Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Platform Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £613, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 92 104
Rank change year-on-year -26 +12 +22
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 2 13 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.13% 0.86% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.96% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 8
10th Percentile £521 £401 £504
25th Percentile £553 £406 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £524 £528
Median % change year-on-year +16.95% -0.71% -18.85%
75th Percentile £678 £622 £656
90th Percentile £714 £627 £743
England median daily rate £530 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -7.83% -4.17% +2.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,434 1,352 1,984
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 89.89% 96.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 930 822 1,297
10th Percentile £230 £276 £253
25th Percentile £371 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £610
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 58 37
10th Percentile £17.27 £14.97 £12.17
25th Percentile £18.10 £16.72 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.14 £22.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.64% +7.32% +7.89%
75th Percentile £81.25 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile - £48.75 £44.20
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Yorkshire

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineer in Yorkshire

Platform Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Platform Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Platform Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire

Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
West Yorkshire -14 2 £613 +48.48% 6
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 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 Yorkshire region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) BigCommerce
2 1 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Adobe
2 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) Magento
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Shopify
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Cloudflare
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) WooCommerce

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Magento
1 1 (50.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) BigCommerce
2 1 (50.00%) Cloudflare
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) WooCommerce