The first table below looks at the demand for the Platform Engineer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Platform Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Platform Engineer
Rank 822 862 846
Rank change year-on-year
+40 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 49 39 49
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.044% 0.032% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.034% 0.040%
Number of salaries quoted 36 28 38
Average salary £62,500 £45,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+38.88% -5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £43,375 £32,500 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £70,000 £60,750
UK excluding London average salary £52,125 £35,000 £42,250
% change year-on-year
+48.92% -17.15%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
104165 114120 121133
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.41% 94.97% 94.12%
Number of salaries quoted 86738 97875 102752
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Platform Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Platform Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the UK.

Platform Engineer Salary Trend

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Platform Engineer over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 within the UK.

Platform Engineer Salary Histogram

Platform Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +45 49 £62,500 +38.88% 4
London +67 43 £65,000 +44.44% 2
Hammersmith - 11 £49,000 -
City of London +4 10 £52,500 +10.52%
Bromley - 8 £73,750 -
South East -2 3 £72,500 +107.14%
North West - 2 £40,875 - 2
Kent - 2 £73,750 -
East Midlands -1 1 £42,500 -
Nottinghamshire - 1 £42,500 -
Croydon - 1 £75,000 -
Maidenhead - 1 £60,000 -
Manchester - 1 £37,500 - 1
Nottingham - 1 £42,500 -
Berkshire - 1 £60,000 -
Cheshire - 1 £44,250 - 1

Platform Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Platform Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Platform Engineer in their job title.

1 55 (68.75%) Windows
2 40 (50.00%) NetApp
3 38 (47.50%) Active Directory
4 33 (41.25%) Linux
5 31 (38.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 30 (37.50%) DNS
7 27 (33.75%) SCCM
8 26 (32.50%) VMware
8 26 (32.50%) Microsoft
9 24 (30.00%) SAN
9 24 (30.00%) SCOM
9 24 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
10 23 (28.75%) Windows Server 2003
11 21 (26.25%) MS Exchange
12 19 (23.75%) NFS
12 19 (23.75%) MCSE
12 19 (23.75%) LDAP
12 19 (23.75%) Microsoft Certification
13 18 (22.50%) Citrix
13 18 (22.50%) VMware Infrastructure
13 18 (22.50%) Hyper-V
14 17 (21.25%) Migration
14 17 (21.25%) MS Excel
15 16 (20.00%) XenApp
16 15 (18.75%) Puppet
16 15 (18.75%) Scrum
17 14 (17.50%) SharePoint
17 14 (17.50%) HP
18 13 (16.25%) Python
18 13 (16.25%) Project Management

Platform Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Platform Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Platform Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (3.750%) .NET
1 3 (3.750%) Application Packaging
2 2 (2.500%) Hibernate
2 2 (2.500%) Spring
3 1 (1.250%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.250%) Lucene
3 1 (1.250%) WCF
3 1 (1.250%) YUI
3 1 (1.250%) RESTful
3 1 (1.250%) HTML5
3 1 (1.250%) CSS3
3 1 (1.250%) Backbone.js
3 1 (1.250%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.250%) COM
3 1 (1.250%) CSS
3 1 (1.250%) JDBC
3 1 (1.250%) STL
3 1 (1.250%) XML
3 1 (1.250%) XSD
3 1 (1.250%) OpenGL
Application Platforms
1 21 (26.25%) MS Exchange
2 14 (17.50%) SharePoint
3 13 (16.25%) Exchange Server 2010
4 12 (15.00%) SharePoint 2010
5 3 (3.750%) IIS
5 3 (3.750%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 2 (2.500%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (1.250%) Apache Solr
7 1 (1.250%) Windows Azure
7 1 (1.250%) CMS
7 1 (1.250%) Apache
7 1 (1.250%) Tomcat
7 1 (1.250%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (1.250%) Commerce Server
7 1 (1.250%) Lync
Applications
1 17 (21.25%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 30 (37.50%) DNS
2 24 (30.00%) SAN
3 19 (23.75%) LDAP
4 8 (10.00%) Fibre Channel
5 5 (6.250%) Unified Communications
6 4 (5.000%) DHCP
6 4 (5.000%) HTTP
6 4 (5.000%) Firewall
7 3 (3.750%) Internet
7 3 (3.750%) IPv6
8 2 (2.500%) WAN
8 2 (2.500%) LAN
8 2 (2.500%) VPN
9 1 (1.250%) Radio Access Network
9 1 (1.250%) DMVPN
9 1 (1.250%) NetScaler
9 1 (1.250%) HSRP
9 1 (1.250%) PSTN
9 1 (1.250%) 3GPP
9 1 (1.250%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.500%) SQL Server 2000
2 6 (7.500%) SQL Server 2008
2 6 (7.500%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (1.250%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.250%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.250%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.250%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.250%) HBase
3 1 (1.250%) Redis
3 1 (1.250%) Big Data
3 1 (1.250%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.250%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.250%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.250%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 12 (15.00%) Git (software)
2 4 (5.000%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (3.750%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.500%) MSBuild
5 1 (1.250%) Ant
5 1 (1.250%) Maven
5 1 (1.250%) Hudson
General
1 11 (13.75%) Finance
2 5 (6.250%) Telecoms
3 2 (2.500%) Advertising
3 2 (2.500%) Banking
3 2 (2.500%) Retail
4 1 (1.250%) Multimedia
4 1 (1.250%) Games
4 1 (1.250%) Legal
4 1 (1.250%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.250%) Front Office
4 1 (1.250%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.25%) Blackberry
2 7 (8.750%) AS400
2 7 (8.750%) iSeries
3 6 (7.500%) Mainframe
4 4 (5.000%) Computer Science
5 3 (3.750%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (3.750%) Open Source
5 3 (3.750%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
5 3 (3.750%) PKI
5 3 (3.750%) Mathematics
6 2 (2.500%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.250%) Social Gaming
7 1 (1.250%) Social Media
7 1 (1.250%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.250%) Replication
7 1 (1.250%) Clustering
7 1 (1.250%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.250%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.250%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 55 (68.75%) Windows
2 33 (41.25%) Linux
3 31 (38.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 23 (28.75%) Windows Server 2003
6 12 (15.00%) CentOS
7 11 (13.75%) UNIX
8 8 (10.00%) Solaris
9 7 (8.750%) AIX
9 7 (8.750%) HPUX
9 7 (8.750%) VMS
10 6 (7.500%) Windows 2000
11 1 (1.250%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (21.25%) Migration
2 15 (18.75%) Scrum
3 13 (16.25%) Project Management
3 13 (16.25%) Kanban
4 12 (15.00%) Project Planning
5 11 (13.75%) Configuration Management
6 10 (12.50%) ITIL
7 9 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (10.00%) Service Delivery
9 7 (8.750%) Release Management
10 6 (7.500%) Workflow
11 5 (6.250%) Change Management
12 4 (5.000%) Risk Assessment
12 4 (5.000%) Software Engineering
13 3 (3.750%) Test Automation
13 3 (3.750%) Integration Testing
13 3 (3.750%) Continuous Integration
13 3 (3.750%) E-Commerce
13 3 (3.750%) Root Cause Analysis
13 3 (3.750%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (16.25%) Python
2 9 (11.25%) SQL
3 8 (10.00%) Perl
3 8 (10.00%) PHP
4 7 (8.750%) PowerShell
5 5 (6.250%) Java
6 4 (5.000%) C
7 3 (3.750%) Ruby
8 2 (2.500%) C#
8 2 (2.500%) C++
8 2 (2.500%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.250%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.250%) Bash shell
9 1 (1.250%) Embedded C++
9 1 (1.250%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.250%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 19 (23.75%) MCSE
1 19 (23.75%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (11.25%) RHCE
3 6 (7.500%) MCITP
3 6 (7.500%) Degree
4 5 (6.250%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (6.250%) CCA
4 5 (6.250%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (1.250%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.250%) CNA
5 1 (1.250%) Novell Certification
5 1 (1.250%) CCNP
5 1 (1.250%) CCNA
5 1 (1.250%) CCDA
5 1 (1.250%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.250%) SLA
2 4 (5.000%) QA
3 1 (1.250%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 38 (47.50%) Active Directory
2 19 (23.75%) NFS
3 18 (22.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (22.50%) Hyper-V
4 16 (20.00%) XenApp
5 12 (15.00%) Xen
6 8 (10.00%) XenDesktop
7 6 (7.500%) VMware ESX
8 5 (6.250%) Citrix Presentation Server
9 4 (5.000%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (3.750%) Sendmail
10 3 (3.750%) vCloud
11 1 (1.250%) NDS
Systems Management
1 27 (33.75%) SCCM
2 24 (30.00%) SCOM
3 15 (18.75%) Puppet
4 13 (16.25%) Nagios
5 12 (15.00%) Splunk
5 12 (15.00%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 12 (15.00%) Cobbler
6 7 (8.750%) NetBackup
6 7 (8.750%) Legato
7 3 (3.750%) MOM
Vendors
1 40 (50.00%) NetApp
2 26 (32.50%) VMware
2 26 (32.50%) Microsoft
3 18 (22.50%) Citrix
4 14 (17.50%) HP
5 12 (15.00%) Veritas
6 9 (11.25%) Red Hat
7 8 (10.00%) Cisco
7 8 (10.00%) Brocade
8 6 (7.500%) ProCurve
8 6 (7.500%) Infoblox
8 6 (7.500%) IBM
8 6 (7.500%) Dell
8 6 (7.500%) EMC
9 3 (3.750%) AppSense
9 3 (3.750%) Sophos
10 2 (2.500%) Nokia Siemens Networks
10 2 (2.500%) F5
10 2 (2.500%) Juniper
10 2 (2.500%) CheckPoint
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