Platform Engineering Jobs in the South East

Platform Engineering
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 288 254 276
Rank change year-on-year -34 +22 +79
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 36 41 189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.29% 0.50% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.53% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 17 31 48
10th Percentile £47,750 £56,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,775 £66,250 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,050 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.27% +15.38% -10.34%
75th Percentile £68,750 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £97,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -6.25% +28.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,173 7,684 17,655
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 82.73% 93.63% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 4,932 5,101 10,349
10th Percentile £33,275 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,875 £82,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +3.45%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the South East

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in the South East

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in the South East over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in the South East

Platform Engineering
Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Thames Valley -12 15 £56,509 -29.36% 6
Hampshire -42 11 £53,050 -7.74% 5
Buckinghamshire -20 6 - - 3
Middlesex - 6 - -
Oxfordshire -19 5 £56,509 -1.72% 1
Berkshire +10 4 £50,000 -37.50% 2
Surrey - 2 £77,500 -
Kent -31 1 £110,000 +29.41%
East Sussex - 1 £52,500 - 1
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 24 (66.67%) Azure
2 15 (41.67%) AWS
3 9 (25.00%) GCP
4 6 (16.67%) PaaS
4 6 (16.67%) SaaS
5 5 (13.89%) Entra ID
5 5 (13.89%) IaaS
5 5 (13.89%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (5.56%) Pulumi
8 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.78%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.89%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) BigQuery
1 4 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (11.11%) Looker
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Git
1 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.78%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 8 (22.22%) Finance
2 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
3 6 (16.67%) Law
4 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (27.78%) Senior
2 8 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) Software Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Platform Manager
5 5 (13.89%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Operations Manager
5 5 (13.89%) Security Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Data Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Technical Manager
7 3 (8.33%) Technical Operations Manager
8 1 (2.78%) .NET Software Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) C# Software Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Cloud Architect
8 1 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.67%) REST
2 3 (8.33%) EDI
2 3 (8.33%) OpenMP
3 1 (2.78%) .NET
3 1 (2.78%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Greenfield Project
1 7 (19.44%) Public Cloud
2 6 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (16.67%) Enterprise Cloud
3 5 (13.89%) PKI
4 3 (8.33%) Algorithms
4 3 (8.33%) CUDA
4 3 (8.33%) Fat Client
4 3 (8.33%) Thin Client
5 1 (2.78%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.78%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.89%) Linux
2 4 (11.11%) Windows
3 3 (8.33%) Unix
3 3 (8.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (38.89%) Artificial Intelligence
2 12 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (30.56%) CI/CD
3 11 (30.56%) Machine Learning
4 9 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 8 (22.22%) Project Delivery
5 8 (22.22%) Project Management
5 8 (22.22%) Roadmaps
5 8 (22.22%) Technology Roadmap
6 7 (19.44%) Cloud Security
6 7 (19.44%) Software Engineering
7 6 (16.67%) Generative AI
7 6 (16.67%) High Availability
7 6 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (16.67%) LLM
7 6 (16.67%) MLOps
7 6 (16.67%) SDLC
7 6 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 16 (44.44%) Python
2 6 (16.67%) Clojure
2 6 (16.67%) Elixir
2 6 (16.67%) Rust
2 6 (16.67%) Scala
3 4 (11.11%) Bash
3 4 (11.11%) SQL
4 3 (8.33%) C
4 3 (8.33%) C++
4 3 (8.33%) C-shell
4 3 (8.33%) Fortran
5 2 (5.56%) C#
5 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.78%) AWK
6 1 (2.78%) Bicep
6 1 (2.78%) sed
6 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (25.00%) Degree
3 8 (22.22%) AWS Certification
3 8 (22.22%) Azure Certification
3 8 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (22.22%) SC Cleared
4 5 (13.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 5 (13.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (13.89%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (11.11%) DBS Check
5 4 (11.11%) Master's Degree
5 4 (11.11%) PhD
6 3 (8.33%) CCNA
6 3 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.33%) Docker
3 2 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 7 (19.44%) Terraform
3 5 (13.89%) CASB
4 1 (2.78%) Ansible
4 1 (2.78%) SCCM
4 1 (2.78%) VxRail
Vendors
1 11 (30.56%) Google
2 9 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (16.67%) Remedy
4 5 (13.89%) Salesforce
4 5 (13.89%) ServiceNow
5 3 (8.33%) Foundry
5 3 (8.33%) IBM
5 3 (8.33%) Palantir
6 2 (5.56%) VMware
7 1 (2.78%) AppDynamics
7 1 (2.78%) BMC
7 1 (2.78%) Dell
7 1 (2.78%) Dell Compellent
7 1 (2.78%) HP
7 1 (2.78%) New Relic
7 1 (2.78%) Nimble Storage