Platform Engineering Jobs in South Wales

Platform Engineering
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 99 105 102
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 -26
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 9 5 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 0.53% 0.42% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.44% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 4 5 18
10th Percentile £48,625 £33,378 £45,875
25th Percentile £50,313 £37,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% +22.73% +15.79%
75th Percentile £55,625 £87,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £56,750 - £68,125
Wales median annual salary £53,750 £46,210 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.32% -15.98% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,259 1,141 1,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 74.41% 96.29% 93.16%
Number of salaries quoted 832 560 862
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,391 £31,569
25th Percentile £35,700 £35,427 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,029 £46,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.14% -7.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,313 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £77,500
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +10.34%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in South Wales

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in South Wales.

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in South Wales

Platform Engineering
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineering within the South Wales 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
Cardiff 0 6 £55,000 -18.52% 1
Bridgend - 3 £52,500 -
Platform Engineering
Wales

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 6 (66.67%) Azure
1 6 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) GCP
2 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) BigQuery
1 3 (33.33%) Looker
1 3 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Games
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (55.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 3 (33.33%) Data Engineer
4 3 (33.33%) Principal Data Engineer
4 3 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (22.22%) Lead
5 2 (22.22%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 2 (22.22%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (77.78%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (33.33%) Change Management
4 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
4 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (33.33%) Data Science
4 3 (33.33%) DataOps
4 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) Data Collection
5 2 (22.22%) ITIL
6 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
6 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
6 1 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft