Senior Platform Engineer Job Trends in the West Midlands

Senior Platform Engineer
England > West Midlands

As of 30 August 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Senior Platform Engineer salary in the West Midlands.

6 months to
30 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 221 200
Rank change year-on-year +47 -21 +109
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 1 1 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.029% 0.016% 0.094%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.017% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £65,375
25th Percentile - £64,471 £77,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £69,308 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year - -20.79% +14.01%
75th Percentile - £74,144 £93,438
90th Percentile - - £97,375
England median annual salary £83,750 £75,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +11.67% -14.29% +6.71%

All DemandTrendPermanent IT Job Vacancies
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 3,123 6,040 3,890
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.79% 94.98% 91.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,080 3,799 2,946
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,119 £27,625
25th Percentile £32,656 £35,960 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,520 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Platform Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Senior 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 Senior Platform Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 August 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
Birmingham +34 1 - -
Senior Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 August 2025, Senior 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 Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Web SSO
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Web SSO
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft