Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 865 886 1161
Rank change year-on-year +21 +275 -365
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Platform Engineer 31 84 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.080% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.033% 0.088% 0.048%
Number of salaries quoted 30 84 68
10th Percentile £57,425 £52,875 £47,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £71,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.77% +9.62% -7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

AWS Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Platform Engineer in the UK

AWS Platform Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for AWS Platform Engineer in the UK

AWS Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS Platform Engineer in the UK

AWS Platform Engineer
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Platform Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +59 28 £76,250 +5.17% 7
London +132 23 £77,500 -8.82% 4
Work from Home +58 22 £76,250 +5.17% 8
UK excluding London -33 6 £60,000 -14.29% 7
South East - 2 £77,500 - 1
Yorkshire +80 1 £60,000 -11.11%
West Midlands +21 1 £58,500 -16.43% 1
North of England +9 1 £60,000 -14.29% 1
Midlands +2 1 £58,500 -19.31% 1
South West -23 1 £60,000 -17.24%
Scotland - 1 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, AWS 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 featuring AWS Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) AWS
1 31 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 29 (93.55%) Terraform
3 28 (90.32%) CI/CD
4 26 (83.87%) Kubernetes
5 25 (80.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (80.65%) Docker
6 22 (70.97%) Python
7 19 (61.29%) DevOps
7 19 (61.29%) Jenkins
8 14 (45.16%) Serverless
9 12 (38.71%) Infrastructure Automation
9 12 (38.71%) Containerisation
9 12 (38.71%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (38.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 12 (38.71%) Route 53
9 12 (38.71%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (38.71%) GitHub
9 12 (38.71%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (38.71%) Amazon S3
10 11 (35.48%) Migration
11 10 (32.26%) Java
11 10 (32.26%) Data Migration
11 10 (32.26%) Infrastructure Management
11 10 (32.26%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (32.26%) Identity Access Management
12 9 (29.03%) Sonatype Nexus
12 9 (29.03%) Packer
12 9 (29.03%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (29.03%) Bitbucket

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
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 9 (29.03%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 31 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (45.16%) Serverless
3 12 (38.71%) Amazon EC2
3 12 (38.71%) Amazon S3
3 12 (38.71%) AWS Lambda
3 12 (38.71%) GitHub
3 12 (38.71%) Route 53
3 12 (38.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 10 (32.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (22.58%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (6.45%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (6.45%) PaaS
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (3.23%) CloudFront
7 1 (3.23%) GCP
7 1 (3.23%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.23%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (38.71%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.23%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 19 (61.29%) Jenkins
2 9 (29.03%) Bitbucket
2 9 (29.03%) JIRA
2 9 (29.03%) Sonatype Nexus
2 9 (29.03%) Subversion
3 7 (22.58%) Git
4 2 (6.45%) CircleCI
5 1 (3.23%) GitLab
5 1 (3.23%) MLflow
5 1 (3.23%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Finance
3 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.23%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (12.90%) SAML
3 1 (3.23%) AWS CDK
3 1 (3.23%) Middleware
3 1 (3.23%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (29.03%) Distributed Systems
1 9 (29.03%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (12.90%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.23%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.81%) Linux
2 2 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.23%) CentOS
3 1 (3.23%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 28 (90.32%) CI/CD
3 25 (80.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (61.29%) DevOps
5 12 (38.71%) Containerisation
5 12 (38.71%) Infrastructure Automation
6 11 (35.48%) Migration
7 10 (32.26%) Data Migration
7 10 (32.26%) Identity Access Management
7 10 (32.26%) Infrastructure Management
8 7 (22.58%) Configuration Management
9 6 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (16.13%) Deployment Automation
10 5 (16.13%) Innovative Thinking
11 4 (12.90%) Agile
11 4 (12.90%) Identity Management
12 3 (9.68%) Software Testing
13 2 (6.45%) Mentoring
13 2 (6.45%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 22 (70.97%) Python
2 10 (32.26%) Java
3 8 (25.81%) Bash
4 3 (9.68%) Groovy
5 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.45%) SQL
6 1 (3.23%) C
6 1 (3.23%) Go
6 1 (3.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (29.03%) SC Cleared
1 9 (29.03%) Security Cleared
2 6 (19.35%) AWS Certification
3 5 (16.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.23%) Degree
4 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 25 (80.65%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (93.55%) Terraform
2 26 (83.87%) Kubernetes
3 9 (29.03%) Ansible
3 9 (29.03%) Packer
4 6 (19.35%) Puppet
5 5 (16.13%) Grafana
5 5 (16.13%) Progress Chef
5 5 (16.13%) Prometheus
5 5 (16.13%) Salt
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.23%) Databricks
2 1 (3.23%) SaltStack