Platform Engineer Jobs

Platform Engineer
UK

The median Platform Engineer salary in the UK is £70,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 420 470 527
Rank change year-on-year +50 +57 +137
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 328 490 546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.49% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.52% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 198 275 381
10th Percentile £55,823 £53,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,176 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +7.14% +4.63%
75th Percentile £89,688 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £112,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,560 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.90% -7.41% +22.73%

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 49,922 93,907 92,301
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.55% 94.63% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 27,447 67,290 58,243
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £80,627
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%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in the UK

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in the UK

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in the UK

Platform Engineer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 +65 321 £70,000 -6.67% 263
UK excluding London +79 196 £57,560 -7.90% 177
North of England +85 150 £57,560 -4.07% 53
North West +73 145 £57,560 -11.45% 36
London +63 120 £90,000 +9.09% 129
Work from Home +60 65 £72,500 -3.33% 187
South East +85 20 £51,000 -15.00% 62
West Midlands +50 9 £72,500 +3.57% 14
Midlands +41 9 £72,500 +11.54% 20
South West +76 8 £78,750 +16.67% 16
East of England +39 6 £77,500 -3.13% 18
Yorkshire +27 4 £62,500 +4.17% 12
Wales +32 2 £63,250 +15.00%
Scotland +67 1 - - 6
North East +34 1 £75,500 -5.63% 5

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2025, 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 Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 258 (78.66%) Platform Engineering
2 146 (44.51%) Degree
3 127 (38.72%) Python
4 122 (37.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 121 (36.89%) Terraform
6 116 (35.37%) CI/CD
7 106 (32.32%) Kubernetes
8 105 (32.01%) Azure
9 101 (30.79%) Infrastructure as Code
10 99 (30.18%) AWS
11 98 (29.88%) Agile
12 93 (28.35%) DevOps
13 85 (25.91%) Ansible
14 82 (25.00%) Docker
15 78 (23.78%) Mentoring
16 68 (20.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 65 (19.82%) ArchiMate
17 65 (19.82%) Rational DOORS
17 65 (19.82%) Teamcenter
17 65 (19.82%) MODAF
17 65 (19.82%) SysML
17 65 (19.82%) TOGAF
17 65 (19.82%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
17 65 (19.82%) Programme Delivery
17 65 (19.82%) TOGAF Certification
17 65 (19.82%) Sparx
17 65 (19.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
17 65 (19.82%) Product Ownership
18 63 (19.21%) Linux
19 59 (17.99%) Containerisation

