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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 307 387
Rank change year-on-year -16 +80 -128
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 902 1,092 1,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.88% 1.12% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 1.17% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 445 729 959
10th Percentile £47,600 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% +20.83%
75th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £138,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -

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 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -6 818 £75,000 - 193
UK excluding London +83 563 £65,000 -3.70% 104
London -11 292 £89,500 -0.56% 98
Work from Home -52 266 £75,000 -6.25% 125
North of England +46 185 £60,000 -11.11% 44
South East +35 136 £67,500 -9.40% 11
South West +6 89 £67,500 +3.29% 15
North West -10 83 £65,000 -7.14% 28
Midlands +17 79 £60,000 -14.29% 10
Yorkshire +81 78 £55,000 -15.38% 14
Scotland -24 42 £72,500 +18.85% 10
West Midlands +14 40 £65,000 -7.14% 6
East Midlands +3 39 £60,000 +9.09% 4
North East +14 26 £80,000 +67.81% 2
East of England +10 21 - - 10
Wales +2 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 16 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
1 16 (1.77%) Apache Spark
2 15 (1.66%) Confluence
3 10 (1.11%) Apache
4 3 (0.33%) SAS
5 2 (0.22%) nginx
6 1 (0.11%) IIS
6 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 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
1 493 (54.66%) Azure
2 439 (48.67%) GCP
3 409 (45.34%) AWS
4 159 (17.63%) Azure DevOps
5 73 (8.09%) Power Platform
6 67 (7.43%) PaaS
7 54 (5.99%) GitHub
8 52 (5.76%) Serverless
9 45 (4.99%) SaaS
10 42 (4.66%) IaaS
11 41 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
12 38 (4.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 35 (3.88%) Azure AKS
14 31 (3.44%) Cloud Computing
15 26 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
16 25 (2.77%) Entra ID
17 22 (2.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 22 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
18 20 (2.22%) PowerApps
19 18 (2.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 37 (4.10%) Firewall
2 31 (3.44%) Network Security
3 27 (2.99%) DNS
4 17 (1.88%) VPN
5 15 (1.66%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.22%) LAN
6 11 (1.22%) WAN
7 10 (1.11%) DHCP
8 7 (0.78%) Internet
8 7 (0.78%) IPv4
9 6 (0.67%) SSL
9 6 (0.67%) VLAN
9 6 (0.67%) 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 (41.24%) BigQuery
2 353 (39.14%) Looker
3 228 (25.28%) Data Warehouse
4 64 (7.10%) Power BI
5 42 (4.66%) Azure SQL Database
6 32 (3.55%) Data Lake
6 32 (3.55%) NoSQL
7 29 (3.22%) PostgreSQL
8 28 (3.10%) MySQL
9 18 (2.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 17 (1.88%) MongoDB
10 17 (1.88%) Redis
11 11 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
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 (1.11%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 71 (7.87%) Jenkins
2 62 (6.87%) Git
3 31 (3.44%) JIRA
4 23 (2.55%) GitLab
5 16 (1.77%) Octopus Deploy
6 15 (1.66%) TeamCity
7 13 (1.44%) Artifactory
8 11 (1.22%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.22%) Snyk
9 9 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
10 8 (0.89%) Spinnaker
11 7 (0.78%) Subversion
12 6 (0.67%) RStudio
12 6 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (0.55%) DTrace
13 5 (0.55%) GDB
14 4 (0.44%) CircleCI
15 3 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
16 2 (0.22%) Cypress.io
16 2 (0.22%) GoCD
General
1 400 (44.35%) Analytical Skills
2 127 (14.08%) Social Skills
3 114 (12.64%) Finance
4 72 (7.98%) Billing
5 50 (5.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 43 (4.77%) Banking
7 35 (3.88%) Retail
8 30 (3.33%) Law
9 20 (2.22%) Legal
10 19 (2.11%) Retail Banking
11 17 (1.88%) Health Technology
12 10 (1.11%) Games
13 6 (0.67%) 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
1 444 (49.22%) Platform Engineer
2 234 (25.94%) Data Engineer
3 176 (19.51%) Principal Engineer
4 171 (18.96%) Principal Data Engineer
5 158 (17.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 132 (14.63%) Architect
7 115 (12.75%) Data Architect
8 109 (12.08%) Senior
9 108 (11.97%) Cloud Engineer
10 95 (10.53%) Engineering Manager
11 91 (10.09%) Data Manager
12 88 (9.76%) Azure Engineer
13 76 (8.43%) Lead
14 72 (7.98%) DevOps Engineer
15 67 (7.43%) Azure Platform Engineer
16 42 (4.66%) AWS Engineer
17 39 (4.32%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 33 (3.66%) Senior DevOps
18 33 (3.66%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 29 (3.22%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.55%) Kafka
2 21 (2.33%) ARM Templates
3 17 (1.88%) JSON
3 17 (1.88%) Node.js
4 15 (1.66%) .NET
4 15 (1.66%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (1.00%) .NET Framework
6 8 (0.89%) HTML
7 7 (0.78%) JSON Schema
7 7 (0.78%) OpenAPI
7 7 (0.78%) React
7 7 (0.78%) Swagger
7 7 (0.78%) Web Services
7 7 (0.78%) YAML
8 6 (0.67%) Lambda Expressions
8 6 (0.67%) REST
8 6 (0.67%) SAML
9 4 (0.44%) ADO
9 4 (0.44%) CSS
9 4 (0.44%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 280 (31.04%) Self-Motivation
2 89 (9.87%) Product Ownership
3 37 (4.10%) Cloud Native
4 29 (3.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (2.99%) Data Centre
6 21 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
7 20 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.88%) Public Cloud
9 16 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.33%) Cyberattack
11 11 (1.22%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.11%) Management Information System
13 9 (1.00%) Clustering
13 9 (1.00%) Video\Live Streaming
14 8 (0.89%) Algorithms
14 8 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (0.89%) Onboarding
14 8 (0.89%) Replication
15 7 (0.78%) IoT
15 7 (0.78%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 100 (11.09%) Linux
2 46 (5.10%) Windows
3 24 (2.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (2.44%) Unix
4 22 (2.44%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.89%) Oracle Linux
5 8 (0.89%) Solaris
6 7 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.67%) 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
1 490 (54.32%) DevOps
2 426 (47.23%) Problem-Solving
3 400 (44.35%) Data Engineering
4 388 (43.02%) Agile
5 325 (36.03%) Mentoring
6 268 (29.71%) CI/CD
7 248 (27.49%) ETL
8 219 (24.28%) Data Pipeline
9 217 (24.06%) Data Modelling
10 209 (23.17%) Infrastructure as Code
11 196 (21.73%) Data Science
12 171 (18.96%) DataOps
13 165 (18.29%) Change Management
14 137 (15.19%) Data Governance
15 123 (13.64%) Innovative Thinking
16 122 (13.53%) Scrum
17 121 (13.41%) Data Integration
18 118 (13.08%) Data Architecture
19 116 (12.86%) Data Security
20 111 (12.31%) ERD
Programming Languages
1 230 (25.50%) Python
2 128 (14.19%) SQL
3 113 (12.53%) PowerShell
4 86 (9.53%) Bash
5 70 (7.76%) Java
6 43 (4.77%) Go
7 41 (4.55%) C#
8 32 (3.55%) Bicep
9 25 (2.77%) JavaScript
10 23 (2.55%) TypeScript
11 22 (2.44%) Ruby
12 20 (2.22%) Scala
12 20 (2.22%) Shell Script
13 11 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 11 (1.22%) U-SQL
14 10 (1.11%) Groovy
14 10 (1.11%) Perl
15 9 (1.00%) C++
16 8 (0.89%) C
17 7 (0.78%) PHP
Qualifications
1 47 (5.21%) Degree
2 27 (2.99%) AWS Certification
3 23 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (2.55%) Security Cleared
4 20 (2.22%) Azure Certification
4 20 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (2.00%) DBS Check
5 18 (2.00%) SC Cleared
6 16 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (0.78%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.55%) CCIE
9 5 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.55%) JNCIE
10 4 (0.44%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.44%) PhD
11 3 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.33%) CISSP
11 3 (0.33%) HND
11 3 (0.33%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (30.60%) GDPR
2 137 (15.19%) Data Quality
3 84 (9.31%) QA
4 17 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.11%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.33%) NIST
7 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 134 (14.86%) Docker
2 35 (3.88%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.78%) KVM
5 7 (0.78%) 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
1 249 (27.61%) Terraform
2 209 (23.17%) Kubernetes
3 99 (10.98%) Ansible
4 37 (4.10%) Grafana
5 34 (3.77%) Prometheus
6 30 (3.33%) Puppet
7 28 (3.10%) Progress Chef
8 15 (1.66%) Istio
9 11 (1.22%) Salt
10 10 (1.11%) Packer
11 7 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.55%) Argo
13 5 (0.55%) Karpenter
14 4 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
15 3 (0.33%) Kibana
15 3 (0.33%) logstash
16 2 (0.22%) Podman
16 2 (0.22%) Rundeck
17 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 398 (44.12%) Google
2 130 (14.41%) Microsoft
3 32 (3.55%) Databricks
4 13 (1.44%) Red Hat
4 13 (1.44%) VMware
5 12 (1.33%) Splunk
6 11 (1.22%) New Relic
7 10 (1.11%) Atlassian
8 9 (1.00%) SaltStack
9 8 (0.89%) Oracle
9 8 (0.89%) Serena
10 6 (0.67%) Alteryx
10 6 (0.67%) 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