Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Warwickshire

Platform Engineer
West Midlands > Warwickshire

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Warwickshire is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 - 42
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 1 0 8
As % of all contract jobs in Warwickshire 0.13% - 2.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% - 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £430
25th Percentile £375 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £557
75th Percentile £425 - £570
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £475 £570
% change year-on-year +5.26% -16.67% +68.89%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Warwickshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Warwickshire. 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 Warwickshire with a recognized job title 682 431 348
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.81% 91.70% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 378 275 242
10th Percentile £363 £255 £376
25th Percentile £425 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £580
Median % change year-on-year - -13.79% +0.87%
75th Percentile £633 £588 £672
90th Percentile £788 £683 £775
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 34 17
10th Percentile £14.08 £21.98 £12.68
25th Percentile £27.24 £28.26 £13.46
Median hourly rate £32.00 £34.45 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.10% +81.29% +5.56%
75th Percentile £33.99 £50.00 £26.92
90th Percentile £37.80 - £35.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.00 £24.34 £19.00
% change year-on-year +35.58% +28.11% -5.00%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire.

Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Warwickshire

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Warwickshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Platform Engineer job vacancies in Warwickshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Platform Engineer job vacancies in Warwickshire

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warwickshire

For the 6 months to 24 July 2026, 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 Warwickshire region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warwickshire 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware