AWS Platform Engineer Jobs in England

Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > England

The median Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in England is £83,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 May 2025.

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

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 658 814 872
Rank change year-on-year +156 +58 +221
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Platform Engineer 10 30 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.021% 0.035% 0.082%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.037% 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 6 30 76
10th Percentile £63,125 £57,425 £53,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £59,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.06% +6.90% +11.54%
75th Percentile £89,688 £95,938 £90,000
90th Percentile £96,875 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +1.61% +6.90% +11.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 42,728 80,514 84,327
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.43% 94.48% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,644 60,209 53,453
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,415 £38,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,915 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,822 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

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 6 May 2025.

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 6 May 2025. 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 +100 5 £87,500 +6.06% 14
North of England +66 2 £65,000 +8.33% 8
North West - 2 £65,000 - 7
AWS Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2025, 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 10 (100.00%) AWS
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (80.00%) Terraform
2 8 (80.00%) Python
3 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
4 5 (50.00%) DevOps
5 4 (40.00%) Cloud Security
5 4 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (40.00%) Ansible
5 4 (40.00%) Docker
6 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Management
6 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
6 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
6 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
6 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
6 3 (30.00%) Agile
6 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (30.00%) Serverless
6 3 (30.00%) DynamoDB
6 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (20.00%) Observability
7 2 (20.00%) AWS Control Tower
7 2 (20.00%) AWS CDK
7 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation

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 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (30.00%) Serverless
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Control Tower
4 2 (20.00%) Azure
4 2 (20.00%) GCP
4 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (10.00%) Pulumi
5 1 (10.00%) Route 53
5 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (30.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (10.00%) Advertising
1 1 (10.00%) Aviation
1 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (10.00%) AWS SAM
2 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) DevOps
4 4 (40.00%) Cloud Security
5 3 (30.00%) Agile
5 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
5 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (20.00%) High Availability
6 2 (20.00%) Observability
6 2 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (20.00%) Task Automation
7 1 (10.00%) Cost Optimisation
7 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (10.00%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Bash
2 2 (20.00%) Go
2 2 (20.00%) Ruby
2 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (10.00%) C
3 1 (10.00%) Groovy
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (20.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) NIST
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Terraform
2 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (40.00%) Ansible
4 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (10.00%) Consul
5 1 (10.00%) Grafana
5 1 (10.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (10.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (10.00%) IBM