Platform Engineering Contracts in Yorkshire

Platform Engineering
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 14 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 98 93
Rank change year-on-year +1 -5 +25
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 9 9 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.67% 0.53% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.63% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 22
10th Percentile £510 £470 £506
25th Percentile £513 £481 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £588 £572 £661
90th Percentile £618 £615 £786
England median daily rate £525 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,244 1,424 1,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.22% 83.81% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 774 857 1,268
10th Percentile £263 £288 £285
25th Percentile £381 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £625
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
England median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 61 49
10th Percentile £15.63 - -
25th Percentile £18.29 £12.15 £10.63
Median hourly rate £22.14 £13.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.00% -18.18% -11.76%
75th Percentile £25.15 £21.50 £22.00
90th Percentile £32.22 £48.75 £44.10
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% -4.70% +53.85%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Yorkshire

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in Yorkshire

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in Yorkshire

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 July 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
South Yorkshire +1 7 £575 - 8
West Yorkshire +3 2 £613 +22.50% 11
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
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 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Magento
1 1 (11.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) BigCommerce
2 1 (11.11%) Cloudflare
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (11.11%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Lead DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
1 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
1 8 (88.89%) DevOps
2 7 (77.78%) Microservices
2 7 (77.78%) The Twelve-Factor App
3 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
3 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (11.11%) Scrum
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 7 (77.78%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Terraform
2 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Adobe
1 1 (11.11%) Databricks
1 1 (11.11%) Google
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
1 1 (11.11%) SAP
1 1 (11.11%) WooCommerce