AWS Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in West Yorkshire is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 - 88
Rank change year-on-year - - +29
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Platform Engineer 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.24% - 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% - 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £530 - -
25th Percentile £538 - £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £515
75th Percentile £613 - £523
90th Percentile £620 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £575 - £515

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 797 751 1,331
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.68% 93.64% 97.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 462 867
10th Percentile £296 £315 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £478 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% -9.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £617
90th Percentile £675 £638 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -2.05% -2.91% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 36 17
10th Percentile £21.47 £16.94 £14.46
25th Percentile £22.14 £19.50 £16.92
Median hourly rate £27.50 £26.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +31.25% -5.15%
75th Percentile £81.25 £39.69 £23.75
90th Percentile - £48.75 £28.10
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.04 £23.34 £21.31
% change year-on-year +7.27% +9.53% +11.89%

AWS Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

AWS Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

AWS Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Platform Engineer job vacancies in West Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Platform Engineer job vacancies in West Yorkshire

AWS Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Platform Engineer within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 October 2025. 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
Leeds - 2 £575 -
AWS Platform Engineer
Yorkshire

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 17 October 2025, AWS 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 West Yorkshire region featuring AWS Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lake
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks