Platform Engineer Jobs in Cardiff

Platform Engineer
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Platform Engineer salary in Cardiff is £71,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 66 74
Rank change year-on-year +7 +8 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 5 1 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 0.76% 0.17% 2.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.19% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 22
10th Percentile £57,625 - -
25th Percentile £61,563 £37,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £40,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +78.13% -27.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £79,063 £42,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £81,875 - £67,000
South Wales median annual salary £55,000 £40,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +37.50% -27.27% +15.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cardiff. 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 Cardiff with a recognized job title 620 528 832
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.66% 91.19% 96.41%
Number of salaries quoted 539 404 621
10th Percentile £27,157 £30,900 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £39,813 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,619 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% -3.58% +16.67%
75th Percentile £65,383 £67,178 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,500 £77,500 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £45,000 £45,496 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.09% -9.01% +11.11%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Cardiff

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Cardiff

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in Cardiff

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in Cardiff over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in Cardiff

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 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 Cardiff region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Data Science
2 4 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (80.00%) DataOps
3 3 (60.00%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) Looker
3 3 (60.00%) GDPR
3 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (60.00%) Google
3 3 (60.00%) BigQuery
3 3 (60.00%) GCP
3 3 (60.00%) Change Management
4 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) Azure
4 2 (40.00%) AWS
5 1 (20.00%) Bash
5 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (20.00%) Python
5 1 (20.00%) DNS
5 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
5 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (20.00%) Microservices

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) BigQuery
1 3 (60.00%) Looker
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (80.00%) Data Science
2 4 (80.00%) DataOps
3 3 (60.00%) Change Management
3 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
5 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 1 (20.00%) Microservices
5 1 (20.00%) Re-Platforming
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Bicep
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft