Platform Engineer Contracts in Wiltshire

Platform Engineer
South West > Wiltshire

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Wiltshire is £585, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 88 84
Rank change year-on-year +40 -4 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 9 1 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 2.00% 0.11% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.24% 0.12% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 7
10th Percentile £499 - £456
25th Percentile £568 £550 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £650 £575
90th Percentile £665 - £623
South West median daily rate £585 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +6.36% - -2.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Wiltshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Wiltshire. 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 Wiltshire with a recognized job title 401 860 1,040
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.31% 91.10% 94.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 641 866
10th Percentile £270 £263 £338
25th Percentile £463 £460 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.18%
75th Percentile £626 £650 £651
90th Percentile £688 £725 £723
South West median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 24 16
10th Percentile £18.58 - £40.63
25th Percentile £18.69 £14.25 £61.13
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.75 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.06% -68.32% +19.09%
75th Percentile £39.44 £74.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £51.77 - £83.75
South West median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.45% -15.38% +38.30%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Job postings that featured Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Wiltshire

Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in Wiltshire.

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer in Wiltshire

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineer in Wiltshire

Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Corsham +39 9 £585 -2.50% 2
Platform Engineer
South West

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Platform Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Wiltshire region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
1 9 (100.00%) VMware
1 9 (100.00%) Ansible
1 9 (100.00%) Terraform
1 9 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (88.89%) NsoIT
2 8 (88.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 8 (88.89%) Platform Engineering
2 8 (88.89%) PowerShell
2 8 (88.89%) Git
2 8 (88.89%) Configuration Management
2 8 (88.89%) Python
3 7 (77.78%) Software Engineering
3 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
5 1 (11.11%) GitOps
5 1 (11.11%) Critical Thinking
5 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
5 1 (11.11%) Degree
5 1 (11.11%) JIRA
5 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
5 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
5 1 (11.11%) PowerCLI
5 1 (11.11%) vCenter Server
5 1 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
5 1 (11.11%) Active Directory

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) IaaS
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Configuration Management
1 8 (88.89%) NsoIT
1 8 (88.89%) Platform Engineering
2 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (77.78%) Software Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) Benchmarking
3 1 (11.11%) Coaching
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (11.11%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) GitOps
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL
3 1 (11.11%) Pair Programming
3 1 (11.11%) Security Hardening
3 1 (11.11%) Service Management
3 1 (11.11%) TDD
3 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) PowerShell
1 8 (88.89%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (88.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) MCSA
3 1 (11.11%) MCSE
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (11.11%) OCA
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Ansible
1 9 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Nessus
2 1 (11.11%) Packer
2 1 (11.11%) PowerCLI
2 1 (11.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds
2 1 (11.11%) Veeam