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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 252 254
Rank change year-on-year +16 +2 +83
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 34 54 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.33% 0.60% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.68% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 22 29 23
10th Percentile £48,650 £44,150 £57,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £49,775 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £56,509 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.51% -22.06% +3.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,625
90th Percentile £86,000 £83,500 £88,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.25%

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 8,324 7,915 7,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.21% 88.16% 88.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,975 3,773 5,421
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £45,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 +17 18 £75,000 +32.72% 49
Buckinghamshire +14 11 £75,000 - 11
Hampshire +24 8 £70,000 +31.95% 12
East Sussex - 5 £35,000 - 5
Berkshire - 5 - - 35
Oxfordshire +15 2 £83,750 +48.21% 3
West Sussex - 2 £73,750 - 6
Surrey -8 1 - - 7
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 1 (2.94%) Confluence
1 1 (2.94%) OpenStack
1 1 (2.94%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 24 (70.59%) Azure
2 8 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (20.59%) Entra ID
3 7 (20.59%) GCP
3 7 (20.59%) GitHub
3 7 (20.59%) GitHub Actions
3 7 (20.59%) SaaS
4 6 (17.65%) AWS
4 6 (17.65%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (11.76%) Snowflake
6 2 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.94%) Azure AI
7 1 (2.94%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.94%) OCI
7 1 (2.94%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.82%) DNS
2 2 (5.88%) Firewall
3 1 (2.94%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (2.94%) DHCP
3 1 (2.94%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.94%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (26.47%) Git
2 8 (23.53%) Jenkins
3 5 (14.71%) GitLab
4 2 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Finance
3 2 (5.88%) Retail
4 1 (2.94%) Law
4 1 (2.94%) Marketing
4 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (35.29%) Platform Engineer
1 12 (35.29%) Senior
2 7 (20.59%) Lead
3 5 (14.71%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Head of Engineering
4 4 (11.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Technical Manager
6 2 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Product Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Project Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Technical Product Manager
7 1 (2.94%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 1 (2.94%) Platform Manager
7 1 (2.94%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.65%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.94%) XML
2 1 (2.94%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Linux Command Line
1 6 (17.65%) Onboarding
2 3 (8.82%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.88%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.94%) Clustering
4 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.65%) Linux
1 6 (17.65%) VMS
2 2 (5.88%) Ubuntu
2 2 (5.88%) Windows
2 2 (5.88%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.94%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (38.24%) DevOps
3 11 (32.35%) Containerisation
3 11 (32.35%) Observability
4 7 (20.59%) Network Virtualisation
4 7 (20.59%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (17.65%) Matrix Management
5 6 (17.65%) RBAC
5 6 (17.65%) Resource Management
5 6 (17.65%) Servant Leadership
5 6 (17.65%) Systems Engineering
5 6 (17.65%) Task Automation
6 5 (14.71%) Agile
6 5 (14.71%) Migration
7 4 (11.76%) Acceptance Criteria
7 4 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (11.76%) Impact Assessments
7 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (8.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (26.47%) Bash
2 8 (23.53%) PowerShell
3 6 (17.65%) Python
4 2 (5.88%) SQL
5 1 (2.94%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
1 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.88%) Degree
2 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (2.94%) Linux+ Certification
3 1 (2.94%) LPIC
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.94%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) GDPR
2 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.94%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (26.47%) Docker
2 7 (20.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (41.18%) Kubernetes
2 11 (32.35%) Terraform
3 3 (8.82%) Ansible
3 3 (8.82%) Grafana
3 3 (8.82%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.94%) Nagios
4 1 (2.94%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.88%) Google
3 1 (2.94%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle
3 1 (2.94%) Sitecore
3 1 (2.94%) Splunk