Platform Engineer Jobs in England

Platform Engineer
UK > England

The median Platform Engineer salary in England is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 453 487 661
Rank change year-on-year +34 +174 -255
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 415 511 537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.57% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.62% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 240 371 397
10th Percentile £55,000 £43,750 £45,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £93,750 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +12.00%

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 81,130 82,270 127,705
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.46% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,549 52,263 74,733
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 £71,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,857 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in England

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in England

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in England

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 Platform Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 10 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 +91 173 £82,500 +3.13% 51
North of England +34 115 £60,000 -13.95% 12
North West -19 57 £65,000 -7.14% 7
Yorkshire +84 47 £60,000 -13.60% 5
Midlands -9 38 £65,000 -7.14% 3
South West -24 38 £67,500 -2.80% 11
South East -4 32 £60,000 +14.29% 6
West Midlands -10 20 £70,000 - 2
East Midlands +1 18 £60,000 -18.64% 1
East of England +18 13 £80,000 +72.04% 6
North East +5 13 £80,000 +14.29%
Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, 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 Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 402 (96.87%) Platform Engineering
2 266 (64.10%) DevOps
3 195 (46.99%) Agile
4 190 (45.78%) Problem-Solving
5 179 (43.13%) GCP
6 168 (40.48%) Azure
7 163 (39.28%) Google
8 159 (38.31%) Terraform
8 159 (38.31%) Data Pipeline
9 157 (37.83%) BigQuery
9 157 (37.83%) Analytical Skills
10 156 (37.59%) Data Engineering
11 151 (36.39%) DataOps
12 150 (36.14%) Data Science
12 150 (36.14%) Mentoring
13 144 (34.70%) Change Management
14 143 (34.46%) GDPR
15 142 (34.22%) Self-Motivation
16 141 (33.98%) Looker
17 140 (33.73%) Kubernetes
18 138 (33.25%) Infrastructure as Code
19 129 (31.08%) Python
20 117 (28.19%) CI/CD
21 115 (27.71%) AWS
22 100 (24.10%) Docker
23 72 (17.35%) Linux
24 68 (16.39%) PowerShell
25 67 (16.14%) Ansible
26 64 (15.42%) Bash
27 60 (14.46%) Social Skills

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 10 (2.41%) Apache Spark
1 10 (2.41%) Confluence
2 9 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.48%) Apache
3 2 (0.48%) IIS
4 1 (0.24%) CMS
4 1 (0.24%) nginx
4 1 (0.24%) SAS
4 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 179 (43.13%) GCP
2 168 (40.48%) Azure
3 115 (27.71%) AWS
4 40 (9.64%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (9.16%) GitHub
6 37 (8.92%) PaaS
7 33 (7.95%) Serverless
8 27 (6.51%) Azure AKS
9 23 (5.54%) SaaS
10 22 (5.30%) IaaS
11 21 (5.06%) Power Platform
12 19 (4.58%) Cloud Computing
13 16 (3.86%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
14 15 (3.61%) Amazon S3
14 15 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
14 15 (3.61%) Route 53
14 15 (3.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 13 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 10 (2.41%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.58%) Firewall
2 15 (3.61%) Network Security
3 12 (2.89%) DNS
4 4 (0.96%) Internet
5 3 (0.72%) IPv4
5 3 (0.72%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.72%) VPN
6 2 (0.48%) DHCP
6 2 (0.48%) tcpdump
6 2 (0.48%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.24%) Broadband
7 1 (0.24%) FTP
7 1 (0.24%) SSL
7 1 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (37.83%) BigQuery
2 141 (33.98%) Looker
3 22 (5.30%) MongoDB
4 19 (4.58%) Power BI
5 18 (4.34%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (4.34%) MySQL
6 14 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (2.41%) Data Lake
7 10 (2.41%) MariaDB
7 10 (2.41%) Redis
8 9 (2.17%) NoSQL
9 7 (1.69%) Big Data
9 7 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.45%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.96%) InfluxDB
12 3 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.48%) SQL Server
14 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 51 (12.29%) Jenkins
2 40 (9.64%) Git
3 19 (4.58%) JIRA
4 15 (3.61%) Octopus Deploy
4 15 (3.61%) TeamCity
5 11 (2.65%) Bitbucket
6 9 (2.17%) Artifactory
6 9 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (2.17%) Subversion
7 8 (1.93%) GitLab
8 7 (1.69%) Snyk
9 6 (1.45%) RStudio
9 6 (1.45%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (1.20%) DTrace
10 5 (1.20%) GDB
11 4 (0.96%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.24%) GoCD
12 1 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
12 1 (0.24%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.24%) Zephyr
General
1 157 (37.83%) Analytical Skills
2 60 (14.46%) Social Skills
3 56 (13.49%) Finance
4 23 (5.54%) Retail
5 19 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (4.34%) Banking
7 8 (1.93%) Law
8 7 (1.69%) Games
8 7 (1.69%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.20%) Health Technology
10 4 (0.96%) Front Office
10 4 (0.96%) Legal
11 2 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.48%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.48%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.24%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.24%) Military
12 1 (0.24%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.86%) Kafka
2 14 (3.37%) ARM Templates
3 12 (2.89%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (1.93%) .NET
5 7 (1.69%) SAML
6 4 (0.96%) Node.js
7 3 (0.72%) Middleware
7 3 (0.72%) PySpark
7 3 (0.72%) React
8 2 (0.48%) Keycloak
8 2 (0.48%) Loki
8 2 (0.48%) REST
9 1 (0.24%) ADO
9 1 (0.24%) Anaconda
9 1 (0.24%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.24%) JSON
9 1 (0.24%) RESTful
9 1 (0.24%) Vue
9 1 (0.24%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 142 (34.22%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (6.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 22 (5.30%) Linux Command Line
4 17 (4.10%) Data Centre
5 16 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.17%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.17%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.93%) Clustering
7 8 (1.93%) Public Cloud
7 8 (1.93%) Replication
8 7 (1.69%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.20%) Blog
9 5 (1.20%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.96%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 2 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 1 (0.24%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 72 (17.35%) Linux
2 26 (6.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 23 (5.54%) Windows
4 11 (2.65%) Unix
5 10 (2.41%) Windows Server
6 8 (1.93%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (1.93%) Solaris
7 4 (0.96%) VMS
8 3 (0.72%) CentOS
8 3 (0.72%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 402 (96.87%) Platform Engineering
2 266 (64.10%) DevOps
3 195 (46.99%) Agile
4 190 (45.78%) Problem-Solving
5 159 (38.31%) Data Pipeline
6 156 (37.59%) Data Engineering
7 151 (36.39%) DataOps
8 150 (36.14%) Data Science
8 150 (36.14%) Mentoring
9 144 (34.70%) Change Management
10 138 (33.25%) Infrastructure as Code
11 117 (28.19%) CI/CD
12 49 (11.81%) Containerisation
13 46 (11.08%) Continuous Improvement
14 44 (10.60%) Configuration Management
15 37 (8.92%) Analytics
16 35 (8.43%) Infrastructure Automation
17 28 (6.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 26 (6.27%) Cloud Security
19 24 (5.78%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 129 (31.08%) Python
2 68 (16.39%) PowerShell
3 64 (15.42%) Bash
4 55 (13.25%) SQL
5 40 (9.64%) Java
6 29 (6.99%) Go
7 28 (6.75%) C#
8 24 (5.78%) Bicep
9 13 (3.13%) Perl
9 13 (3.13%) Ruby
10 12 (2.89%) JavaScript
11 10 (2.41%) Groovy
12 8 (1.93%) Shell Script
13 7 (1.69%) PHP
13 7 (1.69%) R
13 7 (1.69%) TypeScript
14 6 (1.45%) C
15 5 (1.20%) OCaml
15 5 (1.20%) SystemTap
16 4 (0.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (3.37%) Security Cleared
2 13 (3.13%) Degree
3 12 (2.89%) SC Cleared
4 10 (2.41%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.69%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.48%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.48%) Linux+ Certification
9 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.48%) PhD
9 2 (0.48%) RHCE
10 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (34.46%) GDPR
2 14 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.93%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.45%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.45%) QA
5 1 (0.24%) SEPA
System Software
1 100 (24.10%) Docker
2 13 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (2.41%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.48%) KVM
Systems Management
1 159 (38.31%) Terraform
2 140 (33.73%) Kubernetes
3 67 (16.14%) Ansible
4 32 (7.71%) Puppet
5 29 (6.99%) Progress Chef
6 25 (6.02%) Grafana
7 24 (5.78%) Prometheus
8 18 (4.34%) Salt
9 12 (2.89%) Packer
10 11 (2.65%) Istio
11 6 (1.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.72%) Argo
12 3 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.72%) Kibana
12 3 (0.72%) logstash
13 2 (0.48%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.48%) Rundeck
14 1 (0.24%) Consul
14 1 (0.24%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.24%) Podman
Vendors
1 163 (39.28%) Google
2 45 (10.84%) Microsoft
3 14 (3.37%) Databricks
4 12 (2.89%) Red Hat
5 10 (2.41%) Atlassian
6 8 (1.93%) New Relic
6 8 (1.93%) Oracle
6 8 (1.93%) SaltStack
6 8 (1.93%) Serena
6 8 (1.93%) Splunk
7 7 (1.69%) VMware
8 6 (1.45%) Alteryx
9 5 (1.20%) LogicMonitor
9 5 (1.20%) PagerDuty
10 4 (0.96%) YouTube
11 2 (0.48%) Citrix
11 2 (0.48%) Confluent
12 1 (0.24%) BT
12 1 (0.24%) Sparx
12 1 (0.24%) Wallstreet Suite