Platform Engineering Jobs in the South East

Platform Engineering
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Platform Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 222 262 296
Rank change year-on-year +40 +34 +32
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 86 136 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.91% 0.79% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 0.94% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 31 44 84
10th Percentile - £49,875 £44,134
25th Percentile £40,748 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £67,500 £74,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% -9.40% +8.36%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,188 £96,250
90th Percentile £86,250 £99,250 £105,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%

All Process and 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 8,709 14,487 13,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 92.03% 83.62% 94.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4,196 10,016 7,809
10th Percentile £29,500 £27,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the South East

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in the South East

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in the South East over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

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 28 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 +51 54 £67,500 +12.50% 206
Berkshire +73 40 £85,000 +25.93% 138
Surrey +42 15 £40,748 -39.63% 43
Buckinghamshire +21 10 £59,250 -1.25% 45
Middlesex - 10 - -
Hampshire +50 6 £63,000 -3.08% 67
Oxfordshire +12 4 £61,250 +6.52% 25
East Sussex +23 1 £35,000 - 24
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
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 11 (12.79%) Apache Spark
2 6 (6.98%) IBM Domino
2 6 (6.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 37 (43.02%) Azure
2 29 (33.72%) AWS
3 24 (27.91%) GCP
4 12 (13.95%) Azure Monitor
5 10 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (10.47%) GitHub
7 6 (6.98%) Azure Key Vault
7 6 (6.98%) Entra ID
7 6 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (5.81%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.49%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.49%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.49%) Serverless
9 3 (3.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (2.33%) H2O.ai
10 2 (2.33%) IaaS
10 2 (2.33%) OpenShift
10 2 (2.33%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.33%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.47%) DNS
1 9 (10.47%) Firewall
1 9 (10.47%) VPN
2 6 (6.98%) Cisco IOS
2 6 (6.98%) LAN
2 6 (6.98%) WAN
3 1 (1.16%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (1.16%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.79%) Big Data
1 11 (12.79%) Data Lake
1 11 (12.79%) Hadoop
2 9 (10.47%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (10.47%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.49%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.33%) Apache Hive
4 2 (2.33%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.33%) Bigtable
4 2 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.33%) HBase
4 2 (2.33%) Impala
4 2 (2.33%) Metadata
4 2 (2.33%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.49%) Git
1 3 (3.49%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.33%) Cypress.io
2 2 (2.33%) Vite
2 2 (2.33%) webpack
3 1 (1.16%) GitLab
General
1 49 (56.98%) Law
2 46 (53.49%) Social Skills
3 12 (13.95%) Finance
4 6 (6.98%) Legal
5 2 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.33%) Banking
5 2 (2.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 22 (25.58%) Lead
2 21 (24.42%) Platform Engineer
3 20 (23.26%) Senior
4 9 (10.47%) Data Analytics Director
4 9 (10.47%) Systems Engineer
5 6 (6.98%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (6.98%) Gen AI Engineer
5 6 (6.98%) Platform Support Engineer
5 6 (6.98%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 6 (6.98%) Senior Manager
5 6 (6.98%) Support Engineer
6 4 (4.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.65%) Gen AI Software Engineer
6 4 (4.65%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 4 (4.65%) Software Engineer
7 3 (3.49%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (3.49%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 3 (3.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 3 (3.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (15.12%) Kafka
2 7 (8.14%) YAML
3 6 (6.98%) Hugging Face
3 6 (6.98%) LangChain
3 6 (6.98%) PyTorch
3 6 (6.98%) REST
3 6 (6.98%) TensorFlow
4 4 (4.65%) React
5 2 (2.33%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (2.33%) Enzyme
5 2 (2.33%) Jest
5 2 (2.33%) Next.js
5 2 (2.33%) Node.js
5 2 (2.33%) OpenAPI
5 2 (2.33%) Parceljs
5 2 (2.33%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.33%) Svelte
5 2 (2.33%) Vue
5 2 (2.33%) WebAssembly
6 1 (1.16%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (24.42%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (10.47%) Cloud Native
2 9 (10.47%) Management Information System
3 6 (6.98%) Public Cloud
4 5 (5.81%) Virtual Team
5 4 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.33%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.14%) Android
2 6 (6.98%) Mac OS
2 6 (6.98%) Windows
3 3 (3.49%) Linux
4 1 (1.16%) Debian
4 1 (1.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (50.00%) Analytics
2 40 (46.51%) Computer Science
3 33 (38.37%) Technical Leadership
4 30 (34.88%) Data Modelling
5 28 (32.56%) CI/CD
6 25 (29.07%) DevOps
7 24 (27.91%) Digital Strategy
7 24 (27.91%) Microservices
7 24 (27.91%) Product Management
8 23 (26.74%) Artificial Intelligence
8 23 (26.74%) High Availability
8 23 (26.74%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (26.74%) Open Source
9 21 (24.42%) Data Collection
9 21 (24.42%) Data Management
9 21 (24.42%) Decision Quality
9 21 (24.42%) Machine Learning
10 18 (20.93%) Stakeholder Management
11 16 (18.60%) Agile
12 15 (17.44%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 24 (27.91%) Python
2 16 (18.60%) SQL
3 15 (17.44%) PowerShell
4 7 (8.14%) Bash
4 7 (8.14%) Java
5 6 (6.98%) Bicep
6 4 (4.65%) Clojure
6 4 (4.65%) Elixir
6 4 (4.65%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.65%) Rust
6 4 (4.65%) Scala
6 4 (4.65%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.33%) Go
7 2 (2.33%) Ruby
8 1 (1.16%) C
8 1 (1.16%) C#
8 1 (1.16%) C++
8 1 (1.16%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 44 (51.16%) Degree
2 19 (22.09%) Master's Degree
3 15 (17.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (10.47%) AWS Certification
4 9 (10.47%) Azure Certification
4 9 (10.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (10.47%) HNC
5 7 (8.14%) SC Cleared
5 7 (8.14%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.16%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.63%) Accessibility
2 9 (10.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 9 (10.47%) GDPR
3 2 (2.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (9.30%) Active Directory
1 8 (9.30%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (3.49%) Hyper-V
2 3 (3.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.33%) Docker
3 2 (2.33%) HDFS
3 2 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (18.60%) Kubernetes
2 14 (16.28%) Ansible
3 11 (12.79%) Terraform
4 7 (8.14%) Grafana
4 7 (8.14%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.65%) Puppet
6 2 (2.33%) Hadoop YARN
6 2 (2.33%) SCCM
7 1 (1.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 15 (17.44%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.79%) Google
3 6 (6.98%) Atlassian
3 6 (6.98%) Cisco
3 6 (6.98%) Databricks
3 6 (6.98%) OpenAI
3 6 (6.98%) Palo Alto
4 3 (3.49%) VMware
5 2 (2.33%) Citrix
5 2 (2.33%) Cloudera
5 2 (2.33%) Confluent
5 2 (2.33%) Dataiku
5 2 (2.33%) MapR
5 2 (2.33%) SolarWinds
5 2 (2.33%) WSO2