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 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 818 851 1099
Rank change year-on-year +33 +248 -332
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Platform Engineer 29 75 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.034% 0.083% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% 0.091% 0.041%
Number of salaries quoted 29 75 50
10th Percentile £57,350 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £59,375 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% +11.54% -7.14%
75th Percentile £97,500 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £87,950
UK median annual salary £77,500 £71,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.77% +9.62% -7.14%

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 81,072 82,732 127,934
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.49% 91.46% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,480 52,417 75,087
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £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 £71,669 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,519 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 8 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 8 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 +129 24 £80,000 - 4
South East - 2 £77,500 - 1
Yorkshire +68 1 £60,000 -11.11%
West Midlands +7 1 £58,500 -16.43% 1
North of England +1 1 £60,000 -14.29%
Midlands -2 1 £58,500 -19.31% 1
South West -47 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 8 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 29 (100.00%) AWS
1 29 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 27 (93.10%) Terraform
3 26 (89.66%) CI/CD
4 24 (82.76%) Kubernetes
5 23 (79.31%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (75.86%) Docker
7 19 (65.52%) Python
8 18 (62.07%) Jenkins
9 17 (58.62%) DevOps
10 14 (48.28%) Serverless
11 13 (44.83%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (41.38%) Amazon S3
12 12 (41.38%) GitHub
12 12 (41.38%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (41.38%) Route 53
12 12 (41.38%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (41.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 12 (41.38%) Infrastructure Automation
13 11 (37.93%) Migration
14 10 (34.48%) Java
14 10 (34.48%) Data Migration
14 10 (34.48%) Infrastructure Management
14 10 (34.48%) Containerisation
14 10 (34.48%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (34.48%) Identity Access Management
15 9 (31.03%) Sonatype Nexus
15 9 (31.03%) Packer
15 9 (31.03%) Distributed Systems
15 9 (31.03%) Enterprise Software

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 (31.03%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 29 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (48.28%) Serverless
3 13 (44.83%) Amazon EC2
4 12 (41.38%) Amazon S3
4 12 (41.38%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (41.38%) GitHub
4 12 (41.38%) Route 53
4 12 (41.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 10 (34.48%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (17.24%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (10.34%) PaaS
8 2 (6.90%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (6.90%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECR
9 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (3.45%) CloudFront
9 1 (3.45%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (41.38%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (62.07%) Jenkins
2 9 (31.03%) Bitbucket
2 9 (31.03%) JIRA
2 9 (31.03%) Sonatype Nexus
2 9 (31.03%) Subversion
3 6 (20.69%) Git
4 2 (6.90%) CircleCI
5 1 (3.45%) GitLab
5 1 (3.45%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Finance
3 1 (3.45%) Games
3 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (13.79%) SAML
2 1 (3.45%) AWS CDK
2 1 (3.45%) Middleware
2 1 (3.45%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (31.03%) Distributed Systems
1 9 (31.03%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (10.34%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.45%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 8 (27.59%) Linux
2 2 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.45%) CentOS
3 1 (3.45%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 26 (89.66%) CI/CD
3 23 (79.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (58.62%) DevOps
5 12 (41.38%) Infrastructure Automation
6 11 (37.93%) Migration
7 10 (34.48%) Containerisation
7 10 (34.48%) Data Migration
7 10 (34.48%) Identity Access Management
7 10 (34.48%) Infrastructure Management
8 6 (20.69%) Configuration Management
8 6 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (17.24%) Innovative Thinking
10 4 (13.79%) Agile
10 4 (13.79%) Deployment Automation
10 4 (13.79%) Identity Management
10 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
11 3 (10.34%) Software Testing
12 2 (6.90%) Resource Allocation
12 2 (6.90%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 19 (65.52%) Python
2 10 (34.48%) Java
3 6 (20.69%) Bash
4 3 (10.34%) Groovy
5 1 (3.45%) C
5 1 (3.45%) Go
5 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.45%) Ruby
5 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) SC Cleared
1 8 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 6 (20.69%) AWS Certification
3 5 (17.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (3.45%) Degree
4 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (75.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (93.10%) Terraform
2 24 (82.76%) Kubernetes
3 9 (31.03%) Ansible
3 9 (31.03%) Packer
4 5 (17.24%) Progress Chef
4 5 (17.24%) Puppet
4 5 (17.24%) Salt
5 4 (13.79%) Grafana
5 4 (13.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) Atlassian