Platform Engineering Jobs in the Midlands

Platform Engineering
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Platform Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 247 259 255
Rank change year-on-year +12 -4 -54
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 80 55 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.61% 0.64% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.67% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 28 50 84
10th Percentile £31,000 - £51,250
25th Percentile £55,313 £52,500 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile - £100,000 £84,625
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 is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,426 8,254 10,635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 79.81% 96.48% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 7,458 4,379 6,963
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,276 £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 £62,374 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
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 1 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 1 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 -8 41 £65,000 -7.14% 9
East Midlands +1 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 51 (63.75%) Azure
2 44 (55.00%) GCP
3 33 (41.25%) AWS
4 20 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (12.50%) IaaS
5 10 (12.50%) PaaS
6 5 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (3.75%) SaaS
9 1 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.25%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.25%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.25%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.25%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (1.25%) CloudFront
9 1 (1.25%) Datadog
9 1 (1.25%) Route 53
9 1 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (15.00%) DNS
2 9 (11.25%) Firewall
3 6 (7.50%) DHCP
3 6 (7.50%) LAN
3 6 (7.50%) TCP/IP
3 6 (7.50%) VPN
3 6 (7.50%) WAN
4 5 (6.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (55.00%) BigQuery
2 43 (53.75%) Looker
3 24 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.50%) MySQL
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.25%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.25%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (16.25%) Git
2 4 (5.00%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (1.25%) GitLab
3 1 (1.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 53 (66.25%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (16.25%) Social Skills
3 8 (10.00%) Billing
4 6 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.25%) Law
5 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (47.50%) Platform Engineer
2 21 (26.25%) Architect
3 20 (25.00%) Data Engineer
4 19 (23.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 19 (23.75%) Principal Data Engineer
4 19 (23.75%) Principal Engineer
5 18 (22.50%) Cloud Engineer
6 16 (20.00%) Data Architect
7 8 (10.00%) Data Manager
7 8 (10.00%) Engineering Manager
8 6 (7.50%) Administrator
9 5 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
9 5 (6.25%) Windows Administrator
9 5 (6.25%) Windows Systems Administrator
10 3 (3.75%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) Infrastructure Architect
10 3 (3.75%) Lead
11 2 (2.50%) Applications Architect
11 2 (2.50%) AWS Engineer
11 2 (2.50%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.50%) JSON
1 6 (7.50%) YAML
2 5 (6.25%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.25%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.25%) Middleware
3 1 (1.25%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 35 (43.75%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (11.25%) Product Ownership
4 6 (7.50%) Cyberattack
5 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.25%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.25%) Windows
2 6 (7.50%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.00%) Linux
4 1 (1.25%) CentOS
4 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.25%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (61.25%) DevOps
3 44 (55.00%) Data Engineering
4 37 (46.25%) Mentoring
5 36 (45.00%) Agile
6 28 (35.00%) CI/CD
7 26 (32.50%) Data Modelling
7 26 (32.50%) ETL
8 20 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
8 20 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (22.50%) Change Management
9 18 (22.50%) Data Governance
9 18 (22.50%) Data Science
9 18 (22.50%) DataOps
10 16 (20.00%) Data Architecture
10 16 (20.00%) Data Integration
10 16 (20.00%) Data Security
10 16 (20.00%) ERD
10 16 (20.00%) Innovative Thinking
11 15 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 16 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 11 (13.75%) Bash
3 9 (11.25%) Bicep
3 9 (11.25%) Python
4 3 (3.75%) SQL
5 2 (2.50%) Java
6 1 (1.25%) C#
6 1 (1.25%) Go
6 1 (1.25%) Groovy
6 1 (1.25%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.25%) PHP
6 1 (1.25%) Ruby
6 1 (1.25%) Scala
6 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.25%) CISSP
2 1 (1.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (42.50%) GDPR
2 17 (21.25%) Data Quality
3 10 (12.50%) QA
4 5 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (13.75%) Docker
2 6 (7.50%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.50%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (17.50%) Terraform
2 12 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.25%) Ansible
4 3 (3.75%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (2.50%) Grafana
5 2 (2.50%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.25%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 43 (53.75%) Google
2 10 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.25%) New Relic
3 1 (1.25%) Nintex
3 1 (1.25%) SaltStack
3 1 (1.25%) Splunk