Platform Engineering Contracts in Worcestershire

Platform Engineering
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Worcestershire requiring Platform Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 18 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Platform Engineering 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Worcestershire 4.35% 1.11% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.69% 1.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% - -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £675 £800
% change year-on-year -25.93% -15.63% +20.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64 75 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 92.75% 83.33% 89.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 63 53
10th Percentile £513 £276 £215
25th Percentile £525 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £465
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +12.90% +3.33%
75th Percentile £700 £588 £600
90th Percentile £868 £613 £606
West Midlands median daily rate £494 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.30% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 2
10th Percentile - - £23.23
25th Percentile - £10.50 £31.44
Median hourly rate £82.00 £14.74 £46.75
Median % change year-on-year +456.50% -68.48% +233.93%
75th Percentile - £30.99 £62.94
90th Percentile - £55.00 £71.68
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £21.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year +11.91% -20.91% +62.60%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Worcestershire

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Platform Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Worcestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineering within the Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Malvern - 3 £700 - 1
Worcester - 3 £700 -
Platform Engineering
West Midlands

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Worcestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform