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 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 638 830 861
Rank change year-on-year +192 +31 +203
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Platform Engineer 30 14 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.063% 0.016% 0.094%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.017% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 20 13 69
10th Percentile £67,000 £53,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £73,750 £83,750 £56,250
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 £90,000
90th Percentile - - £103,000
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 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% -

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 6 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 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 +132 23 £140,000 +27.27% 3
South West +112 4 £75,000 - 2
East of England - 3 £77,500 -
DevOps Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 30 (100.00%) DevOps
1 30 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 29 (96.67%) CI/CD
3 27 (90.00%) Kubernetes
4 26 (86.67%) Docker
4 26 (86.67%) Python
5 23 (76.67%) Terraform
6 22 (73.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (73.33%) AWS
7 21 (70.00%) Ansible
8 15 (50.00%) Linux
8 15 (50.00%) Containerisation
9 14 (46.67%) Bicep
10 11 (36.67%) Fintech
10 11 (36.67%) Progress Chef
10 11 (36.67%) GitLab
10 11 (36.67%) Puppet
11 10 (33.33%) Low Latency
11 10 (33.33%) GCP
11 10 (33.33%) Public Cloud
11 10 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
11 10 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 10 (33.33%) Podman
11 10 (33.33%) Pulumi
12 8 (26.67%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
13 6 (20.00%) Event-Driven
13 6 (20.00%) SonarQube
13 6 (20.00%) Machine Learning
13 6 (20.00%) REST

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 (73.33%) AWS
2 10 (33.33%) GCP
2 10 (33.33%) Pulumi
3 6 (20.00%) Azure
4 4 (13.33%) Azure AKS
4 4 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (6.67%) OpenShift
5 2 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.33%) Datadog
6 1 (3.33%) IaaS
6 1 (3.33%) PaaS
6 1 (3.33%) Route 53
6 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.33%) DynamoDB
1 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (36.67%) GitLab
2 8 (26.67%) Sonatype Nexus
3 6 (20.00%) SonarQube
4 3 (10.00%) Jenkins
5 2 (6.67%) Artifactory
6 1 (3.33%) Git
General
1 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.33%) Banking
2 1 (3.33%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (3.33%) AWS SAM
2 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.33%) JSON
2 1 (3.33%) Node.js
2 1 (3.33%) React
2 1 (3.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 5 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) DevOps
1 30 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 29 (96.67%) CI/CD
3 22 (73.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 11 (36.67%) Fintech
6 10 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
6 10 (33.33%) Low Latency
6 10 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (20.00%) Event-Driven
7 6 (20.00%) Machine Learning
8 5 (16.67%) Cloud Security
8 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (13.33%) Migration
10 3 (10.00%) Cost Management
10 3 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
11 2 (6.67%) Culture Change
11 2 (6.67%) Customer Experience
11 2 (6.67%) Information Management
11 2 (6.67%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 26 (86.67%) Python
2 14 (46.67%) Bicep
3 6 (20.00%) Bash
4 4 (13.33%) Go
4 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
5 3 (10.00%) Java
6 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.33%) PHP
7 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 26 (86.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (90.00%) Kubernetes
2 23 (76.67%) Terraform
3 21 (70.00%) Ansible
4 11 (36.67%) Progress Chef
4 11 (36.67%) Puppet
5 10 (33.33%) Podman
6 2 (6.67%) Rancher
7 1 (3.33%) Grafana
7 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) IBM