Platform Engineering Jobs in Cardiff

Platform Engineering
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 58 61
Rank change year-on-year +28 +3 +8
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 2 6 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 1.06% 0.90% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 1.14% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile - £53,000 £32,691
25th Percentile £61,625 £53,750 £35,783
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,250 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.42% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £64,875 £74,375 £87,500
90th Percentile - £80,000 -
South Wales median annual salary £63,250 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -12.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 169 528 560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 89.89% 79.64% 96.89%
Number of salaries quoted 121 474 399
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,615 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,563 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,685 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% -1.58% -1.90%
75th Percentile £67,122 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £53,000 £47,500 £45,228
% change year-on-year +11.58% +5.02% -9.54%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Cardiff

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in Cardiff

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in Cardiff

Platform Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CDK
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker