Platform Engineering Jobs in the South East

Platform Engineering
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 249 307 367
Rank change year-on-year +58 +60 -66
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 141 99 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.85% 0.66% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.70% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 49 83 80
10th Percentile £52,500 £43,474 £36,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £82,500 £100,000 £77,563
90th Percentile £98,000 £105,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% +20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,091 14,165 18,693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.79% 94.47% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 9,898 8,233 12,131
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the South East

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in the South East.

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in the South East

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in the South East

Platform Engineering
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineering within the South East 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
Thames Valley +42 70 £60,000 -33.33% 9
Oxfordshire +52 38 £57,500 -25.81% 1
Surrey +6 26 £67,500 +22.73% 2
Hampshire +1 25 £67,500 -6.90% 5
Buckinghamshire 0 23 £60,000 - 3
Kent +13 13 £95,000 +72.73%
Berkshire -1 9 £70,000 -26.32% 5
West Sussex +34 4 £67,500 +117.74% 3
East Sussex +14 3 - -
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 89 (63.12%) GCP
2 85 (60.28%) Azure
3 76 (53.90%) AWS
4 26 (18.44%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (9.93%) Power Platform
6 13 (9.22%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (9.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (4.26%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (3.55%) SaaS
9 3 (2.13%) Google Sheets
9 3 (2.13%) PaaS
10 1 (0.71%) GitHub
10 1 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.71%) IaaS
10 1 (0.71%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.71%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.96%) Network Security
2 6 (4.26%) Firewall
3 5 (3.55%) BGP
3 5 (3.55%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (3.55%) IPsec
3 5 (3.55%) LAN
3 5 (3.55%) NGFW
3 5 (3.55%) OSPF
3 5 (3.55%) SSL
3 5 (3.55%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.55%) VLAN
3 5 (3.55%) VPN
3 5 (3.55%) WAN
3 5 (3.55%) Wireless
4 1 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (59.57%) BigQuery
2 83 (58.87%) Looker
3 69 (48.94%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (9.93%) Power BI
5 13 (9.22%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.55%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.13%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.13%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.13%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 7 (4.96%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.42%) Git
2 2 (1.42%) GitLab
3 1 (0.71%) TeamCity
General
1 98 (69.50%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (17.02%) Billing
3 18 (12.77%) Social Skills
4 8 (5.67%) Legal
5 6 (4.26%) Finance
6 3 (2.13%) Retail
7 2 (1.42%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 39 (27.66%) Engineering Manager
2 37 (26.24%) Data Manager
3 36 (25.53%) Architect
4 32 (22.70%) Data Architect
5 31 (21.99%) Platform Engineer
6 28 (19.86%) Data Engineer
7 27 (19.15%) Principal Data Engineer
7 27 (19.15%) Principal Engineer
8 13 (9.22%) Business Intelligence Manager
9 10 (7.09%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.55%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (2.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 3 (2.13%) Cloud Architect
12 3 (2.13%) Cloud Security Architect
12 3 (2.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 3 (2.13%) Linux Engineer
12 3 (2.13%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
12 3 (2.13%) Security Architect
12 3 (2.13%) Systems Engineer
13 2 (1.42%) Platform Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.13%) ARM Templates
1 3 (2.13%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 59 (41.84%) Self-Motivation
2 29 (20.57%) Product Ownership
3 11 (7.80%) Data Structures
4 8 (5.67%) Algorithms
4 8 (5.67%) Data Centre
5 6 (4.26%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.84%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (2.13%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.13%) Low-Code
8 3 (2.13%) PMI
8 3 (2.13%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.71%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.26%) Linux
2 5 (3.55%) Android
2 5 (3.55%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (68.79%) Data Engineering
2 89 (63.12%) Problem-Solving
3 76 (53.90%) ETL
4 75 (53.19%) DevOps
5 74 (52.48%) Agile
6 69 (48.94%) Mentoring
7 65 (46.10%) Data Modelling
8 41 (29.08%) Data Pipeline
8 41 (29.08%) Scrum
9 38 (26.95%) CI/CD
10 36 (25.53%) Data Governance
11 35 (24.82%) Data Integration
12 32 (22.70%) Data Architecture
12 32 (22.70%) Data Security
12 32 (22.70%) ERD
12 32 (22.70%) Innovative Thinking
13 29 (20.57%) Project Management
14 24 (17.02%) Business Strategy
14 24 (17.02%) Change Management
14 24 (17.02%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (19.15%) Python
2 19 (13.48%) SQL
3 8 (5.67%) PowerShell
4 6 (4.26%) Bash
5 5 (3.55%) Bicep
6 3 (2.13%) AWK
6 3 (2.13%) Java
6 3 (2.13%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.13%) Scala
6 3 (2.13%) sed
6 3 (2.13%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.42%) Groovy
8 1 (0.71%) C#
8 1 (0.71%) Go
Qualifications
1 18 (12.77%) Degree
2 13 (9.22%) DBS Check
3 10 (7.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.55%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 5 (3.55%) CCIE
4 5 (3.55%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (3.55%) JNCIE
5 3 (2.13%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.13%) PhD
5 3 (2.13%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.13%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (39.72%) GDPR
2 35 (24.82%) Data Quality
3 29 (20.57%) QA
4 3 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (4.96%) Docker
2 3 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (12.77%) Terraform
2 16 (11.35%) Ansible
3 14 (9.93%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.42%) Grafana
5 1 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.71%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.71%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.71%) Puppet
5 1 (0.71%) Salt
Vendors
1 88 (62.41%) Google
2 18 (12.77%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.84%) New Relic
4 3 (2.13%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.71%) Databricks
5 1 (0.71%) Splunk