Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in Swindon

Platform Engineering
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swindon requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 1.63% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £95 - -
25th Percentile £163 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £278 - -
75th Percentile £393 - -
90th Percentile £462 - -
Wiltshire median daily rate £505 £600 £530
% change year-on-year -15.83% +13.21% -13.47%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 152 89 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 82.61% 89.90% 78.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 60 65
10th Percentile £305 £233 £200
25th Percentile £375 £313 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% -11.43%
75th Percentile £603 £578 £550
90th Percentile £795 £621 £600
Wiltshire median daily rate £525 £563 £545
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.21% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 9
10th Percentile £21.20 - -
25th Percentile £30.36 - £12.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 - £16.50
75th Percentile £49.13 - £30.25
90th Percentile £49.75 - -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £25.15 £25.08 £14.54
% change year-on-year +0.30% +72.46% -78.93%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Swindon

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

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

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

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Swindon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in Swindon over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in Swindon

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) NonStop SQL
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) HTML5 Canvas
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Low-Code
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
2 1 (33.33%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Scala
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) NetBackup
1 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
1 1 (33.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Veritas
1 1 (33.33%) VMware