Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in Worcestershire

Platform Engineering
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Worcestershire requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 7.19% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £813 - -
90th Percentile £850 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £535 £685 £525
% change year-on-year -21.90% +30.48% -8.70%

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 109 59 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 78.42% 85.51% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 35 53
10th Percentile £380 £220 £200
25th Percentile £525 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £700 £613 £650
90th Percentile £738 £684 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 8
10th Percentile £14.87 £17.25 £16.35
25th Percentile £16.77 £20.30 £16.54
Median hourly rate £18.23 £21.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -15.59% +21.84% +0.11%
75th Percentile £19.31 £24.18 £33.81
90th Percentile £20.57 £30.67 £77.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.00 £21.80 £24.60
% change year-on-year -8.24% -11.40% +38.98%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend 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
Contract 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 12 December 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
Malvern - 10 £700 -
Worcester - 10 £700 - 3
Platform Engineering
West Midlands

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire 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 10 (100.00%) Azure
1 10 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 10 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 10 (100.00%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 10 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform