Azure Platform Engineer Jobs

Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure salary in the UK is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 826 953 1197
Rank change year-on-year +127 +244 -470
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Platform Engineer 62 42 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.063% 0.041% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.045% 0.025%
Number of salaries quoted 41 35 35
10th Percentile - £48,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -7.14% +47.37%
75th Percentile £96,250 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £87,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +26.32%

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 93,864 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,182 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £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%

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 8 May 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 8 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 +96 55 £82,500 +17.86% 15
Work from Home +88 34 £92,500 +42.31% 9
London +140 29 £97,500 +30.00% 5
UK excluding London -12 25 £60,000 -7.69% 11
North of England +36 19 £60,000 -11.11% 5
North West +15 12 £60,000 +14.29% 4
Yorkshire +65 6 £80,000 +14.29% 1
North East - 3 £80,000 -
South West - 3 £65,000 - 2
Midlands +5 2 - - 1
East Midlands - 2 - -
Wales +8 1 £60,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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 62 (100.00%) Azure
1 62 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 44 (70.97%) Terraform
3 38 (61.29%) DevOps
4 29 (46.77%) SQL
4 29 (46.77%) Azure AKS
5 28 (45.16%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (45.16%) Microsoft
6 23 (37.10%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (33.87%) Kubernetes
7 21 (33.87%) PaaS
8 19 (30.65%) PowerShell
9 18 (29.03%) Python
9 18 (29.03%) Docker
10 17 (27.42%) Ansible
10 17 (27.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 16 (25.81%) Analytics
11 16 (25.81%) Azure SQL Database
12 15 (24.19%) Bash
12 15 (24.19%) Agile
13 14 (22.58%) MongoDB
13 14 (22.58%) PostgreSQL
13 14 (22.58%) IaaS
13 14 (22.58%) Social Skills
14 13 (20.97%) Entra ID
14 13 (20.97%) Active Directory
15 12 (19.35%) Finance
15 12 (19.35%) MySQL
15 12 (19.35%) CI/CD
15 12 (19.35%) Serverless

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 2 (3.23%) SAS
2 1 (1.61%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 62 (100.00%) Azure
2 29 (46.77%) Azure AKS
3 28 (45.16%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (33.87%) PaaS
5 17 (27.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 14 (22.58%) IaaS
7 13 (20.97%) Entra ID
8 12 (19.35%) Serverless
9 10 (16.13%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (12.90%) GitHub
11 7 (11.29%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (11.29%) Pulumi
12 6 (9.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (9.68%) Datadog
13 5 (8.06%) Power Platform
14 4 (6.45%) AWS
14 4 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (6.45%) SaaS
15 2 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
16 1 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (17.74%) Firewall
2 7 (11.29%) IPv4
2 7 (11.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (25.81%) Azure SQL Database
2 14 (22.58%) MongoDB
2 14 (22.58%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (19.35%) MySQL
4 10 (16.13%) MariaDB
4 10 (16.13%) Redis
5 5 (8.06%) Power BI
6 4 (6.45%) NoSQL
7 2 (3.23%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (3.23%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (16.13%) Jenkins
2 7 (11.29%) Octopus Deploy
3 6 (9.68%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.61%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.61%) Git
4 1 (1.61%) GitLab
4 1 (1.61%) JIRA
4 1 (1.61%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.61%) Vagrant
General
1 14 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 12 (19.35%) Finance
3 9 (14.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (9.68%) Retail
5 2 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.68%) ARM Templates
2 5 (8.06%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (4.84%) SAML
4 2 (3.23%) Loki
5 1 (1.61%) .NET
5 1 (1.61%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.29%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.68%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (9.68%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.45%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.84%) Private Cloud
5 2 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.61%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.52%) Windows
2 6 (9.68%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.23%) Linux
3 2 (3.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 38 (61.29%) DevOps
3 23 (37.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (25.81%) Analytics
5 15 (24.19%) Agile
6 12 (19.35%) CI/CD
7 11 (17.74%) Configuration Management
7 11 (17.74%) Design Patterns
7 11 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (16.13%) Creative Problem-Solving
8 10 (16.13%) Machine Learning
9 9 (14.52%) DataOps
10 8 (12.90%) API Management
10 8 (12.90%) Containerisation
10 8 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (11.29%) Disaster Recovery
12 6 (9.68%) Business Continuity
12 6 (9.68%) Collaborative Culture
12 6 (9.68%) Security Operations
12 6 (9.68%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 29 (46.77%) SQL
2 19 (30.65%) PowerShell
3 18 (29.03%) Python
4 15 (24.19%) Bash
5 10 (16.13%) Go
5 10 (16.13%) Java
6 8 (12.90%) C#
7 7 (11.29%) JavaScript
7 7 (11.29%) Ruby
7 7 (11.29%) TypeScript
8 6 (9.68%) Groovy
8 6 (9.68%) PHP
9 1 (1.61%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 10 (16.13%) Azure Certification
2 7 (11.29%) Degree
3 5 (8.06%) Security Cleared
4 4 (6.45%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 18 (29.03%) Docker
2 13 (20.97%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (70.97%) Terraform
2 21 (33.87%) Kubernetes
3 17 (27.42%) Ansible
4 10 (16.13%) Grafana
4 10 (16.13%) Prometheus
5 7 (11.29%) Progress Chef
5 7 (11.29%) Puppet
6 6 (9.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (4.84%) Packer
8 2 (3.23%) Kibana
8 2 (3.23%) logstash
9 1 (1.61%) Consul
9 1 (1.61%) Salt
Vendors
1 28 (45.16%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.68%) New Relic
2 6 (9.68%) SaltStack
3 4 (6.45%) Databricks
4 2 (3.23%) Dataiku
4 2 (3.23%) Splunk
5 1 (1.61%) Google