Platform Engineer Jobs in Farnborough

Platform Engineer
Hampshire > Farnborough

The median Platform Engineer salary in Farnborough is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 August 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Farnborough 1.26% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.33% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £74,250 - -
25th Percentile £75,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - -
75th Percentile £85,000 - -
90th Percentile £85,750 - -
Hampshire median annual salary £75,000 £56,250 £38,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% +48.03% -24.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Farnborough

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Farnborough. 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 Farnborough with a recognized job title 150 147 221
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.34% 90.18% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 78 114 181
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £45,625 £38,813 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,660 £53,875 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.03% -2.05% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,125 £86,750 £90,000
Hampshire median annual salary £50,250 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.50% -4.76% -

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Farnborough

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Farnborough

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in Farnborough

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Farnborough

For the 6 months to 5 August 2025, 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 Farnborough region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Agile

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Farnborough 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform