AWS Platform Engineer Job Trends in the South West

Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services
England > South West

The median Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the South West is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 - 213
Rank change year-on-year - - +53
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Platform Engineer 2 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.039% - 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% - 0.088%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71,250 - £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - £72,500
75th Percentile £73,750 - £87,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +13.33% +3.45%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 4,765 3,889 4,523
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.62% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3,306 2,090 3,488
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £39,748
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £50,886
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +2.19% +1.77%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £66,778
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.50%

AWS Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'AWS Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

AWS Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in the South West

AWS Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for AWS Platform Engineer job vacancies in the South West.

Salary distribution trend for AWS Platform Engineer job vacancies in the South West

AWS Platform Engineer
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Platform Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 15 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
Bristol - 2 £72,500 - 3
AWS Platform Engineer
England

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 15 January 2026, AWS Platform Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South West region featuring AWS Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Billing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform