Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in Reading

Platform Engineering
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading 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 59 91 87
Rank change year-on-year +32 -4 +10
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 3 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.51% 0.37% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.42% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile £427 - -
25th Percentile £468 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.94% -17.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile - £466 -
90th Percentile - £516 -
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £413 £500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -17.50% -12.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 533 950 979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.27% 87.08% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 520 660
10th Percentile £333 £349 £263
25th Percentile £450 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +5.77%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 23 16
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.50 £52.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £34.38 £60.47
Median hourly rate £37.28 £60.60 £64.31
Median % change year-on-year -38.48% -5.77% +21.34%
75th Percentile £58.00 £64.07 £74.20
90th Percentile £68.75 £84.94 £75.13
Berkshire median hourly rate £37.28 £60.46 £61.79
% change year-on-year -38.33% -2.16% +22.36%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Reading

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Platform Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Platform Engineering
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 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) IPsec
1 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Security Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Security Solutions Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Laravel
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Operational Technology
1 2 (66.67%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Architectural Design
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Resilience
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Data Lineage
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (66.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 2 (66.67%) Network Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (66.67%) Supplier Management
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft