Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Telford

Platform Engineer
Shropshire > Telford

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Telford is £536, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 20 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 6.54% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 7.27% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 18 0 0
10th Percentile £504 - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 - -
75th Percentile £540 - -
90th Percentile £552 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £536 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Telford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Telford. 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 Telford with a recognized job title 275 77 29
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.87% 88.51% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 62 20
10th Percentile £389 £308 £286
25th Percentile £429 £434 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £484 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +21.00% -24.53%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £489
90th Percentile £553 £565 £505
Shropshire median daily rate £492 £477 £400
% change year-on-year +3.14% +19.25% -24.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £18.68 £12.18 -
% change year-on-year +53.37% - -

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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 Telford.

Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Telford

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Platform Engineer job vacancies in Telford.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Platform Engineer job vacancies in Telford

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Telford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in Telford over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineer in Telford

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford

For the 6 months to 15 December 2025, 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 Telford region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 17 (85.00%) Dynatrace
2 17 (85.00%) SC Cleared
2 17 (85.00%) Security Cleared
3 14 (70.00%) Splunk
4 13 (65.00%) Observability
5 12 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (50.00%) AppDynamics
6 10 (50.00%) Incident Response
6 10 (50.00%) Service Management
7 9 (45.00%) Analytics
7 9 (45.00%) Cisco
7 9 (45.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (45.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (45.00%) Log Analytics
7 9 (45.00%) Performance Monitoring
7 9 (45.00%) Proactive Management
7 9 (45.00%) Synthetic Monitoring
7 9 (45.00%) Test Strategy
8 8 (40.00%) Incident Management
8 8 (40.00%) Visualisation
9 7 (35.00%) SQL
9 7 (35.00%) Windows
10 6 (30.00%) Linux
10 6 (30.00%) Unix
10 6 (30.00%) WebLogic
11 5 (25.00%) Apache
11 5 (25.00%) AWS
11 5 (25.00%) Azure
11 5 (25.00%) Azure Monitor

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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 6 (30.00%) WebLogic
2 5 (25.00%) Apache
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (5.00%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) AWS
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
1 5 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 4 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) GitLab
1 1 (5.00%) MSI
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Spring
1 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (5.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Windows
2 6 (30.00%) Linux
2 6 (30.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 13 (65.00%) Observability
3 12 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (50.00%) Incident Response
4 10 (50.00%) Service Management
5 9 (45.00%) Analytics
5 9 (45.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (45.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (45.00%) Log Analytics
5 9 (45.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 9 (45.00%) Proactive Management
5 9 (45.00%) Synthetic Monitoring
5 9 (45.00%) Test Strategy
6 8 (40.00%) Incident Management
6 8 (40.00%) Visualisation
7 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
8 1 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (5.00%) Server Management
8 1 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 1 (5.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (85.00%) SC Cleared
1 17 (85.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (85.00%) Dynatrace
2 14 (70.00%) Splunk
3 10 (50.00%) AppDynamics
4 9 (45.00%) Cisco
5 5 (25.00%) Oracle
6 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
7 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
7 1 (5.00%) Fujitsu