Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in West Drayton

Platform Engineering
Hillingdon > West Drayton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Drayton requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Drayton 8.33% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.09% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £763 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 - -
75th Percentile £788 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hillingdon median daily rate £756 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -38.46%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Drayton

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 West Drayton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11 7 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Drayton 91.67% 77.78% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 9
10th Percentile - £400 £463
25th Percentile £556 £400 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £407 £650
Median % change year-on-year +90.65% -37.46% +30.00%
75th Percentile £900 £423 -
90th Percentile - £432 £655
Hillingdon median daily rate £700 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +75.00% -15.79% -20.83%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in West Drayton

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in West Drayton

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Drayton 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%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Maintenance
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management