Platform Engineering Job Trends in Bridgend

Platform Engineering
South Wales > Bridgend

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bridgend requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 1 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Bridgend 0.71% - 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% - 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £48,250
25th Percentile £48,959 - £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,871 - £52,500
75th Percentile £52,784 - £54,375
90th Percentile - - £54,750
South Wales median annual salary £71,000 £63,250 £53,750
% change year-on-year +12.25% +17.67% -29.51%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bridgend

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 Bridgend.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 95 34 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bridgend 67.38% 87.18% 76.16%
Number of salaries quoted 68 29 61
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £29,035
25th Percentile - £28,000 £32,083
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -11.76% +70.00%
75th Percentile £43,125 £57,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £57,377 £58,750 £53,750
South Wales median annual salary £53,171 £52,500 £47,014
% change year-on-year +1.28% +11.67% -5.97%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Bridgend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Platform Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bridgend.

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Bridgend

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in Bridgend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bridgend citing Platform Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bridgend citing Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bridgend 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Local Government
1 1 (100.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) ICT Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft