Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Stockport

Platform Engineer
Manchester > Stockport

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Stockport is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
16 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Stockport 8.33% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 16.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median daily rate £575 £638 £550
% change year-on-year -9.80% +15.91% -2.22%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Stockport

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Stockport. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Stockport with a recognized job title 6 11 18
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 50.00% 100.00% 90.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 13
10th Percentile £212 £289 £285
25th Percentile £301 - £302
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £550 £428 £575
90th Percentile £595 £500 £617
Manchester median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £11.62
25th Percentile - - £12.71
Median hourly rate - - £34.16
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.63%
75th Percentile - - £59.69
90th Percentile - - £63.63
Manchester median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +38.46% +44.44% -45.12%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Stockport

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Stockport.

Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Stockport

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 13 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stockport

For the 6 months to 16 February 2026, Platform Engineer contract job roles required 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 job ads across the Stockport region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stockport 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Platform Engineer jobs