Platform Engineering Jobs in the Thames Valley

Platform Engineering
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Platform Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 172 214
Rank change year-on-year +34 +42 +10
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 38 69 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.22% 1.03% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 1.21% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 6 17 41
10th Percentile £38,750 £52,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £41,063 £56,250 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £60,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -33.33% +89.47%
75th Percentile £66,938 £71,250 £105,000
90th Percentile £71,875 £82,750 -
South East median annual salary £52,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -22.22% -3.57% -3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,902 5,700 5,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.07% 85.11% 94.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,224 3,989 3,139
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,938 £38,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,587 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.17% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,688 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

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 5 May 2025.

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 5 May 2025. 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
Berkshire +63 26 - - 8
Buckinghamshire +27 10 £59,250 -1.25% 12
Oxfordshire +3 2 £42,500 -26.09% 2
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (15.79%) IBM Domino
1 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 14 (36.84%) Azure
2 9 (23.68%) AWS
3 7 (18.42%) GCP
4 6 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (7.89%) GitHub
7 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.79%) Cisco IOS
1 6 (15.79%) LAN
1 6 (15.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) Big Data
1 2 (5.26%) Data Lake
1 2 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (5.26%) Hadoop
1 2 (5.26%) MongoDB
1 2 (5.26%) NoSQL
1 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 27 (71.05%) Social Skills
2 26 (68.42%) Law
Job Titles
1 21 (55.26%) Lead
2 13 (34.21%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) Platform Support Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) Support Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Data Analytics Director
4 2 (5.26%) Power Platform Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) Kafka
2 2 (5.26%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (5.26%) React
2 2 (5.26%) REST
2 2 (5.26%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (55.26%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.26%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.79%) Android
1 6 (15.79%) Mac OS
1 6 (15.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (68.42%) Analytics
1 26 (68.42%) Computer Science
2 24 (63.16%) Digital Strategy
2 24 (63.16%) Product Management
3 23 (60.53%) Data Modelling
3 23 (60.53%) Technical Leadership
4 22 (57.89%) Microservices
5 21 (55.26%) Data Collection
5 21 (55.26%) Data Management
5 21 (55.26%) Decision Quality
5 21 (55.26%) Open Source
6 6 (15.79%) CI/CD
6 6 (15.79%) Customer Experience
6 6 (15.79%) Customer Service
6 6 (15.79%) DevOps
6 6 (15.79%) User Experience
7 5 (13.16%) Agile
8 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (7.89%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.79%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.89%) Bash
2 3 (7.89%) Python
3 2 (5.26%) Java
3 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.26%) SQL
3 2 (5.26%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.63%) C#
4 1 (2.63%) PHP
Qualifications
1 26 (68.42%) Degree
2 2 (5.26%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.26%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.26%) Master's Degree
2 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (5.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (21.05%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.26%) Docker
2 2 (5.26%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (18.42%) Ansible
2 6 (15.79%) Terraform
3 4 (10.53%) Kubernetes
4 3 (7.89%) Puppet
5 2 (5.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.79%) Cisco
2 6 (15.79%) Palo Alto
3 2 (5.26%) Citrix
3 2 (5.26%) Google
3 2 (5.26%) SolarWinds
3 2 (5.26%) VMware
3 2 (5.26%) WSO2