Platform Engineering Job Trends in Taunton

Platform Engineering
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Taunton 1.39% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - -
75th Percentile £57,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £95,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% -44.74% +90.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Taunton

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 Taunton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 56 23 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Taunton 77.78% 100.00% 84.44%
Number of salaries quoted 48 9 24
10th Percentile £15,423 £47,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £27,938 £52,000 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £55,000 £44,538
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +23.49% +7.32%
75th Percentile £42,500 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £50,000 £63,750 £71,000
Somerset median annual salary £40,000 £52,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -23.08% +9.47% -5.00%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Taunton

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes