Platform Engineer Jobs in the East of England

Platform Engineer
England > East of England

The median Platform Engineer salary in the East of England is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 204 220 269
Rank change year-on-year +16 +49 -81
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 13 12 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.21% 0.22% 0.094%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.26% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1 12 4
10th Percentile - £41,868 £43,363
25th Percentile - £43,750 £45,782
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £46,500 £54,813
Median % change year-on-year +72.04% -15.17% -15.67%
75th Percentile - £49,250 £66,250
90th Percentile - £52,175 -
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the East of England. 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 the East of England with a recognized job title 5,701 4,643 5,991
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.87% 84.34% 94.04%
Number of salaries quoted 4,351 2,311 2,891
10th Percentile £25,809 £26,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,000 £35,165
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £77,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in the East of England

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in the East of England.

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in the East of England

Platform Engineer
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the East of England region over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. 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
Cambridgeshire +16 3 - - 7
Essex +8 3 - -
Norfolk -33 3 - -
Suffolk - 3 - -
Hertfordshire - 1 £80,000 - 2
Platform Engineer
England

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 2 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 East of England region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (92.31%) Change Management
1 12 (92.31%) Agile
1 12 (92.31%) Google
1 12 (92.31%) DevOps
1 12 (92.31%) Mentoring
1 12 (92.31%) Analytical Skills
1 12 (92.31%) BigQuery
1 12 (92.31%) GCP
1 12 (92.31%) Looker
1 12 (92.31%) GDPR
1 12 (92.31%) Data Science
1 12 (92.31%) Self-Motivation
1 12 (92.31%) Problem-Solving
1 12 (92.31%) Data Pipeline
1 12 (92.31%) DataOps
1 12 (92.31%) Platform Engineering
1 12 (92.31%) Data Engineering
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Resource Management
2 1 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) Linux

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 12 (92.31%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (92.31%) BigQuery
1 12 (92.31%) Looker
2 1 (7.69%) Big Data
General
1 12 (92.31%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 12 (92.31%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Agile
1 12 (92.31%) Change Management
1 12 (92.31%) Data Engineering
1 12 (92.31%) Data Pipeline
1 12 (92.31%) Data Science
1 12 (92.31%) DataOps
1 12 (92.31%) DevOps
1 12 (92.31%) Mentoring
1 12 (92.31%) Platform Engineering
1 12 (92.31%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (7.69%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (92.31%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (92.31%) Google