Platform Engineer Jobs in Bristol

Platform Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Platform Engineer salary in Bristol is £70,576 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 153 139 170
Rank change year-on-year -14 +31 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 10 30 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 0.32% 1.12% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 1.20% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 7 29 9
10th Percentile £62,000 £53,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £66,859 £61,180 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £72,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +26.09% +21.05%
75th Percentile £72,433 £91,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £74,460 £102,500 £75,000
South West median annual salary £67,500 £69,447 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.80% +20.78% +13.75%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 3,010 2,495 3,217
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.82% 92.89% 97.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,241 1,570 2,224
10th Percentile £33,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,000 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +9.20% +14.22%
75th Percentile £71,250 £74,151 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Bristol

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in Bristol.

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in Bristol

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in Bristol over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in Bristol

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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 Bristol region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 8 (80.00%) Agile
3 7 (70.00%) Google
3 7 (70.00%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (70.00%) Mentoring
3 7 (70.00%) GCP
3 7 (70.00%) Data Engineering
4 6 (60.00%) Python
5 5 (50.00%) DevOps
6 4 (40.00%) Machine Learning
6 4 (40.00%) Finance
6 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (40.00%) ETL
6 4 (40.00%) C#
6 4 (40.00%) SQL
6 4 (40.00%) Banking
6 4 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (40.00%) Data Lake
6 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (30.00%) DataOps
7 3 (30.00%) Data Science
7 3 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (30.00%) GDPR
7 3 (30.00%) Looker
7 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (30.00%) BigQuery
7 3 (30.00%) Change Management
8 2 (20.00%) Bash
8 2 (20.00%) AWS
8 2 (20.00%) Terraform

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) GCP
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) PaaS
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Data Lake
1 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (30.00%) BigQuery
2 3 (30.00%) Looker
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (40.00%) Banking
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Games
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 8 (80.00%) Agile
3 7 (70.00%) Data Engineering
3 7 (70.00%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (70.00%) Mentoring
4 5 (50.00%) DevOps
5 4 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (40.00%) ETL
5 4 (40.00%) Machine Learning
5 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (30.00%) Change Management
6 3 (30.00%) Data Science
6 3 (30.00%) DataOps
7 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
8 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps
8 1 (10.00%) High Availability
8 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 1 (10.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) C#
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) Bash
4 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft