Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Platform Engineering
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 - 61
Rank change year-on-year - - +3
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 2 0 15
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.51% - 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% - 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 14
10th Percentile £440 - £565
25th Percentile £444 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £506 - -
90th Percentile £510 - -
South East median daily rate £500 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 362 414 652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 92.11% 88.46% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 288 516
10th Percentile £204 £203 £195
25th Percentile £250 £269 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £463 £519
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -10.84% -1.19%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £678 £641 £684
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £520
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.96% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 15 36
10th Percentile £25.15 £16.07 £19.87
25th Percentile £27.50 £24.18 £44.07
Median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £61.63
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% -51.32% +36.96%
75th Percentile £57.50 £73.45 £76.53
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.93
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £57.38 £53.50
% change year-on-year -61.66% +7.24% +22.99%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Surrey

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Platform Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Platform Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineering within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 25 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Camberley - 2 £475 - 1
Platform Engineering
South East

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Administrator
1 2 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (50.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Unix
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Server Management
2 1 (50.00%) Server Patching
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Dell
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Mellanox
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Solarflare