Platform Engineering Jobs in the Midlands

Platform Engineering
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 262 248 270
Rank change year-on-year -14 +22 -57
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 81 58 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.58% 0.68% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.71% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 28 53 80
10th Percentile £31,000 - £51,250
25th Percentile £55,313 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile - £100,000 £83,875
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +16.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,125 8,190 10,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 79.22% 96.43% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 7,655 4,352 6,986
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,656 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £78,001
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the Midlands

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in the Midlands

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in the Midlands

Platform Engineering
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineering within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
West Midlands -4 42 £65,000 -7.14% 11
East Midlands -12 39 £60,000 +9.09% 4
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 52 (64.20%) Azure
2 44 (54.32%) GCP
3 33 (40.74%) AWS
4 21 (25.93%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (13.58%) IaaS
5 11 (13.58%) PaaS
6 5 (6.17%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (4.94%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (3.70%) SaaS
9 1 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.23%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.23%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.23%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.23%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (1.23%) CloudFront
9 1 (1.23%) Datadog
9 1 (1.23%) Route 53
9 1 (1.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.23%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 13 (16.05%) DNS
2 10 (12.35%) Firewall
3 7 (8.64%) VPN
4 6 (7.41%) DHCP
4 6 (7.41%) LAN
4 6 (7.41%) TCP/IP
4 6 (7.41%) WAN
5 5 (6.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (54.32%) BigQuery
2 43 (53.09%) Looker
3 24 (29.63%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.47%) MySQL
5 1 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.23%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.23%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (17.28%) Git
2 5 (6.17%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (1.23%) GitLab
3 1 (1.23%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.23%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 53 (65.43%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (17.28%) Social Skills
3 8 (9.88%) Billing
4 7 (8.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.23%) Law
5 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (46.91%) Platform Engineer
2 22 (27.16%) Architect
3 20 (24.69%) Data Engineer
4 19 (23.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 19 (23.46%) Principal Data Engineer
4 19 (23.46%) Principal Engineer
5 18 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
6 16 (19.75%) Data Architect
7 8 (9.88%) Data Manager
7 8 (9.88%) Engineering Manager
8 6 (7.41%) Administrator
9 5 (6.17%) Systems Administrator
9 5 (6.17%) Windows Administrator
9 5 (6.17%) Windows Systems Administrator
10 4 (4.94%) Infrastructure Architect
11 3 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
11 3 (3.70%) Lead
12 2 (2.47%) Applications Architect
12 2 (2.47%) AWS Engineer
12 2 (2.47%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.64%) JSON
1 7 (8.64%) YAML
2 5 (6.17%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.23%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.23%) Middleware
3 1 (1.23%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 35 (43.21%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (12.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (11.11%) Product Ownership
4 6 (7.41%) Cyberattack
5 2 (2.47%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.23%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.23%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.23%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.23%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.11%) Windows
2 6 (7.41%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.94%) Linux
4 1 (1.23%) CentOS
4 1 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.23%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (61.73%) DevOps
1 50 (61.73%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (54.32%) Data Engineering
3 37 (45.68%) Agile
3 37 (45.68%) Mentoring
4 29 (35.80%) CI/CD
5 26 (32.10%) Data Modelling
5 26 (32.10%) ETL
6 21 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (24.69%) Data Pipeline
8 18 (22.22%) Change Management
8 18 (22.22%) Data Governance
8 18 (22.22%) Data Science
8 18 (22.22%) DataOps
9 16 (19.75%) Continuous Integration
9 16 (19.75%) Data Architecture
9 16 (19.75%) Data Integration
9 16 (19.75%) Data Security
9 16 (19.75%) ERD
9 16 (19.75%) Innovative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 17 (20.99%) PowerShell
2 11 (13.58%) Bash
3 9 (11.11%) Bicep
3 9 (11.11%) Python
4 3 (3.70%) SQL
5 2 (2.47%) Java
6 1 (1.23%) C#
6 1 (1.23%) Go
6 1 (1.23%) Groovy
6 1 (1.23%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.23%) PHP
6 1 (1.23%) Ruby
6 1 (1.23%) Scala
6 1 (1.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (2.47%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.23%) CISSP
2 1 (1.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (41.98%) GDPR
2 17 (20.99%) Data Quality
3 10 (12.35%) QA
4 5 (6.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (13.58%) Docker
2 6 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.41%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (4.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (18.52%) Terraform
2 12 (14.81%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.17%) Ansible
4 3 (3.70%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (2.47%) Grafana
5 2 (2.47%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.23%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 43 (53.09%) Google
2 10 (12.35%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.23%) New Relic
3 1 (1.23%) Nintex
3 1 (1.23%) SaltStack
3 1 (1.23%) Splunk