Platform Engineer Contracts in Bracknell

Platform Engineer
Berkshire > Bracknell

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Bracknell is £420, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 August 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
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bracknell 1.96% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £410 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - -
75th Percentile £430 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £420 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -20.00% +2.56%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Bracknell

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bracknell. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Bracknell with a recognized job title 87 125 146
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.29% 95.42% 93.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 43 55
10th Percentile £400 £244 £215
25th Percentile £438 £363 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -15.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £544 £619
90th Percentile £600 £600 £738
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 6
10th Percentile £32.05 £30.15 £28.00
25th Percentile £32.18 £41.06 £40.47
Median hourly rate £51.00 £42.00 £59.38
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -29.26% +394.79%
75th Percentile £67.63 £61.56 £62.34
90th Percentile £74.90 £68.84 £67.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.31 £61.65 £57.82
% change year-on-year -47.59% +6.63% +122.38%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bracknell

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Bracknell

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

For the 6 months to 28 August 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 Bracknell region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Unix
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Couchbase
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (100.00%) Security Patching
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Confluent
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) OCI
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bracknell 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) OCI
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (100.00%) Couchbase
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Confluent
1 2 (100.00%) IBM