Platform Engineering Contracts in Telford

Platform Engineering
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Telford requiring Platform Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 - 57
Rank change year-on-year - - +21
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 8 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Telford 7.41% - 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.62% - 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - £538
25th Percentile £537 - £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £580
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.77%
75th Percentile £552 - £605
90th Percentile - - £607
Shropshire median daily rate £544 - £580
% change year-on-year - - -2.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 105 73 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 97.22% 62.39% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 45 119
10th Percentile £315 £341 £412
25th Percentile £448 £358 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £400 £540
Median % change year-on-year +23.50% -25.93% +8.00%
75th Percentile £537 £500 £545
90th Percentile £541 £520 £595
Shropshire median daily rate £484 £378 £538
% change year-on-year +28.04% -29.74% +6.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - £10.42 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -81.05% -
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - £11.85 -
Shropshire median hourly rate £12.18 £10.42 £55.00
% change year-on-year +16.89% -81.05% +214.29%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Telford.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Telford

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Telford

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in Telford.

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in Telford

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Telford by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) SaaS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Observability
2 1 (12.50%) Agile
2 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
2 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
2 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
2 1 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) High Availability
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
2 1 (12.50%) Software Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bash
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Dynatrace