Senior Platform Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Platform Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Platform Engineer salary in England is £92,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 815 834 1075
Rank change year-on-year +19 +241 -262
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 32 92 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.037% 0.10% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.039% 0.11% 0.060%
Number of salaries quoted 31 56 74
10th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £67,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £86,250 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.25% +1.47% +17.24%
75th Percentile £113,750 £100,625 £96,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £108,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £92,500 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +8.82% - +18.06%

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 81,072 82,732 127,934
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.49% 91.46% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,480 52,417 75,087
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,669 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,519 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Platform Engineer in England

Senior Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Platform Engineer in England

Senior Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Platform Engineer in England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Platform Engineer in England

Senior 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 Senior Platform Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 8 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 +98 24 £105,000 +5.00% 17
North of England +30 5 £65,000 -10.34% 2
North West -6 3 £65,000 -10.34% 2
Yorkshire +81 2 £80,000 +6.67%
North East - 2 £80,000 -
South West -35 1 £75,000 +3.45% 2
Senior Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 30 (93.75%) Platform Engineering
2 24 (75.00%) Terraform
3 22 (68.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (62.50%) Azure
4 20 (62.50%) Kubernetes
5 18 (56.25%) DevOps
6 17 (53.13%) AWS
6 17 (53.13%) Python
7 13 (40.63%) Docker
8 10 (31.25%) GCP
9 9 (28.13%) CI/CD
10 8 (25.00%) Fintech
10 8 (25.00%) PaaS
11 7 (21.88%) SaaS
11 7 (21.88%) Jenkins
11 7 (21.88%) Java
12 6 (18.75%) C#
12 6 (18.75%) Bash
12 6 (18.75%) Containerisation
12 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
13 5 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (15.63%) Grafana
13 5 (15.63%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (15.63%) Public Cloud
13 5 (15.63%) SQL
13 5 (15.63%) Windows
13 5 (15.63%) Linux
13 5 (15.63%) VMware
13 5 (15.63%) Software Engineering
13 5 (15.63%) Agile

Senior 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 3 (9.38%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.13%) Apache
2 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 20 (62.50%) Azure
2 17 (53.13%) AWS
3 10 (31.25%) GCP
4 8 (25.00%) PaaS
5 7 (21.88%) SaaS
6 5 (15.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (12.50%) IaaS
7 4 (12.50%) Pulumi
8 3 (9.38%) Azure AKS
8 3 (9.38%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (6.25%) OpenShift
9 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
10 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
10 1 (3.13%) GitHub
10 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (3.13%) Power Automate
10 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) DHCP
1 1 (3.13%) DNS
1 1 (3.13%) Firewall
1 1 (3.13%) IPv4
1 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.13%) tcpdump
1 1 (3.13%) VPN
1 1 (3.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) BigQuery
1 3 (9.38%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.25%) MySQL
2 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.25%) Power BI
3 1 (3.13%) Big Data
3 1 (3.13%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.50%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (12.50%) TeamCity
3 3 (9.38%) Git
4 1 (3.13%) CircleCI
4 1 (3.13%) GitLab
4 1 (3.13%) GoCD
4 1 (3.13%) JIRA
4 1 (3.13%) Vagrant
General
1 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.25%) Games
3 1 (3.13%) Finance
3 1 (3.13%) Health Technology
3 1 (3.13%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) .NET
2 3 (9.38%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (9.38%) PySpark
3 2 (6.25%) Node.js
3 2 (6.25%) React
4 1 (3.13%) ADO
4 1 (3.13%) JSON
4 1 (3.13%) Keycloak
4 1 (3.13%) Middleware
4 1 (3.13%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Public Cloud
2 2 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.13%) Blockchain
3 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Linux
1 5 (15.63%) Windows
2 3 (9.38%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.13%) CentOS
3 1 (3.13%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (93.75%) Platform Engineering
2 22 (68.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 18 (56.25%) DevOps
4 9 (28.13%) CI/CD
5 8 (25.00%) Fintech
6 6 (18.75%) Containerisation
7 5 (15.63%) Agile
7 5 (15.63%) Software Engineering
8 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (12.50%) OO
8 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (9.38%) Business Continuity
9 3 (9.38%) Configuration Management
9 3 (9.38%) Data Governance
9 3 (9.38%) Data Management
9 3 (9.38%) Decarbonisation
9 3 (9.38%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (9.38%) Mentoring
10 2 (6.25%) Roadmaps
10 2 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (53.13%) Python
2 7 (21.88%) Java
3 6 (18.75%) Bash
3 6 (18.75%) C#
4 5 (15.63%) SQL
5 4 (12.50%) Go
6 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.25%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.13%) Perl
7 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.13%) Ruby
7 1 (3.13%) Scala
7 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.13%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) Linux+ Certification
2 1 (3.13%) RHCE
System Software
1 13 (40.63%) Docker
2 3 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.13%) KVM
3 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (75.00%) Terraform
2 20 (62.50%) Kubernetes
3 5 (15.63%) Grafana
4 4 (12.50%) Ansible
4 4 (12.50%) Prometheus
5 3 (9.38%) Progress Chef
5 3 (9.38%) Puppet
6 2 (6.25%) Kibana
6 2 (6.25%) logstash
7 1 (3.13%) Consul
7 1 (3.13%) Packer
7 1 (3.13%) Salt
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) VMware
2 3 (9.38%) Splunk
3 2 (6.25%) Citrix
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.13%) Google
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.13%) SaltStack