Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Reading

Platform Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Reading is £540, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 89 89
Rank change year-on-year +19 0 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 2 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.31% 0.19% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.21% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £476 - -
25th Percentile £495 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £400 £513
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -21.95% -2.38%
75th Percentile £585 - £559
90th Percentile £605 - £599
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £400 £513
% change year-on-year +18.75% -21.95% -9.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 607 968 1,009
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 89.96% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 537 667
10th Percentile £344 £334 £228
25th Percentile £450 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +8.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £607 £650 £623
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £508 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 25 12
10th Percentile £14.50 £48.18 £58.98
25th Percentile £14.75 £56.25 £61.04
Median hourly rate £28.50 £63.15 £64.31
Median % change year-on-year -54.87% -1.81% +26.10%
75th Percentile £68.75 £100.00 £69.56
90th Percentile £81.00 - £75.23
Berkshire median hourly rate £26.33 £61.06 £61.79
% change year-on-year -56.89% -1.18% +77.10%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Reading

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in Reading over the 6 months to 9 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineer in Reading

Platform Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 9 November 2025, Platform Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Reading region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (50.00%) OpenID
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) SAML
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Server Management
2 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Validation

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Server Management
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) VMware