Platform Engineer Jobs in the East Midlands

Platform Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Platform Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 175 177 180
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 -30
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 17 3 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.39% 0.10% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.12% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 18
10th Percentile £56,875 £49,375 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,813 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £73,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.64% +13.46% +26.83%
75th Percentile £62,500 £87,813 £85,000
90th Percentile - £95,125 -
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands. 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 the East Midlands with a recognized job title 4,110 2,555 3,299
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 88.26% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,982 1,385 2,198
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £55,000 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £73,575
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in the East Midlands

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in the East Midlands

Platform Engineer
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 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
Nottinghamshire -16 5 £60,000 +26.32%
Derbyshire - 5 £57,500 -
Northamptonshire -4 3 - -
Leicestershire - 3 - - 1
Lincolnshire - 1 - -
Platform Engineer
England

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 4 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 East Midlands region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 16 (94.12%) DevOps
3 15 (88.24%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (82.35%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (64.71%) Agile
6 9 (52.94%) Change Management
6 9 (52.94%) Google
6 9 (52.94%) BigQuery
6 9 (52.94%) GCP
6 9 (52.94%) Data Engineering
6 9 (52.94%) Mentoring
6 9 (52.94%) GDPR
6 9 (52.94%) Looker
6 9 (52.94%) Data Science
6 9 (52.94%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (52.94%) Data Pipeline
6 9 (52.94%) DataOps
7 8 (47.06%) Azure
8 7 (41.18%) Kubernetes
8 7 (41.18%) Docker
8 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
9 6 (35.29%) AWS
9 6 (35.29%) PowerShell
9 6 (35.29%) Bash
9 6 (35.29%) Python
10 5 (29.41%) Data Protection
10 5 (29.41%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (29.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (29.41%) Continuous Integration

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 9 (52.94%) GCP
2 8 (47.06%) Azure
3 6 (35.29%) AWS
4 5 (29.41%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.88%) Datadog
5 1 (5.88%) Pulumi
5 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) Network Security
2 1 (5.88%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) BigQuery
1 9 (52.94%) Looker
2 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.88%) MariaDB
2 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.88%) MySQL
2 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.88%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 14 (82.35%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 9 (52.94%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 16 (94.12%) DevOps
3 15 (88.24%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (64.71%) Agile
5 9 (52.94%) Change Management
5 9 (52.94%) Data Engineering
5 9 (52.94%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (52.94%) Data Science
5 9 (52.94%) DataOps
5 9 (52.94%) Mentoring
6 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
8 5 (29.41%) Cloud Security
8 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
8 5 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (29.41%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (29.41%) Data Protection
8 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (29.41%) Network Virtualisation
8 5 (29.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Bash
1 6 (35.29%) PowerShell
1 6 (35.29%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) Bicep
3 1 (5.88%) C#
3 1 (5.88%) Go
3 1 (5.88%) Groovy
3 1 (5.88%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.88%) PHP
3 1 (5.88%) Ruby
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (52.94%) GDPR
2 5 (29.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Ansible
3 1 (5.88%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (5.88%) Grafana
3 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.88%) Puppet
3 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) New Relic
2 1 (5.88%) SaltStack