Platform Engineer Jobs in the South West

Platform Engineer
England > South West

The median Platform Engineer salary in the South West is £67,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 258 230 284
Rank change year-on-year -28 +54 -30
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 38 41 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.41% 0.60% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.67% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 17 40 16
10th Percentile £56,700 £46,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £53,750 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,447 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% +20.78% +13.75%
75th Percentile £72,433 £90,000 £70,938
90th Percentile - £102,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +9.80%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 8,945 6,087 7,773
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.22% 89.19% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,520 3,772 5,137
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £29,450
25th Percentile £36,365 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £64,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,650 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in the South West

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in the South West

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in the South West

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 Platform Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
Bristol -21 10 £70,576 -2.65% 4
Somerset - 7 £57,000 - 1
Wiltshire - 7 £67,500 -
Gloucestershire -12 6 - - 3
Devon -10 4 £65,000 +30.00% 3
Dorset -19 4 £65,000 +36.84%
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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 West region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 38 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 31 (81.58%) Data Pipeline
3 28 (73.68%) Agile
4 25 (65.79%) Google
4 25 (65.79%) Mentoring
4 25 (65.79%) GCP
4 25 (65.79%) Data Engineering
5 24 (63.16%) DevOps
6 23 (60.53%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (55.26%) Data Science
7 21 (55.26%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (55.26%) Looker
7 21 (55.26%) GDPR
7 21 (55.26%) DataOps
7 21 (55.26%) BigQuery
7 21 (55.26%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (55.26%) Change Management
8 10 (26.32%) Data Lake
9 9 (23.68%) Azure
10 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
11 7 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (18.42%) Linux
11 7 (18.42%) Python
12 6 (15.79%) Unix
12 6 (15.79%) Release Management
12 6 (15.79%) Data Management
12 6 (15.79%) Data Governance
12 6 (15.79%) Data Quality
12 6 (15.79%) Alteryx
12 6 (15.79%) Data Transformation

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (2.63%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 25 (65.79%) GCP
2 9 (23.68%) Azure
3 6 (15.79%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (15.79%) Power Platform
4 3 (7.89%) AWS
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.63%) PaaS
5 1 (2.63%) SaaS
5 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (55.26%) BigQuery
1 21 (55.26%) Looker
2 10 (26.32%) Data Lake
3 6 (15.79%) Power BI
4 4 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (15.79%) RStudio
2 2 (5.26%) Git
3 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.63%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (2.63%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (55.26%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.16%) Banking
4 4 (10.53%) Finance
5 1 (2.63%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.63%) Games
5 1 (2.63%) Military
5 1 (2.63%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 21 (55.26%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (15.79%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.63%) Digital Currency
3 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.42%) Linux
2 6 (15.79%) Unix
3 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 31 (81.58%) Data Pipeline
3 28 (73.68%) Agile
4 25 (65.79%) Data Engineering
4 25 (65.79%) Mentoring
5 24 (63.16%) DevOps
6 23 (60.53%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (55.26%) Change Management
7 21 (55.26%) Data Science
7 21 (55.26%) DataOps
8 7 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (15.79%) Analytics
9 6 (15.79%) Culture Change
9 6 (15.79%) Data Governance
9 6 (15.79%) Data Management
9 6 (15.79%) Data Transformation
9 6 (15.79%) IT Strategy
9 6 (15.79%) Regulatory Compliance
9 6 (15.79%) Release Management
9 6 (15.79%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.42%) Python
2 6 (15.79%) R
3 4 (10.53%) C#
3 4 (10.53%) SQL
4 2 (5.26%) Bash
5 1 (2.63%) Go
5 1 (2.63%) Groovy
5 1 (2.63%) Java
5 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared
1 3 (7.89%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (55.26%) GDPR
2 6 (15.79%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.63%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.89%) Terraform
2 2 (5.26%) Ansible
3 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (65.79%) Google
2 6 (15.79%) Alteryx
2 6 (15.79%) Databricks
3 3 (7.89%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.63%) Sparx