Platform Engineering Jobs in the Midlands

Platform Engineering
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Platform Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 232 243 262
Rank change year-on-year +11 +19 -10
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 28 78 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.40% 0.66% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.80% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 16 28 52
10th Percentile £61,250 £31,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,438 £55,313 £55,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £74,688 £70,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 - £100,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,383 9,729 8,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.58% 81.97% 96.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,623 7,134 4,536
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £34,834 £38,750
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 £62,311 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the Midlands

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in the Midlands

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in the Midlands

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 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 +34 19 £67,500 +3.85% 14
East Midlands +3 9 £100,000 +66.67% 4
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
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 (3.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 13 (46.43%) AWS
2 12 (42.86%) Azure
3 7 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (17.86%) Amazon S3
4 5 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
5 4 (14.29%) Amazon Glacier
5 4 (14.29%) AWS KMS
5 4 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (14.29%) IaaS
5 4 (14.29%) Serverless
5 4 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (10.71%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (10.71%) PaaS
7 2 (7.14%) GCP
8 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (3.57%) GitHub
8 1 (3.57%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (28.57%) Cisco IOS
1 8 (28.57%) VPN
2 3 (10.71%) Firewall
2 3 (10.71%) SSL
3 1 (3.57%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.29%) Vagrant
3 3 (10.71%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (7.14%) Git
5 1 (3.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (3.57%) JIRA
5 1 (3.57%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (17.86%) Manufacturing
4 2 (7.14%) Advertising
4 2 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Marketing
5 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 8 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Site Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Environment And Release Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Release Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Data Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (21.43%) Loki
3 5 (17.86%) .NET
4 1 (3.57%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Cyberattack
2 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (46.43%) Linux
1 13 (46.43%) Windows
2 8 (28.57%) Android
3 4 (14.29%) VMS
4 3 (10.71%) Ubuntu
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (82.14%) DevOps
2 12 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (35.71%) Risk Management
4 9 (32.14%) Storage Management
4 9 (32.14%) Task Automation
5 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (28.57%) Line Management
5 8 (28.57%) Mathematics
6 6 (21.43%) CI/CD
6 6 (21.43%) Configuration Management
6 6 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (17.86%) Agile
8 4 (14.29%) Cloud Security
8 4 (14.29%) Computer Science
8 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (10.71%) Deployment Automation
9 3 (10.71%) Key Management
9 3 (10.71%) Observability
9 3 (10.71%) Roadmaps
9 3 (10.71%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (60.71%) Python
2 12 (42.86%) PowerShell
3 10 (35.71%) Bash
4 4 (14.29%) C#
4 4 (14.29%) Groovy
4 4 (14.29%) Java
4 4 (14.29%) Perl
4 4 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 3 (10.71%) Ruby
5 3 (10.71%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (14.29%) Degree
1 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 14 (50.00%) Docker
2 8 (28.57%) Hyper-V
2 8 (28.57%) VMware NSX
2 8 (28.57%) vSphere
3 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
3 3 (10.71%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (10.71%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.57%) DFS Replication
4 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (85.71%) Terraform
2 11 (39.29%) Ansible
3 8 (28.57%) Grafana
3 8 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 8 (28.57%) Prometheus
4 3 (10.71%) Nagios
4 3 (10.71%) Nessus
4 3 (10.71%) Proxmox
5 1 (3.57%) Argo
Vendors
1 11 (39.29%) Juniper
2 8 (28.57%) 3PAR
2 8 (28.57%) Cisco
2 8 (28.57%) Splunk
3 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.14%) VMware
5 1 (3.57%) Databricks
5 1 (3.57%) Google
5 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow