Platform Engineering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Platform Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 317 380
Rank change year-on-year -8 +63 -135
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 862 1,169 1,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.88% 1.12% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.17% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 426 779 1,027
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% +20.83%
75th Percentile £94,688 £100,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £125,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Platform Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,460 100,219 147,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.03% 95.64% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,759 58,822 83,132
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the UK

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in the UK

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in the UK

Platform Engineering
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineering within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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 -2 785 £75,000 -3.23% 203
UK excluding London +72 554 £65,000 -3.70% 122
London -26 264 £85,000 -5.56% 98
Work from Home -48 256 £75,000 -6.25% 133
North of England +31 177 £60,000 -7.69% 31
South East +63 140 £67,500 -3.57% 22
South West +8 89 £67,500 -0.26% 21
North West -8 78 £65,000 -7.14% 13
Midlands +26 77 £60,000 -15.79% 13
Yorkshire +84 75 £55,000 -14.10% 13
East Midlands +3 39 £60,000 +9.09% 2
West Midlands +26 38 £65,000 -10.34% 11
Scotland -37 38 £72,500 +4.40% 19
North East +17 26 £80,000 +67.81% 5
East of England +33 20 - - 8
Wales +13 13 £55,000 -12.00% 4

Platform Engineering
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 17 (1.97%) Confluence
2 16 (1.86%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.35%) Apache
5 2 (0.23%) IIS
5 2 (0.23%) SAS
6 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.12%) nginx
6 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 470 (54.52%) Azure
2 422 (48.96%) GCP
3 386 (44.78%) AWS
4 153 (17.75%) Azure DevOps
5 70 (8.12%) Power Platform
6 59 (6.84%) PaaS
7 53 (6.15%) GitHub
7 53 (6.15%) Serverless
8 47 (5.45%) SaaS
9 44 (5.10%) IaaS
10 41 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
11 37 (4.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 33 (3.83%) Azure AKS
13 31 (3.60%) Cloud Computing
14 26 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
15 24 (2.78%) Entra ID
16 23 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
17 20 (2.32%) Amazon S3
17 20 (2.32%) AWS Lambda
18 19 (2.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.06%) Firewall
2 29 (3.36%) Network Security
3 26 (3.02%) DNS
4 16 (1.86%) VPN
5 12 (1.39%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.28%) LAN
6 11 (1.28%) WAN
7 9 (1.04%) Internet
8 7 (0.81%) DHCP
8 7 (0.81%) IPv4
9 6 (0.70%) SSL
9 6 (0.70%) VLAN
9 6 (0.70%) Wireless
10 5 (0.58%) BGP
10 5 (0.58%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.58%) IPsec
10 5 (0.58%) NGFW
10 5 (0.58%) OSPF
11 1 (0.12%) 3G
11 1 (0.12%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 368 (42.69%) BigQuery
2 351 (40.72%) Looker
3 226 (26.22%) Data Warehouse
4 61 (7.08%) Power BI
5 38 (4.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 33 (3.83%) Data Lake
7 30 (3.48%) NoSQL
8 26 (3.02%) MySQL
9 22 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
10 18 (2.09%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 15 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
12 14 (1.62%) MongoDB
12 14 (1.62%) Redis
12 14 (1.62%) SQL Server
13 10 (1.16%) Hadoop
14 9 (1.04%) MariaDB
14 9 (1.04%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 8 (0.93%) Big Data
15 8 (0.93%) DynamoDB
15 8 (0.93%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 71 (8.24%) Jenkins
2 56 (6.50%) Git
3 32 (3.71%) JIRA
4 16 (1.86%) TeamCity
5 13 (1.51%) Artifactory
6 12 (1.39%) GitLab
7 11 (1.28%) Bitbucket
7 11 (1.28%) Octopus Deploy
7 11 (1.28%) Snyk
7 11 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (1.04%) Subversion
9 8 (0.93%) Spinnaker
10 6 (0.70%) RStudio
10 6 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.58%) DTrace
11 5 (0.58%) GDB
12 4 (0.46%) CircleCI
13 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.23%) GoCD
13 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 392 (45.48%) Analytical Skills
2 122 (14.15%) Social Skills
3 95 (11.02%) Finance
4 72 (8.35%) Billing
5 39 (4.52%) Banking
5 39 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (4.06%) Retail
7 18 (2.09%) Health Technology
8 16 (1.86%) Law
9 14 (1.62%) Legal
9 14 (1.62%) Retail Banking
10 12 (1.39%) Games
11 7 (0.81%) Marketing
12 4 (0.46%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.46%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.35%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.35%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.23%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.23%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.12%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 438 (50.81%) Platform Engineer
2 234 (27.15%) Data Engineer
