DevOps Platform Engineer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineer - DevOps
UK > UK excluding London

The median Platform Engineer - DevOps salary in the UK excluding London is £92,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 554 569
Rank change year-on-year +51 +15 +157
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Platform Engineer 6 12 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.014% 0.033% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.036% 0.012%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 4
10th Percentile £65,000 - -
25th Percentile £76,250 £68,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £81,250 £87,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £82,500 £81,250 £82,500
% change year-on-year +1.54% -1.52% +17.86%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 38,388 33,377 32,893
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.52% 92.91% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 23,454 16,215 24,936
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,609 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% +5.22% -5.25%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

DevOps Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

DevOps Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

DevOps Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Platform Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Platform Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

DevOps Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevOps 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 DevOps Platform Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Midlands - 5 £100,000 -
West Midlands - 5 £100,000 -
South West +9 1 £65,000 -13.33%
DevOps Platform Engineer
UK

DevOps Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, DevOps Platform Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring DevOps Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (83.33%) Python
3 4 (66.67%) Docker
3 4 (66.67%) DV Cleared
4 3 (50.00%) AWS
4 3 (50.00%) Azure
4 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (50.00%) Terraform
4 3 (50.00%) Ubuntu
4 3 (50.00%) Windows
5 2 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (33.33%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
5 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
5 2 (33.33%) AWS KMS
5 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
5 2 (33.33%) Bash
5 2 (33.33%) Change Management
5 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
5 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management

DevOps Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Confluence
1 2 (33.33%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (33.33%) AWS KMS
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (33.33%) Route 53
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) FTP
1 2 (33.33%) HTTP
1 2 (33.33%) IMAP
1 2 (33.33%) OpenLDAP
1 2 (33.33%) SMTP
1 2 (33.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (33.33%) Delta Lake
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) Vagrant
3 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 2 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (33.33%) VMS
4 1 (16.67%) Debian
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Change Management
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 2 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) Groovy
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) DV Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 2 (33.33%) Degree
3 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (33.33%) DFS Replication
2 2 (33.33%) Dovecot
2 2 (33.33%) Postfix
2 2 (33.33%) Squid
3 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Grafana
2 2 (33.33%) Nessus
2 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 2 (33.33%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Jaspersoft
1 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat