DevOps Platform Engineer Jobs

Platform Engineer - DevOps
UK

The median Platform Engineer - DevOps salary in the UK is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 668 892 892
Rank change year-on-year +224 0 +248
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Platform Engineer 32 20 88
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.059% 0.020% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% 0.021% 0.093%
Number of salaries quoted 21 18 70
10th Percentile £68,750 £56,000 £52,125
25th Percentile £73,750 £85,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £93,750 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% +29.31% +3.57%
75th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £90,000
90th Percentile - - £102,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% +7.14% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 49,015 93,487 94,651
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 94.63% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,518 67,038 59,603
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

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 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps Platform Engineer in the UK

DevOps Platform Engineer
Top 6 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 May 2025. 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 +182 30 £112,500 +21.62% 7
London +109 23 £140,000 +27.27% 4
Work from Home +151 13 £77,500 -18.42% 1
UK excluding London +203 7 £77,500 +3.33% 4
South West +123 4 £75,000 - 2
East of England - 3 £77,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2025, 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 32 (100.00%) DevOps
1 32 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 30 (93.75%) CI/CD
3 29 (90.63%) Kubernetes
4 27 (84.38%) Docker
4 27 (84.38%) Python
5 24 (75.00%) Terraform
6 23 (71.88%) AWS
7 22 (68.75%) Ansible
7 22 (68.75%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (50.00%) Containerisation
8 16 (50.00%) Linux
9 14 (43.75%) Bicep
10 12 (37.50%) GitLab
11 11 (34.38%) Progress Chef
11 11 (34.38%) Puppet
11 11 (34.38%) Fintech
12 10 (31.25%) Public Cloud
12 10 (31.25%) GCP
12 10 (31.25%) Deployment Automation
12 10 (31.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 10 (31.25%) Podman
12 10 (31.25%) Pulumi
12 10 (31.25%) Low Latency
13 9 (28.13%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (21.88%) Bash
14 7 (21.88%) Azure
15 6 (18.75%) REST
15 6 (18.75%) Machine Learning
15 6 (18.75%) SonarQube

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 23 (71.88%) AWS
2 10 (31.25%) GCP
2 10 (31.25%) Pulumi
3 7 (21.88%) Azure
4 4 (12.50%) Azure AKS
4 4 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (9.38%) OpenShift
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.13%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (3.13%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (3.13%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.13%) Datadog
7 1 (3.13%) IaaS
7 1 (3.13%) PaaS
7 1 (3.13%) Route 53
7 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.13%) DynamoDB
1 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (37.50%) GitLab
2 9 (28.13%) Sonatype Nexus
3 6 (18.75%) SonarQube
4 3 (9.38%) Artifactory
4 3 (9.38%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.13%) Git
General
1 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (3.13%) Finance
3 1 (3.13%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) REST
2 1 (3.13%) AWS SAM
2 1 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.13%) JSON
2 1 (3.13%) Node.js
2 1 (3.13%) React
2 1 (3.13%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (31.25%) Public Cloud
2 5 (15.63%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 16 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) DevOps
1 32 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 30 (93.75%) CI/CD
3 22 (68.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 11 (34.38%) Fintech
6 10 (31.25%) Deployment Automation
6 10 (31.25%) Low Latency
6 10 (31.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (18.75%) Event-Driven
7 6 (18.75%) Machine Learning
8 5 (15.63%) Cloud Security
8 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (12.50%) Migration
10 3 (9.38%) Cost Management
10 3 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (9.38%) RAD
10 3 (9.38%) Workshop Facilitation
11 2 (6.25%) Culture Change
11 2 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 27 (84.38%) Python
2 14 (43.75%) Bicep
3 7 (21.88%) Bash
4 4 (12.50%) Go
4 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 3 (9.38%) Java
6 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.13%) PHP
7 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 27 (84.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (90.63%) Kubernetes
2 24 (75.00%) Terraform
3 22 (68.75%) Ansible
4 11 (34.38%) Progress Chef
4 11 (34.38%) Puppet
5 10 (31.25%) Podman
6 3 (9.38%) Rancher
7 1 (3.13%) Grafana
7 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.13%) IBM