Platform Engineer Jobs in South Wales

Platform Engineer
Wales > South Wales

The median Platform Engineer salary in South Wales is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 104 97
Rank change year-on-year +12 -7 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 8 1 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 0.56% 0.087% 1.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.097% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 21
10th Percentile £49,000 - -
25th Percentile £51,250 £37,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £40,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -27.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £42,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,250 - £67,500
Wales median annual salary £55,000 £40,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +37.50% -27.27% +15.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in South Wales. 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 South Wales with a recognized job title 1,306 1,026 1,399
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.63% 89.45% 97.36%
Number of salaries quoted 865 585 873
10th Percentile £27,157 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,604 £45,496 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -7.15% +8.89%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,988 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in South Wales

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in South Wales

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in South Wales over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in South Wales

Platform Engineer
Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Cardiff +4 5 £71,250 +78.13% 1
Bridgend - 3 £52,500 - 1
Platform Engineer
Wales

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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 Wales region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (75.00%) Agile
3 5 (62.50%) Azure
4 4 (50.00%) AWS
4 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (50.00%) DataOps
4 4 (50.00%) Data Science
5 3 (37.50%) Looker
5 3 (37.50%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (37.50%) GDPR
5 3 (37.50%) Terraform
5 3 (37.50%) BigQuery
5 3 (37.50%) GCP
5 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
5 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (37.50%) Change Management
5 3 (37.50%) Google
6 2 (25.00%) ITIL
6 2 (25.00%) DNS
6 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (25.00%) REST
6 2 (25.00%) Git
6 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
6 2 (25.00%) Power BI
6 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) GCP
4 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (12.50%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) BigQuery
1 3 (37.50%) Looker
2 2 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (75.00%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (50.00%) Data Science
3 4 (50.00%) DataOps
4 3 (37.50%) Change Management
4 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
4 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (25.00%) ITIL
6 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
6 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
6 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
6 1 (12.50%) Microservices
6 1 (12.50%) Re-Platforming
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) Bicep
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Google
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft