Platform Engineering Jobs in South Wales

Platform Engineering
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 97 94
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 -30
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 10 6 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 0.69% 0.52% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.54% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 7 4 24
10th Percentile £49,750 £32,691 £45,750
25th Percentile £51,875 £35,783 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £87,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 - £66,000
Wales median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,145 1,103 1,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 79.40% 95.75% 92.97%
Number of salaries quoted 740 583 854
10th Percentile £28,290 £28,600 £31,475
25th Percentile £36,019 £36,732 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,496 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% -8.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,200 £62,988 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,439 £75,000 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +9.20%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in South Wales

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in South Wales

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in South Wales over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in South Wales

Platform Engineering
Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 29 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
Cardiff +5 7 £60,000 -4.00% 1
Bridgend - 3 £52,500 - 1
Platform Engineering
Wales

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) GCP
3 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (10.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) BigQuery
1 3 (30.00%) Looker
1 3 (30.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Principal Data Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) DataOps Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) Agile
3 5 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 5 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (50.00%) Data Science
3 5 (50.00%) DataOps
4 3 (30.00%) Change Management
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (20.00%) ITIL
5 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
6 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
6 1 (10.00%) Load Balancing
6 1 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) Bicep
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Google
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft