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 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 462 509 660
Rank change year-on-year +47 +151 -242
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 486 566 666
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.55% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.60% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 274 388 467
10th Percentile £55,000 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £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 93,240 95,005 150,022
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 66,901 59,761 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 £52,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.21% +5.50% +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 2 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 2 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 +25 412 £75,000 +7.14% 103
UK excluding London +17 292 £65,000 -3.70% 53
London +86 172 £81,250 +1.56% 52
Work from Home +3 146 £75,000 +7.14% 49
North of England +27 114 £60,000 -14.29% 14
North West -15 57 £65,000 -7.14% 8
Scotland -16 47 £62,500 -10.00% 4
Yorkshire +84 46 £60,000 -12.37% 5
South West -28 38 £67,500 -2.80% 9
Midlands +11 37 £65,000 -7.14% 6
South East +5 32 £60,000 +14.29% 7
West Midlands +15 20 £70,000 - 3
East Midlands -2 17 £60,000 -18.64% 2
East of England +16 13 £80,000 +72.04% 9
North East +4 13 £80,000 +14.29% 1
Wales +21 11 £55,000 +37.50% 2

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

For the 6 months to 2 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.

1 443 (91.15%) Platform Engineering
2 300 (61.73%) DevOps
3 236 (48.56%) Agile
4 217 (44.65%) Problem-Solving
5 198 (40.74%) GCP
6 183 (37.65%) Azure
7 180 (37.04%) Google
7 180 (37.04%) Data Pipeline
8 177 (36.42%) Analytical Skills
9 176 (36.21%) Data Engineering
10 175 (36.01%) BigQuery
11 172 (35.39%) Terraform
12 171 (35.19%) Data Science
13 170 (34.98%) DataOps
13 170 (34.98%) Mentoring
14 165 (33.95%) Python
15 162 (33.33%) Change Management
16 161 (33.13%) GDPR
17 160 (32.92%) Self-Motivation
18 159 (32.72%) Looker
19 148 (30.45%) CI/CD
20 146 (30.04%) Infrastructure as Code
20 146 (30.04%) Kubernetes
21 136 (27.98%) AWS
22 101 (20.78%) Docker
23 84 (17.28%) Linux
24 80 (16.46%) Finance
25 74 (15.23%) Jenkins
26 73 (15.02%) PowerShell
27 71 (14.61%) 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 (4.12%) Camunda
2 11 (2.26%) Confluence
3 10 (2.06%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.62%) SAS
6 2 (0.41%) IIS
7 1 (0.21%) Apache
7 1 (0.21%) CMS
7 1 (0.21%) nginx
7 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.21%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 198 (40.74%) GCP
2 183 (37.65%) Azure
3 136 (27.98%) AWS
4 49 (10.08%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (8.02%) Serverless
6 38 (7.82%) GitHub
7 37 (7.61%) PaaS
8 28 (5.76%) Azure AKS
9 26 (5.35%) IaaS
10 22 (4.53%) Power Platform
10 22 (4.53%) SaaS
11 19 (3.91%) Cloud Computing
12 18 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 17 (3.50%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (3.50%) Amazon S3
13 17 (3.50%) AWS CloudFormation
13 17 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
13 17 (3.50%) OpenShift
13 17 (3.50%) Route 53
13 17 (3.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.53%) Firewall
2 19 (3.91%) Network Security
3 13 (2.67%) DNS
4 7 (1.44%) IPv4
4 7 (1.44%) VPN
5 4 (0.82%) Internet
6 2 (0.41%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.21%) Broadband
7 1 (0.21%) DHCP
7 1 (0.21%) FTP
7 1 (0.21%) SSL
7 1 (0.21%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.21%) VLAN
7 1 (0.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (36.01%) BigQuery
2 159 (32.72%) Looker
3 20 (4.12%) MongoDB
3 20 (4.12%) Power BI
4 18 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (3.29%) MySQL
6 14 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (2.06%) Data Lake
9 9 (1.85%) NoSQL
10 8 (1.65%) MariaDB
10 8 (1.65%) Redis
11 7 (1.44%) Big Data
11 7 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.44%) SQL Server
12 6 (1.23%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.82%) InfluxDB
14 3 (0.62%) Ingres
15 2 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 74 (15.23%) Jenkins
2 42 (8.64%) Git
3 24 (4.94%) CircleCI
4 23 (4.73%) JIRA
5 20 (4.12%) Gradle
5 20 (4.12%) Maven
5 20 (4.12%) Travis CI
6 14 (2.88%) Artifactory
6 14 (2.88%) TeamCity
7 11 (2.26%) Bitbucket
7 11 (2.26%) Octopus Deploy
7 11 (2.26%) Snyk
8 9 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (1.85%) Subversion
9 8 (1.65%) GitLab
10 6 (1.23%) RStudio
10 6 (1.23%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (1.03%) DTrace
11 5 (1.03%) GDB
12 2 (0.41%) GoCD
General
1 177 (36.42%) Analytical Skills
2 80 (16.46%) Finance
3 66 (13.58%) Social Skills
4 45 (9.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (5.76%) Law
6 24 (4.94%) Banking
6 24 (4.94%) Legal
6 24 (4.94%) Retail
7 11 (2.26%) Retail Banking
8 7 (1.44%) Games
9 5 (1.03%) Health Technology
10 4 (0.82%) Front Office
11 3 (0.62%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.41%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.21%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.21%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.21%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.21%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.21%) Military
13 1 (0.21%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.12%) Spring
1 20 (4.12%) Spring Boot
2 16 (3.29%) Kafka
3 14 (2.88%) ARM Templates
4 10 (2.06%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (1.44%) .NET
6 6 (1.23%) SAML
7 4 (0.82%) Node.js
7 4 (0.82%) REST
8 3 (0.62%) PySpark
8 3 (0.62%) React
9 2 (0.41%) AWS CDK
9 2 (0.41%) Loki
9 2 (0.41%) Middleware
10 1 (0.21%) ADO
10 1 (0.21%) JSON
10 1 (0.21%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.21%) RESTful
10 1 (0.21%) Vue
10 1 (0.21%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 160 (32.92%) Self-Motivation
2 27 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 23 (4.73%) Linux Command Line
4 18 (3.70%) Data Centre
5 16 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.06%) Cloud Native
6 10 (2.06%) Product Ownership
7 9 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.65%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.44%) Clustering
9 7 (1.44%) Replication
10 6 (1.23%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.03%) Blog
11 5 (1.03%) Client/Server
12 4 (0.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 2 (0.41%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.41%) Private Cloud
14 1 (0.21%) Fixed Income
14 1 (0.21%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 84 (17.28%) Linux
2 28 (5.76%) Windows
3 27 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (2.88%) Unix
5 12 (2.47%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.44%) Oracle Linux
6 7 (1.44%) Solaris
7 4 (0.82%) VMS
8 3 (0.62%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.41%) CentOS
9 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 443 (91.15%) Platform Engineering
2 300 (61.73%) DevOps
3 236 (48.56%) Agile
4 217 (44.65%) Problem-Solving
5 180 (37.04%) Data Pipeline
6 176 (36.21%) Data Engineering
7 171 (35.19%) Data Science
8 170 (34.98%) DataOps
8 170 (34.98%) Mentoring
9 162 (33.33%) Change Management
10 148 (30.45%) CI/CD
11 146 (30.04%) Infrastructure as Code
12 64 (13.17%) Containerisation
13 55 (11.32%) Software Engineering
14 46 (9.47%) Configuration Management
15 45 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
16 39 (8.02%) Analytics
17 35 (7.20%) Infrastructure Automation
18 28 (5.76%) Cloud Security
19 26 (5.35%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 165 (33.95%) Python
2 73 (15.02%) PowerShell
3 71 (14.61%) Bash
4 62 (12.76%) Java
4 62 (12.76%) SQL
5 33 (6.79%) Ruby
6 30 (6.17%) Go
7 26 (5.35%) C#
8 25 (5.14%) Bicep
9 13 (2.67%) Perl
10 12 (2.47%) JavaScript
11 11 (2.26%) Groovy
12 8 (1.65%) C
12 8 (1.65%) Shell Script
13 7 (1.44%) PHP
13 7 (1.44%) R
13 7 (1.44%) TypeScript
14 5 (1.03%) OCaml
14 5 (1.03%) SystemTap
15 4 (0.82%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (3.50%) Degree
2 15 (3.09%) Security Cleared
3 13 (2.67%) SC Cleared
4 10 (2.06%) Azure Certification
5 8 (1.65%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.62%) 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 (0.21%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.21%) RHCE
10 1 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (33.13%) GDPR
2 14 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.65%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.23%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.03%) QA
6 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 101 (20.78%) Docker
2 14 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (2.67%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.21%) KVM
Systems Management
1 172 (35.39%) Terraform
2 146 (30.04%) Kubernetes
3 64 (13.17%) Ansible
4 34 (7.00%) Puppet
5 29 (5.97%) Progress Chef
6 27 (5.56%) Grafana
7 23 (4.73%) Prometheus
8 19 (3.91%) Salt
9 14 (2.88%) Istio
10 12 (2.47%) Packer
11 4 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.82%) Kibana
12 3 (0.62%) logstash
13 2 (0.41%) Argo
13 2 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.41%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.41%) Rundeck
14 1 (0.21%) Consul
14 1 (0.21%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.21%) Podman
Vendors
1 180 (37.04%) Google
2 49 (10.08%) Microsoft
3 20 (4.12%) Pega
4 15 (3.09%) Databricks
5 11 (2.26%) Red Hat
6 10 (2.06%) Atlassian
7 9 (1.85%) SaltStack
7 9 (1.85%) VMware
8 8 (1.65%) New Relic
9 7 (1.44%) Alteryx
9 7 (1.44%) Oracle
9 7 (1.44%) Serena
9 7 (1.44%) Splunk
10 6 (1.23%) PagerDuty
11 5 (1.03%) LogicMonitor
12 4 (0.82%) YouTube
13 2 (0.41%) Confluent
13 2 (0.41%) Dataiku
14 1 (0.21%) Palo Alto
14 1 (0.21%) Sparx