Azure Platform Engineer Jobs in England

Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK > England

The median Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure salary in England is £87,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 771 889 1112
Rank change year-on-year +118 +223 -374
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Platform Engineer 59 36 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.068% 0.041% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.044% 0.024%
Number of salaries quoted 36 32 28
10th Percentile £55,000 £49,000 £51,875
25th Percentile £60,950 £54,375 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.68% +63.16%
75th Percentile £100,313 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £87,500 -
UK median annual salary £90,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -3.57% +47.37%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 81,581 81,069 129,549
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.55% 91.49% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 60,773 51,486 74,695
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Azure Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Azure Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Platform Engineer in England

Azure Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Platform Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Azure Platform Engineer in England

Azure Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Platform Engineer in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure Platform Engineer in England

Azure Platform Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Platform Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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
London +143 33 £97,500 +30.00% 5
North of England +38 19 £60,000 -14.29% 6
North West +10 12 £60,000 +14.29% 5
Yorkshire +64 6 £80,000 +14.29% 1
North East - 3 £80,000 -
South West - 3 £65,000 - 2
Midlands -2 2 - - 1
East Midlands - 2 - -
Azure Platform Engineer
UK

Azure Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, Azure Platform Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Azure Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 59 (100.00%) Azure
1 59 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 44 (74.58%) Terraform
3 34 (57.63%) DevOps
4 27 (45.76%) Azure AKS
5 25 (42.37%) SQL
6 24 (40.68%) Microsoft
6 24 (40.68%) Kubernetes
6 24 (40.68%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (38.98%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (38.98%) PowerShell
8 21 (35.59%) Ansible
8 21 (35.59%) Docker
9 20 (33.90%) PaaS
10 18 (30.51%) Bash
10 18 (30.51%) Python
10 18 (30.51%) Azure SQL Database
11 17 (28.81%) Agile
12 15 (25.42%) MongoDB
12 15 (25.42%) PostgreSQL
13 14 (23.73%) Finance
13 14 (23.73%) Analytics
13 14 (23.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 13 (22.03%) Social Skills
14 13 (22.03%) Design Patterns
14 13 (22.03%) MySQL
15 12 (20.34%) Configuration Management
15 12 (20.34%) CI/CD
16 11 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
16 11 (18.64%) Redis

Azure Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 59 (100.00%) Azure
2 27 (45.76%) Azure AKS
3 23 (38.98%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (33.90%) PaaS
5 14 (23.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 11 (18.64%) GitHub
7 10 (16.95%) Azure Monitor
7 10 (16.95%) Entra ID
7 10 (16.95%) IaaS
8 8 (13.56%) Serverless
9 7 (11.86%) Pulumi
10 6 (10.17%) Datadog
11 5 (8.47%) Power Platform
12 4 (6.78%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (6.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (6.78%) SaaS
13 3 (5.08%) Azure Logic Apps
14 2 (3.39%) Azure Key Vault
15 1 (1.69%) Azure Functions
15 1 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.86%) Firewall
2 3 (5.08%) IPv4
2 3 (5.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (30.51%) Azure SQL Database
2 15 (25.42%) MongoDB
2 15 (25.42%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (22.03%) MySQL
4 11 (18.64%) MariaDB
4 11 (18.64%) Redis
5 5 (8.47%) Power BI
6 4 (6.78%) NoSQL
7 2 (3.39%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 10 (16.95%) Jenkins
1 10 (16.95%) Octopus Deploy
2 6 (10.17%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.69%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.69%) Git
3 1 (1.69%) GitLab
3 1 (1.69%) JIRA
3 1 (1.69%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.69%) Vagrant
General
1 14 (23.73%) Finance
2 13 (22.03%) Social Skills
3 9 (15.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (10.17%) Retail
5 2 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.86%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (10.17%) ARM Templates
3 4 (6.78%) SAML
4 2 (3.39%) Loki
5 1 (1.69%) .NET
5 1 (1.69%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.86%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.17%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (10.17%) Product Ownership
3 5 (8.47%) Private Cloud
4 4 (6.78%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.69%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.56%) Windows
2 5 (8.47%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.39%) VMS
4 1 (1.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 34 (57.63%) DevOps
3 24 (40.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (28.81%) Agile
5 14 (23.73%) Analytics
6 13 (22.03%) Design Patterns
7 12 (20.34%) CI/CD
7 12 (20.34%) Configuration Management
8 11 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (16.95%) Creative Problem-Solving
10 9 (15.25%) Machine Learning
11 8 (13.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (13.56%) DataOps
11 8 (13.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 7 (11.86%) Disaster Recovery
13 6 (10.17%) Business Continuity
13 6 (10.17%) Collaborative Culture
13 6 (10.17%) Security Operations
13 6 (10.17%) Technology Transformation
13 6 (10.17%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 25 (42.37%) SQL
2 23 (38.98%) PowerShell
3 18 (30.51%) Bash
3 18 (30.51%) Python
4 10 (16.95%) Go
4 10 (16.95%) Java
5 8 (13.56%) C#
6 7 (11.86%) JavaScript
6 7 (11.86%) Ruby
6 7 (11.86%) TypeScript
7 6 (10.17%) Groovy
7 6 (10.17%) PHP
8 1 (1.69%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 10 (16.95%) Azure Certification
2 5 (8.47%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.78%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.08%) Degree
System Software
1 21 (35.59%) Docker
2 10 (16.95%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (74.58%) Terraform
2 24 (40.68%) Kubernetes
3 21 (35.59%) Ansible
4 10 (16.95%) Grafana
4 10 (16.95%) Prometheus
5 7 (11.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 7 (11.86%) Progress Chef
5 7 (11.86%) Puppet
6 3 (5.08%) Packer
7 2 (3.39%) Kibana
7 2 (3.39%) logstash
8 1 (1.69%) Consul
8 1 (1.69%) Salt
Vendors
1 24 (40.68%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.17%) New Relic
2 6 (10.17%) SaltStack
3 4 (6.78%) Databricks
4 2 (3.39%) Splunk
5 1 (1.69%) Google