Platform Engineer Jobs in Watford

Platform Engineer
Hertfordshire > Watford

The median Platform Engineer salary in Watford is £54,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 August 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Watford 0.63% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 - -
75th Percentile £54,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 -
% change year-on-year -3.13% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Watford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Watford. 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 Watford with a recognized job title 146 218 213
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.82% 95.20% 85.20%
Number of salaries quoted 112 161 181
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £30,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £48,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.34% -19.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £57,500 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £75,000
Hertfordshire median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Watford

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 16 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Watford

For the 6 months to 9 August 2025, 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 Watford region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Watford 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 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft