Platform Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Platform Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Platform Engineer salary in the Midlands is £61,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 May 2025.

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

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 252 278 298
Rank change year-on-year +26 +20 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 7 37 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.098% 0.32% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.33% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 4 17 27
10th Percentile £46,625 £57,200 £55,500
25th Percentile £47,188 £57,500 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £77,188 £70,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £83,375 - £100,000
England median annual salary £71,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.33% +7.14% -

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 6,564 11,062 8,497
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.84% 94.33% 89.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,863 8,268 4,764
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,741 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in the Midlands

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in the Midlands

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in the Midlands

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 Platform Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 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
West Midlands +30 7 £61,250 -12.50% 19
Platform Engineer
England

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 7 May 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 Midlands region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Terraform
3 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
3 4 (57.14%) Linux
4 3 (42.86%) Windows
4 3 (42.86%) Java
4 3 (42.86%) Perl
4 3 (42.86%) SSL
4 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
4 3 (42.86%) Juniper
4 3 (42.86%) Shell Script
4 3 (42.86%) Nagios
4 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
4 3 (42.86%) Firewall
4 3 (42.86%) Agile
4 3 (42.86%) Nessus
4 3 (42.86%) Groovy
4 3 (42.86%) VMS
4 3 (42.86%) Ruby
4 3 (42.86%) Ubuntu
4 3 (42.86%) Amazon ELB
4 3 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (42.86%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
4 3 (42.86%) Capacity Management
4 3 (42.86%) Vagrant
4 3 (42.86%) Ansible

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon ELB
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon Glacier
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
2 3 (42.86%) AWS KMS
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (42.86%) Serverless
2 3 (42.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
1 3 (42.86%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 3 (42.86%) Bitbucket Server
2 3 (42.86%) Vagrant
3 1 (14.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1 (14.29%) Marketing
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Ubuntu
2 3 (42.86%) VMS
2 3 (42.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Capacity Management
3 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
3 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
3 3 (42.86%) Key Management
3 3 (42.86%) Patch Management
3 3 (42.86%) Server Management
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
5 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (14.29%) CRM
5 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
5 1 (14.29%) Project Management
5 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Groovy
2 3 (42.86%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) Perl
2 3 (42.86%) Ruby
2 3 (42.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
1 3 (42.86%) Virtual Desktop
1 3 (42.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Ansible
2 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Nagios
2 3 (42.86%) Nessus
2 3 (42.86%) Proxmox
3 1 (14.29%) Argo
3 1 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Juniper
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow