Platform Engineering Jobs in the West Midlands

Platform Engineering
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 208 240 194
Rank change year-on-year +32 -46 -32
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 39 38 90
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.54% 0.57% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.59% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 18 32 75
10th Percentile - £58,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £91,875 £82,500
90th Percentile - £100,000 -
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
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,016 6,455 6,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.09% 96.85% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 4,532 3,272 4,743
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,510 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the West Midlands

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in the West Midlands

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in the West Midlands

Platform Engineering
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineering within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham -17 12 £75,000 -4.76% 3
Warwickshire +52 8 £65,000 -25.71% 3
Shropshire -5 6 £32,000 -54.29% 1
Coventry +34 4 £58,500 +4.00% 2
Wolverhampton - 3 - - 1
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 22 (56.41%) Azure
2 18 (46.15%) GCP
3 9 (23.08%) AWS
4 8 (20.51%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (20.51%) IaaS
4 8 (20.51%) PaaS
5 4 (10.26%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.56%) CloudFront
6 1 (2.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (2.56%) Route 53
6 1 (2.56%) Serverless
6 1 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 10 (25.64%) DNS
2 6 (15.38%) DHCP
2 6 (15.38%) LAN
2 6 (15.38%) TCP/IP
2 6 (15.38%) WAN
3 4 (10.26%) Firewall
3 4 (10.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (46.15%) BigQuery
2 17 (43.59%) Looker
3 8 (20.51%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (23.08%) Git
2 2 (5.13%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (2.56%) GitLab
General
1 23 (58.97%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (10.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (10.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (51.28%) Platform Engineer
2 12 (30.77%) Architect
3 11 (28.21%) Cloud Engineer
3 11 (28.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 10 (25.64%) Data Engineer
5 9 (23.08%) Principal Data Engineer
5 9 (23.08%) Principal Engineer
6 8 (20.51%) Data Architect
7 6 (15.38%) Administrator
8 5 (12.82%) Systems Administrator
8 5 (12.82%) Windows Administrator
8 5 (12.82%) Windows Systems Administrator
9 2 (5.13%) Applications Architect
9 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Architect
10 1 (2.56%) AWS Engineer
10 1 (2.56%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 1 (2.56%) Lead
10 1 (2.56%) Senior
10 1 (2.56%) Senior Data Engineer
10 1 (2.56%) Server Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) ARM Templates
1 4 (10.26%) JSON
1 4 (10.26%) YAML
2 1 (2.56%) AWS CDK
2 1 (2.56%) Middleware
2 1 (2.56%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 17 (43.59%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (25.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (15.38%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.38%) Windows
1 6 (15.38%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.56%) CentOS
2 1 (2.56%) Linux
2 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (48.72%) DevOps
2 18 (46.15%) Data Engineering
2 18 (46.15%) Mentoring
3 17 (43.59%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (33.33%) Agile
5 10 (25.64%) CI/CD
5 10 (25.64%) Data Pipeline
6 9 (23.08%) Change Management
6 9 (23.08%) Data Governance
6 9 (23.08%) Data Modelling
6 9 (23.08%) Data Science
6 9 (23.08%) DataOps
6 9 (23.08%) ETL
6 9 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (20.51%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (20.51%) Data Architecture
7 8 (20.51%) Data Integration
7 8 (20.51%) Data Security
7 8 (20.51%) ERD
7 8 (20.51%) Innovative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 8 (20.51%) PowerShell
2 4 (10.26%) Bash
2 4 (10.26%) Bicep
3 2 (5.13%) Python
4 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (43.59%) GDPR
2 8 (20.51%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (15.38%) Active Directory
1 6 (15.38%) Virtual Servers
2 4 (10.26%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (25.64%) Terraform
2 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (43.59%) Google
2 10 (25.64%) Microsoft