 £20.00
Median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -19.58% +18.42%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.38 £23.75
90th Percentile - £21.05 £28.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £22.50
% change year-on-year +10.94% -19.58% +52.54%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
20 Platform Engineering jobs in Yorkshire