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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 225 325 398
Rank change year-on-year +100 +73 -52
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 509 562 412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.31% 0.78% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 0.94% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 172 188 329
10th Percentile £45,300 £39,667 £42,755
25th Percentile £56,176 £53,657 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £95,462 £100,000
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 36,156 59,884 56,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.91% 83.47% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 17,178 41,267 29,022
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 22 May 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 22 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 +115 366 £57,560 -4.07% 477
North West +130 346 £57,560 -14.73% 250
South East +32 78 £52,500 -22.22% 561
Midlands +8 29 £68,750 +14.58% 349
West Midlands +49 20 £67,500 +3.85% 191
Yorkshire +8 19 £65,000 +18.18% 173
South West +29 15 £76,250 +12.96% 209
Scotland +98 13 £75,360 +3.94% 87
East Midlands -1 9 £100,000 +66.67% 135
East of England +25 5 £78,750 - 266
Wales +36 3 £63,250 +15.00% 47
North East +19 1 £75,500 -5.63% 55
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 8 (1.57%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.38%) IBM Domino
2 7 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.18%) Apache
3 6 (1.18%) Confluence
4 4 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.39%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.39%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.20%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.20%) nginx
6 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.79%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 65 (12.77%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 65 (12.77%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 76 (14.93%) AWS
1 76 (14.93%) Azure
2 27 (5.30%) Amazon S3
3 25 (4.91%) GCP
4 24 (4.72%) GitHub
5 19 (3.73%) Amazon EC2
6 18 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (2.95%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (2.95%) Serverless
7 15 (2.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 12 (2.36%) Amazon ECS
8 12 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (2.16%) Entra ID
10 9 (1.77%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (1.57%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (1.57%) IaaS
11 8 (1.57%) Power Platform
12 7 (1.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (1.38%) AWS KMS
12 7 (1.38%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 268 (52.65%) VPN
2 267 (52.46%) Cisco IOS
3 14 (2.75%) Firewall
4 12 (2.36%) DNS
5 7 (1.38%) LAN
5 7 (1.38%) WAN
6 4 (0.79%) HTTP
7 3 (0.59%) FTP
7 3 (0.59%) SMTP
7 3 (0.59%) SSH
7 3 (0.59%) SSL
8 2 (0.39%) Internet
8 2 (0.39%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.20%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.20%) DHCP
9 1 (0.20%) IMAP
9 1 (0.20%) MPLS
9 1 (0.20%) Multicast
9 1 (0.20%) OpenLDAP
9 1 (0.20%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (2.16%) Data Lake
3 8 (1.57%) Big Data
3 8 (1.57%) Hadoop
4 7 (1.38%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.18%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (0.98%) DynamoDB
7 4 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (0.79%) Power BI
8 3 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.59%) MySQL
9 2 (0.39%) Apache Hive
9 2 (0.39%) Bigtable
9 2 (0.39%) HBase
9 2 (0.39%) Impala
9 2 (0.39%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.39%) Redis
9 2 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 65 (12.77%) Rational DOORS
2 27 (5.30%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.77%) Git
3 9 (1.77%) TeamCity
4 8 (1.57%) JIRA
5 7 (1.38%) GitLab
5 7 (1.38%) Vagrant
6 3 (0.59%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (0.59%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.59%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.59%) Vite
6 3 (0.59%) webpack
7 2 (0.39%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 267 (52.46%) Analytical Skills
2 265 (52.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 62 (12.18%) Social Skills
4 42 (8.25%) Law
5 31 (6.09%) Finance
6 9 (1.77%) Public Sector
7 8 (1.57%) Banking
8 5 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (0.79%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.59%) Games
11 2 (0.39%) Advertising
11 2 (0.39%) Electronics
12 1 (0.20%) Aviation
12 1 (0.20%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.20%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 266 (52.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 130 (25.54%) Platform Engineer
3 78 (15.32%) Systems Engineer
4 40 (7.86%) Lead
5 33 (6.48%) Senior
6 26 (5.11%) Cloud Engineer
7 20 (3.93%) DevOps Engineer
8 15 (2.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 11 (2.16%) Support Engineer
10 10 (1.96%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (1.77%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (1.77%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 8 (1.57%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 8 (1.57%) Gen AI Engineer
12 8 (1.57%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 8 (1.57%) Software Engineer
13 7 (1.38%) Platform Support Engineer
14 6 (1.18%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 6 (1.18%) Data Analytics Director
14 6 (1.18%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (51.08%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (2.95%) Kafka
3 12 (2.36%) REST
4 10 (1.96%) .NET
5 9 (1.77%) ADO
6 8 (1.57%) React
6 8 (1.57%) Spring Boot
6 8 (1.57%) YAML
7 7 (1.38%) AWS CDK
7 7 (1.38%) Node.js
7 7 (1.38%) Spring
8 6 (1.18%) Loki
9 4 (0.79%) .NET Framework
10 3 (0.59%) ASP.NET
10 3 (0.59%) ASP.NET MVC
10 3 (0.59%) Enzyme
10 3 (0.59%) Java EE
10 3 (0.59%) Jest
10 3 (0.59%) Vue
10 3 (0.59%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 260 (51.08%) Cyberattack
2 66 (12.97%) Product Ownership
3 22 (4.32%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (3.54%) Cloud Native
5 12 (2.36%) Public Cloud
6 10 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.18%) Management Information System
9 5 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.79%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.59%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.59%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.39%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.39%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.39%) Replication
13 1 (0.20%) Analytical Mindset
13 1 (0.20%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 291 (57.17%) Linux
2 278 (54.62%) Windows
3 268 (52.65%) Android
4 7 (1.38%) Mac OS
4 7 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.38%) VMS
5 5 (0.98%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.79%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (0.59%) Unix
7 3 (0.59%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.20%) AIX
8 1 (0.20%) Debian
8 1 (0.20%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (65.03%) DevOps
2 289 (56.78%) Problem-Solving
3 276 (54.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 270 (53.05%) Task Automation
5 264 (51.87%) Risk Management
6 263 (51.67%) Line Management
7 261 (51.28%) Storage Management
8 260 (51.08%) Mathematics
9 115 (22.59%) Agile
10 80 (15.72%) CI/CD
11 69 (13.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 65 (12.77%) ArchiMate
12 65 (12.77%) MODAF
12 65 (12.77%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
12 65 (12.77%) Programme Delivery
12 65 (12.77%) SysML
12 65 (12.77%) TOGAF
13 61 (11.98%) Infrastructure as Code
14 42 (8.25%) Analytics
15 37 (7.27%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 335 (65.82%) Python
2 288 (56.58%) PowerShell
3 286 (56.19%) Bash
4 25 (4.91%) Java
5 24 (4.72%) Bicep
6 21 (4.13%) SQL
7 15 (2.95%) TypeScript
8 14 (2.75%) Ruby
9 13 (2.55%) JavaScript
10 9 (1.77%) C#
11 8 (1.57%) Go
12 7 (1.38%) Groovy
12 7 (1.38%) Perl
13 5 (0.98%) Clojure
13 5 (0.98%) Elixir
13 5 (0.98%) Rust
13 5 (0.98%) Scala
14 3 (0.59%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.39%) C
15 2 (0.39%) PHP
Qualifications
1 105 (20.63%) Degree
2 74 (14.54%) BPSS Clearance
3 65 (12.77%) TOGAF Certification
4 24 (4.72%) Security Cleared
5 23 (4.52%) SC Cleared
6 13 (2.55%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.96%) AWS Certification
7 10 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.96%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.77%) HNC
9 5 (0.98%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.20%) CCSP
11 1 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.20%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.36%) Accessibility
2 7 (1.38%) GDPR
3 6 (1.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (0.79%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.59%) QA
6 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.39%) NIST
6 2 (0.39%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 302 (59.33%) Docker
2 264 (51.87%) Hyper-V
3 261 (51.28%) vSphere
4 260 (51.08%) VMware NSX
5 18 (3.54%) Active Directory
6 12 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
9 2 (0.39%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.39%) HDFS
10 1 (0.20%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.20%) Postfix
10 1 (0.20%) Squid
10 1 (0.20%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 332 (65.23%) Terraform
2 304 (59.72%) Ansible
3 48 (9.43%) Kubernetes
4 16 (3.14%) Puppet
5 14 (2.75%) Grafana
6 13 (2.55%) Progress Chef
6 13 (2.55%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.79%) Nessus
7 4 (0.79%) Proxmox
7 4 (0.79%) SCCM
8 3 (0.59%) Nagios
9 2 (0.39%) Argo
9 2 (0.39%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.39%) Hadoop YARN
9 2 (0.39%) Podman
9 2 (0.39%) Rancher
10 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 1 (0.20%) SCOM
10 1 (0.20%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 1 (0.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 267 (52.46%) Cisco
2 263 (51.67%) Juniper
3 260 (51.08%) 3PAR
3 260 (51.08%) Splunk
4 65 (12.77%) Sparx
5 29 (5.70%) Microsoft
6 11 (2.16%) Google
7 8 (1.57%) Databricks
7 8 (1.57%) Oracle
8 7 (1.38%) Atlassian
8 7 (1.38%) Palo Alto
8 7 (1.38%) VMware
9 5 (0.98%) IBM
10 4 (0.79%) IBM Sterling
10 4 (0.79%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.39%) Confluent
11 2 (0.39%) Dataiku
11 2 (0.39%) MapR
11 2 (0.39%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.39%) WSO2