Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 193 276
Rank change year-on-year +91 +83 -1
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 702 204 94
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 2.48% 1.27% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 1.43% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 147 66
10th Percentile £394 £407 £410
25th Percentile £425 £463 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £583
90th Percentile £693 £700 £680
UK median daily rate £550 £536 £575
% change year-on-year +2.71% -6.87% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 0 1
10th Percentile £70.65 - -
25th Percentile £72.56 - £59.39
Median hourly rate £84.25 - £63.79
75th Percentile £99.71 - £68.18
90th Percentile £100.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £77.50 - £59.39
% change year-on-year - - -23.86%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

6 months to
20 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 23,080 14,308 14,237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.51% 89.17% 83.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,742 8,606 8,062
10th Percentile £300 £225 £245
25th Percentile £407 £369 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £671 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,001 1,594 964
10th Percentile £13.46 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.46 £16.95 £18.47
Median hourly rate £37.24 £22.27 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.26% -44.34% -5.88%
75th Percentile £65.00 £38.96 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.00 £66.50 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.24 £25.08 £39.50
% change year-on-year +48.51% -36.52% -7.06%

Platform Engineering Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineering Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Platform Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineering Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Platform Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Platform Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Platform Engineering in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineering Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 October 2026. 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
North of England +54 208 £513 +2.50% 267
South East +25 145 £580 +22.11% 207
Yorkshire +66 129 £513 -2.38% 90
Midlands +12 125 £458 -12.76% 72
South West +21 94 £550 -8.33% 115
West Midlands -19 89 £460 -12.38% 42
Scotland +24 88 £450 -17.43% 114
North West -16 66 £556 +23.61% 138
East Midlands - 35 £402 - 30
East of England -7 31 £525 - 72
North East -33 13 £425 -5.56% 39
Wales - 11 £325 - 25
Northern Ireland - 3 £600 - 36
Channel Islands - 1 - -
Platform Engineering
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Platform Engineering Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1CI/CD56.8%399
2DevOps52.4%368
3Infrastructure as Code47.7%335
4Observability29.3%206
5Containerisation20.5%144
6Agile20.4%143
7Continuous Improvement20.2%142
8Technical Leadership19.4%136
9DevSecOps17.7%124
10AI16.0%112
11Site Reliability Engineering14.8%104
12Infrastructure Engineering14.0%98
13Problem-Solving13.7%96
14Stakeholder Management13.1%92
15Software Engineering12.8%90
16Infrastructure Automation11.0%77
17Cybersecurity10.8%76
17Migration10.8%76
19Test Automation10.5%74
20Roadmaps10.3%72
901 Platform Engineering jobs in the UK excluding London