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 9 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.44%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.13%) IBM Domino
3 7 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.52%) Apache
4 5 (1.52%) Confluence
5 3 (0.91%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.61%) Jupyter
Applications
1 57 (17.38%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.91%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 65 (19.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 65 (19.82%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 105 (32.01%) Azure
2 99 (30.18%) AWS
3 55 (16.77%) GCP
4 27 (8.23%) Pulumi
5 25 (7.62%) GitHub
6 22 (6.71%) PaaS
7 19 (5.79%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (5.49%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (4.57%) Amazon S3
10 14 (4.27%) SaaS
11 13 (3.96%) Cloud Computing
12 12 (3.66%) IaaS
12 12 (3.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (3.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (3.35%) OpenShift
14 10 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (3.05%) Serverless
15 9 (2.74%) Azure AKS
16 8 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.13%) Cisco IOS
1 7 (2.13%) LAN
1 7 (2.13%) WAN
2 6 (1.83%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.83%) VPN
3 5 (1.52%) Firewall
4 4 (1.22%) DHCP
4 4 (1.22%) DNS
5 3 (0.91%) SSL
6 2 (0.61%) Internet
7 1 (0.30%) Network Security
7 1 (0.30%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (2.44%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.52%) Hadoop
5 5 (1.52%) HBase
6 4 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (1.22%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.22%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.22%) Tableau
7 3 (0.91%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.91%) Power BI
7 3 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.61%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.61%) Impala
8 2 (0.61%) Metadata
8 2 (0.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 65 (19.82%) Rational DOORS
2 29 (8.84%) Jenkins
3 24 (7.32%) GitLab
4 15 (4.57%) Sonatype Nexus
5 11 (3.35%) SonarQube
6 10 (3.05%) TeamCity
7 6 (1.83%) JIRA
8 5 (1.52%) Vagrant
9 4 (1.22%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.22%) Git
10 3 (0.91%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (0.91%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.30%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 45 (13.72%) Finance
2 39 (11.89%) Social Skills
3 22 (6.71%) Law
4 15 (4.57%) Banking
5 12 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.05%) Public Sector
7 6 (1.83%) Front Office
8 5 (1.52%) Advertising
9 4 (1.22%) Marketing
10 3 (0.91%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.61%) Electronics
12 1 (0.30%) Aviation
12 1 (0.30%) Games
12 1 (0.30%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.18%) Kafka
1 17 (5.18%) REST
2 15 (4.57%) ARM Templates
3 10 (3.05%) ADO
4 9 (2.74%) Spring Boot
5 7 (2.13%) Spring
6 6 (1.83%) AWS CDK
7 5 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (1.52%) React
8 4 (1.22%) ActiveMQ
8 4 (1.22%) Loki
8 4 (1.22%) YAML
9 3 (0.91%) .NET
9 3 (0.91%) JSON
9 3 (0.91%) Node.js
9 3 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
10 2 (0.61%) Django
11 1 (0.30%) JSON-LD
11 1 (0.30%) RESTful
11 1 (0.30%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 65 (19.82%) Product Ownership
2 21 (6.40%) Public Cloud
3 9 (2.74%) Distributed Computing
4 8 (2.44%) Cloud Native
4 8 (2.44%) Clustering
5 7 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (1.83%) Replication
7 5 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.22%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.91%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.91%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.61%) Blog
10 2 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.30%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.30%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.30%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.30%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.30%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.30%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 63 (19.21%) Linux
2 23 (7.01%) Windows
3 15 (4.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.74%) Android
4 9 (2.74%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.13%) Mac OS
5 7 (2.13%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.52%) VMS
7 4 (1.22%) Unix
7 4 (1.22%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (1.22%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.91%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.61%) CentOS
9 2 (0.61%) Solaris
10 1 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (78.66%) Platform Engineering
2 116 (35.37%) CI/CD
3 101 (30.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 98 (29.88%) Agile
5 93 (28.35%) DevOps
6 78 (23.78%) Mentoring
7 68 (20.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 65 (19.82%) ArchiMate
8 65 (19.82%) MODAF
8 65 (19.82%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 65 (19.82%) Programme Delivery
8 65 (19.82%) SysML
8 65 (19.82%) TOGAF
9 59 (17.99%) Containerisation
10 57 (17.38%) CAD
11 34 (10.37%) Analytics
12 31 (9.45%) Artificial Intelligence
13 30 (9.15%) Roadmaps
14 28 (8.54%) Deployment Automation
15 27 (8.23%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 127 (38.72%) Python
2 41 (12.50%) Bash
2 41 (12.50%) Bicep
3 39 (11.89%) Java
4 38 (11.59%) PowerShell
5 26 (7.93%) Go
5 26 (7.93%) Ruby
6 17 (5.18%) Scala
7 14 (4.27%) SQL
8 10 (3.05%) Perl
9 8 (2.44%) TypeScript
10 6 (1.83%) Groovy
10 6 (1.83%) JavaScript
11 5 (1.52%) C#
12 3 (0.91%) C++
12 3 (0.91%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.91%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.61%) Rust
14 1 (0.30%) PHP
14 1 (0.30%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 146 (44.51%) Degree
2 122 (37.20%) BPSS Clearance
3 65 (19.82%) TOGAF Certification
4 22 (6.71%) Security Cleared
5 19 (5.79%) SC Cleared
6 17 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (5.18%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.44%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.22%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.30%) CCSP
9 1 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.30%) CISSP
9 1 (0.30%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.74%) GDPR
2 5 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.22%) QA
4 3 (0.91%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.61%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.61%) NIST
5 2 (0.61%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 82 (25.00%) Docker
2 21 (6.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (6.10%) Active Directory
4 13 (3.96%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (2.13%) Hyper-V
5 7 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.91%) vSphere
7 2 (0.61%) HDFS
8 1 (0.30%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.30%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 121 (36.89%) Terraform
2 106 (32.32%) Kubernetes
3 85 (25.91%) Ansible
4 37 (11.28%) Puppet
5 34 (10.37%) Progress Chef
6 18 (5.49%) Podman
7 17 (5.18%) Grafana
8 13 (3.96%) Prometheus
9 5 (1.52%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (1.52%) SCCM
10 3 (0.91%) Nagios
10 3 (0.91%) Nessus
10 3 (0.91%) Packer
10 3 (0.91%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.91%) Rancher
11 2 (0.61%) Argo
11 2 (0.61%) AWS Copilot
11 2 (0.61%) Consul
11 2 (0.61%) Hadoop YARN
12 1 (0.30%) Salt
Vendors
1 65 (19.82%) Sparx
2 35 (10.67%) Microsoft
3 23 (7.01%) Google
3 23 (7.01%) VMware
4 13 (3.96%) Citrix
5 12 (3.66%) Red Hat
6 10 (3.05%) Databricks
7 9 (2.74%) Oracle
8 8 (2.44%) Palo Alto
9 7 (2.13%) Cisco
10 5 (1.52%) Cloudera
11 4 (1.22%) EMC
11 4 (1.22%) Hitachi
11 4 (1.22%) TOWER Software
11 4 (1.22%) WSO2
12 3 (0.91%) Juniper
12 3 (0.91%) SolarWinds
13 2 (0.61%) Dynatrace
13 2 (0.61%) MapR
13 2 (0.61%) ServiceNow