Senior Platform Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Platform Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Platform Engineer salary in England is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 653 797 837
Rank change year-on-year +144 +40 +238
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 37 32 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.075% 0.037% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.082% 0.039% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 30 31 52
10th Percentile £63,625 £62,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £92,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.81% +5.71% +2.94%
75th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £100,625
90th Percentile £103,750 £122,500 £109,750
UK median annual salary £82,500 £92,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year -10.81% +5.71% +4.17%

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 45,023 81,588 81,077
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.06% 94.56% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 24,443 60,779 51,494
10th Percentile £29,913 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,800 £53,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.17% -12.83% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Platform Engineer in England

Senior Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Platform Engineer in England

Senior Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Platform Engineer in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Platform Engineer in England

Senior 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 Senior Platform Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 17 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 +112 26 £90,000 -13.25% 17
North of England +45 6 £67,500 -6.90% 5
North West +2 4 £68,442 +5.30% 4
Yorkshire +62 2 £62,500 -21.88% 1
South East - 2 £85,000 - 7
Senior Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 36 (97.30%) Platform Engineering
2 24 (64.86%) CI/CD
2 24 (64.86%) Terraform
3 22 (59.46%) Azure
4 19 (51.35%) Python
5 17 (45.95%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (43.24%) AWS
7 14 (37.84%) DevOps
7 14 (37.84%) Kubernetes
8 13 (35.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (35.14%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (32.43%) Linux
10 11 (29.73%) Bash
10 11 (29.73%) Containerisation
11 9 (24.32%) Docker
12 8 (21.62%) Go
12 8 (21.62%) GCP
12 8 (21.62%) Security Cleared
12 8 (21.62%) Pulumi
13 7 (18.92%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (18.92%) Infrastructure Automation
13 7 (18.92%) Grafana
13 7 (18.92%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (18.92%) SC Cleared
13 7 (18.92%) Mentoring
13 7 (18.92%) GitHub
13 7 (18.92%) PaaS
14 6 (16.22%) Amazon S3
14 6 (16.22%) Analytics
14 6 (16.22%) Data Analytics

Senior 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 4 (10.81%) Apache Spark
1 4 (10.81%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (59.46%) Azure
2 16 (43.24%) AWS
3 13 (35.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (21.62%) GCP
4 8 (21.62%) Pulumi
5 7 (18.92%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (18.92%) GitHub
5 7 (18.92%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (18.92%) PaaS
6 6 (16.22%) Amazon S3
6 6 (16.22%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (13.51%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 5 (13.51%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (13.51%) Serverless
7 5 (13.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (10.81%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (10.81%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (10.81%) AWS Control Tower
8 4 (10.81%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.22%) VPN
2 2 (5.41%) Firewall
2 2 (5.41%) Internet
2 2 (5.41%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.70%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (13.51%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (8.11%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (8.11%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (8.11%) Hadoop
2 3 (8.11%) HBase
3 2 (5.41%) DynamoDB
3 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.41%) Power BI
3 2 (5.41%) Redis
3 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.70%) Power Query
4 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.41%) Git
2 2 (5.41%) GitLab
3 1 (2.70%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.70%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (13.51%) Finance
1 5 (13.51%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.11%) Advertising
3 3 (8.11%) Banking
3 3 (8.11%) Financial Institution
3 3 (8.11%) Law
4 2 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Games
5 1 (2.70%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (10.81%) Loki
2 3 (8.11%) Kafka
3 2 (5.41%) AWS CDK
3 2 (5.41%) Django
3 2 (5.41%) Node.js
4 1 (2.70%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.70%) AWS SAM
4 1 (2.70%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.70%) JSON
4 1 (2.70%) React
4 1 (2.70%) REST
4 1 (2.70%) RESTful
4 1 (2.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (5.41%) Low-Code
2 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (32.43%) Linux
2 4 (10.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (8.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (97.30%) Platform Engineering
2 24 (64.86%) CI/CD
3 17 (45.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (37.84%) DevOps
5 13 (35.14%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (29.73%) Containerisation
7 7 (18.92%) Infrastructure Automation
7 7 (18.92%) Mentoring
8 6 (16.22%) Analytics
8 6 (16.22%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (16.22%) Data Analytics
8 6 (16.22%) Observability
8 6 (16.22%) Regulatory Compliance
9 5 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (13.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 5 (13.51%) Test Automation
10 4 (10.81%) Artificial Intelligence
10 4 (10.81%) Network Virtualisation
10 4 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (10.81%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 19 (51.35%) Python
2 11 (29.73%) Bash
3 8 (21.62%) Go
4 5 (13.51%) PowerShell
5 4 (10.81%) Java
6 2 (5.41%) Bicep
6 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.41%) SQL
7 1 (2.70%) C#
7 1 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.70%) Groovy
7 1 (2.70%) PHP
7 1 (2.70%) Ruby
7 1 (2.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) Security Cleared
2 7 (18.92%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) Azure Certification
3 3 (8.11%) DV Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) GDPR
2 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (24.32%) Docker
2 6 (16.22%) Virtual Desktop
2 6 (16.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (64.86%) Terraform
2 14 (37.84%) Kubernetes
3 7 (18.92%) Grafana
4 5 (13.51%) Ansible
5 2 (5.41%) AWS Copilot
5 2 (5.41%) Progress Chef
5 2 (5.41%) Prometheus
5 2 (5.41%) Puppet
6 1 (2.70%) Consul
6 1 (2.70%) Packer
6 1 (2.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Citrix
1 6 (16.22%) Microsoft
1 6 (16.22%) VMware
2 4 (10.81%) Hitachi
2 4 (10.81%) Red Hat
3 3 (8.11%) Cloudera
4 2 (5.41%) Google
5 1 (2.70%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.70%) IBM