DevOps Platform Engineer Jobs in England

Platform Engineer - DevOps
UK > England

The median Platform Engineer - DevOps salary in England is £112,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 624 829 844
Rank change year-on-year +205 +15 +214
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Platform Engineer 31 14 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.067% 0.016% 0.093%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.017% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 20 13 68
10th Percentile £67,000 £53,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £73,750 £83,750 £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £92,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% +27.59% +3.57%
75th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £91,875
90th Percentile - - £103,250
UK median annual salary £85,000 £93,750 £72,500
% change year-on-year -9.33% +29.31% +3.57%

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 41,862 80,543 84,589
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.30% 94.48% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 24,654 60,279 53,593
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,626
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,250 £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 £71,942 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

DevOps Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Platform Engineer in England

DevOps Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for DevOps Platform Engineer in England

DevOps Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Platform Engineer in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps Platform Engineer in England

DevOps 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 DevOps Platform Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 3 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 +120 24 £140,000 +27.27% 12
South West +117 4 £75,000 - 3
East of England - 3 £77,500 - 1
DevOps Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, DevOps 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 DevOps Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) DevOps
1 31 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 29 (93.55%) CI/CD
3 28 (90.32%) Kubernetes
4 27 (87.10%) Docker
5 26 (83.87%) Python
6 24 (77.42%) Terraform
7 23 (74.19%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (70.97%) Ansible
8 22 (70.97%) AWS
9 15 (48.39%) Linux
9 15 (48.39%) Containerisation
10 14 (45.16%) Bicep
11 11 (35.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 11 (35.48%) GitLab
11 11 (35.48%) Fintech
11 11 (35.48%) Puppet
11 11 (35.48%) Progress Chef
12 10 (32.26%) Low Latency
12 10 (32.26%) Public Cloud
12 10 (32.26%) GCP
12 10 (32.26%) Deployment Automation
12 10 (32.26%) Podman
12 10 (32.26%) Pulumi
13 8 (25.81%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (22.58%) Bash
14 7 (22.58%) Azure
15 6 (19.35%) REST
15 6 (19.35%) Machine Learning
15 6 (19.35%) SonarQube

DevOps 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:

Cloud Services
1 22 (70.97%) AWS
2 10 (32.26%) GCP
2 10 (32.26%) Pulumi
3 7 (22.58%) Azure
4 5 (16.13%) Azure AKS
5 4 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (6.45%) OpenShift
6 2 (6.45%) PaaS
6 2 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.23%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (3.23%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.23%) GitHub
7 1 (3.23%) IaaS
7 1 (3.23%) Route 53
7 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (3.23%) DynamoDB
1 1 (3.23%) MariaDB
1 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.23%) MySQL
1 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (35.48%) GitLab
2 8 (25.81%) Sonatype Nexus
3 6 (19.35%) SonarQube
4 3 (9.68%) Jenkins
5 2 (6.45%) Artifactory
6 1 (3.23%) Git
6 1 (3.23%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.23%) Banking
2 1 (3.23%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) REST
2 2 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.23%) AWS SAM
3 1 (3.23%) JSON
3 1 (3.23%) Node.js
3 1 (3.23%) React
3 1 (3.23%) RESTful
3 1 (3.23%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (32.26%) Public Cloud
2 5 (16.13%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.23%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (48.39%) Linux
2 3 (9.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) DevOps
1 31 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 29 (93.55%) CI/CD
3 23 (74.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (48.39%) Containerisation
5 11 (35.48%) Fintech
5 11 (35.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 10 (32.26%) Deployment Automation
6 10 (32.26%) Low Latency
7 6 (19.35%) Event-Driven
7 6 (19.35%) Machine Learning
8 5 (16.13%) Cloud Security
8 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (12.90%) Migration
10 3 (9.68%) Cost Management
10 3 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
11 2 (6.45%) Agile
11 2 (6.45%) Information Management
11 2 (6.45%) RAD
11 2 (6.45%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 26 (83.87%) Python
2 14 (45.16%) Bicep
3 7 (22.58%) Bash
4 5 (16.13%) PowerShell
5 4 (12.90%) Go
6 3 (9.68%) Java
7 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
7 2 (6.45%) SQL
8 1 (3.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Azure Certification
2 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 27 (87.10%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (90.32%) Kubernetes
2 24 (77.42%) Terraform
3 22 (70.97%) Ansible
4 11 (35.48%) Progress Chef
4 11 (35.48%) Puppet
5 10 (32.26%) Podman
6 2 (6.45%) Rancher
7 1 (3.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (3.23%) Grafana
7 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.23%) IBM