Platform Engineer Jobs in England

Platform Engineer
UK > England

The median Platform Engineer salary in England is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 463 505 657
Rank change year-on-year +42 +152 -261
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 407 532 538
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.57% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.62% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 235 384 402
10th Percentile £55,000 £44,125 £46,325
25th Percentile £63,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £93,125 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +12.00%

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 80,250 85,781 125,417
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.57% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,143 54,189 75,436
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,375 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in England

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in England

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in England

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 Platform Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 25 April 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 +79 168 £81,250 +1.56% 53
North of England +22 114 £60,000 -13.60% 16
North West -8 57 £65,000 -7.14% 8
Yorkshire +79 46 £60,000 -13.60% 6
Midlands +11 37 £65,000 -10.34% 5
South West -25 37 £67,500 -2.80% 8
South East +3 32 £60,000 +14.29% 6
West Midlands +9 20 £70,000 -3.45% 4
East Midlands -2 17 £60,000 -18.64% 1
East of England +29 13 £80,000 +72.04% 7
North East +10 13 £80,000 +14.29% 2
Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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 Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 395 (97.05%) Platform Engineering
2 266 (65.36%) DevOps
3 190 (46.68%) Problem-Solving
4 188 (46.19%) Agile
5 177 (43.49%) GCP
6 162 (39.80%) Google
7 161 (39.56%) Azure
8 160 (39.31%) Data Pipeline
9 157 (38.57%) Data Engineering
9 157 (38.57%) BigQuery
9 157 (38.57%) Analytical Skills
10 155 (38.08%) Terraform
11 151 (37.10%) DataOps
12 150 (36.86%) Data Science
12 150 (36.86%) Mentoring
13 144 (35.38%) Change Management
14 143 (35.14%) GDPR
15 142 (34.89%) Self-Motivation
16 141 (34.64%) Looker
17 138 (33.91%) Infrastructure as Code
18 133 (32.68%) Kubernetes
19 129 (31.70%) Python
20 117 (28.75%) CI/CD
21 116 (28.50%) AWS
22 95 (23.34%) Docker
23 69 (16.95%) Linux
24 66 (16.22%) PowerShell
25 61 (14.99%) Ansible
26 59 (14.50%) Social Skills
27 58 (14.25%) Bash

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 10 (2.46%) Apache Spark
1 10 (2.46%) Confluence
2 9 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.49%) IIS
4 1 (0.25%) CMS
4 1 (0.25%) nginx
4 1 (0.25%) SAS
4 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 177 (43.49%) GCP
2 161 (39.56%) Azure
3 116 (28.50%) AWS
4 39 (9.58%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (8.35%) GitHub
6 33 (8.11%) Serverless
7 32 (7.86%) PaaS
8 23 (5.65%) Azure AKS
9 22 (5.41%) IaaS
9 22 (5.41%) SaaS
10 20 (4.91%) Power Platform
11 19 (4.67%) Cloud Computing
12 17 (4.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 16 (3.93%) Amazon S3
13 16 (3.93%) AWS CloudFormation
13 16 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (3.93%) Route 53
14 15 (3.69%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (2.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 10 (2.46%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.42%) Firewall
2 15 (3.69%) Network Security
3 10 (2.46%) DNS
4 4 (0.98%) Internet
5 3 (0.74%) IPv4
5 3 (0.74%) VPN
6 1 (0.25%) Broadband
6 1 (0.25%) FTP
6 1 (0.25%) SSL
6 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (38.57%) BigQuery
2 141 (34.64%) Looker
3 20 (4.91%) MongoDB
4 18 (4.42%) Power BI
5 16 (3.93%) MySQL
6 14 (3.44%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (3.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (2.46%) Data Lake
9 9 (2.21%) NoSQL
10 8 (1.97%) MariaDB
10 8 (1.97%) Redis
11 7 (1.72%) Big Data
11 7 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.47%) Hadoop
13 3 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.74%) InfluxDB
14 2 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (0.49%) SQL Server
15 1 (0.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 49 (12.04%) Jenkins
2 37 (9.09%) Git
3 18 (4.42%) JIRA
4 14 (3.44%) TeamCity
5 11 (2.70%) Bitbucket
5 11 (2.70%) Octopus Deploy
6 9 (2.21%) Artifactory
6 9 (2.21%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (2.21%) Subversion
7 7 (1.72%) GitLab
7 7 (1.72%) Snyk
8 6 (1.47%) RStudio
8 6 (1.47%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (1.23%) DTrace
9 5 (1.23%) GDB
10 4 (0.98%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.25%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 157 (38.57%) Analytical Skills
2 59 (14.50%) Social Skills
3 55 (13.51%) Finance
4 24 (5.90%) Retail
5 21 (5.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (4.91%) Banking
7 8 (1.97%) Law
8 7 (1.72%) Games
8 7 (1.72%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.23%) Health Technology
10 4 (0.98%) Front Office
10 4 (0.98%) Legal
11 2 (0.49%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.49%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.25%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.25%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.93%) Kafka
2 14 (3.44%) ARM Templates
3 9 (2.21%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (1.72%) .NET
5 6 (1.47%) SAML
6 4 (0.98%) Node.js
7 3 (0.74%) PySpark
7 3 (0.74%) React
8 2 (0.49%) Loki
8 2 (0.49%) REST
9 1 (0.25%) ADO
9 1 (0.25%) Anaconda
9 1 (0.25%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.25%) JSON
9 1 (0.25%) Middleware
9 1 (0.25%) RESTful
9 1 (0.25%) Vue
9 1 (0.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 142 (34.89%) Self-Motivation
2 27 (6.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 23 (5.65%) Linux Command Line
4 16 (3.93%) Data Centre
4 16 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (2.21%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.21%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.97%) Public Cloud
7 7 (1.72%) Clustering
7 7 (1.72%) Replication
8 6 (1.47%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.23%) Blog
9 5 (1.23%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.49%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.49%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.25%) Cyberattack
11 1 (0.25%) Digital Currency
Operating Systems
1 69 (16.95%) Linux
2 26 (6.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 21 (5.16%) Windows
4 11 (2.70%) Unix
5 8 (1.97%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.72%) Oracle Linux
6 7 (1.72%) Solaris
7 3 (0.74%) VMS
8 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.25%) CentOS
9 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (97.05%) Platform Engineering
2 266 (65.36%) DevOps
3 190 (46.68%) Problem-Solving
4 188 (46.19%) Agile
5 160 (39.31%) Data Pipeline
6 157 (38.57%) Data Engineering
7 151 (37.10%) DataOps
8 150 (36.86%) Data Science
8 150 (36.86%) Mentoring
9 144 (35.38%) Change Management
10 138 (33.91%) Infrastructure as Code
11 117 (28.75%) CI/CD
12 52 (12.78%) Containerisation
13 45 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
14 44 (10.81%) Configuration Management
15 37 (9.09%) Analytics
16 34 (8.35%) Infrastructure Automation
17 26 (6.39%) Cloud Security
18 25 (6.14%) Continuous Integration
18 25 (6.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 129 (31.70%) Python
2 66 (16.22%) PowerShell
3 58 (14.25%) Bash
4 51 (12.53%) SQL
5 40 (9.83%) Java
6 30 (7.37%) Go
7 26 (6.39%) C#
8 24 (5.90%) Bicep
9 13 (3.19%) Ruby
10 12 (2.95%) Perl
11 10 (2.46%) Groovy
11 10 (2.46%) JavaScript
12 7 (1.72%) PHP
12 7 (1.72%) R
12 7 (1.72%) TypeScript
13 6 (1.47%) C
14 5 (1.23%) OCaml
14 5 (1.23%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.23%) SystemTap
15 4 (0.98%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (3.44%) Security Cleared
2 13 (3.19%) Degree
3 12 (2.95%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.21%) Azure Certification
5 6 (1.47%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.49%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.49%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.49%) PhD
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.25%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (35.14%) GDPR
2 14 (3.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.97%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.47%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.23%) QA
6 1 (0.25%) SEPA
System Software
1 95 (23.34%) Docker
2 13 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.97%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 155 (38.08%) Terraform
2 133 (32.68%) Kubernetes
3 61 (14.99%) Ansible
4 33 (8.11%) Puppet
5 28 (6.88%) Progress Chef
6 22 (5.41%) Grafana
7 21 (5.16%) Prometheus
8 19 (4.67%) Salt
9 12 (2.95%) Packer
10 10 (2.46%) Istio
11 4 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.74%) Kibana
12 3 (0.74%) logstash
13 2 (0.49%) Argo
13 2 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.49%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.49%) Rundeck
14 1 (0.25%) Consul
14 1 (0.25%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.25%) Podman
Vendors
1 162 (39.80%) Google
2 40 (9.83%) Microsoft
3 14 (3.44%) Databricks
4 10 (2.46%) Atlassian
4 10 (2.46%) Red Hat
5 8 (1.97%) New Relic
5 8 (1.97%) SaltStack
6 7 (1.72%) Alteryx
6 7 (1.72%) Oracle
6 7 (1.72%) Serena
7 6 (1.47%) PagerDuty
7 6 (1.47%) Splunk
8 5 (1.23%) LogicMonitor
9 4 (0.98%) YouTube
10 3 (0.74%) VMware
11 2 (0.49%) Confluent
12 1 (0.25%) BT
12 1 (0.25%) Citrix
12 1 (0.25%) Palo Alto
12 1 (0.25%) Wallstreet Suite