Platform Engineer Jobs in Berkshire

Platform Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Platform Engineer salary in Berkshire is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 164 175
Rank change year-on-year +48 +11 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 4 2 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.25% 0.065% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.068% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £78,750 £73,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% +10.71% +47.37%
75th Percentile £86,250 £81,250 £100,000
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £51,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.00% +14.29% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,259 2,934 2,887
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 78.44% 95.45% 92.41%
Number of salaries quoted 574 2,089 1,639
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £83,750 £92,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Berkshire

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in Berkshire.

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in Berkshire

Platform Engineer
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 9 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +48 1 £82,500 +6.45% 1
Slough - 1 - - 2
Windsor - 1 - -
Maidenhead - 1 - -
Platform Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, Platform Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the Berkshire region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Digital Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) Product Management
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Runbook
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Observability
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Puppet
2 3 (75.00%) Law
2 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (75.00%) Use Case
2 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) REST

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

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Law
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Digital Strategy
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 3 (75.00%) Observability
1 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Product Management
1 3 (75.00%) Runbook
1 3 (75.00%) Use Case
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Puppet