Senior Platform Engineer Job Trends in the Midlands

Senior Platform Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Senior Platform Engineer salary in the Midlands is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 213 267 -
Rank change year-on-year +54 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 6 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.11% 0.023% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.024% -
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £74,288 - -
25th Percentile £82,500 £64,471 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £69,308 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.86% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £74,144 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £82,500 £73,750 £76,250
% change year-on-year +11.86% -3.28% -10.29%

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 5,195 8,326 4,860
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.07% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 3,322 4,259 3,795
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £62,875 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,725 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% -

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Senior Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Senior Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

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

Senior Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Platform Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Platform Engineer in the Midlands

Senior 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 Senior Platform Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 November 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 +53 6 £90,000 +29.86% 4
Senior Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 November 2025, Senior 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 Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Docker
3 4 (66.67%) DV Cleared
3 4 (66.67%) Python
4 3 (50.00%) Bash
4 3 (50.00%) Delta Lake
4 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (33.33%) Azure
5 2 (33.33%) Migration
6 1 (16.67%) Agile
6 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (16.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (16.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (16.67%) Analytics
6 1 (16.67%) AWS
6 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (16.67%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (16.67%) Budgeting
6 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
6 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (16.67%) Change Control
6 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
6 1 (16.67%) Creative Problem-Solving

Senior 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 1 (16.67%) IIS
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (16.67%) dbt
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) PaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Pulumi
2 1 (16.67%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Redis
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (16.67%) Legal
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Migration
5 1 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
5 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (16.67%) Change Control
5 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (16.67%) ITIL
5 1 (16.67%) ITSM
5 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
5 1 (16.67%) Open Source
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Service Management
5 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Web SSO
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Copilot
2 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft