Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in Stockport

Platform Engineering
Manchester > Stockport

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Stockport requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Stockport 10.00% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.00% - -
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 £500 £357 £650
% change year-on-year +40.25% -45.15% +10.64%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Stockport

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 Stockport.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10 12 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stockport 100.00% 92.31% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 2
10th Percentile £181 - £293
25th Percentile £250 - £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +14.29% -33.33%
75th Percentile £625 £472 £397
90th Percentile £693 £601 £418
Manchester median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -66.15%
Manchester median hourly rate £60.50 £22.63 £38.75
% change year-on-year +167.34% -41.60% +98.72%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Stockport

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Stockport

Platform Engineering
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
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
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%) Software Engineering
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform