Platform Engineering Job Trends in Sussex

Platform Engineering
South East > Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Sussex requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Sussex 5.26% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.88% - -
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - -
75th Percentile £68,125 - -
90th Percentile £69,250 - -
South East median annual salary £68,750 £73,750 £56,509
% change year-on-year -6.78% +30.51% -29.36%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sussex

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 Sussex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68 33 129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sussex 89.47% 70.21% 70.49%
Number of salaries quoted 52 26 92
10th Percentile £28,010 £28,000 -
25th Percentile £30,000 £33,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -22.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,313 £52,813 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Sussex

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Sussex

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in Sussex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Sussex citing Platform Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Sussex citing Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sussex 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 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (50.00%) IaaS
1 2 (50.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Redis
General
1 2 (50.00%) Aviation
1 2 (50.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
1 2 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft