Platform Engineering Jobs in Kent

Platform Engineering
South East > Kent

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent with a requirement for Platform Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 100 108
Rank change year-on-year +13 +8 -43
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 13 2 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 0.88% 0.17% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 0.18% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £63,750 - -
25th Percentile £78,125 £52,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £55,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +72.73% - -
75th Percentile £115,000 £57,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% -3.45% +3.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

Platform Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,215 1,096 1,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 82.21% 95.80% 96.18%
Number of salaries quoted 890 541 705
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £33,500 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.05% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Kent

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in Kent

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in Kent over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in Kent

Platform Engineering
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineering within the Kent region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Maidstone - 5 £110,000 -
Canterbury - 3 - -
Chatham - 3 £95,000 -
Sevenoaks - 2 £67,500 -
Platform Engineering
South East

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 8 (61.54%) GCP
2 7 (53.85%) Azure
3 3 (23.08%) AWS
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) BigQuery
1 6 (46.15%) Looker
2 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 2 (15.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (61.54%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Data Engineer
1 6 (46.15%) Platform Engineer
1 6 (46.15%) Principal Data Engineer
1 6 (46.15%) Principal Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Cloud Security Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Security Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Data Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Engineering Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Head of DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (23.08%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) DevOps
2 8 (61.54%) Agile
2 8 (61.54%) Data Engineering
2 8 (61.54%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (46.15%) Change Management
3 6 (46.15%) Data Science
3 6 (46.15%) DataOps
3 6 (46.15%) Mentoring
3 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (23.08%) Cloud Security
4 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
4 3 (23.08%) Incident Response
4 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Observability
4 3 (23.08%) Security Architecture
4 3 (23.08%) TOGAF
5 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Google
2 3 (23.08%) AppDynamics
2 3 (23.08%) New Relic
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft