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 21 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
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 465 483 686
Rank change year-on-year +18 +203 -278
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 418 504 528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.57% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.63% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 241 364 384
10th Percentile £55,000 £43,750 £43,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £93,750 £87,813 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% +4.00%

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 81,818 80,481 131,915
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.54% 91.52% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 60,842 51,232 75,335
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 £82,000 £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%

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 21 May 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 21 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 +90 172 £85,000 +6.25% 69
North of England +26 120 £60,000 -14.29% 27
North West -13 62 £65,000 -7.14% 19
Yorkshire +70 48 £60,000 -13.60% 8
Midlands +2 38 £65,000 -7.14% 3
South West -15 38 £67,500 -2.80% 7
South East -27 31 £60,000 +14.29% 28
West Midlands -4 20 £70,000 - 3
East Midlands +4 18 £60,000 -18.64%
East of England +6 13 £80,000 +72.04% 6
North East +3 12 £80,000 +14.29%
Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 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.

1 406 (97.13%) Platform Engineering
2 270 (64.59%) DevOps
3 194 (46.41%) Agile
4 190 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
5 180 (43.06%) GCP
6 176 (42.11%) Azure
7 163 (39.00%) Google
8 162 (38.76%) Terraform
9 159 (38.04%) Data Pipeline
10 157 (37.56%) BigQuery
11 156 (37.32%) Data Engineering
11 156 (37.32%) Analytical Skills
12 152 (36.36%) DataOps
13 151 (36.12%) Data Science
13 151 (36.12%) Mentoring
14 144 (34.45%) Change Management
15 143 (34.21%) GDPR
16 142 (33.97%) Self-Motivation
16 142 (33.97%) Kubernetes
17 141 (33.73%) Looker
18 136 (32.54%) Infrastructure as Code
19 130 (31.10%) Python
20 119 (28.47%) CI/CD
21 110 (26.32%) AWS
22 101 (24.16%) Docker
23 74 (17.70%) PowerShell
24 69 (16.51%) Ansible
25 68 (16.27%) Linux
26 65 (15.55%) Bash
27 59 (14.11%) Social Skills

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 11 (2.63%) Confluence
2 10 (2.39%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.48%) Apache
5 1 (0.24%) IIS
5 1 (0.24%) nginx
5 1 (0.24%) SAS
5 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 180 (43.06%) GCP
2 176 (42.11%) Azure
3 110 (26.32%) AWS
4 45 (10.77%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (9.81%) GitHub
5 41 (9.81%) PaaS
6 32 (7.66%) Serverless
7 28 (6.70%) Azure AKS
8 23 (5.50%) IaaS
8 23 (5.50%) SaaS
9 21 (5.02%) Power Platform
10 19 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
11 15 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (3.35%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (3.35%) Amazon S3
12 14 (3.35%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (3.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 14 (3.35%) Route 53
13 13 (3.11%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (3.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.55%) Firewall
2 15 (3.59%) Network Security
3 12 (2.87%) DNS
4 3 (0.72%) Internet
4 3 (0.72%) IPv4
4 3 (0.72%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.72%) VPN
5 2 (0.48%) DHCP
5 2 (0.48%) tcpdump
5 2 (0.48%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.24%) Broadband
6 1 (0.24%) FTP
6 1 (0.24%) SSL
6 1 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (37.56%) BigQuery
2 141 (33.73%) Looker
3 23 (5.50%) MongoDB
4 21 (5.02%) Azure SQL Database
5 19 (4.55%) MySQL
5 19 (4.55%) Power BI
6 15 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (2.63%) MariaDB
8 11 (2.63%) Redis
9 10 (2.39%) Data Lake
10 9 (2.15%) NoSQL
11 7 (1.67%) Big Data
11 7 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.44%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.96%) InfluxDB
14 3 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
15 2 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
16 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
16 1 (0.24%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 50 (11.96%) Jenkins
2 42 (10.05%) Git
3 20 (4.78%) JIRA
4 17 (4.07%) Octopus Deploy
5 15 (3.59%) TeamCity
6 12 (2.87%) Bitbucket
7 11 (2.63%) GitLab
8 9 (2.15%) Artifactory
8 9 (2.15%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (2.15%) Subversion
9 7 (1.67%) Snyk
10 6 (1.44%) RStudio
10 6 (1.44%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (1.20%) DTrace
11 5 (1.20%) GDB
12 4 (0.96%) CircleCI
13 2 (0.48%) NUnit
14 1 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 1 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
14 1 (0.24%) Vagrant
General
1 156 (37.32%) Analytical Skills
2 59 (14.11%) Social Skills
3 58 (13.88%) Finance
4 23 (5.50%) Retail
5 18 (4.31%) Banking
5 18 (4.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (1.67%) Games
6 7 (1.67%) Law
6 7 (1.67%) Retail Banking
7 4 (0.96%) Front Office
7 4 (0.96%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.48%) Legal
8 2 (0.48%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.48%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.24%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.24%) Military
9 1 (0.24%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.83%) Kafka
2 15 (3.59%) ARM Templates
3 13 (3.11%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (1.91%) SAML
5 7 (1.67%) .NET
6 4 (0.96%) Node.js
7 3 (0.72%) Middleware
7 3 (0.72%) PySpark
7 3 (0.72%) React
8 2 (0.48%) Keycloak
8 2 (0.48%) Loki
8 2 (0.48%) REST
9 1 (0.24%) ADO
9 1 (0.24%) Anaconda
9 1 (0.24%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.24%) JSON
9 1 (0.24%) RESTful
9 1 (0.24%) Spring Cloud
9 1 (0.24%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 142 (33.97%) Self-Motivation
2 24 (5.74%) Hybrid Cloud
3 20 (4.78%) Linux Command Line
4 17 (4.07%) Data Centre
4 17 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.91%) Cloud Native
6 8 (1.91%) Clustering
6 8 (1.91%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.91%) Public Cloud
6 8 (1.91%) Replication
7 7 (1.67%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.20%) Blog
8 5 (1.20%) Client/Server
8 5 (1.20%) Private Cloud
9 3 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.48%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 68 (16.27%) Linux
2 24 (5.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 22 (5.26%) Windows
4 11 (2.63%) Unix
5 9 (2.15%) Windows Server
6 8 (1.91%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (1.91%) Solaris
7 4 (0.96%) VMS
8 3 (0.72%) CentOS
8 3 (0.72%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 406 (97.13%) Platform Engineering
2 270 (64.59%) DevOps
3 194 (46.41%) Agile
4 190 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
5 159 (38.04%) Data Pipeline
6 156 (37.32%) Data Engineering
7 152 (36.36%) DataOps
8 151 (36.12%) Data Science
8 151 (36.12%) Mentoring
9 144 (34.45%) Change Management
10 136 (32.54%) Infrastructure as Code
11 119 (28.47%) CI/CD
12 53 (12.68%) Containerisation
13 45 (10.77%) Continuous Improvement
14 43 (10.29%) Configuration Management
15 38 (9.09%) Analytics
16 36 (8.61%) Infrastructure Automation
17 29 (6.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 25 (5.98%) Continuous Integration
19 24 (5.74%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 130 (31.10%) Python
2 74 (17.70%) PowerShell
3 65 (15.55%) Bash
4 57 (13.64%) SQL
5 38 (9.09%) Java
6 29 (6.94%) C#
6 29 (6.94%) Go
7 24 (5.74%) Bicep
8 13 (3.11%) Ruby
9 11 (2.63%) JavaScript
9 11 (2.63%) Perl
10 9 (2.15%) Groovy
11 8 (1.91%) Shell Script
12 7 (1.67%) R
12 7 (1.67%) TypeScript
13 6 (1.44%) C
13 6 (1.44%) PHP
14 5 (1.20%) OCaml
14 5 (1.20%) SystemTap
15 4 (0.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (3.11%) Degree
1 13 (3.11%) Security Cleared
2 11 (2.63%) SC Cleared
3 10 (2.39%) Azure Certification
4 7 (1.67%) AWS Certification
5 6 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (0.48%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.48%) Linux+ Certification
8 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.48%) PhD
8 2 (0.48%) RHCE
9 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (34.21%) GDPR
2 14 (3.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.15%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.44%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.44%) QA
5 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.24%) SEPA
System Software
1 101 (24.16%) Docker
2 13 (3.11%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (2.87%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.48%) KVM
Systems Management
1 162 (38.76%) Terraform
2 142 (33.97%) Kubernetes
3 69 (16.51%) Ansible
4 28 (6.70%) Puppet
5 26 (6.22%) Progress Chef
6 24 (5.74%) Grafana
7 23 (5.50%) Prometheus
8 15 (3.59%) Salt
9 12 (2.87%) Packer
10 11 (2.63%) Istio
11 7 (1.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.96%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.72%) Argo
13 3 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.72%) Kibana
13 3 (0.72%) logstash
14 2 (0.48%) Kubeflow
14 2 (0.48%) Rundeck
15 1 (0.24%) Consul
15 1 (0.24%) Podman
Vendors
1 163 (39.00%) Google
2 49 (11.72%) Microsoft
3 15 (3.59%) Databricks
4 12 (2.87%) Red Hat
5 11 (2.63%) Atlassian
6 8 (1.91%) New Relic
6 8 (1.91%) Oracle
6 8 (1.91%) SaltStack
6 8 (1.91%) Serena
7 7 (1.67%) Splunk
7 7 (1.67%) VMware
8 6 (1.44%) Alteryx
9 5 (1.20%) LogicMonitor
9 5 (1.20%) PagerDuty
10 4 (0.96%) YouTube
11 2 (0.48%) Citrix
11 2 (0.48%) Confluent
12 1 (0.24%) BT
12 1 (0.24%) Sparx
12 1 (0.24%) Wallstreet Suite