AWS Platform Engineer Job Trends

Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 October 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 781 631 777
Rank change year-on-year -150 +146 -50
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Platform Engineer 29 23 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.025% 0.046% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.052% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 16 16 9
10th Percentile £82,500 £66,875 £54,900
25th Percentile - £72,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £81,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% +16.07% -17.65%
75th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £78,750 £80,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -1.56% +36.75% -25.71%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 109,143 44,565 69,871
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 89.75% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 74,344 25,695 40,313
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,825 £35,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £54,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.34% -0.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -6.50% -4.76%

AWS Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'AWS Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

AWS Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS Platform Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for AWS Platform Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for AWS Platform Engineer job vacancies in the UK

AWS Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Platform Engineer in the UK

AWS Platform Engineer
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Platform Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 8 October 2026. 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
England -127 19 £92,500 +15.63% 64
UK excluding London -113 10 £78,750 -1.56% 25
London -62 9 £100,000 +5.26% 44
Work from Home -40 8 £100,000 +17.65% 24
North of England -59 8 - - 6
Yorkshire - 8 - - 1
South East -50 2 £78,750 -7.35% 2

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 8 October 2026, AWS Platform Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring AWS Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) AWS
1 29 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 24 (82.76%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (79.31%) CI/CD
3 23 (79.31%) Terraform
4 22 (75.86%) Python
5 17 (58.62%) GitHub
6 14 (48.28%) Docker
6 14 (48.28%) Jenkins
7 13 (44.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (37.93%) Software Engineering
9 10 (34.48%) Linux
10 9 (31.03%) CircleCI
10 9 (31.03%) Datadog
10 9 (31.03%) Observability
10 9 (31.03%) OpenTofu
10 9 (31.03%) Pulumi
10 9 (31.03%) Software Delivery
11 8 (27.59%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (27.59%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (27.59%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (27.59%) Kubernetes
12 7 (24.14%) DevOps
12 7 (24.14%) Migration
13 6 (20.69%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (20.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 6 (20.69%) Amazon S3
13 6 (20.69%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (20.69%) Packer
13 6 (20.69%) Serverless

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.45%) Apache Solr
1 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 29 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (58.62%) GitHub
3 9 (31.03%) Datadog
4 8 (27.59%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (27.59%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (27.59%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (20.69%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (20.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 6 (20.69%) Amazon S3
5 6 (20.69%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (20.69%) Serverless
6 5 (17.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (17.24%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (17.24%) Amazon EventBridge
6 5 (17.24%) Amazon Kinesis
6 5 (17.24%) Amazon MSK
6 5 (17.24%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (6.90%) Cloudflare
7 2 (6.90%) Kong
7 2 (6.90%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) DNS
1 2 (6.90%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.45%) Flink
1 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (48.28%) Jenkins
2 9 (31.03%) CircleCI
3 5 (17.24%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Finance
3 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (79.31%) Terraform
2 9 (31.03%) OpenTofu
2 9 (31.03%) Pulumi
3 5 (17.24%) SAML
4 4 (13.79%) Web Services
5 1 (3.45%) AWS CDK
5 1 (3.45%) Kafka
5 1 (3.45%) RESTful
5 1 (3.45%) Spring
5 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (27.59%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 10 (34.48%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 24 (82.76%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (79.31%) CI/CD
4 13 (44.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 11 (37.93%) Software Engineering
6 9 (31.03%) Observability
6 9 (31.03%) Software Delivery
7 7 (24.14%) DevOps
7 7 (24.14%) Migration
8 4 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (10.34%) Agile
9 3 (10.34%) Auto-Scaling
9 3 (10.34%) Configuration Management
9 3 (10.34%) Network Load Balancing
10 2 (6.90%) Containerisation
10 2 (6.90%) Fintech
11 1 (3.45%) Deployment Automation
11 1 (3.45%) High-Frequency Trading
11 1 (3.45%) Low Latency
11 1 (3.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (75.86%) Python
2 5 (17.24%) Bash
2 5 (17.24%) PowerShell
3 4 (13.79%) Groovy
4 1 (3.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 14 (48.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (27.59%) Kubernetes
2 6 (20.69%) Packer
3 5 (17.24%) Argo
4 4 (13.79%) Progress Chef
5 2 (6.90%) Ansible