Platform Engineering Job Trends in Berkshire

Platform Engineering
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 - 137
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 4 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.20% - 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% - 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £71,250
25th Percentile - - £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile - - £80,625
90th Percentile - - £81,250
South East median annual salary £75,000 £56,509 £72,500
% change year-on-year +32.72% -22.06% +3.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Platform Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,606 1,524 1,855
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 82.23% 92.42% 88.67%
Number of salaries quoted 735 662 1,311
10th Percentile £29,850 £36,313 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £38,603
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -6.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,250 £93,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Platform Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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 - 2 - - 7
Platform Engineering
South East

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
1 1 (25.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Retail
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Law
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Product Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Product Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Development Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Development Team Manager
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Web Development Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Web Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Budgeting
2 2 (50.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 2 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) FinOps
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Product Management
2 2 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) Product Vision
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Sitecore