Azure Platform Engineer Jobs

Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure salary in the UK is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 838 948 1172
Rank change year-on-year +110 +224 -475
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Platform Engineer 56 45 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.057% 0.043% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.060% 0.047% 0.027%
Number of salaries quoted 37 36 37
10th Percentile - £48,125 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% - +47.37%
75th Percentile £100,000 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £87,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +31.58%

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 92,901 95,961 148,050
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,751 60,281 85,224
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,495
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Azure Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Platform Engineer in the UK

Azure Platform Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Azure Platform Engineer in the UK

Azure Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure Platform Engineer in the UK

Azure Platform Engineer
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Platform Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +128 50 £85,000 +21.43% 15
Work from Home +98 31 £92,500 +42.31% 13
UK excluding London -6 25 £60,000 -7.69% 14
London +150 24 £105,000 +27.27% 5
North of England +40 19 £60,000 -14.29% 5
North West +16 12 £60,000 +14.29% 3
Yorkshire +82 6 £80,000 +14.29% 1
North East - 3 £80,000 - 1
South West - 3 £65,000 - 2
Midlands +8 2 - - 1
East Midlands - 2 - -
Wales +7 1 £60,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Azure 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 Azure Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 56 (100.00%) Azure
1 56 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 39 (69.64%) Terraform
3 34 (60.71%) DevOps
4 26 (46.43%) Azure AKS
4 26 (46.43%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (42.86%) SQL
5 24 (42.86%) Microsoft
6 21 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (33.93%) Kubernetes
8 18 (32.14%) PaaS
9 17 (30.36%) Python
10 15 (26.79%) Docker
10 15 (26.79%) Analytics
10 15 (26.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 14 (25.00%) IaaS
11 14 (25.00%) Ansible
11 14 (25.00%) PowerShell
12 13 (23.21%) Social Skills
13 12 (21.43%) MongoDB
13 12 (21.43%) Azure SQL Database
13 12 (21.43%) Agile
13 12 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
14 11 (19.64%) Active Directory
14 11 (19.64%) Firewall
14 11 (19.64%) Bash
14 11 (19.64%) Entra ID
14 11 (19.64%) CI/CD
15 10 (17.86%) Azure Monitor
15 10 (17.86%) Creative Problem-Solving

Azure 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 1 (1.79%) SAS
1 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 56 (100.00%) Azure
2 26 (46.43%) Azure AKS
2 26 (46.43%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (32.14%) PaaS
4 15 (26.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 14 (25.00%) IaaS
6 11 (19.64%) Entra ID
7 10 (17.86%) Azure Monitor
7 10 (17.86%) Serverless
8 7 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
8 7 (12.50%) Pulumi
9 6 (10.71%) Datadog
10 5 (8.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (8.93%) GitHub
10 5 (8.93%) Power Platform
11 4 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (7.14%) SaaS
12 3 (5.36%) AWS
13 2 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
14 1 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (19.64%) Firewall
2 7 (12.50%) IPv4
2 7 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.43%) Azure SQL Database
1 12 (21.43%) MongoDB
1 12 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (17.86%) MySQL
3 8 (14.29%) MariaDB
3 8 (14.29%) Redis
4 5 (8.93%) Power BI
5 4 (7.14%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (17.86%) Jenkins
2 6 (10.71%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (7.14%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.79%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.79%) Git
4 1 (1.79%) GitLab
4 1 (1.79%) JIRA
4 1 (1.79%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.79%) Vagrant
General
1 13 (23.21%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.86%) Finance
3 9 (16.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (10.71%) Retail
5 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.71%) ARM Templates
2 3 (5.36%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (3.57%) Loki
3 2 (3.57%) SAML
4 1 (1.79%) .NET
4 1 (1.79%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Cloud Native
1 6 (10.71%) Linux Command Line
1 6 (10.71%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.57%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.79%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.29%) Windows
2 5 (8.93%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.79%) Linux
3 1 (1.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 34 (60.71%) DevOps
3 21 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (26.79%) Analytics
5 12 (21.43%) Agile
6 11 (19.64%) CI/CD
7 10 (17.86%) Configuration Management
7 10 (17.86%) Creative Problem-Solving
7 10 (17.86%) Machine Learning
7 10 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (16.07%) DataOps
8 9 (16.07%) Design Patterns
9 8 (14.29%) API Management
9 8 (14.29%) Containerisation
9 8 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (10.71%) Business Continuity
11 6 (10.71%) Collaborative Culture
11 6 (10.71%) Technology Transformation
11 6 (10.71%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 24 (42.86%) SQL
2 17 (30.36%) Python
3 14 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 11 (19.64%) Bash
5 10 (17.86%) Go
5 10 (17.86%) Java
6 8 (14.29%) C#
7 7 (12.50%) JavaScript
7 7 (12.50%) Ruby
7 7 (12.50%) TypeScript
8 6 (10.71%) Groovy
8 6 (10.71%) PHP
9 1 (1.79%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 9 (16.07%) Azure Certification
2 7 (12.50%) Degree
3 5 (8.93%) Security Cleared
4 4 (7.14%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 15 (26.79%) Docker
2 11 (19.64%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (69.64%) Terraform
2 19 (33.93%) Kubernetes
3 14 (25.00%) Ansible
4 10 (17.86%) Grafana
4 10 (17.86%) Prometheus
5 7 (12.50%) Progress Chef
5 7 (12.50%) Puppet
6 4 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (5.36%) Packer
8 2 (3.57%) Kibana
8 2 (3.57%) logstash
9 1 (1.79%) Consul
9 1 (1.79%) Salt
Vendors
1 24 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.71%) New Relic
2 6 (10.71%) SaltStack
3 4 (7.14%) Databricks
4 2 (3.57%) Splunk
5 1 (1.79%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.79%) Google