Platform Engineer Contracts in the Thames Valley

Platform Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 134 144
Rank change year-on-year +39 +10 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 7 11 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.46% 0.41% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.44% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 6
10th Percentile £411 £414 £422
25th Percentile - £418 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% -6.32% -2.56%
75th Percentile - £538 £497
90th Percentile - £650 £613
South East median daily rate £500 £530 £588
% change year-on-year -5.66% -9.79% +2.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,405 2,505 2,767
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.98% 93.26% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 1,430 1,916
10th Percentile £300 £206 £313
25th Percentile £409 £370 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 189 76
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.78 £17.31
25th Percentile £16.94 £19.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £45.65 £45.00 £46.70
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -3.64% +166.86%
75th Percentile £65.62 £62.50 £66.21
90th Percentile £77.47 £84.57 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings that featured Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in the Thames Valley

Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer in the Thames Valley

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineer in the Thames Valley

Platform Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Platform Engineer in the Thames Valley

Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +33 6 £500 -23.08% 5
Buckinghamshire +10 1 £321 -26.21% 9
Platform Engineer
South East

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Platform Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Thames Valley region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) High Availability
1 7 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Azure
3 5 (71.43%) AWS
3 5 (71.43%) Open Source
3 5 (71.43%) Big Data
3 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
3 5 (71.43%) Ansible
3 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) Continuous Delivery
3 5 (71.43%) Server Building
3 5 (71.43%) Windows
3 5 (71.43%) Linux
3 5 (71.43%) Python
3 5 (71.43%) Configuration Management
3 5 (71.43%) Ubuntu
3 5 (71.43%) Finance
3 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
3 5 (71.43%) Git
3 5 (71.43%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) Customer-Centric Approach
3 5 (71.43%) Databricks
3 5 (71.43%) Terraform
3 5 (71.43%) Windows Server
3 5 (71.43%) Customer-Centricity
4 4 (57.14%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (57.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 4 (57.14%) GitHub
5 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
6 1 (14.29%) Storage Management

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (14.29%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Big Data
2 1 (14.29%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (14.29%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
1 5 (71.43%) Ubuntu
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) High Availability
1 7 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Configuration Management
2 5 (71.43%) Continuous Delivery
2 5 (71.43%) Customer-Centric Approach
2 5 (71.43%) Customer-Centricity
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Open Source
2 5 (71.43%) Server Building
3 4 (57.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (14.29%) Data Science
4 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) Security Management
4 1 (14.29%) Server Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) Storage Management
4 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
1 5 (71.43%) Python
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Ansible
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Databricks
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) SAP