Platform Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Platform Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 485 502 556
Rank change year-on-year +17 +54 -171
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 292 262 292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.42% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.47% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 107 223 229
10th Percentile £44,200 £41,332 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £49,375 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +22.73% +15.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,715 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +12.00%

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 66,472 55,237 67,618
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.31% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 47,163 31,304 42,933
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 £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London

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 Platform Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +27 114 £60,000 -13.60% 15
North West -13 57 £65,000 -7.14% 7
Scotland -20 47 £62,500 -10.00% 12
Yorkshire +87 46 £60,000 -12.37% 6
South West -26 38 £67,500 -2.80% 7
Midlands +11 37 £65,000 -8.77% 4
South East +11 32 £60,000 +14.29% 6
West Midlands +18 20 £70,000 -1.75% 3
East Midlands -4 17 £60,000 -18.64% 1
East of England +25 13 £80,000 +72.04% 7
North East +10 13 £80,000 +14.29% 2
Wales +16 11 £55,000 +37.50% 3
Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 UK excluding London region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 260 (89.04%) Platform Engineering
2 214 (73.29%) DevOps
3 195 (66.78%) Agile
4 182 (62.33%) Problem-Solving
5 163 (55.82%) Analytical Skills
6 161 (55.14%) GCP
7 160 (54.79%) Data Pipeline
8 159 (54.45%) Data Engineering
9 158 (54.11%) Google
9 158 (54.11%) DataOps
10 157 (53.77%) Data Science
11 155 (53.08%) Mentoring
12 153 (52.40%) BigQuery
13 150 (51.37%) Change Management
14 149 (51.03%) GDPR
15 147 (50.34%) Self-Motivation
15 147 (50.34%) Looker
16 86 (29.45%) Azure
17 76 (26.03%) CI/CD
18 71 (24.32%) Python
19 60 (20.55%) Infrastructure as Code
20 45 (15.41%) Terraform
21 44 (15.07%) Kubernetes
21 44 (15.07%) Bash
22 43 (14.73%) AWS
22 43 (14.73%) PowerShell
23 39 (13.36%) Jenkins
24 38 (13.01%) Finance
25 34 (11.64%) Linux
26 32 (10.96%) Docker

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:

Application Platforms
1 20 (6.85%) Camunda
2 2 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.68%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.68%) IIS
3 1 (0.34%) CMS
3 1 (0.34%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.34%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 161 (55.14%) GCP
2 86 (29.45%) Azure
3 43 (14.73%) AWS
4 31 (10.62%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (5.82%) Power Platform
6 16 (5.48%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (3.77%) SaaS
8 10 (3.42%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (3.42%) Azure Key Vault
8 10 (3.42%) IaaS
8 10 (3.42%) PaaS
9 9 (3.08%) Azure AKS
9 9 (3.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 9 (3.08%) GitHub
10 8 (2.74%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (2.74%) Datadog
11 7 (2.40%) OpenShift
12 6 (2.05%) Pulumi
13 5 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.51%) Network Security
2 10 (3.42%) Firewall
3 5 (1.71%) DNS
4 1 (0.34%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (52.40%) BigQuery
2 147 (50.34%) Looker
3 16 (5.48%) Power BI
4 10 (3.42%) Data Lake
4 10 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (3.08%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.08%) MySQL
6 6 (2.05%) MariaDB
6 6 (2.05%) Redis
7 4 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.37%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.03%) Big Data
8 3 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.03%) Ingres
8 3 (1.03%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.34%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.34%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 39 (13.36%) Jenkins
2 20 (6.85%) CircleCI
2 20 (6.85%) Git
2 20 (6.85%) Gradle
2 20 (6.85%) Maven
2 20 (6.85%) Travis CI
3 6 (2.05%) Artifactory
3 6 (2.05%) RStudio
3 6 (2.05%) Team Foundation Server
4 5 (1.71%) JIRA
5 4 (1.37%) Snyk
6 3 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.34%) GitLab
7 1 (0.34%) GoCD
7 1 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 163 (55.82%) Analytical Skills
2 38 (13.01%) Finance
3 31 (10.62%) Social Skills
4 23 (7.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (7.19%) Law
5 21 (7.19%) Legal
6 18 (6.16%) Retail
7 9 (3.08%) Banking
8 4 (1.37%) Retail Banking
9 2 (0.68%) Games
9 2 (0.68%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.34%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.85%) Spring
1 20 (6.85%) Spring Boot
2 14 (4.79%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.68%) AWS CDK
3 2 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (0.68%) REST
4 1 (0.34%) .NET
4 1 (0.34%) Loki
4 1 (0.34%) Middleware
4 1 (0.34%) Node.js
4 1 (0.34%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 147 (50.34%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (5.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (4.11%) Data Centre
4 9 (3.08%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (1.71%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.03%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.03%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.34%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.34%) Digital Currency
8 1 (0.34%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.34%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.34%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.34%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 34 (11.64%) Linux
2 19 (6.51%) Windows
3 9 (3.08%) Unix
4 8 (2.74%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.68%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.34%) CentOS
7 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (89.04%) Platform Engineering
2 214 (73.29%) DevOps
3 195 (66.78%) Agile
4 182 (62.33%) Problem-Solving
5 160 (54.79%) Data Pipeline
6 159 (54.45%) Data Engineering
7 158 (54.11%) DataOps
8 157 (53.77%) Data Science
9 155 (53.08%) Mentoring
10 150 (51.37%) Change Management
11 76 (26.03%) CI/CD
12 60 (20.55%) Infrastructure as Code
13 31 (10.62%) Continuous Improvement
14 30 (10.27%) Software Engineering
15 28 (9.59%) Containerisation
16 25 (8.56%) Analytics
17 24 (8.22%) Network Virtualisation
18 23 (7.88%) Task Automation
19 22 (7.53%) Workflow
20 21 (7.19%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 71 (24.32%) Python
2 44 (15.07%) Bash
3 43 (14.73%) PowerShell
4 30 (10.27%) Ruby
5 29 (9.93%) Java
6 22 (7.53%) Bicep
6 22 (7.53%) SQL
7 16 (5.48%) Go
8 10 (3.42%) C#
8 10 (3.42%) Groovy
9 7 (2.40%) JavaScript
10 6 (2.05%) PHP
10 6 (2.05%) R
10 6 (2.05%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.03%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (2.40%) Azure Certification
2 5 (1.71%) SC Cleared
2 5 (1.71%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.03%) HND
4 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.34%) Degree
4 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (51.03%) GDPR
2 14 (4.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.05%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.68%) QA
5 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.34%) SEPA
System Software
1 32 (10.96%) Docker
2 10 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (15.41%) Terraform
2 44 (15.07%) Kubernetes
3 21 (7.19%) Ansible
4 13 (4.45%) Grafana
5 11 (3.77%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.74%) Puppet
7 6 (2.05%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.37%) Istio
9 3 (1.03%) Kibana
10 2 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.68%) logstash
10 2 (0.68%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.34%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.34%) Packer
11 1 (0.34%) Podman
Vendors
1 158 (54.11%) Google
2 27 (9.25%) Microsoft
3 20 (6.85%) Pega
4 10 (3.42%) Databricks
5 8 (2.74%) New Relic
6 6 (2.05%) Alteryx
6 6 (2.05%) SaltStack
7 5 (1.71%) LogicMonitor
7 5 (1.71%) PagerDuty
8 4 (1.37%) Splunk
8 4 (1.37%) VMware
9 2 (0.68%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.34%) Sparx