Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Platform Engineering
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 24 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 6.90% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.79% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 20 0 0
10th Percentile £506 - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 - -
75th Percentile £552 - -
90th Percentile £553 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £536 £685 £525
% change year-on-year -21.75% +30.48% -8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 308 94 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 88.51% 83.93% 77.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 64 22
10th Percentile £400 £215 £264
25th Percentile £441 £367 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £481 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.31% +20.13% -24.53%
75th Percentile £538 £529 £478
90th Percentile £553 £567 £500
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £26.13 - -
25th Percentile £27.59 - -
Median hourly rate £31.31 £12.18 -
Median % change year-on-year +157.02% - -
75th Percentile £36.30 £17.89 -
90th Percentile £38.53 £21.32 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £23.60 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.04% +2.61% +29.80%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in Shropshire over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in Shropshire

Platform Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Telford - 23 £539 - 3
Platform Engineering
West Midlands

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 7 (29.17%) WebLogic
2 6 (25.00%) Apache
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.17%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) AWS
2 6 (25.00%) Azure
2 6 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) DNS
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) GitLab
2 2 (8.33%) Cucumber
2 2 (8.33%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) JUnit
2 2 (8.33%) Maven
2 2 (8.33%) Mockito
2 2 (8.33%) Selenium
3 1 (4.17%) MSI
General
1 12 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (87.50%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Monitoring Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Splunk Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Java Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) Spring
1 3 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 2 (8.33%) Gherkin
2 2 (8.33%) GraalVM
2 2 (8.33%) HTML
2 2 (8.33%) JDBC
2 2 (8.33%) JPA
2 2 (8.33%) JSON
2 2 (8.33%) OAuth
2 2 (8.33%) OAuth2
2 2 (8.33%) OpenID
2 2 (8.33%) Playwright
2 2 (8.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (4.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Windows
2 7 (29.17%) Linux
2 7 (29.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) Observability
2 14 (58.33%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 12 (50.00%) Service Management
4 11 (45.83%) Analytics
4 11 (45.83%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (45.83%) Full-Stack Development
4 11 (45.83%) Log Analytics
4 11 (45.83%) Performance Monitoring
4 11 (45.83%) Proactive Management
4 11 (45.83%) Synthetic Monitoring
4 11 (45.83%) Test Strategy
5 10 (41.67%) Incident Management
5 10 (41.67%) Visualisation
6 2 (8.33%) Agile
6 2 (8.33%) Migration
6 2 (8.33%) OO
6 2 (8.33%) Scrum
6 2 (8.33%) Software Engineering
6 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 20 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 20 (83.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.33%) Grafana
2 2 (8.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 19 (79.17%) Dynatrace
2 16 (66.67%) Splunk
3 12 (50.00%) AppDynamics
4 11 (45.83%) Cisco
5 6 (25.00%) Oracle
6 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
7 1 (4.17%) CheckPoint
7 1 (4.17%) Fujitsu