Platform Engineering Contracts in Reading

Platform Engineering
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Platform Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 - 95
Rank change year-on-year - - -33
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 5 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.42% - 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% - 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £443 - £423
25th Percentile £488 - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -35.48%
75th Percentile £650 - £556
90th Percentile - - £575
Berkshire median daily rate £588 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -9.62% +30.00% -35.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Platform Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,069 922 1,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 89.98% 89.78% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 620 822
10th Percentile £213 £363 £263
25th Percentile £413 £460 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £669 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 23 8
10th Percentile £20.17 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £61.65 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.16% +132.14% -35.63%
75th Percentile £80.69 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.49 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.57 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +4.76% +174.67% -1.06%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Reading

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in Reading

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in Reading over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in Reading

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) IaaS
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
2 2 (40.00%) Git
3 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (40.00%) YAML
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
1 2 (40.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) API Management
2 1 (20.00%) B2C
2 1 (20.00%) Boundary Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Change Advisory Board
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) GitOps
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (20.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (20.00%) RBAC
2 1 (20.00%) Release Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (40.00%) vSphere
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Packer
2 2 (40.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) BMC
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Remedy
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow