Platform Engineer Jobs in Oxfordshire

Platform Engineer
South East > Oxfordshire

The median Platform Engineer salary in Oxfordshire is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 107 -
Rank change year-on-year +33 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 3 6 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 0.40% 0.36% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.37% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £30,750 - -
25th Percentile £33,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 - -
75th Percentile £46,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £51,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.00% +14.29% +13.51%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Oxfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Oxfordshire. 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 Oxfordshire with a recognized job title 668 1,612 1,296
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.59% 95.84% 84.60%
Number of salaries quoted 360 1,288 793
10th Percentile £32,459 £29,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £34,990
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £82,625 £70,000 £78,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Oxfordshire

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in Oxfordshire

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire

For the 6 months to 11 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 Oxfordshire region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) ITSM
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) SCCM
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) MCSE
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ITSM
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) MCSE
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) SCCM
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 3 (100.00%) VMware