Platform Engineer Jobs in the Thames Valley

Platform Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Platform Engineer salary in the Thames Valley is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 226 247 250
Rank change year-on-year +21 +3 -36
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 14 13 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.21% 0.21% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.24% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 5 13 27
10th Percentile £56,750 - -
25th Percentile £57,500 - £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +75.00% -27.27%
75th Percentile £81,250 £100,000 £68,125
90th Percentile - - £83,750
South East median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% +16.67% -18.18%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 6,392 5,500 6,727
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 89.87% 96.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,520 3,214 4,172
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,967 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £86,250 £81,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings that featured Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in the Thames Valley

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in the Thames Valley

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in the Thames Valley

Platform Engineer
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 6 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
Buckinghamshire - 6 £60,000 - 2
Oxfordshire - 6 - - 1
Berkshire +14 2 £77,500 +10.71% 3
Platform Engineer
South East

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Platform Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Thames Valley region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
1 14 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 12 (85.71%) Agile
3 11 (78.57%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (78.57%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (64.29%) Data Pipeline
4 9 (64.29%) DataOps
4 9 (64.29%) Looker
4 9 (64.29%) GDPR
4 9 (64.29%) Data Science
4 9 (64.29%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (64.29%) BigQuery
4 9 (64.29%) GCP
4 9 (64.29%) Mentoring
4 9 (64.29%) Data Engineering
4 9 (64.29%) Google
4 9 (64.29%) Change Management
5 5 (35.71%) AWS
5 5 (35.71%) Docker
5 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
5 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
6 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (21.43%) Azure
6 3 (21.43%) Linux
7 2 (14.29%) Python
7 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (14.29%) Software Testing
7 2 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (14.29%) Network Security

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 9 (64.29%) GCP
2 5 (35.71%) AWS
3 3 (21.43%) Azure
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) BigQuery
1 9 (64.29%) Looker
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 11 (78.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 9 (64.29%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
1 14 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 12 (85.71%) Agile
3 11 (78.57%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (64.29%) Change Management
4 9 (64.29%) Data Engineering
4 9 (64.29%) Data Pipeline
4 9 (64.29%) Data Science
4 9 (64.29%) DataOps
4 9 (64.29%) Mentoring
5 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
6 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security
7 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
7 2 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 2 (14.29%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Bash
1 2 (14.29%) Bicep
1 2 (14.29%) Groovy
1 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 2 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (64.29%) GDPR
2 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Ansible
3 1 (7.14%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Google