Platform Engineer
UK

The median Platform Engineer salary in the UK is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 478 519 660
Rank change year-on-year +41 +141 -251
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 491 557 675
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.54% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.59% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 276 386 472
10th Percentile £53,750 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +22.73% +15.79%

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 93,479 94,643 151,222
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,031 59,595 85,375
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +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 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in the UK

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in the UK

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in the UK

Platform Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
England +50 416 £75,000 +7.14% 102
UK excluding London +16 293 £65,000 -3.70% 49
London +90 175 £82,500 +3.13% 53
Work from Home +2 149 £75,000 +7.14% 51
North of England +39 115 £60,000 -13.60% 15
North West -4 57 £65,000 -7.14% 8
Yorkshire +90 47 £60,000 -13.60% 6
Scotland -23 47 £62,500 -10.00% 2
South West -36 38 £67,500 -2.80% 9
Midlands +19 37 £65,000 -7.14% 5
South East +2 32 £60,000 +14.29% 7
West Midlands +16 20 £70,000 - 3
East Midlands +1 17 £60,000 -18.64% 2
East of England +18 13 £80,000 +72.04% 8
North East +4 13 £80,000 +14.29% 1
Wales +22 11 £55,000 +37.50% 2

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 448 (91.24%) Platform Engineering
2 301 (61.30%) DevOps
3 240 (48.88%) Agile
4 218 (44.40%) Problem-Solving
5 199 (40.53%) GCP
6 189 (38.49%) Azure
7 181 (36.86%) Google
8 180 (36.66%) Data Pipeline
9 177 (36.05%) Analytical Skills
10 176 (35.85%) Terraform
11 175 (35.64%) Data Engineering
11 175 (35.64%) BigQuery
12 170 (34.62%) Data Science
12 170 (34.62%) DataOps
12 170 (34.62%) Mentoring
13 166 (33.81%) Python
14 162 (32.99%) Change Management
15 161 (32.79%) GDPR
16 160 (32.59%) Self-Motivation
17 159 (32.38%) Looker
18 149 (30.35%) Kubernetes
18 149 (30.35%) CI/CD
19 147 (29.94%) Infrastructure as Code
20 137 (27.90%) AWS
21 105 (21.38%) Docker
22 85 (17.31%) Linux
23 81 (16.50%) Finance
24 77 (15.68%) PowerShell
25 76 (15.48%) Jenkins
26 74 (15.07%) Bash

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 20 (4.07%) Camunda
2 11 (2.24%) Confluence
3 10 (2.04%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.61%) SAS
6 2 (0.41%) IIS
7 1 (0.20%) Apache
7 1 (0.20%) CMS
7 1 (0.20%) nginx
7 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.20%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 199 (40.53%) GCP
2 189 (38.49%) Azure
3 137 (27.90%) AWS
4 50 (10.18%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (8.15%) GitHub
6 39 (7.94%) PaaS
6 39 (7.94%) Serverless
7 29 (5.91%) Azure AKS
8 26 (5.30%) IaaS
9 23 (4.68%) Power Platform
10 22 (4.48%) SaaS
11 19 (3.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 19 (3.87%) Cloud Computing
12 17 (3.46%) AWS CloudFormation
12 17 (3.46%) OpenShift
13 16 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (3.26%) Amazon S3
13 16 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (3.26%) Route 53
13 16 (3.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.48%) Firewall
2 19 (3.87%) Network Security
3 13 (2.65%) DNS
4 7 (1.43%) IPv4
4 7 (1.43%) VPN
5 4 (0.81%) Internet
6 2 (0.41%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.20%) Broadband
7 1 (0.20%) DHCP
7 1 (0.20%) FTP
7 1 (0.20%) SSL
7 1 (0.20%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.20%) VLAN
7 1 (0.20%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (35.64%) BigQuery
2 159 (32.38%) Looker
3 21 (4.28%) MongoDB
3 21 (4.28%) Power BI
4 20 (4.07%) Azure SQL Database
5 17 (3.46%) MySQL
6 14 (2.85%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (2.04%) Data Lake
8 9 (1.83%) MariaDB
8 9 (1.83%) NoSQL
8 9 (1.83%) Redis
9 7 (1.43%) Big Data
9 7 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.43%) SQL Server
10 6 (1.22%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.02%) InfluxDB
12 4 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.61%) Ingres
14 2 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 76 (15.48%) Jenkins
2 43 (8.76%) Git
3 24 (4.89%) CircleCI
3 24 (4.89%) JIRA
4 20 (4.07%) Gradle
4 20 (4.07%) Maven
4 20 (4.07%) Travis CI
5 15 (3.05%) TeamCity
6 14 (2.85%) Artifactory
7 13 (2.65%) Octopus Deploy
8 11 (2.24%) Bitbucket
8 11 (2.24%) Snyk
9 9 (1.83%) GitLab
9 9 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
9 9 (1.83%) Subversion
10 6 (1.22%) RStudio
10 6 (1.22%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (1.02%) DTrace
11 5 (1.02%) GDB
12 2 (0.41%) GoCD
General
1 177 (36.05%) Analytical Skills
2 81 (16.50%) Finance
3 67 (13.65%) Social Skills
4 45 (9.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (5.70%) Law
6 24 (4.89%) Legal
6 24 (4.89%) Retail
7 23 (4.68%) Banking
8 11 (2.24%) Retail Banking
9 7 (1.43%) Games
10 5 (1.02%) Health Technology
11 4 (0.81%) Front Office
12 3 (0.61%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.41%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.20%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.20%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.20%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.20%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.20%) Military
14 1 (0.20%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.07%) Spring
1 20 (4.07%) Spring Boot
2 16 (3.26%) Kafka
3 14 (2.85%) ARM Templates
4 11 (2.24%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (1.63%) .NET
6 7 (1.43%) SAML
7 4 (0.81%) Node.js
7 4 (0.81%) REST
8 3 (0.61%) PySpark
8 3 (0.61%) React
9 2 (0.41%) AWS CDK
9 2 (0.41%) Loki
9 2 (0.41%) Middleware
10 1 (0.20%) ADO
10 1 (0.20%) Anaconda
10 1 (0.20%) JSON
10 1 (0.20%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.20%) RESTful
10 1 (0.20%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 160 (32.59%) Self-Motivation
2 27 (5.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 23 (4.68%) Linux Command Line
4 18 (3.67%) Data Centre
5 16 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.04%) Cloud Native
6 10 (2.04%) Product Ownership
7 9 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.63%) Clustering
8 8 (1.63%) Public Cloud
8 8 (1.63%) Replication
9 7 (1.43%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.02%) Blog
10 5 (1.02%) Client/Server
11 4 (0.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 3 (0.61%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.41%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
14 1 (0.20%) Fixed Income
14 1 (0.20%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 85 (17.31%) Linux
2 28 (5.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 28 (5.70%) Windows
3 14 (2.85%) Unix
4 12 (2.44%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.63%) Oracle Linux
5 8 (1.63%) Solaris
6 4 (0.81%) VMS
7 3 (0.61%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.41%) CentOS
8 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (91.24%) Platform Engineering
2 301 (61.30%) DevOps
3 240 (48.88%) Agile
4 218 (44.40%) Problem-Solving
5 180 (36.66%) Data Pipeline
6 175 (35.64%) Data Engineering
7 170 (34.62%) Data Science
7 170 (34.62%) DataOps
7 170 (34.62%) Mentoring
8 162 (32.99%) Change Management
9 149 (30.35%) CI/CD
10 147 (29.94%) Infrastructure as Code
11 65 (13.24%) Containerisation
12 55 (11.20%) Software Engineering
13 46 (9.37%) Configuration Management
13 46 (9.37%) Continuous Improvement
14 38 (7.74%) Analytics
15 35 (7.13%) Infrastructure Automation
16 28 (5.70%) Cloud Security
17 26 (5.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 166 (33.81%) Python
2 77 (15.68%) PowerShell
3 74 (15.07%) Bash
4 64 (13.03%) SQL
5 62 (12.63%) Java
6 33 (6.72%) Ruby
7 29 (5.91%) Go
8 28 (5.70%) C#
9 25 (5.09%) Bicep
10 13 (2.65%) JavaScript
10 13 (2.65%) Perl
11 11 (2.24%) Groovy
12 8 (1.63%) C
12 8 (1.63%) Shell Script
13 7 (1.43%) PHP
13 7 (1.43%) R
13 7 (1.43%) TypeScript
14 5 (1.02%) OCaml
14 5 (1.02%) SystemTap
15 4 (0.81%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (3.46%) Degree
2 15 (3.05%) Security Cleared
3 13 (2.65%) SC Cleared
4 10 (2.04%) Azure Certification
5 8 (1.63%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.61%) HND
9 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.41%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.41%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.41%) PhD
10 1 (0.20%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.20%) RHCE
10 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (32.79%) GDPR
2 14 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.63%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.22%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.02%) QA
6 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 105 (21.38%) Docker
2 14 (2.85%) Active Directory
2 14 (2.85%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.20%) KVM
Systems Management
1 176 (35.85%) Terraform
2 149 (30.35%) Kubernetes
3 67 (13.65%) Ansible
4 34 (6.92%) Puppet
5 29 (5.91%) Progress Chef
6 27 (5.50%) Grafana
7 23 (4.68%) Prometheus
8 19 (3.87%) Salt
9 15 (3.05%) Istio
10 12 (2.44%) Packer
11 5 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.81%) Kibana
13 3 (0.61%) logstash
14 2 (0.41%) Argo
14 2 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.41%) Kubeflow
14 2 (0.41%) Rundeck
15 1 (0.20%) Consul
15 1 (0.20%) HAProxy
15 1 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 181 (36.86%) Google
2 51 (10.39%) Microsoft
3 20 (4.07%) Pega
4 15 (3.05%) Databricks
5 11 (2.24%) Red Hat
6 10 (2.04%) Atlassian
7 9 (1.83%) SaltStack
7 9 (1.83%) VMware
8 8 (1.63%) New Relic
8 8 (1.63%) Oracle
8 8 (1.63%) Serena
9 7 (1.43%) Splunk
10 6 (1.22%) Alteryx
11 5 (1.02%) LogicMonitor
11 5 (1.02%) PagerDuty
12 4 (0.81%) YouTube
13 2 (0.41%) Confluent
13 2 (0.41%) Dataiku
14 1 (0.20%) Palo Alto
14 1 (0.20%) Sparx