Senior Platform Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Platform Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Platform Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £69,384 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 560 758 721
Rank change year-on-year +198 -37 +143
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 11 7 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.028% 0.010% 0.065%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.031% 0.010% 0.073%
Number of salaries quoted 11 7 29
10th Percentile £62,500 £53,200 £56,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £88,125 £78,750 £91,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £80,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £86,250
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +3.92%

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% -

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Platform Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior 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 +42 6 £67,500 -3.57% 24
South East - 5 £82,500 - 42
North West +2 4 £68,442 +5.30% 14
Yorkshire +62 2 £62,500 -21.88% 7
Senior Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (90.91%) Platform Engineering
2 9 (81.82%) Terraform
3 7 (63.64%) Python
3 7 (63.64%) Azure
4 6 (54.55%) AWS
4 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
4 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
4 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
5 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
5 5 (45.45%) Ansible
5 5 (45.45%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (45.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
6 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
6 4 (36.36%) Collaborative Culture
7 3 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (27.27%) Serverless
7 3 (27.27%) Virtual Team
7 3 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (27.27%) GCP
7 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (27.27%) Docker
7 3 (27.27%) DevOps
7 3 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (27.27%) Threat Detection
7 3 (27.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (27.27%) Bash

Senior 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) AWS
3 5 (45.45%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
4 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (27.27%) GCP
4 3 (27.27%) Serverless
4 3 (27.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (18.18%) AWS CodeBuild
5 2 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (18.18%) dbt
5 2 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (18.18%) Power Automate
5 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
5 2 (18.18%) PowerApps
5 2 (18.18%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) DNS
1 3 (27.27%) Firewall
1 3 (27.27%) VPN
2 2 (18.18%) Internet
2 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (18.18%) Redis
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
3 1 (9.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Django
2 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
2 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Virtual Team
2 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (18.18%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
4 4 (36.36%) Collaborative Culture
4 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
4 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
5 3 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (27.27%) DevOps
5 3 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (27.27%) Load Balancing
5 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
5 3 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (27.27%) Threat Detection
6 2 (18.18%) Agile
6 2 (18.18%) Clean Code
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (18.18%) Open Source
6 2 (18.18%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Bash
2 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
3 2 (18.18%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) Terraform
2 5 (45.45%) Ansible
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Copilot
3 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
4 1 (9.09%) Grafana
4 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Google
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft