Senior Platform Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Senior Platform Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Platform Engineer salary in Work from Home is £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 568 593 794
Rank change year-on-year +25 +201 -253
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 18 53 53
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.053% 0.13% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.056% 0.14% 0.078%
Number of salaries quoted 17 28 48
10th Percentile £54,700 £64,250 £67,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £95,000 £82,250
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% +15.50% +13.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £104,063
90th Percentile £103,750 £107,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £92,500 £85,000 £84,000
% change year-on-year +8.82% +1.19% +16.67%

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 32,407 39,036 68,066
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.06% 95.93% 97.36%
Number of salaries quoted 24,817 27,718 41,828
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,375 £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%

Senior Platform Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior Platform Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior 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 Senior Platform Engineer.

Senior Platform Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Senior Platform Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (88.89%) Platform Engineering
2 11 (61.11%) Terraform
3 10 (55.56%) Python
4 9 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 8 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (44.44%) Azure
5 8 (44.44%) DevOps
5 8 (44.44%) Kubernetes
6 7 (38.89%) Docker
7 6 (33.33%) IaaS
7 6 (33.33%) PaaS
7 6 (33.33%) AWS
7 6 (33.33%) SQL
7 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
7 6 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (27.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (27.78%) Azure AKS
8 5 (27.78%) API Management
8 5 (27.78%) Entra ID
8 5 (27.78%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (27.78%) Serverless
8 5 (27.78%) IPv4
8 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
8 5 (27.78%) VPN
8 5 (27.78%) Firewall
8 5 (27.78%) Java
8 5 (27.78%) VMware
8 5 (27.78%) Degree
9 4 (22.22%) GCP
9 4 (22.22%) Jenkins

Senior 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 3 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) AWS
2 6 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (33.33%) IaaS
2 6 (33.33%) PaaS
3 5 (27.78%) Azure AKS
3 5 (27.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 5 (27.78%) Azure Logic Apps
3 5 (27.78%) Entra ID
3 5 (27.78%) Serverless
4 4 (22.22%) GCP
4 4 (22.22%) Pulumi
5 3 (16.67%) OpenShift
6 2 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (5.56%) GitHub
7 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
7 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) Firewall
1 5 (27.78%) IPv4
1 5 (27.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.56%) Big Data
2 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 3 (16.67%) Git
3 2 (11.11%) GoCD
4 1 (5.56%) CircleCI
4 1 (5.56%) JIRA
4 1 (5.56%) Vagrant
General
1 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) PySpark
2 1 (5.56%) ADO
2 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.56%) Blockchain
2 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Linux
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
1 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) Platform Engineering
2 9 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 8 (44.44%) DevOps
3 8 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (27.78%) API Management
5 4 (22.22%) Agile
6 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 3 (16.67%) Data Governance
6 3 (16.67%) Data Management
6 3 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 3 (16.67%) Decarbonisation
7 2 (11.11%) Capacity Management
7 2 (11.11%) Customer Service
7 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
7 2 (11.11%) Data Science
7 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
7 2 (11.11%) Strategic Roadmap
8 1 (5.56%) Decision-Making
8 1 (5.56%) Systematic Trading
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) SQL
3 5 (27.78%) Java
4 4 (22.22%) Bash
5 2 (11.11%) Go
5 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
6 1 (5.56%) C#
6 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Docker
2 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
3 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (61.11%) Terraform
2 8 (44.44%) Kubernetes
3 3 (16.67%) Grafana
4 1 (5.56%) Ansible
4 1 (5.56%) Consul
4 1 (5.56%) Packer
4 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
4 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.56%) Puppet
4 1 (5.56%) Salt
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) VMware
3 2 (11.11%) Citrix
4 1 (5.56%) Google