AWS Platform Engineer Jobs in Reading

Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services
Berkshire > Reading

The median Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in Reading is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 122 -
Rank change year-on-year +56 - -
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Platform Engineer 1 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 0.20% 0.055% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.058% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% - -
75th Percentile £92,500 £81,250 -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 -
% change year-on-year +9.68% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 416 1,715 1,451
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 83.03% 94.75% 93.86%
Number of salaries quoted 222 1,068 756
10th Percentile £30,050 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £39,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,550 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.18% -12.42% -
75th Percentile £78,438 £66,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £89,875 £80,000 £92,500
Berkshire median annual salary £56,673 £52,500 £58,750
% change year-on-year +7.95% -10.64% +2.17%

AWS Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Platform Engineer in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 2025, AWS 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 Reading region featuring AWS Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform