DevOps Platform Engineer Jobs

Platform Engineer - DevOps
UK

The median Platform Engineer - DevOps salary in the UK is £93,750 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 874 893 1128
Rank change year-on-year +19 +235 -346
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Platform Engineer 20 88 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.087% 0.060%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.095% 0.062%
Number of salaries quoted 18 70 52
10th Percentile £56,000 £52,125 £52,625
25th Percentile £85,000 £56,563 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £93,750 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.31% -3.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £115,000 £95,625 £87,500
90th Percentile - £102,750 £89,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +16.67%

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%

DevOps Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Platform Engineer in the UK

DevOps Platform Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for DevOps Platform Engineer in the UK

DevOps Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for DevOps Platform Engineer in the UK

DevOps Platform Engineer
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps 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 +7 15 £92,500 +27.59% 3
Work from Home +36 13 £95,000 +31.03% 2
London +118 12 £110,000 +15.79% 2
UK excluding London -47 2 £75,000 +7.14%
South West -50 2 £75,000 +3.45%

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

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

1 20 (100.00%) DevOps
1 20 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 18 (90.00%) Terraform
3 13 (65.00%) Kubernetes
4 11 (55.00%) Docker
4 11 (55.00%) Azure
4 11 (55.00%) Python
5 10 (50.00%) AWS
5 10 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
5 10 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
6 9 (45.00%) PaaS
7 8 (40.00%) Bash
8 7 (35.00%) IaaS
8 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
8 7 (35.00%) SQL
8 7 (35.00%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (35.00%) Azure AKS
9 6 (30.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (30.00%) Entra ID
9 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
9 6 (30.00%) Jenkins
9 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
9 6 (30.00%) Git
9 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
10 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
10 5 (25.00%) Agile
10 5 (25.00%) Ansible
10 5 (25.00%) Elastic Stack

DevOps 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) Azure
2 10 (50.00%) AWS
3 9 (45.00%) PaaS
4 7 (35.00%) Azure AKS
4 7 (35.00%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (35.00%) IaaS
5 6 (30.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 6 (30.00%) Entra ID
6 5 (25.00%) Serverless
7 4 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (15.00%) GitHub
9 2 (10.00%) SaaS
10 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
10 1 (5.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Firewall
1 4 (20.00%) IPv4
1 4 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (10.00%) MariaDB
1 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (10.00%) MySQL
1 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (10.00%) Redis
2 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Git
1 6 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) CircleCI
2 1 (5.00%) GitLab
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (5.00%) Vagrant
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (10.00%) SAML
3 1 (5.00%) ADO
3 1 (5.00%) JSON
3 1 (5.00%) Node.js
3 1 (5.00%) React
3 1 (5.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) DevOps
1 20 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 10 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 10 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (25.00%) Agile
4 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (20.00%) API Management
5 4 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (15.00%) Configuration Management
6 3 (15.00%) Microservices
7 2 (10.00%) Architectural Design
7 2 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (10.00%) Design Patterns
7 2 (10.00%) Fintech
7 2 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
8 1 (5.00%) Generative AI
8 1 (5.00%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) Python
2 8 (40.00%) Bash
3 7 (35.00%) SQL
4 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 4 (20.00%) Java
6 2 (10.00%) C#
7 1 (5.00%) Go
7 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
7 1 (5.00%) Ruby
7 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 5 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 11 (55.00%) Docker
2 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (90.00%) Terraform
2 13 (65.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (25.00%) Ansible
3 5 (25.00%) Grafana
3 5 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 3 (15.00%) Puppet
5 2 (10.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (10.00%) Progress Chef
6 1 (5.00%) Consul
6 1 (5.00%) Packer
6 1 (5.00%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) Splunk