Platform Engineering Job Trends in Cambridge

Platform Engineering
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 - 56
Rank change year-on-year - - +53
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 0.27% - 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% - 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £69,250
25th Percentile £75,000 - £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 - £80,000
90th Percentile - - £80,750
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £80,000 - £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 345 490 400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 92.99% 79.16% 95.01%
Number of salaries quoted 236 272 238
10th Percentile £26,250 £40,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £28,500 £51,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +22.73% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £85,000 £71,875
90th Percentile £70,000 £89,750 £85,750
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £45,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% +4.76%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Platform Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Java Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Micronaut
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform