AWS Platform Engineer Jobs in England

Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > England

The median Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in England is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 677 814 839
Rank change year-on-year +137 +25 +265
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Platform Engineer 14 29 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.028% 0.034% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.031% 0.036% 0.092%
Number of salaries quoted 9 29 75
10th Percentile £63,500 £57,350 £53,750
25th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% +6.90% +11.54%
75th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
% change year-on-year -3.23% +8.77% +9.62%

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 44,665 81,175 81,176
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 94.55% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 24,293 60,496 51,517
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,519 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -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 16 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 16 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 +88 6 £90,000 +12.50% 16
North of England +52 2 £65,000 +8.33% 7
North West - 2 £65,000 - 6
South East +99 1 £87,500 +12.90% 9
Midlands +64 1 - - 3
West Midlands +57 1 - - 3
AWS Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 14 (100.00%) AWS
1 14 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 13 (92.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (85.71%) Python
4 11 (78.57%) Terraform
5 10 (71.43%) CI/CD
6 8 (57.14%) DevOps
7 7 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (50.00%) Kubernetes
8 6 (42.86%) Ansible
8 6 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (42.86%) Amazon S3
9 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
9 5 (35.71%) Bash
9 5 (35.71%) Configuration Management
9 5 (35.71%) Docker
9 5 (35.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (35.71%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (35.71%) Serverless
9 5 (35.71%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (35.71%) Cloud Security
10 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
10 4 (28.57%) Grafana
10 4 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
10 4 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (28.57%) Agile
10 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
10 4 (28.57%) Azure
10 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared

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 2 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) IIS
2 1 (7.14%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (42.86%) Amazon S3
4 5 (35.71%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (35.71%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (35.71%) Serverless
4 5 (35.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (28.57%) Azure
6 3 (21.43%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (21.43%) AWS Control Tower
6 3 (21.43%) AWS KMS
6 3 (21.43%) Route 53
7 2 (14.29%) GCP
7 2 (14.29%) Pulumi
8 1 (7.14%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (7.14%) CloudFront
8 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
8 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Firewall
2 2 (14.29%) DNS
2 2 (14.29%) VPN
3 1 (7.14%) FTP
3 1 (7.14%) HTTP
3 1 (7.14%) IMAP
3 1 (7.14%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (7.14%) SMTP
3 1 (7.14%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (21.43%) DynamoDB
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) GitLab
2 2 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
3 1 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (7.14%) Vagrant
General
1 2 (14.29%) Advertising
1 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Aviation
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) AWS CDK
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) AWS SAM
2 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.14%) LDAP
2 1 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) Spring
2 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
2 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (7.14%) Replication
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) VMS
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Ubuntu
2 1 (7.14%) Unix
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 13 (92.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (71.43%) CI/CD
4 8 (57.14%) DevOps
5 5 (35.71%) Cloud Security
5 5 (35.71%) Configuration Management
6 4 (28.57%) Agile
6 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
7 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
7 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Management
7 3 (21.43%) Observability
7 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
8 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (14.29%) High Availability
8 2 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
8 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
8 2 (14.29%) Task Automation
8 2 (14.29%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) Bash
3 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 3 (21.43%) Go
5 2 (14.29%) Groovy
5 2 (14.29%) SQL
5 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 1 (7.14%) Java
6 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 1 (7.14%) PHP
6 1 (7.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (14.29%) PCI DSS
2 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) NIST
2 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) DFS Replication
2 1 (7.14%) Dovecot
2 1 (7.14%) Postfix
2 1 (7.14%) Squid
Systems Management
1 11 (78.57%) Terraform
2 7 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (42.86%) Ansible
4 4 (28.57%) Grafana
5 3 (21.43%) Prometheus
6 1 (7.14%) Consul
6 1 (7.14%) Nessus
6 1 (7.14%) Packer
6 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
6 1 (7.14%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
1 1 (7.14%) Dynatrace
1 1 (7.14%) IBM
1 1 (7.14%) Jaspersoft
1 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow