DevOps Platform Engineer Jobs

Platform Engineer - DevOps
UK

The median Platform Engineer - DevOps salary in the UK is £95,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 879 877 1149
Rank change year-on-year -2 +272 -350
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Platform Engineer 20 92 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.092% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.10% 0.060%
Number of salaries quoted 17 71 48
10th Percentile £55,500 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £56,875 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +31.03% - +5.45%
75th Percentile £115,000 £93,750 £87,500
90th Percentile - £102,500 £88,250
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 94,378 91,115 153,780
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.48% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,475 57,415 84,334
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 £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
% change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%

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 16 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 16 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 +19 15 £101,250 +39.66% 3
Work from Home +20 14 £95,000 +31.03% 2
London +113 12 £110,000 +15.79% 2
South West -48 2 £75,000 +3.45%
UK excluding London -62 2 £75,000 +7.14%

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 14 (70.00%) Kubernetes
4 12 (60.00%) Docker
4 12 (60.00%) Azure
5 10 (50.00%) PaaS
5 10 (50.00%) Python
5 10 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 10 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
6 9 (45.00%) Bash
6 9 (45.00%) AWS
7 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
7 8 (40.00%) SQL
7 8 (40.00%) Azure AKS
7 8 (40.00%) CI/CD
8 7 (35.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 7 (35.00%) Entra ID
8 7 (35.00%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (35.00%) Active Directory
8 7 (35.00%) IaaS
9 6 (30.00%) Jenkins
9 6 (30.00%) Git
9 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
9 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
9 6 (30.00%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (25.00%) Serverless
10 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering

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 12 (60.00%) Azure
2 10 (50.00%) PaaS
3 9 (45.00%) AWS
4 8 (40.00%) Azure AKS
5 7 (35.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 7 (35.00%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (35.00%) Entra ID
5 7 (35.00%) IaaS
6 5 (25.00%) Serverless
7 4 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (20.00%) GitHub
8 2 (10.00%) SaaS
9 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (5.00%) GCP
9 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
9 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 3 (15.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (15.00%) MariaDB
1 3 (15.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (15.00%) MySQL
1 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (15.00%) 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 2 (10.00%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (5.00%) CircleCI
3 1 (5.00%) GitLab
3 1 (5.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (5.00%) Vagrant
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.00%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (15.00%) 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 3 (15.00%) Private Cloud
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 3 (15.00%) 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 8 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (25.00%) Agile
4 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (20.00%) API Management
5 4 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (15.00%) Design Patterns
6 3 (15.00%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (15.00%) Microservices
7 2 (10.00%) Configuration Management
7 2 (10.00%) Fintech
8 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 1 (5.00%) People Management
8 1 (5.00%) Project Management
8 1 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (5.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) Python
2 9 (45.00%) Bash
3 8 (40.00%) 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 12 (60.00%) Docker
2 7 (35.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (90.00%) Terraform
2 14 (70.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (25.00%) Ansible
4 4 (20.00%) Grafana
4 4 (20.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (15.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (10.00%) Progress Chef
6 2 (10.00%) Puppet
7 1 (5.00%) Consul
7 1 (5.00%) Packer
7 1 (5.00%) Salt
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Google