Platform Engineering Jobs in Wales

Platform Engineering
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 111 127
Rank change year-on-year +33 +16 -5
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 3 11 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.25% 0.50% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.65% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 7
10th Percentile - £49,000 £34,752
25th Percentile - £51,250 £40,159
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,733 £55,000 £46,210
Median % change year-on-year -31.39% +19.02% -15.98%
75th Percentile £51,304 £57,500 £78,125
90th Percentile £59,447 £62,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £74,402 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.56% -0.80% +3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 999 1,682 1,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 81.89% 76.42% 96.26%
Number of salaries quoted 557 1,114 800
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,975 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £32,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.96% - -5.59%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Wales

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in Wales.

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in Wales

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in Wales over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in Wales

Platform Engineering
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineering within the Wales region over the 6 months to 31 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
West Wales +15 2 £37,733 -
South Wales +31 1 £63,250 +15.00% 2
Platform Engineering
UK

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (33.33%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
General
1 2 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CDK
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) IT Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Argo
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) PagerDuty