Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Platform Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Berkshire is £420, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 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
25 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 107 108
Rank change year-on-year +21 +1 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 5 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.42% 0.12% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.13% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £410 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £434 - £563
90th Percentile £436 - £600
South East median daily rate £500 £570 £600
% change year-on-year -12.28% -5.00% +4.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,086 1,536 1,656
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.73% 91.05% 94.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 700 821 1,051
10th Percentile £300 £313 £263
25th Percentile £406 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £693 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 73 60
10th Percentile £14.75 £32.53 £18.36
25th Percentile £16.66 £55.87 £46.46
Median hourly rate £32.18 £61.60 £58.44
Median % change year-on-year -47.76% +5.40% +16.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.24 £72.65
90th Percentile £87.28 £97.50 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £51.66
% change year-on-year -56.26% +11.30% +111.81%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Berkshire

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Platform Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 25 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
Bracknell - 5 £420 - 1
Platform Engineer
South East

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 25 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 Berkshire region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Unix
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) IBM
1 5 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 5 (100.00%) Replication
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 5 (100.00%) High Availability
1 5 (100.00%) Kafka
1 5 (100.00%) Couchbase
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 5 (100.00%) Security Patching
1 5 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
1 5 (100.00%) Serverless
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (100.00%) Confluent
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 5 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) OCI
2 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (40.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 5 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (100.00%) OCI
1 5 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 5 (100.00%) Couchbase
1 5 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Replication
2 2 (40.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) High Availability
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 5 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Confluent
1 5 (100.00%) IBM