Platform Engineering Jobs in Bristol

Platform Engineering
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 127 134
Rank change year-on-year +35 +7 +41
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 14 30 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 1.11% 0.97% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 1.10% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 12 9 32
10th Percentile £68,885 £47,400 £51,500
25th Percentile £70,097 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,576 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -2.65% -
75th Percentile £84,382 £72,433 £90,313
90th Percentile £93,778 £73,446 £102,500
South West median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £65,351
% change year-on-year +7.41% +3.29% +24.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,194 2,736 2,535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 94.69% 88.32% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 784 2,053 1,501
10th Percentile £31,075 £35,000 £34,723
25th Percentile £47,231 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,471 £58,000 £59,191
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -2.01% +11.45%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,433 £73,750
90th Percentile £89,625 £87,500 £87,500
South West median annual salary £52,600 £50,952 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.23% -2.95% +5.00%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Bristol

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in Bristol

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in Bristol over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in Bristol

Platform Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (35.71%) NetWeaver
1 5 (35.71%) Tomcat
2 2 (14.29%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) IaaS
1 5 (35.71%) PaaS
2 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) Azure AKS
2 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) OCI
3 3 (21.43%) SaaS
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) BusinessObjects
1 5 (35.71%) SAP BW
1 5 (35.71%) SAP Data Services
1 5 (35.71%) SAP HANA
1 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (57.14%) Oracle Forms
General
1 8 (57.14%) Banking
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) General Ledger
3 2 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (57.14%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (35.71%) Unix Engineer
3 5 (35.71%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 4 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (28.57%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (28.57%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 4 (28.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (28.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 4 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (28.57%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 4 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (21.43%) Senior
6 2 (14.29%) Development Engineer
6 2 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (14.29%) Senior Development Engineer
7 1 (7.14%) Architect
7 1 (7.14%) Senior Architect
7 1 (7.14%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 2 (14.29%) Private Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Linux
2 5 (35.71%) AIX
2 5 (35.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (35.71%) Unix
2 5 (35.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (64.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 6 (42.86%) DevOps
3 6 (42.86%) Migration
4 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Management
4 5 (35.71%) Service Delivery
4 5 (35.71%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security
5 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 4 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (21.43%) Agile
7 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (14.29%) Data Management
7 2 (14.29%) Investment Management
7 2 (14.29%) Performance Management
7 2 (14.29%) Resource Management
7 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 2 (14.29%) Use Case
7 2 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) C
1 5 (35.71%) Java
2 4 (28.57%) Bicep
2 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 4 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 5 (35.71%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Podman
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Oracle
2 5 (35.71%) IBM
2 5 (35.71%) SAP
3 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 2 (14.29%) Graphcore
5 1 (7.14%) Hyperion