AWS Platform Engineer Job Trends in the Midlands

Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services
England > Midlands

As of 26 December 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the Midlands.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 224 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Platform Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.025% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
England median annual salary £100,000 £85,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% +9.68% +3.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 7,147 6,407 4,673
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.54% 94.33% 94.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4,340 3,027 3,873
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,344 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.25% +4.69% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,300 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.41%

AWS Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'AWS Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

AWS Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in the Midlands

AWS Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for AWS Platform Engineer job vacancies in the Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for AWS Platform Engineer job vacancies in the Midlands

AWS Platform Engineer
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Platform Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 December 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
West Midlands - 2 - -
AWS Platform Engineer
England

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 26 December 2025, AWS Platform Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Midlands region featuring AWS Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DFS Replication
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Dovecot
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) FTP
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Groovy
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
1 2 (100.00%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Route 53
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) FTP
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) IMAP
1 2 (100.00%) OpenLDAP
1 2 (100.00%) SMTP
1 2 (100.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Vagrant
General
1 2 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 2 (100.00%) VMS
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Groovy
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) DFS Replication
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Dovecot
1 2 (100.00%) Postfix
1 2 (100.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Nessus
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Proxmox
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Jaspersoft
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow