DevOps Platform Engineer Job Trends

Platform Engineer - DevOps
UK

The median Platform Engineer - DevOps salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 August 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 716 662 812
Rank change year-on-year -54 +150 -40
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Platform Engineer 71 20 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.068% 0.040% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.045% 0.023%
Number of salaries quoted 53 5 14
10th Percentile £55,000 £51,500 -
25th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +36.36% -31.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £78,750 £106,250
90th Percentile £100,000 - £117,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% -1.75%

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 98,814 44,648 79,271
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 90.01% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 67,613 26,525 53,451
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £49,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.85% -0.80% -6.54%

DevOps Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

DevOps Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

DevOps Platform Engineer
Salary Trend

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

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

DevOps Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps Platform Engineer in the UK

DevOps Platform Engineer
Top 14 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 7 August 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 -51 58 £75,000 - 20
UK excluding London -40 49 £70,000 -9.68% 6
Work from Home -7 23 £100,000 - 10
North of England - 22 £70,000 - 1
North West - 21 £70,000 - 1
London -21 20 £100,000 +53.85% 15
Wales - 10 £70,000 - 1
Midlands -32 8 £90,000 -
West Midlands -32 6 £90,000 -
South West -58 6 - - 2
East Midlands - 2 - -
South East - 2 £60,000 - 1
Scotland - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 7 August 2026, DevOps 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 DevOps Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 71 (100.00%) DevOps
1 71 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 33 (46.48%) Azure
3 30 (42.25%) CI/CD
4 29 (40.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (29.58%) Terraform
6 19 (26.76%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (26.76%) Kubernetes
7 11 (15.49%) GCP
7 11 (15.49%) Google
8 10 (14.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 7 (9.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (9.86%) Mentoring
9 7 (9.86%) Python
9 7 (9.86%) SC Cleared
9 7 (9.86%) Security Cleared
10 6 (8.45%) API Management
10 6 (8.45%) Azure App Service
10 6 (8.45%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (8.45%) GitOps
10 6 (8.45%) PaaS
10 6 (8.45%) PowerShell
10 6 (8.45%) SaaS
10 6 (8.45%) SQL
11 5 (7.04%) AI
11 5 (7.04%) Argo
11 5 (7.04%) AWS
11 5 (7.04%) Containerisation
11 5 (7.04%) GitHub
11 5 (7.04%) GitHub Actions

DevOps 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 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 33 (46.48%) Azure
2 19 (26.76%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (15.49%) GCP
4 10 (14.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 6 (8.45%) Azure App Service
5 6 (8.45%) PaaS
5 6 (8.45%) SaaS
6 5 (7.04%) AWS
6 5 (7.04%) GitHub
6 5 (7.04%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.82%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.41%) Cloud Functions
9 1 (1.41%) Datadog
9 1 (1.41%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.41%) IaaS
9 1 (1.41%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.23%) Firewall
2 2 (2.82%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.23%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.41%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.41%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.41%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (5.63%) GitLab
2 2 (2.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.82%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.41%) Git
General
1 11 (15.49%) Finance
2 5 (7.04%) Retail
3 4 (5.63%) Health Technology
3 4 (5.63%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.82%) Tech for Good
5 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.23%) Kafka
2 1 (1.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.13%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.23%) Low-Code
3 2 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.41%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.04%) Linux
2 1 (1.41%) Debian
2 1 (1.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (100.00%) DevOps
1 71 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 30 (42.25%) CI/CD
3 29 (40.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (9.86%) Mentoring
5 6 (8.45%) API Management
5 6 (8.45%) GitOps
6 5 (7.04%) AI
6 5 (7.04%) Containerisation
6 5 (7.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (5.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (5.63%) Observability
7 4 (5.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (4.23%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (4.23%) Software Engineering
8 3 (4.23%) Test Automation
9 2 (2.82%) Agile
9 2 (2.82%) Collaborative Working
9 2 (2.82%) SDLC
9 2 (2.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.86%) Python
2 6 (8.45%) PowerShell
2 6 (8.45%) SQL
3 4 (5.63%) Bash
4 2 (2.82%) Bicep
5 1 (1.41%) Groovy
5 1 (1.41%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (9.86%) BPSS Clearance
1 7 (9.86%) SC Cleared
1 7 (9.86%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.23%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.41%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (29.58%) Terraform
2 19 (26.76%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.04%) Argo
4 2 (2.82%) Ansible
4 2 (2.82%) Grafana
4 2 (2.82%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.41%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (15.49%) Google
2 2 (2.82%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.82%) VMware
3 1 (1.41%) Databricks
3 1 (1.41%) Splunk