Platform Engineer Jobs in the South East

Platform Engineer
England > South East

The median Platform Engineer salary in the South East is £51,000 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 279 361 347
Rank change year-on-year +82 -14 +99
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 20 32 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.22% 0.19% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.20% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9 8 44
10th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £32,110
25th Percentile £38,750 £52,188 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £71,500 £77,500 £65,625
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 8,004 15,797 13,153
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.47% 93.98% 90.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4,536 11,357 8,268
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in the South East

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in the South East

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in the South East

Platform Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the South East 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
Thames Valley +67 15 £46,750 -22.08% 14
Buckinghamshire +39 8 £51,000 -15.00% 9
Berkshire +48 4 £82,500 +6.45% 3
Hampshire +59 3 £71,000 +26.22% 4
Oxfordshire +32 3 £42,500 - 2
Middlesex - 2 - -
Platform Engineer
England

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

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 South East region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (90.00%) Azure
1 18 (90.00%) Platform Engineering
2 13 (65.00%) AWS
3 11 (55.00%) Microsoft
3 11 (55.00%) Ansible
3 11 (55.00%) GCP
4 9 (45.00%) Kubernetes
4 9 (45.00%) Terraform
4 9 (45.00%) Active Directory
5 6 (30.00%) Palo Alto
5 6 (30.00%) User Experience
5 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (30.00%) Customer Experience
5 6 (30.00%) Customer Service
5 6 (30.00%) Cisco
5 6 (30.00%) VMware
5 6 (30.00%) Agile
5 6 (30.00%) Python
5 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (30.00%) LAN
5 6 (30.00%) WAN
5 6 (30.00%) Windows
5 6 (30.00%) IBM Domino
5 6 (30.00%) Cisco IOS
5 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
5 6 (30.00%) Android
5 6 (30.00%) Mac OS
5 6 (30.00%) Hyper-V
5 6 (30.00%) Microsoft 365

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (30.00%) IBM Domino
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (10.00%) Apache
2 2 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 18 (90.00%) Azure
2 13 (65.00%) AWS
3 11 (55.00%) GCP
4 6 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (20.00%) GitHub
6 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (15.00%) Nutanix
7 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
7 2 (10.00%) H2O.ai
7 2 (10.00%) IaaS
7 2 (10.00%) PaaS
7 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
7 2 (10.00%) SaaS
7 2 (10.00%) Vertex AI
8 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) Cisco IOS
1 6 (30.00%) LAN
1 6 (30.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Apache Hive
1 2 (10.00%) Big Data
1 2 (10.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (10.00%) Bigtable
1 2 (10.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (10.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (10.00%) HBase
1 2 (10.00%) Impala
1 2 (10.00%) Metadata
1 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 5 (25.00%) Law
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) REST
2 2 (10.00%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (10.00%) Kafka
2 2 (10.00%) React
2 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Android
1 6 (30.00%) Mac OS
1 6 (30.00%) Windows
2 4 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (30.00%) Agile
2 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (30.00%) Customer Experience
2 6 (30.00%) Customer Service
2 6 (30.00%) User Experience
3 5 (25.00%) Analytics
4 4 (20.00%) DevOps
5 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (15.00%) Digital Strategy
5 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (15.00%) ITSM
5 3 (15.00%) Kanban
5 3 (15.00%) Observability
5 3 (15.00%) Product Management
5 3 (15.00%) Runbook
5 3 (15.00%) Scrum
5 3 (15.00%) Use Case
6 2 (10.00%) Data Governance
6 2 (10.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
1 6 (30.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (10.00%) Bash
3 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.00%) Ruby
3 2 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) MCSE
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (45.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (30.00%) Hyper-V
2 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (15.00%) Docker
3 3 (15.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (15.00%) vSphere
4 2 (10.00%) HDFS
4 2 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (55.00%) Ansible
2 9 (45.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (45.00%) Terraform
3 6 (30.00%) Puppet
4 3 (15.00%) Progress Chef
4 3 (15.00%) SCCM
5 2 (10.00%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (30.00%) Cisco
2 6 (30.00%) Palo Alto
2 6 (30.00%) VMware
3 3 (15.00%) Citrix
3 3 (15.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (10.00%) Cloudera
4 2 (10.00%) Dataiku
4 2 (10.00%) Google
4 2 (10.00%) MapR
4 2 (10.00%) WSO2