Platform Engineering Jobs in Berkshire

Platform Engineering
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Platform Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 155 136
Rank change year-on-year +73 -19 +21
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 47 9 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.81% 0.26% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.08% 0.32% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 38
10th Percentile - £51,000 £68,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £59,375 £70,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £67,500 £88,750
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% -23.94% +77.50%
75th Percentile £92,500 £78,125 £105,000
90th Percentile - £99,000 -
South East median annual salary £61,250 £67,500 £74,750
% change year-on-year -9.26% -9.70% +15.00%

All Process and 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 1,525 2,807 2,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 91.10% 82.27% 94.88%
Number of salaries quoted 578 1,797 1,495
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -10.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £84,250 £95,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Berkshire

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in Berkshire

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in Berkshire

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 23 June 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
Slough -18 17 - - 51
Windsor - 15 - -
Maidenhead - 14 - - 1
Reading +54 1 £85,000 +41.67% 21
Platform Engineering
South East

Platform Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (19.15%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 26 (55.32%) AWS
2 25 (53.19%) Azure
2 25 (53.19%) GCP
3 13 (27.66%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.38%) GitHub
5 1 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.13%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.13%) Serverless
5 1 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) DNS
1 1 (2.13%) Firewall
1 1 (2.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.15%) Big Data
1 9 (19.15%) Data Lake
1 9 (19.15%) Data Warehouse
1 9 (19.15%) Hadoop
1 9 (19.15%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
General
1 47 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 46 (97.87%) Law
3 13 (27.66%) Finance
3 13 (27.66%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (44.68%) Lead
2 14 (29.79%) Senior
3 13 (27.66%) Senior Manager
4 9 (19.15%) Data Analytics Director
5 4 (8.51%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.13%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (2.13%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.13%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (27.66%) Hugging Face
1 13 (27.66%) LangChain
1 13 (27.66%) PyTorch
1 13 (27.66%) TensorFlow
2 9 (19.15%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 21 (44.68%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (19.15%) Cloud Native
2 9 (19.15%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (97.87%) Computer Science
2 33 (70.21%) Analytics
3 31 (65.96%) Technical Leadership
4 30 (63.83%) Data Modelling
5 24 (51.06%) Digital Strategy
5 24 (51.06%) Product Management
6 22 (46.81%) Artificial Intelligence
6 22 (46.81%) Data Science
6 22 (46.81%) High Availability
6 22 (46.81%) Machine Learning
7 21 (44.68%) Data Collection
7 21 (44.68%) Data Management
7 21 (44.68%) Decision Quality
7 21 (44.68%) Microservices
7 21 (44.68%) Open Source
8 16 (34.04%) Observability
8 16 (34.04%) Runbook
9 13 (27.66%) Cost Transparency
9 13 (27.66%) Proactive Monitoring
9 13 (27.66%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 9 (19.15%) SQL
2 4 (8.51%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.13%) Bash
3 1 (2.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 46 (97.87%) Degree
2 22 (46.81%) Computer Science Degree
2 22 (46.81%) Master's Degree
3 9 (19.15%) AWS Certification
3 9 (19.15%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 9 (19.15%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 13 (27.66%) Grafana
1 13 (27.66%) Prometheus
2 4 (8.51%) Ansible
2 4 (8.51%) Terraform
3 3 (6.38%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (27.66%) OpenAI
2 9 (19.15%) Google