Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Wokingham

Platform Engineer
Berkshire > Wokingham

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Wokingham is £443, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wokingham 0.98% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £417 - -
25th Percentile £424 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 - -
75th Percentile £454 - -
90th Percentile £458 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -19.23%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Wokingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Wokingham. 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 Wokingham with a recognized job title 325 117 87
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 79.46% 86.03% 97.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 76 60
10th Percentile £300 £309 £310
25th Percentile £350 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £481
Median % change year-on-year -5.61% -6.39% -3.80%
75th Percentile £508 £573 £568
90th Percentile £650 £675 £602
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -2.44%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

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 Wokingham.

Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Wokingham

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

For the 6 months to 1 March 2026, 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 Wokingham region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (50.00%) RHCE
2 2 (50.00%) Runbook
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Alteryx
3 1 (25.00%) API Design
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Data Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Databricks
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wokingham 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 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) Matillion
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Runbook
2 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) API Design
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) SOAR
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) RHCE
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Alteryx
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Virgin Media