Platform Engineer Job Trends in the West Midlands

Platform Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Platform Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 194 177
Rank change year-on-year +35 -17 +76
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 19 5 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.36% 0.12% 0.053%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.13% 0.057%
Number of salaries quoted 13 5 1
10th Percentile £52,460 £52,500 -
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £91,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,308 £93,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% -25.87% +22.62%
75th Percentile £87,500 £74,144 £95,250
90th Percentile £99,000 £82,158 -
England median annual salary £75,000 £76,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 4,749 3,866 3,538
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.84% 93.34% 93.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,747 1,842 2,953
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% -5.71%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.50%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for Platform Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for Platform Engineer job vacancies 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 14 January 2026.

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 14 January 2026. 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
Birmingham +28 10 £60,860 -5.87% 2
Herefordshire - 4 £95,000 -
Worcestershire - 4 £76,250 -
Shropshire -14 1 £24,000 -70.00% 1
Platform Engineer
England

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Platform Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (94.74%) Platform Engineering
2 12 (63.16%) Azure
3 10 (52.63%) Linux
3 10 (52.63%) Security Cleared
4 9 (47.37%) DevOps
5 6 (31.58%) Agile
5 6 (31.58%) Docker
5 6 (31.58%) Kubernetes
5 6 (31.58%) Python
5 6 (31.58%) SC Cleared
5 6 (31.58%) Terraform
6 5 (26.32%) Cloud Security
6 5 (26.32%) Migration
6 5 (26.32%) SQL
7 4 (21.05%) AWS
7 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
7 4 (21.05%) DV Cleared
7 4 (21.05%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (15.79%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (15.79%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (15.79%) Ansible
8 3 (15.79%) Azure Certification
8 3 (15.79%) Bash
8 3 (15.79%) Delta Lake
8 3 (15.79%) DNS
8 3 (15.79%) GitOps
8 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
8 3 (15.79%) Microservices
8 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (15.79%) PowerShell

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) SharePoint
2 2 (10.53%) Confluence
2 2 (10.53%) IIS
2 2 (10.53%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) AWS
3 3 (15.79%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
4 2 (10.53%) AWS KMS
4 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (10.53%) Route 53
4 2 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.26%) BrowserStack
5 1 (5.26%) dbt
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
5 1 (5.26%) PaaS
5 1 (5.26%) Pulumi
5 1 (5.26%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) DNS
2 2 (10.53%) Firewall
2 2 (10.53%) FTP
2 2 (10.53%) HTTP
2 2 (10.53%) IMAP
2 2 (10.53%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (10.53%) SMTP
2 2 (10.53%) SSH
3 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (15.79%) Delta Lake
1 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.26%) Redis
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
1 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
1 2 (10.53%) Vagrant
2 1 (5.26%) JMeter
General
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Legal
2 3 (15.79%) Military
2 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.26%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) LDAP
2 1 (5.26%) Django
2 1 (5.26%) EDI
2 1 (5.26%) Middleware
2 1 (5.26%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Replication
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Clustering
2 1 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (52.63%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) Windows
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (10.53%) Ubuntu
3 2 (10.53%) VMS
4 1 (5.26%) Unix
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) Platform Engineering
2 9 (47.37%) DevOps
3 6 (31.58%) Agile
4 5 (26.32%) Cloud Security
4 5 (26.32%) Migration
5 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
5 4 (21.05%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (15.79%) GitOps
6 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
6 3 (15.79%) Microservices
6 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (10.53%) Change Management
7 2 (10.53%) Configuration Management
7 2 (10.53%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (10.53%) ETL
7 2 (10.53%) Identity Management
7 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Management
7 2 (10.53%) Load Balancing
7 2 (10.53%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Python
2 5 (26.32%) SQL
3 3 (15.79%) Bash
3 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
4 2 (10.53%) Groovy
5 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (52.63%) Security Cleared
2 6 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 4 (21.05%) DV Cleared
4 3 (15.79%) Azure Certification
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
5 2 (10.53%) Degree
6 1 (5.26%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
1 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Docker
2 2 (10.53%) DFS Replication
2 2 (10.53%) Dovecot
2 2 (10.53%) Postfix
2 2 (10.53%) Squid
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Kubernetes
1 6 (31.58%) Terraform
2 3 (15.79%) Ansible
2 3 (15.79%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (10.53%) Grafana
3 2 (10.53%) Nessus
3 2 (10.53%) Prometheus
3 2 (10.53%) Proxmox
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Jaspersoft
1 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.26%) Google
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Planon
2 1 (5.26%) Salesforce