AWS Platform Engineer Jobs in England

Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > England

The median Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in England is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 812 851 1083
Rank change year-on-year +39 +232 -318
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Platform Engineer 30 78 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.035% 0.084% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.092% 0.041%
Number of salaries quoted 30 78 49
10th Percentile £57,425 £53,750 -
25th Percentile £72,500 £59,063 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% +11.54% -8.45%
75th Percentile £95,938 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £88,400
UK median annual salary £77,500 £71,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.77% +9.62% -8.45%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,536 84,581 127,040
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.51% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 60,273 53,585 75,560
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,595 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,820 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

AWS Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured AWS Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Platform Engineer in England

AWS Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Platform Engineer in England.

Salary trend for AWS Platform Engineer in England

AWS Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Platform Engineer in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS Platform Engineer in England

AWS Platform Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Platform Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +127 25 £82,500 -2.94% 4
South East - 2 £77,500 - 1
Yorkshire +79 1 £60,000 -11.11%
West Midlands +20 1 £58,500 -16.43% 1
North of England +3 1 £60,000 -14.29% 1
Midlands +2 1 £58,500 -19.31% 1
South West -48 1 £60,000 -17.24%
AWS Platform Engineer
UK

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, AWS 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 job ads across the England region featuring AWS Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) AWS
1 30 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 27 (90.00%) CI/CD
2 27 (90.00%) Terraform
3 25 (83.33%) Kubernetes
4 23 (76.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (76.67%) Docker
5 20 (66.67%) Python
6 18 (60.00%) DevOps
6 18 (60.00%) Jenkins
7 14 (46.67%) Serverless
8 13 (43.33%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (40.00%) Amazon S3
9 12 (40.00%) Route 53
9 12 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (40.00%) GitHub
9 12 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
9 12 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 11 (36.67%) Containerisation
10 11 (36.67%) Migration
11 10 (33.33%) Java
11 10 (33.33%) Data Migration
11 10 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
11 10 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (33.33%) Ansible
11 10 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
12 9 (30.00%) Packer
12 9 (30.00%) Sonatype Nexus
12 9 (30.00%) Distributed Systems

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (30.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 30 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (46.67%) Serverless
3 13 (43.33%) Amazon EC2
4 12 (40.00%) Amazon S3
4 12 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (40.00%) GitHub
4 12 (40.00%) Route 53
4 12 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 10 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (10.00%) PaaS
8 2 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECR
9 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (3.33%) CloudFront
9 1 (3.33%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (30.00%) Bitbucket
2 9 (30.00%) JIRA
2 9 (30.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 9 (30.00%) Subversion
3 6 (20.00%) Git
4 2 (6.67%) CircleCI
5 1 (3.33%) GitLab
5 1 (3.33%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Finance
3 1 (3.33%) Games
3 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (13.33%) SAML
2 1 (3.33%) AWS CDK
2 1 (3.33%) Middleware
2 1 (3.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) Distributed Systems
1 9 (30.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.33%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 9 (30.00%) Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.33%) CentOS
3 1 (3.33%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 27 (90.00%) CI/CD
3 23 (76.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (60.00%) DevOps
5 12 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 11 (36.67%) Containerisation
6 11 (36.67%) Migration
7 10 (33.33%) Data Migration
7 10 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
7 10 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
8 7 (23.33%) Configuration Management
9 6 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (16.67%) Innovative Thinking
11 4 (13.33%) Agile
11 4 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
11 4 (13.33%) Identity Management
11 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
12 3 (10.00%) Software Testing
13 2 (6.67%) Runbook
13 2 (6.67%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 20 (66.67%) Python
2 10 (33.33%) Java
3 7 (23.33%) Bash
4 3 (10.00%) Groovy
5 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.33%) C
6 1 (3.33%) Go
6 1 (3.33%) Ruby
6 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 8 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 5 (16.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (3.33%) Degree
4 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (76.67%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (90.00%) Terraform
2 25 (83.33%) Kubernetes
3 10 (33.33%) Ansible
4 9 (30.00%) Packer
5 6 (20.00%) Puppet
6 5 (16.67%) Progress Chef
6 5 (16.67%) Salt
7 4 (13.33%) Grafana
7 4 (13.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.33%) SaltStack