Platform Engineering Jobs

Platform Engineering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 321 398
Rank change year-on-year -2 +77 -139
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 905 1,035 1,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.86% 1.09% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.14% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 444 715 926
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £59,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,402 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +3.45% +20.83%
75th Percentile £97,500 £104,597 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £138,750 £105,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,980 90,493 162,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.59% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,356 54,578 82,967
10th Percentile £29,284 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the UK

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in the UK

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in the UK

Platform Engineering
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineering within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +16 821 £75,000 - 220
UK excluding London +70 566 £65,000 -3.70% 97
London -13 292 £89,500 -0.56% 130
Work from Home -64 266 £75,000 -6.25% 135
North of England +42 187 £60,000 -11.11% 36
South East +31 136 £67,500 -10.00% 14
South West +5 89 £67,500 +3.85% 13
North West -29 83 £65,000 -7.14% 24
Yorkshire +72 80 £55,000 -15.38% 10
Midlands +13 80 £60,000 -14.29% 13
Scotland -33 42 £72,500 +18.85% 10
West Midlands -5 41 £65,000 -7.14% 9
East Midlands +4 39 £60,000 +9.09% 4
North East +9 26 £80,000 +67.81% 2
East of England +10 21 - - 7
Wales +5 11 £55,000 +19.02% 2

