Platform Engineering Jobs in Birmingham

Platform Engineering
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Platform Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 132 115
Rank change year-on-year +30 -17 +11
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 10 12 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.69% 0.43% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.53% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 18
10th Percentile £55,750 - £58,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £61,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £71,250 £85,000 £98,438
90th Percentile £90,250 - £100,000
West Midlands median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -10.34% +3.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Platform Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,366 2,264 1,867
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 94.80% 82.03% 95.99%
Number of salaries quoted 766 1,831 1,372
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,000 £31,275
25th Percentile £42,563 £40,988 £43,288
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £56,480
Median % change year-on-year - -2.62% +2.69%
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,957 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,964 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Birmingham

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in Birmingham

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in Birmingham over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in Birmingham

Platform Engineering
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:

Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon ELB
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon Glacier
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (30.00%) AWS KMS
3 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Serverless
3 3 (30.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (20.00%) GCP
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
1 3 (30.00%) SSL
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (30.00%) Vagrant
2 1 (10.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Environment And Release Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Release Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Site Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Loki
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
1 3 (30.00%) Ubuntu
1 3 (30.00%) VMS
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Capacity Management
4 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Incident Management
4 3 (30.00%) Key Management
4 3 (30.00%) Observability
4 3 (30.00%) Patch Management
4 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (30.00%) Server Management
5 2 (20.00%) Process Improvement
5 2 (20.00%) Release Management
5 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) Software Deployment
5 2 (20.00%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Groovy
2 3 (30.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) Perl
2 3 (30.00%) Ruby
2 3 (30.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (20.00%) Bash
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
2 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (30.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (30.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) Ansible
2 3 (30.00%) Grafana
2 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (30.00%) Nagios
2 3 (30.00%) Nessus
2 3 (30.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (30.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Juniper
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) Google