Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Platform Engineering
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 87 38 54
Rank change year-on-year -49 +16 +3
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 3 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.39% 1.86% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 2.01% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile £465 £491 -
25th Percentile £468 £549 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £599 £650
Median % change year-on-year -20.67% -7.88% +16.85%
75th Percentile £513 £623 -
90th Percentile £528 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £518 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +3.50% -20.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 734 298 421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.08% 92.55% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 171 257
10th Percentile £316 £213 £380
25th Percentile £400 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £538 £599 £625
90th Percentile £635 £675 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 6
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £19.25
25th Percentile £14.71 £14.35 £20.31
Median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -19.58% +52.54%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.38 £29.38
90th Percentile - £21.05 £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year +11.78% +5.58% -0.30%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 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
Sheffield -48 3 £475 -20.67% 1
Platform Engineering
Yorkshire

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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