Platform Engineering Jobs in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Platform Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 234 324 391
Rank change year-on-year +90 +67 -25
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 515 581 376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.28% 0.73% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 0.91% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 166 190 304
10th Percentile £42,874 £40,833 £42,819
25th Percentile £56,176 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,125 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% -7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £80,313
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Platform Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,527 63,784 51,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.58% 80.58% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 18,011 43,149 28,126
10th Percentile £25,625 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £33,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,268 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year - -9.54% +1.33%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 June 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 +105 360 £57,560 -4.07% 155
North West +144 341 £57,560 -11.45% 89
South East +49 89 £68,750 +1.85% 130
Midlands +31 35 £72,500 +20.83% 82
West Midlands +58 27 £72,500 +11.54% 50
Yorkshire -4 18 £65,000 +13.04% 53
South West +39 13 £75,000 +11.11% 58
Scotland +62 9 £75,360 +3.94% 23
East Midlands +20 8 - - 29
East of England +15 6 £77,500 -32.61% 62
Wales +31 3 £37,733 -29.80% 9
North East +18 1 £75,500 -2.58% 13
Platform Engineering
UK

Platform Engineering
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 12 (2.33%) Confluence
2 11 (2.14%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.36%) IBM Domino
3 7 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.17%) Apache
5 4 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.78%) nginx
6 2 (0.39%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (1.36%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 65 (12.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 65 (12.62%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 95 (18.45%) Azure
2 94 (18.25%) AWS
3 41 (7.96%) GCP
4 28 (5.44%) Amazon S3
5 25 (4.85%) Amazon EC2
6 22 (4.27%) GitHub
6 22 (4.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 20 (3.88%) Azure Monitor
8 17 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (2.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (2.91%) Amazon ELB
9 15 (2.91%) AWS KMS
9 15 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (2.52%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (2.52%) Entra ID
11 12 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (2.33%) Serverless
12 11 (2.14%) Amazon Glacier
12 11 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (1.94%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 268 (52.04%) VPN
2 267 (51.84%) Cisco IOS
3 23 (4.47%) Firewall
4 21 (4.08%) DNS
5 11 (2.14%) FTP
5 11 (2.14%) HTTP
5 11 (2.14%) SMTP
5 11 (2.14%) SSH
6 7 (1.36%) LAN
6 7 (1.36%) WAN
7 4 (0.78%) IMAP
7 4 (0.78%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (0.58%) SSL
9 2 (0.39%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.39%) Internet
9 2 (0.39%) Multicast
9 2 (0.39%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.19%) DHCP
10 1 (0.19%) MPLS
10 1 (0.19%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (2.72%) Data Lake
3 11 (2.14%) Big Data
3 11 (2.14%) Hadoop
4 10 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (1.75%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.17%) Power BI
7 5 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (0.97%) SQL Server
8 4 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.39%) Apache Hive
9 2 (0.39%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.39%) HBase
9 2 (0.39%) Impala
9 2 (0.39%) Metadata
9 2 (0.39%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.39%) Redis
9 2 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 65 (12.62%) Rational DOORS
2 32 (6.21%) Jenkins
3 15 (2.91%) Vagrant
4 14 (2.72%) Git
4 14 (2.72%) JIRA
5 8 (1.55%) GitLab
6 6 (1.17%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.58%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.39%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
General
1 267 (51.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 266 (51.65%) Analytical Skills
3 80 (15.53%) Social Skills
4 53 (10.29%) Law
5 39 (7.57%) Finance
6 14 (2.72%) Public Sector
7 13 (2.52%) Legal
8 8 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.17%) Banking
10 4 (0.78%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.39%) Advertising
11 2 (0.39%) Electronics
12 1 (0.19%) Aviation
12 1 (0.19%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.19%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 261 (50.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 130 (25.24%) Platform Engineer
3 73 (14.17%) Systems Engineer
4 42 (8.16%) Lead
5 40 (7.77%) Senior
6 22 (4.27%) Cloud Engineer
6 22 (4.27%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (2.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 13 (2.52%) Senior Manager
9 12 (2.33%) Support Engineer
10 10 (1.94%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (1.94%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 9 (1.75%) Data Analytics Director
