Platform Engineering Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Platform Engineering
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 93 91
Rank change year-on-year +14 -2 +4
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 11 6 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.82% 0.62% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 0.66% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 10 0 2
10th Percentile £50,000 - £52,500
25th Percentile £55,000 - £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 - £71,250
90th Percentile - - £73,500
South East median annual salary £73,750 £56,509 £72,500
% change year-on-year +30.51% -22.06% +3.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,107 913 1,029
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 82.55% 94.42% 91.22%
Number of salaries quoted 657 397 594
10th Percentile £30,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,000 £38,834
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,833 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £90,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Platform Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in Buckinghamshire

Platform Engineering
Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineering within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes -7 6 £55,000 - 10
Bletchley - 3 £75,000 -
Platform Engineering
South East

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 10 (90.91%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) Azure Key Vault
2 6 (54.55%) Entra ID
2 6 (54.55%) GitHub
2 6 (54.55%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (36.36%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Git
1 6 (54.55%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) Lead
3 4 (36.36%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Senior
3 4 (36.36%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Linux Command Line
1 6 (54.55%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
1 6 (54.55%) Containerisation
1 6 (54.55%) DevOps
1 6 (54.55%) Matrix Management
1 6 (54.55%) Network Virtualisation
1 6 (54.55%) Observability
1 6 (54.55%) RBAC
1 6 (54.55%) Resource Management
1 6 (54.55%) Servant Leadership
1 6 (54.55%) Task Automation
1 6 (54.55%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (9.09%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Bash
1 6 (54.55%) PowerShell
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes
1 6 (54.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft