Platform Engineering Job Trends in Leicester

Platform Engineering
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 - 51
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 1 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 0.15% - 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% - 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £54,750
25th Percentile - - £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +27.27%
75th Percentile - - £80,000
90th Percentile - - £85,250
Leicestershire median annual salary £52,500 - £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +27.27%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 490 134 361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 74.81% 88.74% 83.18%
Number of salaries quoted 334 90 283
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% +1.05% -
75th Percentile £69,875 £61,250 £61,938
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -5.26%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Platform Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Leicester.

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Leicester

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in Leicester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Platform Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform