Platform Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Platform Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Platform Engineer salary in Work from Home is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 452 427 545
Rank change year-on-year -25 +118 -224
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 144 249 325
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.43% 0.61% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.64% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 125 177 240
10th Percentile £51,750 £47,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £96,000 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £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
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,454 38,972 68,188
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.05% 95.91% 97.36%
Number of salaries quoted 24,851 27,677 41,848
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Platform Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Platform Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Platform Engineer.

Platform Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Platform Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 16 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 132 (91.67%) Platform Engineering
2 88 (61.11%) Terraform
3 81 (56.25%) Kubernetes
3 81 (56.25%) Python
4 76 (52.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 70 (48.61%) Azure
6 67 (46.53%) Docker
7 61 (42.36%) DevOps
8 60 (41.67%) AWS
9 57 (39.58%) CI/CD
10 54 (37.50%) Linux
11 47 (32.64%) Ansible
12 39 (27.08%) Agile
13 38 (26.39%) Bash
14 36 (25.00%) Finance
15 35 (24.31%) PowerShell
16 33 (22.92%) SQL
16 33 (22.92%) Jenkins
17 32 (22.22%) Containerisation
18 31 (21.53%) Java
19 30 (20.83%) Configuration Management
20 25 (17.36%) Git
20 25 (17.36%) Serverless
20 25 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
21 24 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
22 23 (15.97%) GitHub
23 22 (15.28%) GCP
23 22 (15.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
23 22 (15.28%) Azure AKS
24 21 (14.58%) Social Skills

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (6.25%) Confluence
2 5 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.47%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.69%) IIS
3 1 (0.69%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 70 (48.61%) Azure
2 60 (41.67%) AWS
3 25 (17.36%) Serverless
4 24 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (15.97%) GitHub
6 22 (15.28%) Azure AKS
6 22 (15.28%) GCP
7 17 (11.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 17 (11.81%) PaaS
8 12 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (8.33%) Amazon S3
8 12 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (8.33%) Route 53
9 11 (7.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 10 (6.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (6.94%) IaaS
10 10 (6.94%) Pulumi
10 10 (6.94%) SaaS
11 8 (5.56%) Datadog
11 8 (5.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.72%) Firewall
2 8 (5.56%) DNS
3 5 (3.47%) IPv4
3 5 (3.47%) VPN
4 4 (2.78%) Network Security
5 2 (1.39%) Internet
6 1 (0.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.81%) Azure SQL Database
2 15 (10.42%) MySQL
3 11 (7.64%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (6.94%) BigQuery
5 9 (6.25%) MariaDB
5 9 (6.25%) MongoDB
5 9 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (6.25%) Redis
6 6 (4.17%) Power BI
7 5 (3.47%) Hadoop
8 4 (2.78%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.78%) InfluxDB
8 4 (2.78%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.08%) Ingres
9 3 (2.08%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.69%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 33 (22.92%) Jenkins
2 25 (17.36%) Git
3 10 (6.94%) JIRA
4 9 (6.25%) Bitbucket
4 9 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (6.25%) Subversion
4 9 (6.25%) TeamCity
5 6 (4.17%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (4.17%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (3.47%) DTrace
6 5 (3.47%) GDB
7 4 (2.78%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.39%) GoCD
9 1 (0.69%) Vagrant
General
1 36 (25.00%) Finance
2 21 (14.58%) Social Skills
3 19 (13.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (9.72%) Retail
5 10 (6.94%) Banking
6 7 (4.86%) Law
7 4 (2.78%) Games
8 3 (2.08%) Legal
9 2 (1.39%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.69%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.64%) Kafka
2 7 (4.86%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (4.86%) SAML
3 6 (4.17%) ARM Templates
4 3 (2.08%) PySpark
5 1 (0.69%) ADO
5 1 (0.69%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.69%) Middleware
5 1 (0.69%) Node.js
5 1 (0.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.89%) Linux Command Line
2 14 (9.72%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (8.33%) Data Centre
4 11 (7.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (5.56%) Clustering
6 8 (5.56%) Product Ownership
6 8 (5.56%) Replication
7 5 (3.47%) Blog
7 5 (3.47%) Client/Server
7 5 (3.47%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.08%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (2.08%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.69%) Digital Currency
10 1 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.69%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 54 (37.50%) Linux
2 22 (15.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (10.42%) Windows
4 9 (6.25%) Windows Server
5 8 (5.56%) Oracle Linux
5 8 (5.56%) Solaris
5 8 (5.56%) Unix
6 1 (0.69%) CentOS
6 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (91.67%) Platform Engineering
2 76 (52.78%) Infrastructure as Code
3 61 (42.36%) DevOps
4 57 (39.58%) CI/CD
5 39 (27.08%) Agile
6 32 (22.22%) Containerisation
7 30 (20.83%) Configuration Management
8 25 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (13.89%) Deployment Automation
10 19 (13.19%) Analytics
11 17 (11.81%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (11.81%) Machine Learning
12 16 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
13 15 (10.42%) Software Engineering
14 14 (9.72%) Innovative Thinking
15 13 (9.03%) Disaster Recovery
15 13 (9.03%) Identity Access Management
15 13 (9.03%) Software Testing
16 12 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
16 12 (8.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 81 (56.25%) Python
2 38 (26.39%) Bash
3 35 (24.31%) PowerShell
4 33 (22.92%) SQL
5 31 (21.53%) Java
6 20 (13.89%) C#
7 16 (11.11%) Go
8 9 (6.25%) Groovy
8 9 (6.25%) Perl
9 8 (5.56%) C
9 8 (5.56%) JavaScript
10 7 (4.86%) Shell Script
10 7 (4.86%) TypeScript
11 6 (4.17%) PHP
11 6 (4.17%) Ruby
12 5 (3.47%) Bicep
12 5 (3.47%) OCaml
12 5 (3.47%) SystemTap
13 3 (2.08%) T-SQL
14 2 (1.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (8.33%) Degree
2 9 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 9 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.86%) AWS Certification
4 7 (4.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (4.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (2.08%) HND
7 2 (1.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.17%) PCI DSS
2 5 (3.47%) QA
3 1 (0.69%) SEPA
System Software
1 67 (46.53%) Docker
2 9 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 88 (61.11%) Terraform
2 81 (56.25%) Kubernetes
3 47 (32.64%) Ansible
4 21 (14.58%) Progress Chef
4 21 (14.58%) Puppet
5 19 (13.19%) Grafana
6 17 (11.81%) Prometheus
7 14 (9.72%) Salt
8 10 (6.94%) Packer
9 4 (2.78%) Istio
10 3 (2.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (2.08%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (1.39%) Rundeck
12 1 (0.69%) Consul
12 1 (0.69%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.69%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 21 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.42%) Google
3 9 (6.25%) Atlassian
3 9 (6.25%) Databricks
4 8 (5.56%) New Relic
4 8 (5.56%) Oracle
4 8 (5.56%) Red Hat
4 8 (5.56%) Serena
4 8 (5.56%) VMware
5 6 (4.17%) SaltStack
6 4 (2.78%) YouTube
7 2 (1.39%) Citrix
7 2 (1.39%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (1.39%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.39%) Splunk
8 1 (0.69%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.69%) Wallstreet Suite