Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in Warrington

Platform Engineering
Cheshire > Warrington

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Warrington requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in 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 citing Platform Engineering 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Warrington 1.09% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% - -
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 £409 - £582
% change year-on-year - - +78.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Warrington

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 Warrington.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 71 39 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warrington 77.17% 88.64% 83.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 20 34
10th Percentile £163 £315 £173
25th Percentile £300 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £488 £505 £509
90th Percentile £519 £539 £573
Cheshire median daily rate £446 £498 £510
% change year-on-year -10.55% -2.34% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 3
10th Percentile £13.36 - £19.02
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £28.77
Median hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -61.11% +341.18%
75th Percentile £23.58 £18.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £58.83 - £69.00
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £29.94 £24.81
% change year-on-year -23.69% +20.71% +109.15%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Warrington

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Platform Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Warrington.

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Warrington

Platform Engineering
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
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
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%) 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