3 176 (20.42%) Principal Engineer
4 171 (19.84%) Principal Data Engineer
5 154 (17.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 126 (14.62%) Architect
7 115 (13.34%) Data Architect
8 109 (12.65%) Cloud Engineer
9 96 (11.14%) Engineering Manager
10 95 (11.02%) Senior
11 91 (10.56%) Data Manager
12 82 (9.51%) Azure Engineer
13 62 (7.19%) DevOps Engineer
14 61 (7.08%) Lead
15 56 (6.50%) Azure Platform Engineer
16 49 (5.68%) AWS Engineer
17 35 (4.06%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 31 (3.60%) AWS Platform Engineer
19 28 (3.25%) Senior DevOps
19 28 (3.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.67%) Kafka
2 20 (2.32%) ARM Templates
3 16 (1.86%) .NET
3 16 (1.86%) Node.js
4 15 (1.74%) JSON
5 10 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (1.04%) .NET Framework
7 8 (0.93%) React
7 8 (0.93%) SAML
8 6 (0.70%) JSON Schema
8 6 (0.70%) OpenAPI
8 6 (0.70%) REST
8 6 (0.70%) Swagger
8 6 (0.70%) Web Services
8 6 (0.70%) YAML
9 5 (0.58%) CSS
9 5 (0.58%) HTML
10 4 (0.46%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.46%) FastAPI
11 3 (0.35%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 280 (32.48%) Self-Motivation
2 94 (10.90%) Product Ownership
3 35 (4.06%) Hybrid Cloud
4 33 (3.83%) Cloud Native
5 27 (3.13%) Data Centre
6 23 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
7 18 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (1.86%) Public Cloud
9 12 (1.39%) Cyberattack
10 11 (1.28%) Data Structures
11 8 (0.93%) Algorithms
11 8 (0.93%) Management Information System
11 8 (0.93%) Video\Live Streaming
12 7 (0.81%) Clustering
12 7 (0.81%) Onboarding
12 7 (0.81%) Replication
13 6 (0.70%) IoT
14 5 (0.58%) Blog
14 5 (0.58%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 93 (10.79%) Linux
2 42 (4.87%) Windows
3 28 (3.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (2.44%) Windows Server
5 20 (2.32%) Unix
6 7 (0.81%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.81%) Oracle Linux
6 7 (0.81%) Solaris
7 6 (0.70%) Android
8 3 (0.35%) VMS
8 3 (0.35%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.23%) CentOS
9 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 470 (54.52%) DevOps
2 423 (49.07%) Problem-Solving
3 399 (46.29%) Data Engineering
4 371 (43.04%) Agile
5 317 (36.77%) Mentoring
6 254 (29.47%) CI/CD
7 244 (28.31%) ETL
8 214 (24.83%) Data Modelling
9 213 (24.71%) Data Pipeline
10 210 (24.36%) Infrastructure as Code
11 193 (22.39%) Data Science
12 171 (19.84%) DataOps
13 165 (19.14%) Change Management
14 135 (15.66%) Data Governance
15 128 (14.85%) Innovative Thinking
16 121 (14.04%) Data Integration
17 120 (13.92%) Scrum
18 117 (13.57%) Data Architecture
19 115 (13.34%) Data Security
20 111 (12.88%) ERD
Programming Languages
1 218 (25.29%) Python
2 126 (14.62%) SQL
3 102 (11.83%) PowerShell
4 78 (9.05%) Bash
5 62 (7.19%) Java
6 38 (4.41%) C#
7 37 (4.29%) Go
8 34 (3.94%) Bicep
9 25 (2.90%) JavaScript
10 22 (2.55%) TypeScript
11 21 (2.44%) Ruby
12 18 (2.09%) Scala
13 16 (1.86%) Shell Script
14 13 (1.51%) Perl
15 11 (1.28%) Groovy
16 9 (1.04%) C++
16 9 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 9 (1.04%) U-SQL
17 8 (0.93%) C
17 8 (0.93%) PHP
Qualifications
1 49 (5.68%) Degree
2 24 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
2 24 (2.78%) Security Cleared
3 18 (2.09%) AWS Certification
3 18 (2.09%) Azure Certification
3 18 (2.09%) DBS Check
3 18 (2.09%) SC Cleared
4 17 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 8 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (0.93%) DV Cleared
6 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 5 (0.58%) CCIE
6 5 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (0.58%) JNCIE
6 5 (0.58%) Master's Degree
6 5 (0.58%) PhD
7 4 (0.46%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.35%) CISSP
8 3 (0.35%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (32.02%) GDPR
2 135 (15.66%) Data Quality
3 81 (9.40%) QA
4 18 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.04%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.23%) NIST
7 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 139 (16.13%) Docker
2 33 (3.83%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.23%) Firmware
8 1 (0.12%) Ceph
8 1 (0.12%) KVM
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.12%) vSphere
8 1 (0.12%) Xen
Systems Management
1 232 (26.91%) Terraform
2 194 (22.51%) Kubernetes
3 86 (9.98%) Ansible
4 37 (4.29%) Puppet
5 35 (4.06%) Grafana
6 32 (3.71%) Progress Chef
7 30 (3.48%) Prometheus
8 20 (2.32%) Salt
9 14 (1.62%) Istio
10 12 (1.39%) Packer
11 7 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.46%) Argo
12 4 (0.46%) Kibana
13 3 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.35%) logstash
14 2 (0.23%) Kubeflow
14 2 (0.23%) Podman
14 2 (0.23%) Rundeck
15 1 (0.12%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 391 (45.36%) Google
2 118 (13.69%) Microsoft
3 32 (3.71%) Databricks
4 12 (1.39%) New Relic
5 11 (1.28%) Red Hat
6 10 (1.16%) Atlassian
6 10 (1.16%) Splunk
7 9 (1.04%) SaltStack
8 8 (0.93%) VMware
8 8 (0.93%) YouTube
9 7 (0.81%) Alteryx
9 7 (0.81%) Oracle
9 7 (0.81%) Serena
10 6 (0.70%) PagerDuty
11 5 (0.58%) LogicMonitor
12 3 (0.35%) AppDynamics
12 3 (0.35%) Facebook
13 2 (0.23%) Confluent
14 1 (0.12%) Dataiku
14 1 (0.12%) Sparx