Platform Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Platform Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Platform Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 464 429 585
Rank change year-on-year -35 +156 -248
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 139 210 328
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.39% 0.56% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.58% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 113 147 233
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £36,700
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,447 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +6.84% +8.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £101,250 £101,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% +8.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 34,224 35,954 73,616
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.28% 95.93% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,903 26,270 42,683
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +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 18 June 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 18 June 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.

1 127 (91.37%) Platform Engineering
2 76 (54.68%) Terraform
3 72 (51.80%) Python
3 72 (51.80%) Azure
4 69 (49.64%) Kubernetes
5 66 (47.48%) Infrastructure as Code
6 57 (41.01%) DevOps
7 53 (38.13%) Docker
8 48 (34.53%) CI/CD
9 46 (33.09%) Linux
10 45 (32.37%) AWS
11 42 (30.22%) Ansible
12 40 (28.78%) PowerShell
13 36 (25.90%) Bash
13 36 (25.90%) Agile
14 35 (25.18%) Finance
15 32 (23.02%) SQL
16 30 (21.58%) Containerisation
17 28 (20.14%) Azure DevOps
18 26 (18.71%) Git
19 25 (17.99%) Microsoft
19 25 (17.99%) Jenkins
20 24 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
21 23 (16.55%) GCP
22 21 (15.11%) Analytics
22 21 (15.11%) C#
22 21 (15.11%) Configuration Management
22 21 (15.11%) Azure AKS
23 20 (14.39%) Windows
24 19 (13.67%) Go

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 5 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.88%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.88%) Confluence
3 1 (0.72%) IIS
3 1 (0.72%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 72 (51.80%) Azure
2 45 (32.37%) AWS
3 28 (20.14%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (16.55%) GCP
5 21 (15.11%) Azure AKS
6 17 (12.23%) GitHub
6 17 (12.23%) PaaS
7 16 (11.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 16 (11.51%) Serverless
8 11 (7.91%) Pulumi
8 11 (7.91%) SaaS
9 10 (7.19%) IaaS
10 9 (6.47%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (6.47%) Datadog
10 9 (6.47%) Power Platform
11 7 (5.04%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (5.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (5.04%) Entra ID
12 6 (4.32%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (4.32%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.79%) Firewall
2 4 (2.88%) DNS
2 4 (2.88%) IPv4
2 4 (2.88%) Network Security
2 4 (2.88%) VPN
3 2 (1.44%) Internet
4 1 (0.72%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.95%) Azure SQL Database
2 14 (10.07%) MySQL
3 10 (7.19%) BigQuery
4 9 (6.47%) MariaDB
4 9 (6.47%) MongoDB
4 9 (6.47%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (6.47%) Redis
5 8 (5.76%) Power BI
6 4 (2.88%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.88%) Hadoop
6 4 (2.88%) InfluxDB
7 3 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.16%) Ingres
7 3 (2.16%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.16%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.72%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 26 (18.71%) Git
2 25 (17.99%) Jenkins
3 9 (6.47%) TeamCity
4 6 (4.32%) Octopus Deploy
4 6 (4.32%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (3.60%) DTrace
5 5 (3.60%) GDB
5 5 (3.60%) JIRA
6 4 (2.88%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.88%) CircleCI
7 3 (2.16%) GitLab
8 2 (1.44%) GoCD
8 2 (1.44%) NUnit
8 2 (1.44%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.44%) Subversion
9 1 (0.72%) Vagrant
General
1 35 (25.18%) Finance
2 19 (13.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 19 (13.67%) Social Skills
3 14 (10.07%) Retail
4 10 (7.19%) Banking
5 7 (5.04%) Law
6 3 (2.16%) Games
6 3 (2.16%) Legal
7 2 (1.44%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.44%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.72%) Advertising
8 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.19%) Kafka
2 7 (5.04%) ARM Templates
3 6 (4.32%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (2.88%) SAML
5 3 (2.16%) PySpark
6 2 (1.44%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.72%) ADO
7 1 (0.72%) Middleware
7 1 (0.72%) Node.js
7 1 (0.72%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.07%) Data Centre
1 14 (10.07%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.76%) Clustering
3 8 (5.76%) Replication
4 6 (4.32%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.60%) Blog
5 5 (3.60%) Client/Server
5 5 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.60%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.88%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (2.16%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.44%) IoT
9 1 (0.72%) Digital Currency
9 1 (0.72%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.72%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 46 (33.09%) Linux
2 20 (14.39%) Windows
3 16 (11.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (7.91%) Windows Server
5 8 (5.76%) Oracle Linux
5 8 (5.76%) Solaris
5 8 (5.76%) Unix
6 2 (1.44%) VMS
7 1 (0.72%) CentOS
7 1 (0.72%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (91.37%) Platform Engineering
2 66 (47.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 57 (41.01%) DevOps
4 48 (34.53%) CI/CD
5 36 (25.90%) Agile
6 30 (21.58%) Containerisation
7 24 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (15.11%) Analytics
8 21 (15.11%) Configuration Management
9 19 (13.67%) Deployment Automation
10 18 (12.95%) Machine Learning
11 15 (10.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (10.79%) Disaster Recovery
11 15 (10.79%) Software Engineering
12 13 (9.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 12 (8.63%) Artificial Intelligence
14 11 (7.91%) Data Engineering
14 11 (7.91%) ETL
14 11 (7.91%) Infrastructure Automation
15 10 (7.19%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 72 (51.80%) Python
2 40 (28.78%) PowerShell
3 36 (25.90%) Bash
4 32 (23.02%) SQL
5 21 (15.11%) C#
6 19 (13.67%) Go
7 17 (12.23%) Java
8 8 (5.76%) JavaScript
9 7 (5.04%) C
9 7 (5.04%) Groovy
9 7 (5.04%) Shell Script
9 7 (5.04%) TypeScript
10 6 (4.32%) PHP
10 6 (4.32%) Ruby
11 5 (3.60%) OCaml
11 5 (3.60%) SystemTap
12 4 (2.88%) Bicep
13 3 (2.16%) Perl
13 3 (2.16%) T-SQL
14 2 (1.44%) C++
Qualifications
1 14 (10.07%) Degree
2 10 (7.19%) Azure Certification
3 7 (5.04%) AWS Certification
3 7 (5.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (4.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 6 (4.32%) Security Cleared
5 5 (3.60%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (2.16%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.76%) PCI DSS
2 5 (3.60%) QA
3 2 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.72%) NIST
4 1 (0.72%) SEPA
System Software
1 53 (38.13%) Docker
2 10 (7.19%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.44%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 76 (54.68%) Terraform
2 69 (49.64%) Kubernetes
3 42 (30.22%) Ansible
4 18 (12.95%) Grafana
5 16 (11.51%) Prometheus
6 12 (8.63%) Progress Chef
7 11 (7.91%) Puppet
8 4 (2.88%) Istio
8 4 (2.88%) Karpenter
8 4 (2.88%) Salt
9 3 (2.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (2.16%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (2.16%) Packer
10 2 (1.44%) Rundeck
10 2 (1.44%) SCCM
11 1 (0.72%) Consul
11 1 (0.72%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.72%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 25 (17.99%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.79%) Google
3 10 (7.19%) Databricks
3 10 (7.19%) VMware
4 8 (5.76%) New Relic
4 8 (5.76%) Oracle
4 8 (5.76%) Red Hat
4 8 (5.76%) Serena
5 6 (4.32%) SaltStack
6 4 (2.88%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.16%) Splunk
7 3 (2.16%) YouTube
8 2 (1.44%) Citrix
8 2 (1.44%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (1.44%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.72%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.72%) Wallstreet Suite