Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Warrington

Platform Engineer
Cheshire > Warrington

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Warrington is £370, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Warrington 1.09% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.39% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £355 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 - -
75th Percentile £385 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £445 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Warrington

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Warrington. 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 Warrington with a recognized job title 72 43 69
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 78.26% 97.73% 79.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 24 41
10th Percentile £147 £252 £153
25th Percentile £214 £363 £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £469 £500 £500
90th Percentile £519 £534 £538
Cheshire median daily rate £449 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -5.82% -4.70% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 4
10th Percentile £13.36 - £37.36
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £42.27
Median hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -63.16% -
75th Percentile £23.58 £18.75 £56.25
90th Percentile £58.83 - £67.50
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £22.09 £33.54
% change year-on-year +3.44% -34.14% +56.00%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Warrington

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 Warrington.

Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Warrington

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

For the 6 months to 20 November 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 Warrington region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) SCOM
1 1 (100.00%) SCOrch
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VSAN
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warrington 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) VSAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) SCOM
1 1 (100.00%) SCOrch
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware