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 £57,560 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 381 493 517
Rank change year-on-year +112 +24 +91
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 195 297 252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.40% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.42% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 104 112 214
10th Percentile £55,353 £45,000 £41,761
25th Percentile £56,176 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,560 £60,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -4.07% -8.19% +18.82%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £82,125 £80,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £71,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.33% +7.14% +7.69%

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 35,130 69,905 52,029
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.92% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,680 49,398 29,909
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,438 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 28 May 2025.

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 28 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
North of England +59 147 £57,560 -4.07% 192
North West +55 141 £57,560 -7.90% 108
South East +82 23 £71,750 +19.58% 223
West Midlands +55 11 £75,000 +7.14% 73
Midlands +33 11 £75,000 +15.38% 128
South West +86 6 £82,626 +22.41% 96
East of England +35 5 £77,500 -3.13% 104
Yorkshire +19 5 £65,000 +8.33% 64
Wales +39 2 £63,250 +17.67% 20
Scotland +79 1 - - 35
North East +37 1 £75,500 -5.63% 21
Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, 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.

1 131 (67.18%) Platform Engineering
2 130 (66.67%) Degree
3 122 (62.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 80 (41.03%) Agile
5 67 (34.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 66 (33.85%) Mentoring
7 65 (33.33%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 65 (33.33%) Rational DOORS
7 65 (33.33%) ArchiMate
7 65 (33.33%) TOGAF
7 65 (33.33%) Teamcenter
7 65 (33.33%) MODAF
7 65 (33.33%) SysML
7 65 (33.33%) Product Ownership
7 65 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
7 65 (33.33%) TOGAF Certification
7 65 (33.33%) Sparx
7 65 (33.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 57 (29.23%) CAD
8 57 (29.23%) Microsoft Office
9 44 (22.56%) Azure
10 43 (22.05%) Terraform
10 43 (22.05%) Python
11 35 (17.95%) AWS
12 34 (17.44%) CI/CD
13 32 (16.41%) Ansible
14 27 (13.85%) DevOps
15 25 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
16 22 (11.28%) Docker
17 21 (10.77%) Bash

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 7 (3.59%) IBM Domino
1 7 (3.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.05%) Confluence
3 2 (1.03%) Apache
3 2 (1.03%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.03%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.03%) nginx
Applications
1 57 (29.23%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.56%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 65 (33.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 65 (33.33%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (22.56%) Azure
2 35 (17.95%) AWS
3 15 (7.69%) GitHub
4 14 (7.18%) Amazon S3
4 14 (7.18%) GCP
5 12 (6.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 10 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (4.10%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (3.59%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (3.08%) Amazon ELB
10 6 (3.08%) AWS KMS
10 6 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (3.08%) SaaS
10 6 (3.08%) Serverless
11 5 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (2.56%) PaaS
11 5 (2.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.10%) Firewall
2 7 (3.59%) Cisco IOS
2 7 (3.59%) LAN
2 7 (3.59%) WAN
3 6 (3.08%) DNS
4 3 (1.54%) SSL
4 3 (1.54%) VPN
5 2 (1.03%) FTP
5 2 (1.03%) HTTP
5 2 (1.03%) IMAP
5 2 (1.03%) Internet
5 2 (1.03%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (1.03%) SMTP
5 2 (1.03%) SSH
5 2 (1.03%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.51%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.64%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.56%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.03%) Apache Hive
5 2 (1.03%) Big Data
5 2 (1.03%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.03%) Bigtable
5 2 (1.03%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.03%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.03%) HBase
5 2 (1.03%) Impala
5 2 (1.03%) Metadata
5 2 (1.03%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.03%) Redis
5 2 (1.03%) Tableau
6 1 (0.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 65 (33.33%) Rational DOORS
2 20 (10.26%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.62%) TeamCity
4 6 (3.08%) Git
4 6 (3.08%) Vagrant
5 4 (2.05%) GitLab
5 4 (2.05%) JIRA
6 3 (1.54%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (1.54%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.03%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 20 (10.26%) Social Skills
2 12 (6.15%) Finance
3 9 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (2.56%) Law
4 5 (2.56%) Public Sector
5 3 (1.54%) Banking
5 3 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.51%) Aviation
7 1 (0.51%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.62%) ADO
2 3 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (1.54%) REST
3 2 (1.03%) .NET
3 2 (1.03%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (1.03%) AWS CDK
3 2 (1.03%) Django
3 2 (1.03%) Kafka
3 2 (1.03%) LDAP
3 2 (1.03%) React
3 2 (1.03%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.51%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.51%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.51%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.51%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 3 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (1.54%) Replication
2 3 (1.54%) Virtual Team
3 2 (1.03%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.03%) Low-Code
3 2 (1.03%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.51%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.51%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.26%) Linux
2 15 (7.69%) Windows
3 9 (4.62%) Android
4 7 (3.59%) Mac OS
5 6 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.08%) VMS
6 5 (2.56%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.54%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (1.03%) Unix
9 1 (0.51%) Solaris
9 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (67.18%) Platform Engineering
2 80 (41.03%) Agile
3 67 (34.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 66 (33.85%) Mentoring
5 65 (33.33%) ArchiMate
5 65 (33.33%) MODAF
5 65 (33.33%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 65 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
5 65 (33.33%) SysML
5 65 (33.33%) TOGAF
6 57 (29.23%) CAD
7 34 (17.44%) CI/CD
8 27 (13.85%) DevOps
9 25 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (7.18%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (6.67%) Containerisation
12 12 (6.15%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (5.64%) Cloud Security
13 11 (5.64%) Roadmaps
14 10 (5.13%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (22.05%) Python
2 21 (10.77%) Bash
3 19 (9.74%) PowerShell
4 17 (8.72%) Bicep
5 14 (7.18%) Ruby
6 10 (5.13%) Java
7 6 (3.08%) Groovy
8 5 (2.56%) Perl
9 3 (1.54%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.03%) C++
10 2 (1.03%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.03%) SQL
10 2 (1.03%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.51%) C
11 1 (0.51%) C#
11 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 130 (66.67%) Degree
2 122 (62.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 65 (33.33%) TOGAF Certification
4 17 (8.72%) Security Cleared
5 16 (8.21%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.56%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.54%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.03%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.03%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.51%) CCSP
9 1 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.51%) CISSP
9 1 (0.51%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.54%) QA
2 2 (1.03%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.03%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.51%) GDPR
3 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.51%) NIST
3 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (11.28%) Docker
2 14 (7.18%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.08%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.56%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.54%) DFS Replication
7 2 (1.03%) Dovecot
7 2 (1.03%) HDFS
7 2 (1.03%) Postfix
7 2 (1.03%) Squid
8 1 (0.51%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.51%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 43 (22.05%) Terraform
2 32 (16.41%) Ansible
3 19 (9.74%) Kubernetes
4 13 (6.67%) Puppet
5 10 (5.13%) Progress Chef
6 6 (3.08%) Grafana
6 6 (3.08%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.56%) Nessus
7 5 (2.56%) Proxmox
7 5 (2.56%) SCCM
8 3 (1.54%) Nagios
9 2 (1.03%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (1.03%) Hadoop YARN
9 2 (1.03%) Rancher
10 1 (0.51%) Argo
10 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 1 (0.51%) SCOM
10 1 (0.51%) WSUS
Vendors
1 65 (33.33%) Sparx
2 17 (8.72%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.59%) Cisco
3 7 (3.59%) Palo Alto
4 6 (3.08%) VMware
5 5 (2.56%) Google
5 5 (2.56%) Oracle
6 4 (2.05%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.54%) Citrix
7 3 (1.54%) Juniper
7 3 (1.54%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.03%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.03%) Dataiku
8 2 (1.03%) Jaspersoft
8 2 (1.03%) MapR
8 2 (1.03%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.03%) WSO2
9 1 (0.51%) Veritas