AWS Platform Engineer Job Trends in Cambridge

Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in Cambridge is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 - 55
Rank change year-on-year - - +57
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Platform Engineer 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 0.22% - 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% - 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £69,250
25th Percentile £38,750 - £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 - £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.76%
75th Percentile £46,250 - £80,000
90th Percentile - - £80,750
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £42,500 - £75,000
% change year-on-year - - -11.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cambridge

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cambridge. 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 Cambridge with a recognized job title 424 536 365
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.18% 95.04% 93.35%
Number of salaries quoted 278 315 240
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,020
25th Percentile £32,500 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £90,125
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%

AWS Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'AWS Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

AWS Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Cambridge

AWS Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for AWS Platform Engineer job vacancies in Cambridge.

Salary distribution trend for AWS Platform Engineer job vacancies in Cambridge

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge

For the 6 months to 3 December 2025, AWS Platform Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Cambridge region featuring AWS Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Canary Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Loki
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Python

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Loki
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Canary Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform