Azure Platform Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK > UK excluding London

The median Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure salary in the UK excluding London is £73,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 580 739 720
Rank change year-on-year +159 -19 +104
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Platform Engineer 8 25 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.020% 0.035% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.037% 0.055%
Number of salaries quoted 8 14 26
10th Percentile £61,125 - £51,875
25th Percentile £66,563 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.92% -7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £81,250 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £81,625 £75,500 -
UK median annual salary £77,500 £90,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.89% +38.46% -7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 36,224 67,834 52,633
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.86% 94.85% 89.18%
Number of salaries quoted 18,759 47,939 30,034
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Azure Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Azure Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Azure Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure Platform Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Platform Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
South West +110 4 £75,000 +15.38% 3
North of England +30 4 £71,250 +18.75%
North West -10 3 £67,500 +12.50%
North East +34 1 £75,500 -5.63%
Azure Platform Engineer
UK

Azure Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 18 May 2025, Azure 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 UK excluding London region featuring Azure Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Azure
1 8 (100.00%) Bicep
1 8 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (87.50%) Python
3 6 (75.00%) PowerShell
3 6 (75.00%) DevOps
3 6 (75.00%) Containerisation
3 6 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (75.00%) Cloud Security
4 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
4 5 (62.50%) Azure Certification
4 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
5 4 (50.00%) Migration
5 4 (50.00%) Azure AKS
5 4 (50.00%) Terraform
5 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (50.00%) Docker
6 3 (37.50%) Bash
7 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
8 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
8 1 (12.50%) RBAC
8 1 (12.50%) NIST
8 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
8 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps

Azure Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
1 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
1 1 (12.50%) ADO
1 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (75.00%) Cloud Security
3 6 (75.00%) Containerisation
3 6 (75.00%) DevOps
4 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (50.00%) Migration
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
6 1 (12.50%) Coaching
6 1 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
6 1 (12.50%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
6 1 (12.50%) Information Security
6 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 1 (12.50%) RBAC
6 1 (12.50%) SDLC
6 1 (12.50%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Bicep
2 7 (87.50%) Python
3 6 (75.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (37.50%) Bash
5 1 (12.50%) C#
5 1 (12.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (12.50%) CCSP
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (12.50%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
3 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft