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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 223 247 257
Rank change year-on-year +24 +10 -17
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 32 78 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.45% 0.65% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.79% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 19 28 52
10th Percentile £61,250 £31,000 -
25th Percentile £63,750 £55,313 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £75,625 £70,000 £84,063
90th Percentile £90,500 - £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 6,552 9,841 8,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.69% 81.50% 96.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,621 7,188 4,423
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,374 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £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 19 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 19 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 +27 23 £67,500 +3.85% 21
East Midlands -5 9 £100,000 +66.67% 9
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 4 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 17 (53.13%) AWS
2 13 (40.63%) Azure
3 8 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 8 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 7 (21.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (21.88%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (21.88%) Amazon ELB
4 7 (21.88%) AWS KMS
4 7 (21.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (18.75%) Amazon Glacier
6 5 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (12.50%) IaaS
7 4 (12.50%) Serverless
8 3 (9.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (9.38%) PaaS
9 2 (6.25%) GCP
10 1 (3.13%) GitHub
10 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (3.13%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
1 8 (25.00%) VPN
2 6 (18.75%) Firewall
3 4 (12.50%) DNS
4 3 (9.38%) FTP
4 3 (9.38%) HTTP
4 3 (9.38%) SMTP
4 3 (9.38%) SSH
4 3 (9.38%) SSL
5 1 (3.13%) IMAP
5 1 (3.13%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (21.88%) Vagrant
3 5 (15.63%) Git
4 4 (12.50%) JIRA
5 3 (9.38%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (3.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (3.13%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (15.63%) Manufacturing
4 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.38%) Social Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Advertising
5 2 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Marketing
6 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) Site Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Environment And Release Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Release Manager
6 1 (3.13%) Architect
6 1 (3.13%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (3.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Architect
6 1 (3.13%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (18.75%) Loki
3 5 (15.63%) .NET
4 1 (3.13%) ADO
4 1 (3.13%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Cyberattack
2 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (50.00%) Linux
2 14 (43.75%) Windows
3 8 (25.00%) Android
4 7 (21.88%) VMS
5 4 (12.50%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (12.50%) Ubuntu
6 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (81.25%) DevOps
2 12 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (31.25%) Risk Management
4 9 (28.13%) Configuration Management
4 9 (28.13%) Storage Management
4 9 (28.13%) Task Automation
5 8 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (25.00%) Line Management
5 8 (25.00%) Mathematics
6 7 (21.88%) CI/CD
6 7 (21.88%) Cloud Security
7 6 (18.75%) Patch Management
7 6 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (15.63%) Agile
9 4 (12.50%) Change Management
9 4 (12.50%) Computer Science
9 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 3 (9.38%) Key Management
10 3 (9.38%) Observability
10 3 (9.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 21 (65.63%) Python
2 16 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 10 (31.25%) Bash
4 7 (21.88%) Groovy
5 6 (18.75%) Java
5 6 (18.75%) Perl
6 4 (12.50%) C#
6 4 (12.50%) TypeScript
7 3 (9.38%) Ruby
7 3 (9.38%) Shell Script
8 2 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) Degree
3 4 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (9.38%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 18 (56.25%) Docker
2 8 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 8 (25.00%) VMware NSX
2 8 (25.00%) vSphere
3 5 (15.63%) Active Directory
4 3 (9.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (9.38%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (6.25%) DFS Replication
6 1 (3.13%) Dovecot
6 1 (3.13%) Postfix
6 1 (3.13%) Squid
6 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (87.50%) Terraform
2 11 (34.38%) Ansible
2 11 (34.38%) Grafana
2 11 (34.38%) Prometheus
3 8 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 4 (12.50%) Nessus
4 4 (12.50%) Proxmox
5 3 (9.38%) Nagios
6 1 (3.13%) Argo
Vendors
1 11 (34.38%) Juniper
2 8 (25.00%) 3PAR
2 8 (25.00%) Cisco
2 8 (25.00%) Splunk
3 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
4 4 (12.50%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.25%) VMware
6 1 (3.13%) Databricks
6 1 (3.13%) Google
6 1 (3.13%) Jaspersoft