Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Platform Engineering
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 1.24% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £672 - -
25th Percentile £675 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £683 - -
75th Percentile £696 - -
90th Percentile £701 - -
South West median daily rate £550 £600 £528
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.74% -16.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £100.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £100.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 316 160 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 78.41% 93.57% 74.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 99 99
10th Percentile £355 £225 £200
25th Percentile £413 £373 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £530
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -1.89% +8.72%
75th Percentile £670 £675 £600
90th Percentile £726 £775 £640
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 24 32
10th Percentile £26.65 £15.65 £12.50
25th Percentile £50.31 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +210.64% -25.96% -50.74%
75th Percentile £58.75 £60.94 £40.00
90th Percentile £63.38 £63.75 £59.93
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £26.89 £55.25
% change year-on-year +113.83% -51.33% -15.00%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Somerset

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

Platform Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 9 July 2026. 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
Yeovil - 4 £683 - 12
Platform Engineering
South West

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DHCP
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (80.00%) VSAN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Principal Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) PKI
2 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Customer Requirements
2 4 (80.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) SIEM
2 4 (80.00%) Systems Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (60.00%) Converged Infrastructure
3 3 (60.00%) Feasibility Study
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) IT Strategy
3 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (60.00%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Bash
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 5 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) VCAP
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
1 5 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (80.00%) VMware NSX
2 4 (80.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (20.00%) Thales