Platform Engineer Jobs in Buckinghamshire

Platform Engineer
South East > Buckinghamshire

The median Platform Engineer salary in Buckinghamshire is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 - 140
Rank change year-on-year - - -57
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 6 0 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 0.31% - 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% - 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 10
10th Percentile £56,500 - £36,250
25th Percentile £56,875 - £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.27%
75th Percentile £62,500 - -
90th Percentile - - £56,625
South East median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% +16.67% -18.18%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Buckinghamshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire. 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 Buckinghamshire with a recognized job title 1,807 1,196 1,935
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 89.52% 95.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,082 717 1,078
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,954 £28,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,125 £38,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Buckinghamshire

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in Buckinghamshire

Platform Engineer
Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
Milton Keynes - 4 £57,500 - 2
High Wycombe - 2 £60,000 -
Platform Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, 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 Buckinghamshire region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (83.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (66.67%) Agile
4 3 (50.00%) Google
4 3 (50.00%) Change Management
4 3 (50.00%) Azure
4 3 (50.00%) AWS
4 3 (50.00%) BigQuery
4 3 (50.00%) GCP
4 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 3 (50.00%) Looker
4 3 (50.00%) GDPR
4 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (50.00%) Docker
4 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (50.00%) Data Science
4 3 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (50.00%) DataOps
4 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
5 2 (33.33%) Bicep
5 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 2 (33.33%) Python
5 2 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (33.33%) Social Skills

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 3 (50.00%) Looker
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 5 (83.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (66.67%) Agile
4 3 (50.00%) Change Management
4 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (50.00%) Data Science
4 3 (50.00%) DataOps
4 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
5 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
5 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bash
1 2 (33.33%) Bicep
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) GDPR
2 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Google