Platform Engineering Jobs in the East of England

Platform Engineering
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 205 231
Rank change year-on-year +43 +26 -14
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 6 20 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.20% 0.33% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.41% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £69,000 - £40,673
25th Percentile £75,000 - £41,307
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 - £64,580
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 - £93,750
90th Percentile £83,000 - -
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -3.23% +6.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,776 4,921 5,217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 93.41% 81.15% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,462 3,681 2,250
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,809 £27,725
25th Percentile £37,574 £32,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,254 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the East of England

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in the East of England

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Hertfordshire - 3 £77,500 - 5
Cambridgeshire +41 2 £75,000 - 12
Bedfordshire - 1 - - 6
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) IBM Domino
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (16.67%) LAN
1 1 (16.67%) LTE
1 1 (16.67%) TETRA
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (33.33%) Artifactory
2 2 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Android Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Android Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
1 1 (16.67%) Android SDK
1 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
1 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (16.67%) Java EE
1 1 (16.67%) JNI
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Android
3 1 (16.67%) Mac OS
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Information Management
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) RAD
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Android Development
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Multithreading
4 1 (16.67%) MVC
4 1 (16.67%) Power Management
4 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bash
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
3 2 (33.33%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto