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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 - 48
Rank change year-on-year - - -9
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 4 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 0.51% - 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% - 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72,500 - £86,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - £87,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +59.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 - £88,750
90th Percentile - - -
Leicestershire median annual salary £63,750 - £87,500
% change year-on-year - - +59.09%

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 590 151 301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 75.35% 82.51% 77.98%
Number of salaries quoted 404 86 209
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,375 £27,350
25th Percentile £44,604 £39,563 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -1.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £69,438 £68,438 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,125 £82,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% - -10.00%

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 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Head of Infrastructure
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Observability
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Meraki
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Tenable