Platform Engineering Jobs in the South West

Platform Engineering
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Platform Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 204 215 259
Rank change year-on-year +11 +44 -7
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 89 54 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.96% 0.80% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 0.85% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 23 42 55
10th Percentile £50,809 £46,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,875 £53,750 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,351 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% +24.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £86,875 £73,750
90th Percentile £76,487 £102,500 -
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Platform Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,721 6,348 7,740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 83.42% 94.41% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 5,559 3,543 5,023
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,875 £38,037
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the South West

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in the South West

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in the South West over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in the South West

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering within the South West region over the 6 months to 14 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 -6 30 £70,576 -2.65% 8
Gloucestershire 0 25 £67,500 +3.85% 2
Somerset - 17 £73,500 - 1
Wiltshire +1 9 £67,500 +3.85%
Devon -13 4 £65,000 - 2
Dorset -21 4 £65,000 +36.84% 1
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
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:

Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (1.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 70 (78.65%) GCP
2 50 (56.18%) Azure
3 45 (50.56%) AWS
4 33 (37.08%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (7.87%) Power Platform
6 6 (6.74%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.25%) Serverless
8 1 (1.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.12%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.12%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (1.12%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.12%) PaaS
8 1 (1.12%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.12%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.12%) 2G
1 1 (1.12%) 3G
1 1 (1.12%) 4G
1 1 (1.12%) 5G
1 1 (1.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (73.03%) BigQuery
1 65 (73.03%) Looker
2 44 (49.44%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (15.73%) Data Lake
4 7 (7.87%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (6.74%) RStudio
2 2 (2.25%) Git
3 1 (1.12%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.12%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (1.12%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 61 (68.54%) Analytical Skills
2 32 (35.96%) Billing
3 13 (14.61%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.62%) Banking
5 4 (4.49%) Finance
6 3 (3.37%) Retail
7 1 (1.12%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.12%) Games
7 1 (1.12%) Law
7 1 (1.12%) Military
7 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (42.70%) Platform Engineer
2 35 (39.33%) Data Engineer
3 33 (37.08%) Engineering Manager
4 32 (35.96%) Data Manager
5 25 (28.09%) Principal Data Engineer
5 25 (28.09%) Principal Engineer
6 10 (11.24%) Lead
6 10 (11.24%) Lead Data Engineer
7 8 (8.99%) Architect
7 8 (8.99%) Data Architect
8 5 (5.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.37%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (3.37%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.37%) Senior
10 2 (2.25%) Delivery Manager
10 2 (2.25%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 2 (2.25%) Senior Delivery Manager
10 2 (2.25%) Senior Manager
11 1 (1.12%) IT Support Engineer
11 1 (1.12%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.12%) CSS
1 1 (1.12%) HTML
1 1 (1.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (38.20%) Product Ownership
2 33 (37.08%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (6.74%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.25%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.12%) Digital Currency
5 1 (1.12%) iPhone
5 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.99%) Linux
2 6 (6.74%) Unix
3 2 (2.25%) Windows
4 1 (1.12%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (77.53%) Data Engineering
2 68 (76.40%) Problem-Solving
3 67 (75.28%) Agile
4 58 (65.17%) DevOps
5 48 (53.93%) ETL
6 44 (49.44%) Data Modelling
7 39 (43.82%) Scrum
8 37 (41.57%) Mentoring
9 35 (39.33%) CI/CD
9 35 (39.33%) Data Pipeline
10 32 (35.96%) Backlog Management
10 32 (35.96%) Business Strategy
10 32 (35.96%) Line Management
10 32 (35.96%) Product Backlog
10 32 (35.96%) Project Management
11 21 (23.60%) Change Management
11 21 (23.60%) Data Science
11 21 (23.60%) DataOps
12 18 (20.22%) Data Governance
13 8 (8.99%) ERD
Programming Languages
1 12 (13.48%) Python
2 8 (8.99%) SQL
3 6 (6.74%) Java
3 6 (6.74%) R
4 4 (4.49%) C#
4 4 (4.49%) Scala
5 2 (2.25%) Bash
5 2 (2.25%) C++
6 1 (1.12%) Embedded C++
6 1 (1.12%) Go
6 1 (1.12%) Groovy
6 1 (1.12%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.12%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (4.49%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.37%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.12%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (35.96%) QA
2 29 (32.58%) GDPR
3 18 (20.22%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.12%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (3.37%) Docker
2 1 (1.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.37%) Terraform
2 2 (2.25%) Ansible
3 1 (1.12%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 69 (77.53%) Google
2 6 (6.74%) Alteryx
2 6 (6.74%) Databricks
3 4 (4.49%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.12%) Apple
4 1 (1.12%) Sparx