Platform Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Platform Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Platform Engineer salary in the Midlands is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 280 291 290
Rank change year-on-year +11 -1 -63
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 37 33 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.32% 0.34% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.38% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 17 26 46
10th Percentile £57,200 £55,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £59,063 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £71,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% +9.62% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £93,125 £83,438
90th Percentile - £100,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 10,986 8,613 10,285
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.28% 89.50% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 8,233 4,790 7,091
10th Percentile £26,050 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,741 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 +18 20 £70,000 -1.75% 3
East Midlands -4 17 £60,000 -18.64% 1
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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 37 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 30 (81.08%) DevOps
3 24 (64.86%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (62.16%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (54.05%) Agile
6 18 (48.65%) Google
6 18 (48.65%) Change Management
6 18 (48.65%) BigQuery
6 18 (48.65%) GCP
6 18 (48.65%) Mentoring
6 18 (48.65%) Azure
6 18 (48.65%) Data Science
6 18 (48.65%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (48.65%) Data Pipeline
6 18 (48.65%) DataOps
6 18 (48.65%) Data Engineering
6 18 (48.65%) Looker
6 18 (48.65%) GDPR
7 12 (32.43%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (29.73%) CI/CD
9 10 (27.03%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (27.03%) PowerShell
9 10 (27.03%) Bash
9 10 (27.03%) Microsoft
10 9 (24.32%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (24.32%) Network Virtualisation
10 9 (24.32%) Bicep
11 8 (21.62%) Kubernetes
11 8 (21.62%) Docker
12 7 (18.92%) AWS

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:

Cloud Services
1 18 (48.65%) Azure
1 18 (48.65%) GCP
2 7 (18.92%) AWS
3 5 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (13.51%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (10.81%) Azure Key Vault
4 4 (10.81%) IaaS
4 4 (10.81%) PaaS
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.70%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.70%) CloudFront
5 1 (2.70%) Pulumi
5 1 (2.70%) Route 53
5 1 (2.70%) SaaS
5 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.51%) Network Security
2 1 (2.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (48.65%) BigQuery
1 18 (48.65%) Looker
2 2 (5.41%) MySQL
3 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.70%) MariaDB
3 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (16.22%) Git
2 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.70%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 23 (62.16%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (13.51%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.70%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.70%) AWS CDK
2 1 (2.70%) Middleware
2 1 (2.70%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (48.65%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (27.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Linux
2 1 (2.70%) CentOS
2 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.70%) Ubuntu
2 1 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 30 (81.08%) DevOps
3 24 (64.86%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (54.05%) Agile
5 18 (48.65%) Change Management
5 18 (48.65%) Data Engineering
5 18 (48.65%) Data Pipeline
5 18 (48.65%) Data Science
5 18 (48.65%) DataOps
5 18 (48.65%) Mentoring
6 12 (32.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (29.73%) CI/CD
8 9 (24.32%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (24.32%) Network Virtualisation
9 6 (16.22%) Containerisation
9 6 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (13.51%) Cloud Security
10 5 (13.51%) Data Protection
10 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Automation
10 5 (13.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.03%) Bash
1 10 (27.03%) PowerShell
2 9 (24.32%) Bicep
3 7 (18.92%) Python
4 2 (5.41%) SQL
5 1 (2.70%) C#
5 1 (2.70%) Go
5 1 (2.70%) Groovy
5 1 (2.70%) Java
5 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.70%) PHP
5 1 (2.70%) Ruby
5 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
1 1 (2.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (48.65%) GDPR
2 5 (13.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 8 (21.62%) Docker
2 4 (10.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (21.62%) Kubernetes
2 6 (16.22%) Terraform
3 2 (5.41%) Ansible
4 1 (2.70%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (2.70%) Grafana
4 1 (2.70%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (48.65%) Google
2 10 (27.03%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.70%) New Relic
3 1 (2.70%) SaltStack