Platform Engineering Jobs in Southampton

Platform Engineering
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Southampton requiring Platform Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 60 72
Rank change year-on-year +24 +12 -
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 5 17 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 1.47% 1.96% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 2.39% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5 6 3
10th Percentile - £50,000 -
25th Percentile £51,250 £62,188 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £76,250 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.20% -15.28% -
75th Percentile £71,500 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £72,850 - -
Hampshire median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% -10.34% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Southampton

Platform Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Southampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 307 712 731
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 90.56% 81.93% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 234 612 538
10th Percentile £30,150 £28,750 £27,675
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £46,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% -7.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £80,150
Hampshire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year +10.00% -6.98% +0.47%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Southampton.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Southampton

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in Southampton

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in Southampton.

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in Southampton

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in Southampton

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in Southampton over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in Southampton

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
1 3 (60.00%) Nutanix
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
1 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Kanban
1 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (60.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Progress Chef
1 3 (60.00%) Puppet
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) VMware