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 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 140 117
Rank change year-on-year +43 -23 +17
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 11 12 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.83% 0.42% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.52% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 18
10th Percentile £63,750 - £58,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £61,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £73,750 £85,000 £97,813
90th Percentile - - £100,000
West Midlands median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £71,250
% change year-on-year +3.85% -8.77% +1.79%

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 1,268 2,301 1,814
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 95.41% 81.25% 96.23%
Number of salaries quoted 671 1,859 1,340
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £31,475
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,988 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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
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 4 (36.36%) Confluence
2 2 (18.18%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
2 7 (63.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 7 (63.64%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (63.64%) Amazon ELB
2 7 (63.64%) Amazon S3
2 7 (63.64%) AWS KMS
2 7 (63.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 5 (45.45%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (45.45%) Amazon Glacier
4 4 (36.36%) Azure
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (27.27%) Serverless
6 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (18.18%) Route 53
7 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (9.09%) GCP
7 1 (9.09%) GitHub
7 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) Firewall
2 4 (36.36%) DNS
2 4 (36.36%) FTP
2 4 (36.36%) HTTP
2 4 (36.36%) SMTP
2 4 (36.36%) SSH
3 3 (27.27%) SSL
4 2 (18.18%) IMAP
4 2 (18.18%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Jenkins
1 7 (63.64%) Vagrant
2 4 (36.36%) Git
2 4 (36.36%) JIRA
3 3 (27.27%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (9.09%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Site Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Environment And Release Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) LDAP
1 2 (18.18%) Loki
2 1 (9.09%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Replication
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Linux
1 7 (63.64%) VMS
2 5 (45.45%) Ubuntu
2 5 (45.45%) Windows
3 4 (36.36%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Configuration Management
1 8 (72.73%) DevOps
2 7 (63.64%) Cloud Security
2 7 (63.64%) Patch Management
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Change Management
3 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 3 (27.27%) Capacity Management
4 3 (27.27%) Incident Management
4 3 (27.27%) Key Management
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Server Management
5 2 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
5 2 (18.18%) Observability
5 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (9.09%) Proactive Monitoring
6 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Python
2 7 (63.64%) Groovy
3 5 (45.45%) Java
3 5 (45.45%) Perl
4 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
5 3 (27.27%) Ruby
5 3 (27.27%) Shell Script
6 2 (18.18%) Bash
6 2 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Docker
2 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
3 3 (27.27%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (27.27%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (18.18%) DFS Replication
4 2 (18.18%) Dovecot
4 2 (18.18%) Postfix
4 2 (18.18%) Squid
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) Terraform
2 7 (63.64%) Grafana
2 7 (63.64%) Prometheus
3 5 (45.45%) Nessus
3 5 (45.45%) Proxmox
4 3 (27.27%) Ansible
4 3 (27.27%) Nagios
5 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) ServiceNow
2 3 (27.27%) Juniper
3 2 (18.18%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (9.09%) Google
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft