Senior Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Senior Platform Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Senior Platform Engineer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £615, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.19% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £598 - -
25th Percentile £607 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 - -
75th Percentile £622 - -
90th Percentile £636 - -
South East median daily rate £615 £414 -
% change year-on-year +48.72% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 2,829 1,498 2,044
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.67% 91.29% 91.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,764 930 1,154
10th Percentile £336 £259 £263
25th Percentile £431 £391 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -1.28% +1.30%
75th Percentile £610 £598 £608
90th Percentile £709 £655 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 90 105
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.20 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.25 £15.12 £30.41
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £61.06
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -58.81% +24.45%
75th Percentile £82.75 £60.63 £72.33
90th Percentile £103.50 £87.28 £90.00
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £57.35
% change year-on-year +98.81% -56.15% +14.70%

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Senior Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Senior Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Platform Engineer job vacancies in the Thames Valley.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Platform Engineer job vacancies in the Thames Valley

Senior 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 Senior Platform Engineer within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 September 2026. 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
Buckinghamshire - 6 £615 - 7
Senior Platform Engineer
South East

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 13 September 2026, Senior 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 Thames Valley region featuring Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (83.33%) Bicep
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) Terraform
3 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
3 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Firewall
3 4 (66.67%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (50.00%) Analytics
4 3 (50.00%) ARM Templates
4 3 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (50.00%) Bash
4 3 (50.00%) Data Collection
4 3 (50.00%) Degree
4 3 (50.00%) DHCP
4 3 (50.00%) DNS
4 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 3 (50.00%) Linux
4 3 (50.00%) Log Analytics
4 3 (50.00%) Migration

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) DHCP
2 3 (50.00%) DNS
2 3 (50.00%) Network Security
2 3 (50.00%) SSH
2 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (33.33%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (50.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (33.33%) ARM Cortex
3 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (16.67%) PKI
4 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
3 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (50.00%) Analytics
4 3 (50.00%) Data Collection
4 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 3 (50.00%) Migration
4 3 (50.00%) Observability
4 3 (50.00%) Resource Management
4 3 (50.00%) Security Hardening
4 3 (50.00%) Security Operations
4 3 (50.00%) Server Patching
4 3 (50.00%) Task Automation
4 3 (50.00%) Validation
4 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Bicep
2 3 (50.00%) Bash
2 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (33.33%) SCCM
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) CrowdStrike