Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 861 905 1157
Rank change year-on-year +44 +252 -363
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Platform Engineer 33 76 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.075% 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.082% 0.043%
Number of salaries quoted 32 76 62
10th Percentile £56,825 £53,125 £47,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £71,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.77% +9.62% -7.14%
75th Percentile £97,500 £88,125 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -9.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 93,899 92,293 151,422
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.47% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,283 58,235 84,441
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,627 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

AWS Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured AWS Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Platform Engineer in the UK

AWS Platform Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Platform Engineer.

Salary trend for AWS Platform Engineer in the UK

AWS Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS Platform Engineer in the UK

AWS Platform Engineer
Top 11 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 11 May 2024. 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 +33 29 £77,500 +6.90% 6
London +132 24 £80,000 - 3
Work from Home +46 22 £76,250 +5.17% 5
UK excluding London -42 6 £60,000 -14.29% 4
South East - 2 £77,500 - 1
Yorkshire +70 1 £60,000 -11.11%
West Midlands +6 1 £58,500 -16.43% 1
North of England -1 1 £60,000 -14.29% 1
Midlands -12 1 £58,500 -19.31% 1
South West -51 1 £60,000 -17.24%
Scotland - 1 - -

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, AWS 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 featuring AWS Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 33 (100.00%) AWS
1 33 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 30 (90.91%) Terraform
3 28 (84.85%) CI/CD
4 26 (78.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (78.79%) Kubernetes
5 24 (72.73%) Docker
6 21 (63.64%) Python
7 20 (60.61%) DevOps
8 19 (57.58%) Jenkins
9 14 (42.42%) Serverless
10 13 (39.39%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (36.36%) Amazon S3
11 12 (36.36%) Amazon RDS
11 12 (36.36%) GitHub
11 12 (36.36%) Infrastructure Automation
11 12 (36.36%) Route 53
11 12 (36.36%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (36.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 11 (33.33%) Migration
12 11 (33.33%) Containerisation
13 10 (30.30%) Data Migration
13 10 (30.30%) Java
13 10 (30.30%) Infrastructure Management
13 10 (30.30%) Identity Access Management
13 10 (30.30%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (27.27%) Ansible
14 9 (27.27%) Packer
14 9 (27.27%) Sonatype Nexus
14 9 (27.27%) Social Skills

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (27.27%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 33 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (42.42%) Serverless
3 13 (39.39%) Amazon EC2
4 12 (36.36%) Amazon S3
4 12 (36.36%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (36.36%) GitHub
4 12 (36.36%) Route 53
4 12 (36.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 10 (30.30%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (21.21%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (9.09%) PaaS
8 2 (6.06%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (6.06%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (3.03%) GCP
9 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
9 1 (3.03%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (36.36%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.03%) MySQL
2 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (57.58%) Jenkins
2 9 (27.27%) Bitbucket
2 9 (27.27%) JIRA
2 9 (27.27%) Sonatype Nexus
2 9 (27.27%) Subversion
3 7 (21.21%) Git
4 2 (6.06%) CircleCI
5 1 (3.03%) GitLab
5 1 (3.03%) MLflow
5 1 (3.03%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Finance
3 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (12.12%) SAML
3 1 (3.03%) AWS CDK
3 1 (3.03%) Middleware
3 1 (3.03%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
1 9 (27.27%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (12.12%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.03%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 9 (27.27%) Linux
2 2 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (6.06%) Windows
3 1 (3.03%) CentOS
3 1 (3.03%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 28 (84.85%) CI/CD
3 26 (78.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (60.61%) DevOps
5 12 (36.36%) Infrastructure Automation
6 11 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 11 (33.33%) Migration
7 10 (30.30%) Data Migration
7 10 (30.30%) Identity Access Management
7 10 (30.30%) Infrastructure Management
8 6 (18.18%) Configuration Management
8 6 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (15.15%) Deployment Automation
9 5 (15.15%) Innovative Thinking
10 4 (12.12%) Agile
10 4 (12.12%) Identity Management
11 3 (9.09%) Software Testing
12 2 (6.06%) Runbook
12 2 (6.06%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 21 (63.64%) Python
2 10 (30.30%) Java
3 7 (21.21%) Bash
4 3 (9.09%) Groovy
4 3 (9.09%) SQL
5 1 (3.03%) C
5 1 (3.03%) Go
5 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.03%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 9 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.21%) AWS Certification
3 6 (18.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (3.03%) Degree
4 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 24 (72.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (90.91%) Terraform
2 26 (78.79%) Kubernetes
3 9 (27.27%) Ansible
3 9 (27.27%) Packer
4 5 (15.15%) Grafana
4 5 (15.15%) Progress Chef
4 5 (15.15%) Prometheus
4 5 (15.15%) Puppet
4 5 (15.15%) Salt
Vendors
1 9 (27.27%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.03%) Databricks
2 1 (3.03%) Dataiku
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft