Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in Sunderland

Platform Engineering
Tyne and Wear > Sunderland

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sunderland 10.34% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.00% - -
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 £425 £450 -
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sunderland

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 Sunderland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 20 5 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sunderland 68.97% 83.33% 95.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 8
10th Percentile £223 £262 £334
25th Percentile £300 £373 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -6.98% +34.38%
75th Percentile £459 £578 £606
90th Percentile £563 £584 £659
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -2.06%
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 £58.75 £19.25 £18.50
% change year-on-year +205.19% +4.05% -5.13%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Sunderland

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Sunderland

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Sunderland

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

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

Platform Engineering
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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) IaaS
3 1 (33.33%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
3 1 (33.33%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) Server Migrations
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Commvault
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds
1 1 (33.33%) Veeam