Platform Specialist Jobs in England

Platform Specialist
UK > England

The median Platform Specialist salary in England is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 21 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
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 814 906 1136
Rank change year-on-year +92 +230 -287
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Specialist 21 11 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.024% 0.013% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.014% 0.017%
Number of salaries quoted 21 8 21
10th Percentile £40,000 £68,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £73,438 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +29.17% +26.32%
75th Percentile £100,000 £83,438 £65,000
90th Percentile - £101,250 £65,310
UK median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.45% +29.17% +26.32%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 81,818 80,481 131,915
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.54% 91.52% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 60,842 51,232 75,335
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Platform Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Specialist in England

Platform Specialist
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Specialist in England.

Salary trend for Platform Specialist in England

Platform Specialist
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Specialist in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Specialist in England

Platform Specialist
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Specialist within the England region over the 6 months to 21 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
London +119 16 £90,000 +16.13% 8
North of England - 5 £40,000 - 2
North West - 3 £40,000 - 2
North East - 2 £55,000 -
Platform Specialist
UK

Platform Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 21 May 2024, Platform Specialist 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 England region featuring Platform Specialist in the job title.

1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (28.57%) Azure
3 4 (19.05%) Performance Optimisation
3 4 (19.05%) Python
3 4 (19.05%) Power Platform
4 3 (14.29%) Delta Lake
4 3 (14.29%) Power BI
4 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (14.29%) Databricks
4 3 (14.29%) PySpark
4 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 3 (14.29%) SQL
4 3 (14.29%) T-SQL
4 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 3 (14.29%) ETL
4 3 (14.29%) Law
4 3 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (14.29%) ServiceNow
4 3 (14.29%) Data Integration
4 3 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (14.29%) R
4 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
5 2 (9.52%) Analytics
5 2 (9.52%) DevOps
5 2 (9.52%) Data Privacy
5 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
5 2 (9.52%) Data Transformation

Platform Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (9.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) Power Platform
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.76%) AWS
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (14.29%) Delta Lake
1 3 (14.29%) Power BI
1 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 3 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (14.29%) Law
1 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Back Office
3 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Social Science
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
1 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (4.76%) Hedge funds
1 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
1 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
1 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (19.05%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (14.29%) Data Integration
2 3 (14.29%) ETL
2 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (9.52%) Analytics
3 2 (9.52%) Data Privacy
3 2 (9.52%) Data Transformation
3 2 (9.52%) DevOps
3 2 (9.52%) ITSM
3 2 (9.52%) Migration
3 2 (9.52%) Service Management
3 2 (9.52%) Task Automation
3 2 (9.52%) Wealth Management
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science
4 1 (4.76%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (4.76%) Data Governance
4 1 (4.76%) Data Modelling
4 1 (4.76%) Data Security
4 1 (4.76%) ITIL
4 1 (4.76%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) Python
2 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 3 (14.29%) R
2 3 (14.29%) SQL
2 3 (14.29%) T-SQL
3 1 (4.76%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Ansible
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) Databricks
2 3 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.76%) VMware