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 £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 731 731 819
Rank change year-on-year 0 +88 -282
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Platform Engineer 25 28 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.036% 0.045% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.051% 0.034%
Number of salaries quoted 14 26 20
10th Percentile - £51,875 £47,450
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,125 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £80,938
90th Percentile £75,500 - £85,250
UK median annual salary £85,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +30.77% -7.14% +47.37%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 66,682 54,970 67,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.26% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 47,230 31,194 42,991
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,777 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.04% - +9.09%

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 1 May 2024.

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 1 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
North of England +35 19 £60,000 -11.11% 5
North West +17 12 £60,000 +14.29% 3
Yorkshire +73 6 £80,000 +14.29% 1
North East - 3 £80,000 - 1
South West - 3 £65,000 - 2
Midlands +8 2 - - 1
East Midlands - 2 - -
Wales +8 1 £60,000 - 2
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 1 May 2024, 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 25 (100.00%) Azure
1 25 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 14 (56.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 14 (56.00%) Analytics
2 14 (56.00%) DevOps
3 12 (48.00%) Python
3 12 (48.00%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (40.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 10 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (40.00%) Terraform
5 9 (36.00%) Grafana
5 9 (36.00%) Prometheus
5 9 (36.00%) Azure AKS
5 9 (36.00%) CI/CD
5 9 (36.00%) DataOps
5 9 (36.00%) SQL
5 9 (36.00%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (36.00%) Ansible
5 9 (36.00%) Machine Learning
5 9 (36.00%) MongoDB
6 8 (32.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (32.00%) MySQL
6 8 (32.00%) Microsoft
6 8 (32.00%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (28.00%) Azure Certification
7 7 (28.00%) Configuration Management
7 7 (28.00%) Windows
7 7 (28.00%) Agile
7 7 (28.00%) PowerShell
7 7 (28.00%) Go

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 25 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (48.00%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (36.00%) Azure AKS
4 8 (32.00%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (24.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 6 (24.00%) Datadog
5 6 (24.00%) Pulumi
6 4 (16.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (16.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (16.00%) Power Platform
7 2 (8.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (4.00%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (4.00%) AWS
8 1 (4.00%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (4.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (36.00%) MongoDB
1 9 (36.00%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (32.00%) MySQL
3 6 (24.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (24.00%) MariaDB
3 6 (24.00%) Redis
4 4 (16.00%) Power BI
5 3 (12.00%) NoSQL
6 2 (8.00%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (24.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 6 (24.00%) Retail
1 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.00%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Linux Command Line
1 6 (24.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (16.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (28.00%) Windows
2 5 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 14 (56.00%) Analytics
2 14 (56.00%) DevOps
2 14 (56.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (40.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 10 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (36.00%) CI/CD
4 9 (36.00%) DataOps
4 9 (36.00%) Machine Learning
5 8 (32.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (28.00%) Agile
6 7 (28.00%) Configuration Management
7 6 (24.00%) Business Continuity
7 6 (24.00%) Collaborative Culture
7 6 (24.00%) Design Patterns
7 6 (24.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (24.00%) Log Analytics
7 6 (24.00%) Technology Transformation
7 6 (24.00%) Web Application Development
8 5 (20.00%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 12 (48.00%) Python
2 9 (36.00%) SQL
3 7 (28.00%) Go
3 7 (28.00%) PowerShell
4 6 (24.00%) Bash
4 6 (24.00%) C#
4 6 (24.00%) Groovy
4 6 (24.00%) Java
4 6 (24.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (24.00%) PHP
4 6 (24.00%) Ruby
4 6 (24.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (40.00%) Terraform
2 9 (36.00%) Ansible
2 9 (36.00%) Grafana
2 9 (36.00%) Prometheus
3 6 (24.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (24.00%) Progress Chef
3 6 (24.00%) Puppet
4 2 (8.00%) Kibana
4 2 (8.00%) logstash
5 1 (4.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (24.00%) New Relic
2 6 (24.00%) SaltStack
3 4 (16.00%) Databricks
4 2 (8.00%) Splunk