Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Platform Engineering
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 110 109
Rank change year-on-year +24 -1 +13
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 13 4 6
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.07% 0.24% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 0.28% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 3
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £410 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -17.50% -12.09%
75th Percentile £506 £466 £525
90th Percentile £536 £516 £540
South East median daily rate £475 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -13.64% -8.33% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,103 1,442 1,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 90.41% 87.93% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 696 757 986
10th Percentile £318 £323 £260
25th Percentile £413 £430 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 63 66
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.32 £22.80
25th Percentile £18.19 £41.25 £48.40
Median hourly rate £37.28 £60.46 £61.79
Median % change year-on-year -38.33% -2.16% +22.36%
75th Percentile £64.38 £64.08 £73.59
90th Percentile £82.90 £75.37 £76.55
South East median hourly rate £21.25 £59.25 £54.37
% change year-on-year -64.13% +8.97% +67.29%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Platform Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Platform Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 11 October 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 - 6 £423 -
Reading +32 3 £536 +29.94% 3
Wokingham - 2 £400 -
Platform Engineering
South East

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
1 7 (53.85%) AWS Lambda
1 7 (53.85%) Serverless
2 6 (46.15%) AWS CloudFormation
2 6 (46.15%) OCI
3 3 (23.08%) GitHub
4 2 (15.38%) Azure
4 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) IPsec
1 2 (15.38%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) NoSQL
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (46.15%) Couchbase
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.69%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) Git
General
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) Data Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Security Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Security Solutions Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) Kafka
2 2 (15.38%) ADO
2 2 (15.38%) YAML
3 1 (7.69%) Laravel
3 1 (7.69%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Replication
2 2 (15.38%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (15.38%) Operational Technology
2 2 (15.38%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Linux
1 6 (46.15%) Unix
2 2 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
1 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (46.15%) High Availability
2 6 (46.15%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (46.15%) Security Patching
3 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Architectural Design
4 2 (15.38%) Cyber Resilience
4 2 (15.38%) Data Lineage
4 2 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (15.38%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 2 (15.38%) Network Architecture
4 2 (15.38%) Network Segmentation
4 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) RBAC
4 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (15.38%) Supplier Management
4 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Confluent
1 6 (46.15%) IBM
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft