Platform Engineer Jobs in South Wales

Platform Engineer
Wales > South Wales

The median Platform Engineer salary in South Wales is £63,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 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
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 99 99
Rank change year-on-year +37 0 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 2 7 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 0.24% 0.47% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.52% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile - £48,625 £40,375
25th Percentile £61,625 £50,313 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,250 £53,750 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +17.67% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £64,875 £57,500 £62,188
90th Percentile - £62,000 £66,125
Wales median annual salary £63,250 £53,750 £53,750
% change year-on-year +17.67% - -2.27%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 722 1,356 1,030
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.04% 91.01% 89.49%
Number of salaries quoted 429 907 558
10th Percentile £23,504 £27,157 £28,500
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £37,039
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £45,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -2.70% -7.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £62,997
90th Percentile £70,680 £70,000 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £47,683 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.96% - -5.26%

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
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 23 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
Cardiff +34 2 £63,250 +5.42% 7
Platform Engineer
Wales

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales

For the 6 months to 23 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 Wales region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) Jupyter
1 2 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CDK
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CDK
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker