Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in Wokingham

Platform Engineering
Berkshire > Wokingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wokingham requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wokingham 0.69% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% - -
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 £588 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +17.50% -9.09% -15.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wokingham

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 Wokingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 368 129 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 84.21% 90.85% 96.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 77 59
10th Percentile £269 £350 £310
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +3.09% -7.62%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £570
90th Percentile £596 £675 £605
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Wokingham

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Wokingham

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

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

Platform Engineering
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 (66.67%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Runbook
1 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) SOAR
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) RHCE
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) Virgin Media