Platform Engineering Job Trends in St Albans

Platform Engineering
Hertfordshire > St Albans

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in St Albans requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in St Albans 0.88% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86,875 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,750 - -
75th Percentile £90,625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median annual salary £68,125 £78,750 -
% change year-on-year -13.49% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
St Albans

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 St Albans.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 96 37 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in St Albans 84.96% 100.00% 72.92%
Number of salaries quoted 75 19 67
10th Percentile £34,750 £31,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £32,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £63,458
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -13.33% +10.36%
75th Percentile £90,000 £65,625 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £70,200 £87,500
Hertfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -1.79%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in St Albans

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Platform Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in St Albans.

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in St Albans

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in St Albans 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft