Platform Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Platform Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Platform Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 222 241 244
Rank change year-on-year +19 +3 -69
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 20 32 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.28% 0.47% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.53% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 11 27 27
10th Percentile - £58,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +20.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile - £92,500 £74,375
90th Percentile - £100,000 £83,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 6,759 6,072 6,871
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.02% 89.93% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5,145 3,346 4,793
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £63,117 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in the West Midlands

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in the West Midlands

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in the West Midlands

Platform Engineer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 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
Warwickshire +53 4 £65,000 +8.33%
Coventry +35 4 £58,500 +4.00% 1
Birmingham -14 3 - - 3
Wolverhampton - 3 - -
Platform Engineer
England

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 24 April 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 West Midlands region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 14 (70.00%) DevOps
3 10 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (50.00%) Azure
3 10 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 9 (45.00%) Change Management
4 9 (45.00%) Agile
4 9 (45.00%) Google
4 9 (45.00%) Mentoring
4 9 (45.00%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (45.00%) BigQuery
4 9 (45.00%) GCP
4 9 (45.00%) Data Engineering
4 9 (45.00%) Looker
4 9 (45.00%) Data Science
4 9 (45.00%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (45.00%) Data Pipeline
4 9 (45.00%) DataOps
4 9 (45.00%) GDPR
5 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (25.00%) Terraform
5 5 (25.00%) Git
6 4 (20.00%) PaaS
6 4 (20.00%) Bash
6 4 (20.00%) IaaS
6 4 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
6 4 (20.00%) Identity Management

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 10 (50.00%) Azure
2 9 (45.00%) GCP
3 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 4 (20.00%) IaaS
3 4 (20.00%) PaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (5.00%) AWS
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.00%) CloudFront
4 1 (5.00%) Route 53
4 1 (5.00%) Serverless
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (45.00%) BigQuery
1 9 (45.00%) Looker
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Git
General
1 9 (45.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.00%) Middleware
2 1 (5.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (45.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) CentOS
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 14 (70.00%) DevOps
3 9 (45.00%) Agile
3 9 (45.00%) Change Management
3 9 (45.00%) Data Engineering
3 9 (45.00%) Data Pipeline
3 9 (45.00%) Data Science
3 9 (45.00%) DataOps
3 9 (45.00%) Mentoring
3 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (20.00%) Business Strategy
5 4 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 4 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (20.00%) Identity Management
5 4 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
6 1 (5.00%) Containerisation
6 1 (5.00%) MVC
6 1 (5.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) Bash
1 4 (20.00%) Bicep
1 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (45.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (45.00%) Google