Platform Engineer Jobs in Birmingham

Platform Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Platform Engineer salary in Birmingham is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
20 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 140 116
Rank change year-on-year +38 -24 +52
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 7 3 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.50% 0.11% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.11% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 15
10th Percentile £46,500 - £58,750
25th Percentile £46,875 - £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,125 - £95,625
90th Percentile £69,500 - £100,000
West Midlands median annual salary £73,750 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.36% - +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Birmingham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Birmingham with a recognized job title 1,318 2,631 1,768
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 94.44% 93.15%
Number of salaries quoted 771 2,138 1,360
10th Percentile £31,750 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,063 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,964 £81,251
West Midlands median annual salary £51,887 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.77% -4.76% +5.00%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings that featured Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Birmingham

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in Birmingham.

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in Birmingham

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in Birmingham

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 20 May 2025, Platform Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
1 6 (85.71%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 5 (71.43%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) AWS
3 4 (57.14%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (57.14%) Amazon S3
3 4 (57.14%) Groovy
3 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
3 4 (57.14%) Amazon ELB
3 4 (57.14%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (57.14%) Vagrant
3 4 (57.14%) Docker
3 4 (57.14%) VMS
3 4 (57.14%) Windows
3 4 (57.14%) Linux
3 4 (57.14%) Configuration Management
3 4 (57.14%) Firewall
3 4 (57.14%) Nessus
3 4 (57.14%) Ubuntu
3 4 (57.14%) Patch Management
3 4 (57.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 4 (57.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 4 (57.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (57.14%) Proxmox
3 4 (57.14%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (57.14%) AWS KMS
3 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) Amazon GuardDuty

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Confluence
2 1 (14.29%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon ELB
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon S3
2 4 (57.14%) AWS KMS
2 4 (57.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon Glacier
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 3 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (42.86%) Serverless
4 2 (28.57%) Azure
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
5 1 (14.29%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) SSL
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) FTP
3 1 (14.29%) HTTP
3 1 (14.29%) IMAP
3 1 (14.29%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (14.29%) SMTP
3 1 (14.29%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
1 4 (57.14%) Vagrant
2 3 (42.86%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (28.57%) JIRA
4 1 (14.29%) Git
4 1 (14.29%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) ADO
1 1 (14.29%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
1 4 (57.14%) Ubuntu
1 4 (57.14%) VMS
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
1 6 (85.71%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security
2 4 (57.14%) Configuration Management
2 4 (57.14%) Patch Management
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Capacity Management
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Key Management
3 3 (42.86%) Server Management
4 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
5 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (14.29%) Change Management
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (14.29%) CRM
5 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (14.29%) Project Management
5 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) Groovy
3 3 (42.86%) Java
3 3 (42.86%) Perl
3 3 (42.86%) Ruby
3 3 (42.86%) Shell Script
4 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
2 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (42.86%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (14.29%) DFS Replication
3 1 (14.29%) Dovecot
3 1 (14.29%) Postfix
3 1 (14.29%) Squid
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 4 (57.14%) Nessus
2 4 (57.14%) Proxmox
3 3 (42.86%) Ansible
3 3 (42.86%) Nagios
4 2 (28.57%) Grafana
4 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
4 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Juniper
2 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow
3 1 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) Jaspersoft
17 Platform Engineer jobs in the West Midlands