Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Southampton
Platform Engineer
Hampshire > Southampton
The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Southampton is £562, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2026.
The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.
| 6 months to 25 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 21 | - | - |
| Rank change year-on-year | - | - | - |
| Contract Platform Engineer jobs | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| As % of all contract jobs in Southampton | 1.34% | - | - |
| As % of the Job Titles category | 1.47% | - | - |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 10th Percentile | £551 | - | - |
| 25th Percentile | £553 | - | - |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £562 | - | - |
| 75th Percentile | £578 | - | - |
| 90th Percentile | £584 | - | - |
| Hampshire median daily rate | £578 | £580 | £570 |
| % change year-on-year | -0.43% | +1.75% | +14.00% |
All Contract IT Job Roles
Southampton
For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job adverts in Southampton matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all contract IT job adverts they make up.
| 6 months to 25 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract job adverts in Southampton matching a recognised job title | 136 | 129 | 147 |
| % of contract job adverts matching a recognised job title | 91.28% | 85.43% | 96.71% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 54 | 77 | 98 |
| 10th Percentile | £180 | £129 | £200 |
| 25th Percentile | £375 | £403 | £240 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £519 | £500 | £416 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +3.75% | +20.12% | -20.71% |
| 75th Percentile | £597 | £569 | £600 |
| 90th Percentile | £688 | £680 | £653 |
| Hampshire median daily rate | £559 | £525 | £550 |
| % change year-on-year | +6.48% | -4.55% | +4.76% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 34 | 12 | 7 |
| 10th Percentile | £16.77 | £22.75 | - |
| 25th Percentile | £21.25 | £25.00 | - |
| Median hourly rate | £37.24 | £27.58 | £21.89 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +35.05% | +25.97% | +25.09% |
| 75th Percentile | £53.75 | £71.88 | - |
| 90th Percentile | £62.42 | £74.80 | £45.13 |
| Hampshire median hourly rate | £38.25 | £25.15 | £66.68 |
| % change year-on-year | +52.09% | -62.28% | +28.32% |
Platform Engineer Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton
Historical trend showing the proportion of contract Platform Engineer job postings relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton.
Platform Engineer Daily Rate Trend in Southampton
Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Platform Engineer job vacancies in Southampton.
Platform Engineer Skill Set Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton
For the 6 months to 25 October 2026, Platform Engineer contract job ads cited the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract Platform Engineer job ads across the Southampton region.
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Azure | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Azure AKS | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Azure DevOps | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | CI/CD | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Cloudflare | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | DevOps | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | GitHub | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | GitHub Actions | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Infrastructure as Code | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Kubernetes | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Microsoft | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Platform Engineering | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Terraform | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Zero Trust | 100.0% | 2 |
| 15 | Ansible | 50.0% | 1 |
| 15 | API Management | 50.0% | 1 |
| 15 | Architectural Patterns | 50.0% | 1 |
| 15 | Auto-Scaling | 50.0% | 1 |
| 15 | AWS | 50.0% | 1 |
| 15 | Bicep | 50.0% | 1 |
| 15 | Cloud Operations | 50.0% | 1 |
| 15 | Cloud Security | 50.0% | 1 |
| 15 | Continuous Improvement | 50.0% | 1 |
| 15 | Cost Optimisation | 50.0% | 1 |
| 15 | Disaster Recovery | 50.0% | 1 |
| 15 | GitLab | 50.0% | 1 |
| 15 | Grafana | 50.0% | 1 |
| 15 | Groovy | 50.0% | 1 |
| 15 | High Availability | 50.0% | 1 |
| 15 | Jenkins | 50.0% | 1 |
Platform Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Job Titles
| Rank | Job Title | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Azure Platform Engineer | 50.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Cloud Platform Engineer | 50.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Senior Platform Engineer | 50.0% | 1 |