Platform Engineer Contracts in Reading

Platform Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Reading is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 - 96
Rank change year-on-year - - -32
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.34% - 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% - 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £540 - £415
25th Percentile £581 - £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £450
75th Percentile - - £500
90th Percentile - - £515
Berkshire median daily rate £650 £650 £450
% change year-on-year - +44.44% +5.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,110 987 1,281
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.43% 95.64% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 631 657 874
10th Percentile £213 £363 £184
25th Percentile £413 £455 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £599
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -2.38% +7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 25 7
10th Percentile £35.00 £18.03 £12.30
25th Percentile £52.90 £48.40 £17.63
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +150.00% -40.23%
75th Percentile £74.66 £74.00 £32.50
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £33.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £59.50 £56.89 £21.00
% change year-on-year +4.60% +170.88% -1.29%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Reading

Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer in Reading

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in Reading over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineer in Reading

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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 Reading region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) GitLab
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
3 2 (50.00%) Ansible
3 2 (50.00%) vSphere
3 2 (50.00%) Bash
3 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle
3 2 (50.00%) Unix
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) VMS
3 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (50.00%) Packer
3 2 (50.00%) Terraform
3 2 (50.00%) vRealize
3 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (25.00%) Release Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation

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

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Git
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
1 2 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) API Management
3 1 (25.00%) B2C
3 1 (25.00%) Boundary Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Change Advisory Board
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Release Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Release Management
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) Packer
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) BMC
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Remedy
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow