Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Workington

Platform Engineer
Cumbria > Workington

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Workington is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026.

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

 6 months to
10 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Workington 33.33% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 33.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cumbria median daily rate £525 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Workington

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Workington. 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 Workington with a recognized job title 3 0 4
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% - 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £528
75th Percentile £538 - £542
90th Percentile - - -
Cumbria median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +26.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
Median hourly rate £25.49 - £10.95
Cumbria median hourly rate £32.90 £43.09 £13.00
% change year-on-year -23.65% +231.46% -76.76%

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 14 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Workington

For the 6 months to 10 April 2026, 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 Workington region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Workington 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Platform Engineer jobs