11 9 (1.75%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 8 (1.55%) Azure Engineer
13 7 (1.36%) DevOps Platform Engineer
13 7 (1.36%) Platform Support Engineer
13 7 (1.36%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 6 (1.17%) Power Platform Engineer
14 6 (1.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (50.49%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (2.72%) Kafka
3 13 (2.52%) Hugging Face
3 13 (2.52%) LangChain
3 13 (2.52%) PyTorch
3 13 (2.52%) TensorFlow
4 8 (1.55%) .NET
5 7 (1.36%) ADO
5 7 (1.36%) REST
5 7 (1.36%) YAML
6 6 (1.17%) Loki
7 5 (0.97%) AWS CDK
8 4 (0.78%) LDAP
9 3 (0.58%) Node.js
9 3 (0.58%) React
9 3 (0.58%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.39%) Django
10 2 (0.39%) Spring
10 2 (0.39%) XML
10 2 (0.39%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 260 (50.49%) Cyberattack
2 66 (12.82%) Product Ownership
3 24 (4.66%) Cloud Native
4 21 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (1.94%) Public Cloud
6 9 (1.75%) Management Information System
7 5 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (0.97%) Replication
7 5 (0.97%) Virtual Team
8 4 (0.78%) Data Centre
8 4 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.58%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.39%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.39%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.19%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.19%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.19%) IoT
11 1 (0.19%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 297 (57.67%) Linux
2 283 (54.95%) Windows
3 268 (52.04%) Android
4 15 (2.91%) VMS
5 12 (2.33%) Amazon Linux
6 9 (1.75%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.36%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.39%) Debian
9 2 (0.39%) Unix
9 2 (0.39%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.19%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (64.66%) DevOps
2 286 (55.53%) Problem-Solving
3 272 (52.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 267 (51.84%) Task Automation
5 263 (51.07%) Risk Management
6 262 (50.87%) Line Management
7 261 (50.68%) Mathematics
7 261 (50.68%) Storage Management
8 107 (20.78%) Agile
9 82 (15.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 71 (13.79%) CI/CD
11 65 (12.62%) ArchiMate
11 65 (12.62%) MODAF
11 65 (12.62%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
11 65 (12.62%) Programme Delivery
11 65 (12.62%) SysML
11 65 (12.62%) TOGAF
12 60 (11.65%) Infrastructure as Code
13 55 (10.68%) Computer Science
14 44 (8.54%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 335 (65.05%) Python
2 297 (57.67%) PowerShell
3 289 (56.12%) Bash
4 28 (5.44%) SQL
5 22 (4.27%) Java
6 18 (3.50%) Bicep
7 17 (3.30%) Groovy
8 12 (2.33%) Perl
9 11 (2.14%) Ruby
10 9 (1.75%) TypeScript
11 8 (1.55%) JavaScript
12 7 (1.36%) C#
13 5 (0.97%) Go
14 3 (0.58%) PHP
14 3 (0.58%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.39%) C
15 2 (0.39%) C++
15 2 (0.39%) Clojure
15 2 (0.39%) Rust
15 2 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 128 (24.85%) Degree
2 69 (13.40%) BPSS Clearance
3 65 (12.62%) TOGAF Certification
4 36 (6.99%) Security Cleared
5 35 (6.80%) SC Cleared
6 27 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (5.05%) Master's Degree
8 20 (3.88%) Azure Certification
9 17 (3.30%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.97%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.78%) HNC
12 1 (0.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.19%) CCSP
12 1 (0.19%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.19%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.33%) GDPR
2 9 (1.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 6 (1.17%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.78%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.58%) NIST
5 3 (0.58%) QA
6 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 305 (59.22%) Docker
2 264 (51.26%) Hyper-V
3 261 (50.68%) vSphere
4 260 (50.49%) VMware NSX
5 26 (5.05%) Active Directory
6 10 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.97%) DFS Replication
7 5 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.78%) Dovecot
8 4 (0.78%) Postfix
8 4 (0.78%) Squid
8 4 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
9 2 (0.39%) HDFS
10 1 (0.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 337 (65.44%) Terraform
2 301 (58.45%) Ansible
3 39 (7.57%) Kubernetes
4 35 (6.80%) Grafana
5 34 (6.60%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.52%) Puppet
7 10 (1.94%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.36%) Nessus
8 7 (1.36%) Proxmox
9 4 (0.78%) SCCM
10 3 (0.58%) Nagios
11 2 (0.39%) Argo
11 2 (0.39%) AWS Copilot
11 2 (0.39%) Hadoop YARN
11 2 (0.39%) Podman
11 2 (0.39%) Rancher
12 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 1 (0.19%) SCOM
12 1 (0.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 267 (51.84%) Cisco
2 263 (51.07%) Juniper
3 260 (50.49%) 3PAR
3 260 (50.49%) Splunk
4 65 (12.62%) Sparx
5 34 (6.60%) Microsoft
6 14 (2.72%) Google
7 13 (2.52%) OpenAI
8 12 (2.33%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.94%) VMware
10 7 (1.36%) Databricks
10 7 (1.36%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.97%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.97%) Oracle
12 4 (0.78%) IBM
12 4 (0.78%) IBM Sterling
12 4 (0.78%) Jaspersoft
13 2 (0.39%) Citrix
13 2 (0.39%) MapR
13 2 (0.39%) Red Hat