Platform Engineering Jobs in Wales

Platform Engineering
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 124 118
Rank change year-on-year +18 -6 -40
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 12 8 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.59% 0.48% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.50% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 6 4 26
10th Percentile £49,375 £32,691 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,563 £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 £63,125 £87,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,375 - £65,625
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,615 1,611 1,799
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 79.44% 96.06% 94.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,060 816 1,140
10th Percentile £26,725 £26,391 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,125 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Wales

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in Wales

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in Wales

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

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in Wales

Platform Engineering
Job Locations in 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 Wales region over the 6 months to 6 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
South Wales +5 9 £55,000 -12.00% 1
West Wales +8 3 - - 1
Platform Engineering
UK

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 6 (50.00%) Azure
1 6 (50.00%) GCP
2 5 (41.67%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) AWS
4 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (8.33%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 6 (50.00%) Looker
2 3 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
General
1 6 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Principal Data Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) DataOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (75.00%) Agile
3 7 (58.33%) Data Engineering
3 7 (58.33%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (58.33%) Data Science
3 7 (58.33%) DataOps
4 6 (50.00%) Change Management
4 6 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (16.67%) ITIL
6 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
6 1 (8.33%) Load Balancing
6 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning
6 1 (8.33%) Visualisation
6 1 (8.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) Bash
2 1 (8.33%) Bicep
2 1 (8.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Google
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft