Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Sunderland

Platform Engineer
Tyne and Wear > Sunderland

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Sunderland is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sunderland 6.67% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 7.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £500 £550 -
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Sunderland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Sunderland. 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 Sunderland with a recognized job title 26 6 19
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.67% 100.00% 95.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 8
10th Percentile £245 £287 £334
25th Percentile £325 £435 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -6.98% +26.47%
75th Percentile £425 £575 £606
90th Percentile £508 £583 £659
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £453 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -4.74% +5.56% -7.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.00 - -
Median hourly rate £32.50 - -
75th Percentile £39.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £67.25 £19.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year +249.35% -67.92% +252.94%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sunderland

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 Sunderland.

Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Sunderland

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sunderland

For the 6 months to 11 October 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 Sunderland region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) Commvault
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (50.00%) Server Migrations
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sunderland 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 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (50.00%) Server Migrations
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Commvault
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (50.00%) Veeam