Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Platform Engineering
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 3.31% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £529 - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £489 £581
% change year-on-year +12.47% -15.87% +16.25%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 122 101 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 80.79% 81.45% 68.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 59 79
10th Percentile £170 £195 £213
25th Percentile £375 £414 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £634
90th Percentile £688 £714 £660
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.70% +12.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 1 10
10th Percentile £12.21 - £13.13
25th Percentile £14.47 - £66.88
Median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% -6.25% +196.30%
75th Percentile £62.23 - -
90th Percentile £72.60 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year -11.11% -21.53% +6.70%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Southampton

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

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

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

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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 4 (80.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Cloudflare
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (20.00%) Azure API Management
4 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Principal Architect
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Observability
3 2 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) Auto-Scaling
3 2 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (40.00%) High Availability
3 2 (40.00%) Refactoring
3 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) API Management
4 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) GitOps
4 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bicep
2 1 (20.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Grafana
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (20.00%) Argo
3 1 (20.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk
1 1 (20.00%) VMware