Senior Platform Engineer Job Trends in Birmingham

Senior Platform Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Senior Platform Engineer salary in Birmingham is £73,801 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 122 -
Rank change year-on-year +20 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 2 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.12% 0.11% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.11% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68,813 £64,471 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% - -
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £90,000 £69,308 -
% change year-on-year +29.86% - -

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 1,573 1,797 1,081
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 94.88% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,123 901 929
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,713 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,040 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -2.62%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,375 £87,500 £81,250
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Senior Platform Engineer job vacancy trend 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 & Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 24 December 2025, Senior Platform Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Copilot
2 1 (50.00%) Budgeting
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) dbt
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Django
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) dbt
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
2 1 (50.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Budgeting
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Web SSO
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Copilot
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft