Platform Engineering Jobs with Work from Home Options

Platform Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Platform Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 348 296 365
Rank change year-on-year -52 +69 -176
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 263 450 639
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.78% 1.08% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.13% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 221 361 519
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% +20.83%
75th Percentile £96,539 £105,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £138,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Platform Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,857 39,858 66,375
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.38% 96.10% 96.97%
Number of salaries quoted 23,439 27,686 41,025
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Platform Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Platform Engineering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering.

Platform Engineering salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Platform Engineering salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineering
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 14 (5.32%) Confluence
2 10 (3.80%) Apache Spark
3 8 (3.04%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.14%) Apache
5 2 (0.76%) IIS
6 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.38%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 131 (49.81%) Azure
2 111 (42.21%) AWS
3 43 (16.35%) GCP
4 41 (15.59%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (13.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 36 (13.69%) Power Platform
5 36 (13.69%) Serverless
6 35 (13.31%) Azure Data Factory
7 26 (9.89%) GitHub
8 21 (7.98%) Azure AKS
9 20 (7.60%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (6.84%) PaaS
10 18 (6.84%) SaaS
11 16 (6.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 14 (5.32%) Amazon S3
12 14 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (4.94%) IaaS
14 12 (4.56%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (4.56%) Route 53
15 11 (4.18%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 20 (7.60%) Firewall
2 15 (5.70%) Network Security
3 11 (4.18%) DNS
4 10 (3.80%) VPN
5 6 (2.28%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.90%) BGP
6 5 (1.90%) Intrusion Detection
6 5 (1.90%) IPsec
6 5 (1.90%) IPv4
6 5 (1.90%) LAN
6 5 (1.90%) NGFW
6 5 (1.90%) OSPF
6 5 (1.90%) SSL
6 5 (1.90%) VLAN
6 5 (1.90%) WAN
6 5 (1.90%) Wireless
7 3 (1.14%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (13.31%) Power BI
2 33 (12.55%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (10.65%) Azure SQL Database
4 25 (9.51%) MySQL
4 25 (9.51%) NoSQL
5 18 (6.84%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 17 (6.46%) Data Lake
7 14 (5.32%) BigQuery
8 13 (4.94%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (4.18%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (3.80%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 10 (3.80%) MongoDB
10 10 (3.80%) Redis
10 10 (3.80%) SQL Server
11 9 (3.42%) DynamoDB
11 9 (3.42%) Hadoop
11 9 (3.42%) MariaDB
12 8 (3.04%) Metadata
13 5 (1.90%) InfluxDB
14 4 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 43 (16.35%) Jenkins
2 27 (10.27%) Git
3 15 (5.70%) JIRA
4 11 (4.18%) TeamCity
5 9 (3.42%) Bitbucket
5 9 (3.42%) Sonatype Nexus
5 9 (3.42%) Subversion
6 6 (2.28%) Spinnaker
6 6 (2.28%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (1.90%) DTrace
7 5 (1.90%) GDB
8 4 (1.52%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.52%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (1.14%) GitLab
10 2 (0.76%) GoCD
11 1 (0.38%) Vagrant
General
1 49 (18.63%) Finance
2 35 (13.31%) Social Skills
3 22 (8.37%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (6.84%) Retail
6 16 (6.08%) Banking
7 12 (4.56%) Legal
8 9 (3.42%) Health Technology
8 9 (3.42%) Law
9 8 (3.04%) Games
10 3 (1.14%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.38%) Back Office
11 1 (0.38%) Front Office
11 1 (0.38%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.38%) Marketing
11 1 (0.38%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 133 (50.57%) Platform Engineer
2 80 (30.42%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 59 (22.43%) Senior
4 56 (21.29%) Cloud Engineer
5 54 (20.53%) Azure Engineer
6 47 (17.87%) Data Engineer
7 41 (15.59%) DevOps Engineer
8 39 (14.83%) Lead
9 36 (13.69%) AWS Engineer
10 34 (12.93%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 23 (8.75%) Automation Engineer
12 22 (8.37%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 22 (8.37%) Senior Data Engineer
12 22 (8.37%) Senior DevOps
12 22 (8.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 20 (7.60%) Cloud Automation Engineer
13 20 (7.60%) Developer
14 18 (6.84%) Business Intelligence Manager
14 18 (6.84%) Data Manager
14 18 (6.84%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.08%) Kafka
2 11 (4.18%) .NET
3 10 (3.80%) .NET Framework
3 10 (3.80%) Node.js
4 8 (3.04%) JSON
5 7 (2.66%) JSON Schema
5 7 (2.66%) OpenAPI
5 7 (2.66%) Swagger
5 7 (2.66%) Web Services
6 6 (2.28%) ARM Templates
6 6 (2.28%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (2.28%) SAML
7 5 (1.90%) HTML
8 4 (1.52%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.52%) CSS
9 3 (1.14%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.14%) ASP.NET
9 3 (1.14%) AWS CDK
9 3 (1.14%) PySpark
10 2 (0.76%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.98%) Cloud Native
1 21 (7.98%) Linux Command Line
2 19 (7.22%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (6.84%) Data Centre
3 18 (6.84%) Product Ownership
4 17 (6.46%) Hybrid Cloud
5 14 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.04%) Algorithms
6 8 (3.04%) Clustering
6 8 (3.04%) Data Structures
6 8 (3.04%) Replication
7 7 (2.66%) IoT
7 7 (2.66%) Video\Live Streaming
8 6 (2.28%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.90%) Blog
9 5 (1.90%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.52%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 58 (22.05%) Linux
2 23 (8.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (7.60%) Windows
4 13 (4.94%) Unix
5 11 (4.18%) Windows Server
6 8 (3.04%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (3.04%) Solaris
7 6 (2.28%) Apple iOS
8 5 (1.90%) Android
9 2 (0.76%) CentOS
9 2 (0.76%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.38%) VMS
10 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (49.43%) DevOps
2 117 (44.49%) Infrastructure as Code
3 88 (33.46%) CI/CD
4 84 (31.94%) Agile
5 68 (25.86%) Analytics
6 45 (17.11%) Configuration Management
7 39 (14.83%) Containerisation
8 38 (14.45%) Visualisation
9 37 (14.07%) Data Engineering
9 37 (14.07%) ETL
10 35 (13.31%) Artificial Intelligence
10 35 (13.31%) Scrum
11 34 (12.93%) Data Visualisation
12 33 (12.55%) Business Intelligence
13 32 (12.17%) Data Pipeline
14 30 (11.41%) Coaching
15 29 (11.03%) Machine Learning
15 29 (11.03%) Software Engineering
16 28 (10.65%) Continuous Improvement
16 28 (10.65%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 126 (47.91%) Python
2 78 (29.66%) SQL
3 39 (14.83%) Java
4 37 (14.07%) PowerShell
5 36 (13.69%) Bash
6 31 (11.79%) C#
7 22 (8.37%) TypeScript
8 20 (7.60%) Go
9 17 (6.46%) JavaScript
9 17 (6.46%) Shell Script
10 12 (4.56%) Ruby
11 11 (4.18%) Perl
12 10 (3.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 10 (3.80%) U-SQL
13 9 (3.42%) Groovy
14 7 (2.66%) PHP
15 6 (2.28%) C
16 5 (1.90%) Bicep
16 5 (1.90%) OCaml
16 5 (1.90%) SystemTap
Qualifications
1 35 (13.31%) Degree
2 18 (6.84%) DBS Check
3 17 (6.46%) AWS Certification
4 16 (6.08%) Azure Certification
5 15 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (5.32%) Security Cleared
7 10 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (3.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (3.42%) SC Cleared
9 8 (3.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (1.90%) CCIE
10 5 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.90%) JNCIE
11 4 (1.52%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 4 (1.52%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.14%) HND
12 3 (1.14%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.14%) PhD
12 3 (1.14%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.04%) Data Quality
1 8 (3.04%) QA
2 6 (2.28%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.38%) GDPR
3 1 (0.38%) SEPA
System Software
1 81 (30.80%) Docker
2 9 (3.42%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.38%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 125 (47.53%) Terraform
2 113 (42.97%) Kubernetes
3 63 (23.95%) Ansible
4 25 (9.51%) Progress Chef
5 24 (9.13%) Puppet
6 21 (7.98%) Grafana
7 19 (7.22%) Prometheus
8 16 (6.08%) Salt
9 10 (3.80%) Packer
10 4 (1.52%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (1.52%) Istio
11 2 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.76%) Rundeck
12 1 (0.38%) Consul
12 1 (0.38%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.38%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.38%) Kibana
12 1 (0.38%) Podman
Vendors
1 58 (22.05%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.89%) Databricks
3 21 (7.98%) Google
4 11 (4.18%) New Relic
5 9 (3.42%) Atlassian
5 9 (3.42%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.04%) Oracle
6 8 (3.04%) Serena
6 8 (3.04%) YouTube
7 7 (2.66%) SaltStack
8 6 (2.28%) VMware
9 3 (1.14%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.14%) Splunk
10 2 (0.76%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.76%) PagerDuty
11 1 (0.38%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.38%) Hortonworks
11 1 (0.38%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.38%) TOWER Software
11 1 (0.38%) Wallstreet Suite