Platform Engineering Job Trends in the South East

Platform Engineering
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 212 276
Rank change year-on-year +51 +64 -28
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 199 70 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.05% 0.78% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 0.89% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 151 27 19
10th Percentile £52,500 £40,800 £48,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £52,500 £49,775
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £75,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +36.36% -27.87%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,000 £88,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £73,801 £77,500
% change year-on-year +5.01% -4.77% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,698 7,897 10,033
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 72.26% 88.21% 81.70%
Number of salaries quoted 9,727 4,245 5,277
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,766 £32,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Platform Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in the South East

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Platform Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in the South East over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in the South East

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering within the South East region over the 6 months to 10 October 2026. 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 +23 91 £67,500 -10.00% 115
Hampshire +15 71 £74,500 -6.88% 44
Buckinghamshire +23 39 £60,000 -20.00% 34
Berkshire +9 38 £91,250 +7.35% 41
West Sussex -11 15 £87,500 +2.94% 10
Surrey - 15 £71,250 - 29
Oxfordshire -23 14 £55,000 -33.33% 40
East Sussex -7 3 - - 3
Sussex - 2 £67,500 -
Middlesex - 1 £97,500 -
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (1.51%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 105 (52.76%) Azure
2 38 (19.10%) AWS
3 27 (13.57%) SaaS
4 25 (12.56%) Azure AKS
5 24 (12.06%) PaaS
6 20 (10.05%) GitHub
7 18 (9.05%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (8.54%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (8.04%) GCP
10 14 (7.04%) Azure Monitor
10 14 (7.04%) IaaS
11 13 (6.53%) Entra ID
12 11 (5.53%) Datadog
12 11 (5.53%) Serverless
13 9 (4.52%) Azure Key Vault
13 9 (4.52%) OpenShift
14 7 (3.52%) Azure Functions
15 5 (2.51%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (2.51%) Amazon EKS
16 4 (2.01%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.04%) DNS
2 14 (7.04%) VPN
3 13 (6.53%) Firewall
4 3 (1.51%) BGP
4 3 (1.51%) Internet
4 3 (1.51%) NAS
4 3 (1.51%) NetScaler
4 3 (1.51%) SAN
4 3 (1.51%) WAN
4 3 (1.51%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.50%) DHCP
5 1 (0.50%) SSH
5 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (2.01%) DynamoDB
3 3 (1.51%) Redis
3 3 (1.51%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.01%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (1.01%) Delta Lake
4 2 (1.01%) DocumentDB
4 2 (1.01%) GIS
5 1 (0.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (8.04%) GitLab
2 12 (6.03%) Git
3 8 (4.02%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.51%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.01%) MSI
5 2 (1.01%) Snyk
5 2 (1.01%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.50%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.50%) JIRA
6 1 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 34 (17.09%) Social Skills
2 33 (16.58%) Finance
3 5 (2.51%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (2.01%) Legal
5 3 (1.51%) Aviation
5 3 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (1.51%) Local Government
5 3 (1.51%) Public Sector
5 3 (1.51%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.50%) Banking
6 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.50%) Military
6 1 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 106 (53.27%) Platform Engineer
2 54 (27.14%) Senior
3 52 (26.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 42 (21.11%) Azure Engineer
5 41 (20.60%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 40 (20.10%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 34 (17.09%) Data Engineer
8 28 (14.07%) DevOps Engineer
9 25 (12.56%) Cloud Engineer
10 24 (12.06%) Architect
11 19 (9.55%) Lead
11 19 (9.55%) Microsoft Engineer
12 13 (6.53%) Senior DevOps
12 13 (6.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 12 (6.03%) Lead Cloud Engineer
14 10 (5.03%) Applications Architect
14 10 (5.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 9 (4.52%) Platform Manager
16 8 (4.02%) Engineering Manager
16 8 (4.02%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (37.69%) Terraform
2 18 (9.05%) ARM Templates
3 10 (5.03%) Regular Expression
3 10 (5.03%) XMPP
4 7 (3.52%) LDAP
5 5 (2.51%) React
5 5 (2.51%) YAML
6 4 (2.01%) AWS SAM
6 4 (2.01%) Node.js
6 4 (2.01%) Serverless Framework
7 3 (1.51%) .NET
7 3 (1.51%) Loki
8 2 (1.01%) ADO
8 2 (1.01%) OpenTofu
8 2 (1.01%) Pulumi
8 2 (1.01%) PySpark
9 1 (0.50%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Graph
9 1 (0.50%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (20.60%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (2.51%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.01%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (2.01%) IoT
4 4 (2.01%) Robotics
4 4 (2.01%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.51%) PKI
5 3 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.01%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.01%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.50%) ARM Cortex
7 1 (0.50%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.50%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.50%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.50%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (20.60%) Linux
2 26 (13.07%) Windows
3 12 (6.03%) Windows Server
4 10 (5.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.01%) Android
6 1 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (43.22%) DevOps
2 80 (40.20%) Infrastructure as Code
3 77 (38.69%) CI/CD
4 43 (21.61%) Observability
5 32 (16.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 27 (13.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 25 (12.56%) Containerisation
8 24 (12.06%) Analytics
9 22 (11.06%) Cloud Security
10 21 (10.55%) Stakeholder Management
11 19 (9.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 18 (9.05%) Mentoring
12 18 (9.05%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (8.54%) Agile
13 17 (8.54%) Configuration Management
13 17 (8.54%) Decision-Making
14 16 (8.04%) Microservices
15 15 (7.54%) AI
15 15 (7.54%) Software Delivery
15 15 (7.54%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 34 (17.09%) Python
2 20 (10.05%) Bash
2 20 (10.05%) Bicep
3 19 (9.55%) PowerShell
4 12 (6.03%) TypeScript
5 10 (5.03%) SQL
6 6 (3.02%) Go
6 6 (3.02%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.02%) PHP
7 5 (2.51%) C#
8 4 (2.01%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.01%) C
9 2 (1.01%) C++
Qualifications
1 66 (33.17%) Security Cleared
2 45 (22.61%) SC Cleared
3 26 (13.07%) DV Cleared
4 12 (6.03%) Degree
5 7 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.02%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.50%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.51%) NIST
2 4 (2.01%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.50%) GDPR
3 1 (0.50%) GRC
3 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.50%) QA
System Software
1 19 (9.55%) Docker
2 18 (9.05%) Active Directory
3 10 (5.03%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (5.03%) vSphere
4 1 (0.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 63 (31.66%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.04%) Grafana
3 15 (7.54%) Prometheus
4 13 (6.53%) Ansible
5 8 (4.02%) Argo
6 4 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.51%) Istio
7 3 (1.51%) Kustomize
8 2 (1.01%) Packer
9 1 (0.50%) Nessus
9 1 (0.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 66 (33.17%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.54%) Red Hat
3 12 (6.03%) VMware
4 7 (3.52%) McAfee
5 6 (3.02%) Google
6 4 (2.01%) Splunk
7 3 (1.51%) Citrix
7 3 (1.51%) NetApp
8 2 (1.01%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.01%) Blue Prism
8 2 (1.01%) Databricks
8 2 (1.01%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.01%) Foundry
8 2 (1.01%) New Relic
8 2 (1.01%) SAP
8 2 (1.01%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.01%) Workday
9 1 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.50%) EMC
9 1 (0.50%) OpenAI