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 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 489 510
Rank change year-on-year +97 +21 +63
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 195 292 258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.41% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.43% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 105 106 220
10th Percentile £48,800 £45,000 £41,966
25th Percentile £56,176 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,560 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.90% -7.41% +22.73%
75th Percentile £74,258 £70,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £88,875
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +6.14%

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 35,324 67,152 53,648
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.60% 94.79% 89.25%
Number of salaries quoted 18,511 47,504 30,595
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -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 14 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 14 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 +79 149 £57,560 -4.07% 50
North West +69 144 £57,560 -11.45% 34
South East +89 20 £51,000 -15.00% 57
West Midlands +43 9 £72,500 +3.57% 12
Midlands +32 9 £72,500 +11.54% 19
South West +77 8 £78,750 +16.67% 13
East of England +39 6 £77,500 -3.13% 12
Yorkshire +32 4 £62,500 +4.17% 12
Wales +32 2 £63,250 +15.00%
Scotland +73 1 - - 6
North East +33 1 £75,500 -5.63% 4
Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 130 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 129 (66.15%) Degree
3 122 (62.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 82 (42.05%) Agile
5 67 (34.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 65 (33.33%) Rational DOORS
6 65 (33.33%) ArchiMate
6 65 (33.33%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 65 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
6 65 (33.33%) TOGAF Certification
6 65 (33.33%) Teamcenter
6 65 (33.33%) TOGAF
6 65 (33.33%) MODAF
6 65 (33.33%) SysML
6 65 (33.33%) Product Ownership
6 65 (33.33%) Sparx
6 65 (33.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 64 (32.82%) Mentoring
8 57 (29.23%) CAD
8 57 (29.23%) Microsoft Office
9 45 (23.08%) Azure
10 40 (20.51%) Python
11 39 (20.00%) Terraform
12 35 (17.95%) CI/CD
13 31 (15.90%) Ansible
14 30 (15.38%) AWS
15 28 (14.36%) DevOps
16 25 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
17 23 (11.79%) Kubernetes
18 21 (10.77%) Microsoft

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 3 (1.54%) Confluence
3 2 (1.03%) Apache
3 2 (1.03%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.03%) Jupyter
Applications
1 57 (29.23%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.54%) 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 45 (23.08%) Azure
2 30 (15.38%) AWS
3 16 (8.21%) GitHub
4 14 (7.18%) GCP
5 9 (4.62%) Amazon S3
5 9 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (3.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 6 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (3.08%) SaaS
8 5 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (2.56%) Azure AKS
8 5 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (2.56%) OpenShift
8 5 (2.56%) PaaS
8 5 (2.56%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.05%) Amazon ELB
9 4 (2.05%) AWS KMS
9 4 (2.05%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.59%) Cisco IOS
1 7 (3.59%) LAN
1 7 (3.59%) WAN
2 3 (1.54%) Firewall
2 3 (1.54%) SSL
3 2 (1.03%) Internet
3 2 (1.03%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.51%) DHCP
4 1 (0.51%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.59%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (2.56%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.03%) Apache Hive
4 2 (1.03%) Big Data
4 2 (1.03%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.03%) Bigtable
4 2 (1.03%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.03%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.03%) HBase
4 2 (1.03%) Impala
4 2 (1.03%) Metadata
4 2 (1.03%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.03%) Redis
4 2 (1.03%) Tableau
5 1 (0.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 65 (33.33%) Rational DOORS
2 18 (9.23%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.13%) TeamCity
4 4 (2.05%) Vagrant
5 3 (1.54%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (1.54%) Git
5 3 (1.54%) GitLab
5 3 (1.54%) JIRA
5 3 (1.54%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.03%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 14 (7.18%) Social Skills
2 13 (6.67%) Finance
3 10 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (2.56%) Law
5 3 (1.54%) Banking
5 3 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (1.54%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.03%) Electronics
6 2 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.03%) Marketing
7 1 (0.51%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.13%) ADO
2 3 (1.54%) AWS CDK
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%) Django
3 2 (1.03%) Kafka
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 4 (2.05%) Cloud Native
2 4 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.03%) Low-Code
4 2 (1.03%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.51%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.51%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.51%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.74%) Linux
2 13 (6.67%) Windows
3 9 (4.62%) Android
4 7 (3.59%) Mac OS
5 6 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.05%) VMS
7 3 (1.54%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.03%) Unix
9 1 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.51%) Solaris
9 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 82 (42.05%) Agile
3 67 (34.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 65 (33.33%) ArchiMate
4 65 (33.33%) MODAF
4 65 (33.33%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 65 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
4 65 (33.33%) SysML
4 65 (33.33%) TOGAF
5 64 (32.82%) Mentoring
6 57 (29.23%) CAD
7 35 (17.95%) CI/CD
8 28 (14.36%) DevOps
9 25 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (8.72%) Containerisation
11 14 (7.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (6.15%) Roadmaps
13 11 (5.64%) Cloud Security
14 10 (5.13%) Problem-Solving
15 9 (4.62%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 40 (20.51%) Python
2 20 (10.26%) Bicep
3 19 (9.74%) Bash
4 16 (8.21%) PowerShell
5 15 (7.69%) Ruby
6 10 (5.13%) Java
7 5 (2.56%) Perl
8 4 (2.05%) Groovy
9 3 (1.54%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.54%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.03%) C++
10 2 (1.03%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.51%) C#
11 1 (0.51%) Go
Qualifications
1 129 (66.15%) Degree
2 122 (62.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 65 (33.33%) TOGAF Certification
4 11 (5.64%) Security Cleared
5 10 (5.13%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.56%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.03%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.51%) CCSP
8 1 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.51%) CISSP
8 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.51%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.54%) QA
2 2 (1.03%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.03%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.03%) NIST
2 2 (1.03%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.51%) GDPR
System Software
1 20 (10.26%) Docker
2 14 (7.18%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.59%) Hyper-V
4 6 (3.08%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.54%) vSphere
6 2 (1.03%) HDFS
7 1 (0.51%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.51%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 39 (20.00%) Terraform
2 31 (15.90%) Ansible
3 23 (11.79%) Kubernetes
4 16 (8.21%) Puppet
5 13 (6.67%) Progress Chef
6 5 (2.56%) SCCM
7 3 (1.54%) Nagios
7 3 (1.54%) Nessus
7 3 (1.54%) Proxmox
8 2 (1.03%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (1.03%) Grafana
8 2 (1.03%) Hadoop YARN
8 2 (1.03%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.03%) Rancher
9 1 (0.51%) Argo
9 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (0.51%) SCOM
9 1 (0.51%) WSUS
Vendors
1 65 (33.33%) Sparx
2 21 (10.77%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.10%) VMware
4 7 (3.59%) Cisco
4 7 (3.59%) Palo Alto
5 5 (2.56%) Google
5 5 (2.56%) Oracle
6 3 (1.54%) Citrix
6 3 (1.54%) Juniper
6 3 (1.54%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.03%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.03%) Dataiku
7 2 (1.03%) MapR
7 2 (1.03%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.03%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.03%) WSO2
8 1 (0.51%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.51%) Veritas