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 17 (1.88%) Apache Spark
2 16 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (1.44%) Confluence
4 11 (1.22%) Apache
5 3 (0.33%) SAS
6 2 (0.22%) nginx
7 1 (0.11%) IIS
7 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 495 (54.70%) Azure
2 439 (48.51%) GCP
3 406 (44.86%) AWS
4 162 (17.90%) Azure DevOps
5 75 (8.29%) Power Platform
6 69 (7.62%) PaaS
7 52 (5.75%) GitHub
8 50 (5.52%) Serverless
9 46 (5.08%) SaaS
10 43 (4.75%) IaaS
11 42 (4.64%) Azure Data Factory
12 39 (4.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 35 (3.87%) Azure AKS
14 31 (3.43%) Cloud Computing
15 26 (2.87%) Entra ID
16 25 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
17 23 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
18 22 (2.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 21 (2.32%) PowerApps
20 19 (2.10%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.31%) Firewall
2 31 (3.43%) Network Security
3 27 (2.98%) DNS
4 18 (1.99%) VPN
5 15 (1.66%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.22%) LAN
6 11 (1.22%) WAN
7 10 (1.10%) DHCP
8 7 (0.77%) Internet
8 7 (0.77%) IPv4
9 6 (0.66%) SSL
9 6 (0.66%) VLAN
9 6 (0.66%) Wireless
10 5 (0.55%) BGP
10 5 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.55%) IPsec
10 5 (0.55%) NGFW
10 5 (0.55%) OSPF
11 3 (0.33%) tcpdump
11 3 (0.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 372 (41.10%) BigQuery
2 353 (39.01%) Looker
3 228 (25.19%) Data Warehouse
4 66 (7.29%) Power BI
5 43 (4.75%) Azure SQL Database
6 32 (3.54%) Data Lake
6 32 (3.54%) NoSQL
7 28 (3.09%) MySQL
7 28 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (1.99%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 17 (1.88%) MongoDB
10 16 (1.77%) Redis
11 11 (1.22%) Big Data
11 11 (1.22%) DynamoDB
11 11 (1.22%) MariaDB
11 11 (1.22%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 11 (1.22%) RDBMS
11 11 (1.22%) Relational Database
11 11 (1.22%) SQL Server
12 10 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 69 (7.62%) Jenkins
2 63 (6.96%) Git
3 29 (3.20%) JIRA
4 23 (2.54%) GitLab
5 15 (1.66%) Octopus Deploy
6 14 (1.55%) TeamCity
7 13 (1.44%) Artifactory
8 11 (1.22%) Snyk
9 10 (1.10%) Bitbucket
10 8 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (0.77%) Spinnaker
12 6 (0.66%) RStudio
12 6 (0.66%) Subversion
12 6 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (0.55%) DTrace
13 5 (0.55%) GDB
14 4 (0.44%) CircleCI
14 4 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
15 2 (0.22%) Cypress.io
15 2 (0.22%) GoCD
General
1 401 (44.31%) Analytical Skills
2 130 (14.36%) Social Skills
3 114 (12.60%) Finance
4 72 (7.96%) Billing
5 51 (5.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 42 (4.64%) Banking
7 35 (3.87%) Retail
8 30 (3.31%) Law
9 20 (2.21%) Legal
10 19 (2.10%) Retail Banking
11 17 (1.88%) Health Technology
12 10 (1.10%) Games
13 6 (0.66%) Marketing
14 4 (0.44%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.44%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.33%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.33%) Public Sector
15 3 (0.33%) Tech for Good
16 2 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
16 2 (0.22%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 443 (48.95%) Platform Engineer
2 234 (25.86%) Data Engineer
3 176 (19.45%) Principal Engineer
4 171 (18.90%) Principal Data Engineer
5 157 (17.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 133 (14.70%) Architect
7 115 (12.71%) Data Architect
8 110 (12.15%) Senior
9 106 (11.71%) Cloud Engineer
10 95 (10.50%) Engineering Manager
11 91 (10.06%) Data Manager
12 89 (9.83%) Azure Engineer
13 75 (8.29%) Lead
14 72 (7.96%) DevOps Engineer
15 68 (7.51%) Azure Platform Engineer
16 40 (4.42%) AWS Engineer
16 40 (4.42%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 33 (3.65%) Senior DevOps
17 33 (3.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 28 (3.09%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.54%) Kafka
2 21 (2.32%) ARM Templates
3 18 (1.99%) JSON
4 17 (1.88%) Node.js
5 15 (1.66%) .NET
5 15 (1.66%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (0.99%) .NET Framework
6 9 (0.99%) HTML
7 8 (0.88%) YAML
8 7 (0.77%) JSON Schema
8 7 (0.77%) OpenAPI
8 7 (0.77%) React
8 7 (0.77%) Swagger
8 7 (0.77%) Web Services
9 6 (0.66%) Lambda Expressions
9 6 (0.66%) REST
10 5 (0.55%) ADO
10 5 (0.55%) SAML
11 4 (0.44%) CSS
11 4 (0.44%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 280 (30.94%) Self-Motivation
2 88 (9.72%) Product Ownership
3 36 (3.98%) Cloud Native
4 29 (3.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (3.09%) Data Centre
6 20 (2.21%) Linux Command Line
7 19 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (1.99%) Public Cloud
9 15 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.33%) Cyberattack
11 11 (1.22%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.10%) Management Information System
13 9 (0.99%) Clustering
14 8 (0.88%) Algorithms
14 8 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (0.88%) Onboarding
14 8 (0.88%) Replication
14 8 (0.88%) Video\Live Streaming
15 7 (0.77%) IoT
15 7 (0.77%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 99 (10.94%) Linux
2 46 (5.08%) Windows
3 23 (2.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 23 (2.54%) Windows Server
4 22 (2.43%) Unix
5 8 (0.88%) Oracle Linux
5 8 (0.88%) Solaris
6 7 (0.77%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.66%) Android
8 4 (0.44%) CentOS
8 4 (0.44%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.44%) VMS
9 3 (0.33%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 489 (54.03%) DevOps
2 428 (47.29%) Problem-Solving
3 401 (44.31%) Data Engineering
4 389 (42.98%) Agile
5 325 (35.91%) Mentoring
6 268 (29.61%) CI/CD
7 249 (27.51%) ETL
8 219 (24.20%) Data Pipeline
9 218 (24.09%) Data Modelling
10 207 (22.87%) Infrastructure as Code
11 196 (21.66%) Data Science
12 172 (19.01%) DataOps
13 165 (18.23%) Change Management
14 137 (15.14%) Data Governance
15 122 (13.48%) Innovative Thinking
15 122 (13.48%) Scrum
16 121 (13.37%) Data Integration
17 118 (13.04%) Data Architecture
18 116 (12.82%) Data Security
19 111 (12.27%) ERD
Programming Languages
1 228 (25.19%) Python
2 129 (14.25%) SQL
3 114 (12.60%) PowerShell
4 86 (9.50%) Bash
5 69 (7.62%) Java
6 43 (4.75%) Go
7 41 (4.53%) C#
8 32 (3.54%) Bicep
9 25 (2.76%) JavaScript
10 23 (2.54%) TypeScript
11 22 (2.43%) Ruby
12 20 (2.21%) Scala
12 20 (2.21%) Shell Script
13 11 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 11 (1.22%) U-SQL
14 10 (1.10%) Groovy
15 9 (0.99%) C++
15 9 (0.99%) Perl
16 8 (0.88%) C
17 7 (0.77%) PHP
Qualifications
1 47 (5.19%) Degree
2 27 (2.98%) AWS Certification
3 23 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (2.54%) Security Cleared
4 21 (2.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 20 (2.21%) Azure Certification
6 18 (1.99%) DBS Check
6 18 (1.99%) SC Cleared
7 16 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (0.77%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.55%) CCIE
10 5 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (0.55%) JNCIE
11 4 (0.44%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.44%) PhD
12 3 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.33%) CISSP
12 3 (0.33%) Linux+ Certification
12 3 (0.33%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (30.50%) GDPR
2 136 (15.03%) Data Quality
3 85 (9.39%) QA
4 17 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.10%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.33%) NIST
7 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 130 (14.36%) Docker
2 37 (4.09%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.77%) KVM
5 7 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (0.44%) Xen
7 3 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.22%) Firmware
8 2 (0.22%) vSphere
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 250 (27.62%) Terraform
2 206 (22.76%) Kubernetes
3 98 (10.83%) Ansible
4 36 (3.98%) Grafana
5 34 (3.76%) Prometheus
6 28 (3.09%) Puppet
7 26 (2.87%) Progress Chef
8 15 (1.66%) Istio
9 9 (0.99%) Packer
9 9 (0.99%) Salt
10 7 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.55%) Argo
12 5 (0.55%) Karpenter
13 4 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.33%) Kibana
14 3 (0.33%) logstash
15 2 (0.22%) Podman
15 2 (0.22%) Rundeck
16 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 397 (43.87%) Google
2 134 (14.81%) Microsoft
3 33 (3.65%) Databricks
4 14 (1.55%) VMware
5 13 (1.44%) Red Hat
6 12 (1.33%) Splunk
7 11 (1.22%) New Relic
8 9 (0.99%) Atlassian
8 9 (0.99%) SaltStack
9 8 (0.88%) Oracle
9 8 (0.88%) Serena
10 6 (0.66%) Alteryx
10 6 (0.66%) YouTube
11 5 (0.55%) LogicMonitor
11 5 (0.55%) PagerDuty
12 3 (0.33%) AppDynamics
12 3 (0.33%) Cloudera
12 3 (0.33%) Facebook
12 3 (0.33%) Hortonworks
12 3 (0.33%) Salesforce