Senior Platform Engineer Job Trends in Birmingham

Senior Platform Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

As of 30 August 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Senior Platform Engineer salary in Birmingham.

6 months to
30 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 130 111
Rank change year-on-year +34 -19 +78
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 1 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.079% 0.043% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.083% 0.044% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £64,471 £83,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £69,308 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year - -20.79% +14.01%
75th Percentile - £74,144 £95,625
90th Percentile - - £98,250
West Midlands median annual salary - £69,308 £87,500
% change year-on-year - -20.79% +14.01%

All DemandTrendPermanent 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 1,202 2,248 1,422
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.09% 95.82% 93.99%
Number of salaries quoted 849 1,554 1,167
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,649
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Platform Engineer in Birmingham

Senior Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for Senior Platform Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Platform Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 30 August 2025, Senior 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 Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Web SSO
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting

Senior 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 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Web SSO
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft