Platform Engineer Jobs in the South West

Platform Engineer
England > South West

The median Platform Engineer salary in the South West is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 April 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 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 247 240
Rank change year-on-year +79 -7 +39
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 9 37 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.26% 0.41% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.43% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 9 16 40
10th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £67,500 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% -2.80% +20.78%
75th Percentile £93,778 £72,433 £90,000
90th Percentile - - £102,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 3,231 8,700 6,349
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 96.12% 89.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,008 6,410 3,926
10th Percentile £28,675 £28,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £50,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £67,858
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £54,000 £60,415
% change year-on-year +6.48% -10.62% +0.69%

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 23 April 2025.

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 23 April 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
Bristol +56 8 £77,500 +9.81% 2
Wiltshire +37 1 £80,000 +18.52% 5
Platform Engineer
England

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

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

1 8 (88.89%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 6 (66.67%) Python
3 5 (55.56%) Azure
3 5 (55.56%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
3 5 (55.56%) Docker
3 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
4 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (44.44%) Azure Certification
4 4 (44.44%) Cloud Security
4 4 (44.44%) Azure AKS
4 4 (44.44%) Bicep
4 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
4 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
4 4 (44.44%) Migration
4 4 (44.44%) Agile
5 3 (33.33%) Banking
5 3 (33.33%) Finance
5 3 (33.33%) Project Management
5 3 (33.33%) Oracle
5 3 (33.33%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (33.33%) QA
5 3 (33.33%) Release Management
5 3 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (33.33%) SaaS

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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Azure AKS
2 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (33.33%) OCI
3 3 (33.33%) PaaS
3 3 (33.33%) SaaS
4 2 (22.22%) AWS
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Banking
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
1 3 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
3 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (55.56%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (44.44%) Agile
4 4 (44.44%) Cloud Security
4 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (44.44%) Migration
5 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (33.33%) Process Improvement
5 3 (33.33%) Project Management
5 3 (33.33%) Release Management
6 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
7 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (11.11%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) Bicep
2 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
3 2 (22.22%) Perl
4 1 (11.11%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Ansible
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
3 1 (11.11%) Puppet
3 1 (11.11%) Salt
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 1 (11.11%) VMware