Platform Engineer Jobs in Shropshire

Platform Engineer
West Midlands > Shropshire

The median Platform Engineer salary in Shropshire is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 1 0 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Shropshire 0.88% - 5.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% - 7.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72,500 - £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 - £80,000
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £61,250 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Shropshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Shropshire. 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 Shropshire with a recognized job title 111 274 134
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.23% 93.20% 76.14%
Number of salaries quoted 87 184 88
10th Percentile £26,850 £25,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £42,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -33.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £54,375 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Shropshire

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Shropshire

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in Shropshire

Platform Engineer
Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 9 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
Telford - 1 £80,000 - 2
Platform Engineer
West Midlands

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 14 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire

For the 6 months to 9 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 Shropshire region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform