Platform Engineering Jobs in the Thames Valley

Platform Engineering
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Platform Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 174 216 236
Rank change year-on-year +42 +20 -39
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 70 49 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.04% 0.80% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 0.84% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 18 43 30
10th Percentile £52,500 £66,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £56,563 £70,000 £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £90,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +89.47% -22.45%
75th Percentile £72,188 £105,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £82,375 - £83,750
South East median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% -3.45% +3.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Platform Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,733 5,805 6,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.19% 94.64% 92.89%
Number of salaries quoted 4,016 3,155 3,942
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the Thames Valley

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in the Thames Valley

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in the Thames Valley

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Oxfordshire +52 38 £57,500 -25.81% 2
Buckinghamshire 0 23 £60,000 - 3
Berkshire -1 9 £70,000 -26.32% 5
Platform Engineering
South East

Platform Engineering
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 55 (78.57%) GCP
2 49 (70.00%) AWS
2 49 (70.00%) Azure
3 25 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (4.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (4.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (4.29%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.43%) GitHub
6 1 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (1.43%) IaaS
6 1 (1.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.86%) Network Security
2 1 (1.43%) Firewall
2 1 (1.43%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (75.71%) BigQuery
2 52 (74.29%) Looker
3 43 (61.43%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (4.29%) Data Lake
4 3 (4.29%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 3 (4.29%) Power BI
5 1 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.43%) Git
2 1 (1.43%) GitLab
2 1 (1.43%) TeamCity
General
1 54 (77.14%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (34.29%) Billing
3 5 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (38.57%) Data Manager
1 27 (38.57%) Engineering Manager
2 16 (22.86%) Architect
2 16 (22.86%) Data Architect
3 14 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
4 13 (18.57%) Data Engineer
5 12 (17.14%) Principal Data Engineer
5 12 (17.14%) Principal Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Business Intelligence Manager
8 3 (4.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Linux Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (2.86%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 2 (2.86%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.86%) Lead
10 1 (1.43%) Lead Data Engineer
10 1 (1.43%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 28 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
2 27 (38.57%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.57%) Linux
2 1 (1.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (80.00%) Data Engineering
2 54 (77.14%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (67.14%) ETL
4 44 (62.86%) Data Modelling
5 43 (61.43%) Agile
6 41 (58.57%) DevOps
7 33 (47.14%) CI/CD
8 31 (44.29%) Scrum
9 29 (41.43%) Mentoring
10 24 (34.29%) Backlog Management
10 24 (34.29%) Business Strategy
10 24 (34.29%) Line Management
10 24 (34.29%) Product Backlog
10 24 (34.29%) Project Management
11 20 (28.57%) Data Governance
12 16 (22.86%) Data Architecture
12 16 (22.86%) Data Integration
12 16 (22.86%) Data Security
12 16 (22.86%) ERD
12 16 (22.86%) Innovative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.71%) Python
2 6 (8.57%) SQL
3 4 (5.71%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.29%) AWK
4 3 (4.29%) Bash
4 3 (4.29%) Java
4 3 (4.29%) Scala
4 3 (4.29%) sed
4 3 (4.29%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.86%) Bicep
5 2 (2.86%) Groovy
6 1 (1.43%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (5.71%) Degree
2 3 (4.29%) DBS Check
2 3 (4.29%) Master's Degree
2 3 (4.29%) PhD
3 2 (2.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.86%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (35.71%) GDPR
1 25 (35.71%) QA
2 19 (27.14%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (12.86%) Kubernetes
1 9 (12.86%) Terraform
2 7 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (1.43%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (1.43%) Grafana
3 1 (1.43%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.43%) Puppet
3 1 (1.43%) Salt
Vendors
1 53 (75.71%) Google
2 3 (4.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.43%) Databricks
3 1 (1.43%) New Relic
3 1 (1.43%) Splunk