Platform Engineer Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Platform Engineer
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Platform Engineer salary in Cambridgeshire is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 83 69
Rank change year-on-year +22 -14 +56
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 5 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.58% 0.11% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.12% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £54,250 - £69,250
25th Percentile £77,500 £42,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £45,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +88.89% -40.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £92,500 £47,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,250 - £80,750
East of England median annual salary £85,000 £45,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +88.89% -40.00% +57.89%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. 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 Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 771 801 657
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.44% 91.54% 93.72%
Number of salaries quoted 539 389 452
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,625 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £87,500
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -4.15%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for Platform Engineer job vacancies in Cambridgeshire.

Salary distribution trend for Platform Engineer job vacancies in Cambridgeshire

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in Cambridgeshire

Platform Engineer
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 12 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
Cambridge - 4 £85,000 - 1
Platform Engineer
East of England

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire

For the 6 months to 12 January 2026, Platform Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Cambridgeshire region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon EKS
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (80.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Bash
1 4 (80.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
1 4 (80.00%) Canary Deployment
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (80.00%) CloudFront
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
1 4 (80.00%) Deployment Automation
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (80.00%) Grafana
1 4 (80.00%) High Availability
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Loki
1 4 (80.00%) Observability
1 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
1 4 (80.00%) Prometheus
1 4 (80.00%) Python

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 4 (80.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon EKS
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) CloudFront
1 4 (80.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) GSM
1 1 (20.00%) LTE
1 1 (20.00%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Loki
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 4 (80.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
1 4 (80.00%) Canary Deployment
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (80.00%) Deployment Automation
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (80.00%) High Availability
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 4 (80.00%) Observability
1 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
1 4 (80.00%) Secrets Management
1 4 (80.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bash
1 4 (80.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Grafana
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (80.00%) Prometheus
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform