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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 311 376
Rank change year-on-year -13 +65 -134
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 852 1,191 1,500
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.87% 1.13% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.18% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 418 787 1,034
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% +20.83%
75th Percentile £94,688 £100,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,875 £121,000 £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 84,165 101,093 147,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.12% 95.64% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 59,702 59,212 83,288
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,496
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,600 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +2.67% +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 23 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 23 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 -15 778 £75,000 -3.23% 180
UK excluding London +67 551 £65,000 -3.70% 116
London -43 257 £85,000 -2.86% 83
Work from Home -51 254 £75,000 -6.25% 120
North of England +26 176 £60,000 -9.43% 31
South East +54 141 £67,500 -3.57% 21
South West +12 87 £67,500 +3.29% 17
Midlands +37 78 £60,000 -17.24% 12
North West -14 78 £65,000 -7.14% 13
Yorkshire +74 73 £52,500 -18.01% 14
East Midlands +10 40 £60,000 +9.09% 2
West Midlands +26 38 £65,000 -10.34% 10
Scotland -42 35 £72,500 +4.40% 17
North East +21 27 £67,500 +41.59% 4
East of England +43 21 - - 8
Wales +4 13 £55,000 -12.00% 5

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 (2.00%) Confluence
2 16 (1.88%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.53%) 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%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 466 (54.69%) Azure
2 421 (49.41%) GCP
3 382 (44.84%) AWS
4 151 (17.72%) Azure DevOps
5 68 (7.98%) Power Platform
6 57 (6.69%) PaaS
7 54 (6.34%) GitHub
8 49 (5.75%) Serverless
9 48 (5.63%) SaaS
10 44 (5.16%) IaaS
11 40 (4.69%) Azure Data Factory
12 36 (4.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 32 (3.76%) Azure AKS
14 29 (3.40%) Cloud Computing
15 25 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
16 24 (2.82%) Entra ID
16 24 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
17 20 (2.35%) Amazon S3
18 19 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
18 19 (2.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.99%) Firewall
2 27 (3.17%) Network Security
3 26 (3.05%) DNS
4 16 (1.88%) VPN
5 12 (1.41%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.29%) LAN
6 11 (1.29%) WAN
7 9 (1.06%) Internet
8 7 (0.82%) DHCP
8 7 (0.82%) IPv4
9 6 (0.70%) SSL
9 6 (0.70%) VLAN
9 6 (0.70%) Wireless
10 5 (0.59%) BGP
10 5 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.59%) IPsec
10 5 (0.59%) NGFW
10 5 (0.59%) OSPF
11 3 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
12 1 (0.12%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 368 (43.19%) BigQuery
2 351 (41.20%) Looker
3 225 (26.41%) Data Warehouse
4 60 (7.04%) Power BI
5 36 (4.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 32 (3.76%) Data Lake
7 30 (3.52%) NoSQL
8 26 (3.05%) MySQL
9 22 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
10 18 (2.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 15 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (1.76%) SQL Server
12 14 (1.64%) MongoDB
12 14 (1.64%) Redis
13 10 (1.17%) Hadoop
14 9 (1.06%) MariaDB
15 8 (0.94%) Big Data
15 8 (0.94%) Metadata
15 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 7 (0.82%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 69 (8.10%) Jenkins
2 54 (6.34%) Git
3 32 (3.76%) JIRA
4 16 (1.88%) TeamCity
5 13 (1.53%) Artifactory
6 12 (1.41%) GitLab
7 11 (1.29%) Bitbucket
7 11 (1.29%) Snyk
7 11 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (1.17%) Octopus Deploy
9 9 (1.06%) Subversion
10 8 (0.94%) Spinnaker
11 6 (0.70%) RStudio
11 6 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.59%) DTrace
12 5 (0.59%) GDB
13 4 (0.47%) CircleCI
14 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
14 2 (0.23%) JMeter
14 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 390 (45.77%) Analytical Skills
2 119 (13.97%) Social Skills
3 92 (10.80%) Finance
4 72 (8.45%) Billing
5 37 (4.34%) Banking
5 37 (4.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (4.11%) Retail
7 17 (2.00%) Health Technology
8 14 (1.64%) Retail Banking
9 13 (1.53%) Legal
10 12 (1.41%) Games
11 11 (1.29%) Law
12 7 (0.82%) Marketing
13 4 (0.47%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.35%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.23%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.23%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.23%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.23%) Telecoms
16 1 (0.12%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 431 (50.59%) Platform Engineer
2 233 (27.35%) Data Engineer
3 176 (20.66%) Principal Engineer
4 171 (20.07%) Principal Data Engineer
5 151 (17.72%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 126 (14.79%) Architect
7 115 (13.50%) Data Architect
8 108 (12.68%) Cloud Engineer
9 95 (11.15%) Engineering Manager
10 92 (10.80%) Senior
11 91 (10.68%) Data Manager
12 79 (9.27%) Azure Engineer
13 60 (7.04%) DevOps Engineer
14 58 (6.81%) Lead
15 55 (6.46%) Azure Platform Engineer
16 46 (5.40%) AWS Engineer
17 33 (3.87%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 30 (3.52%) AWS Platform Engineer
19 27 (3.17%) Senior DevOps
19 27 (3.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.82%) Kafka
2 20 (2.35%) ARM Templates
3 17 (2.00%) .NET
4 16 (1.88%) Node.js
5 14 (1.64%) JSON
6 10 (1.17%) .NET Framework
6 10 (1.17%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (1.06%) React
8 8 (0.94%) SAML
9 6 (0.70%) CSS
9 6 (0.70%) HTML
9 6 (0.70%) Web Services
9 6 (0.70%) YAML
10 5 (0.59%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.59%) JSON Schema
10 5 (0.59%) OpenAPI
10 5 (0.59%) REST
10 5 (0.59%) Swagger
11 4 (0.47%) .NET Core
11 4 (0.47%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 280 (32.86%) Self-Motivation
2 97 (11.38%) Product Ownership
3 36 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 32 (3.76%) Cloud Native
5 27 (3.17%) Data Centre
6 23 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
7 17 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (1.64%) Public Cloud
10 12 (1.41%) Cyberattack
11 11 (1.29%) Data Structures
12 8 (0.94%) Algorithms
12 8 (0.94%) Management Information System
12 8 (0.94%) Video\Live Streaming
13 7 (0.82%) Clustering
13 7 (0.82%) Onboarding
13 7 (0.82%) Replication
14 5 (0.59%) Blog
14 5 (0.59%) Client/Server
14 5 (0.59%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 90 (10.56%) Linux
2 41 (4.81%) Windows
3 28 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (2.35%) Unix
4 20 (2.35%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.82%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.82%) Oracle Linux
5 7 (0.82%) Solaris
6 6 (0.70%) Android
7 3 (0.35%) VMS
7 3 (0.35%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.23%) CentOS
8 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 464 (54.46%) DevOps
2 420 (49.30%) Problem-Solving
3 399 (46.83%) Data Engineering
4 368 (43.19%) Agile
5 317 (37.21%) Mentoring
6 255 (29.93%) CI/CD
7 244 (28.64%) ETL
8 213 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
9 212 (24.88%) Data Modelling
10 208 (24.41%) Infrastructure as Code
11 190 (22.30%) Data Science
12 171 (20.07%) DataOps
13 165 (19.37%) Change Management
14 135 (15.85%) Data Governance
15 128 (15.02%) Innovative Thinking
16 121 (14.20%) Data Integration
17 120 (14.08%) Scrum
18 117 (13.73%) Data Architecture
19 115 (13.50%) Data Security
20 111 (13.03%) ERD
Programming Languages
1 213 (25.00%) Python
2 125 (14.67%) SQL
3 99 (11.62%) PowerShell
4 74 (8.69%) Bash
5 59 (6.92%) Java
6 39 (4.58%) C#
7 37 (4.34%) Go
8 33 (3.87%) Bicep
9 24 (2.82%) JavaScript
10 22 (2.58%) TypeScript
11 21 (2.46%) Ruby
12 19 (2.23%) Scala
13 13 (1.53%) Perl
13 13 (1.53%) Shell Script
14 11 (1.29%) Groovy
15 9 (1.06%) C++
16 8 (0.94%) C
16 8 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 8 (0.94%) PHP
16 8 (0.94%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (5.63%) Degree
2 24 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
2 24 (2.82%) Security Cleared
3 18 (2.11%) AWS Certification
3 18 (2.11%) Azure Certification
3 18 (2.11%) DBS Check
3 18 (2.11%) SC Cleared
4 16 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 8 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (0.94%) DV Cleared
6 5 (0.59%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 5 (0.59%) CCIE
6 5 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (0.59%) JNCIE
6 5 (0.59%) Master's Degree
6 5 (0.59%) PhD
7 4 (0.47%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.35%) HND
9 2 (0.23%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (32.39%) GDPR
2 135 (15.85%) Data Quality
3 84 (9.86%) QA
4 16 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.06%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.12%) NIST
6 1 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 134 (15.73%) Docker
2 34 (3.99%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.59%) 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
1 229 (26.88%) Terraform
2 191 (22.42%) Kubernetes
3 83 (9.74%) Ansible
4 36 (4.23%) Puppet
5 33 (3.87%) Grafana
6 31 (3.64%) Progress Chef
7 28 (3.29%) Prometheus
8 20 (2.35%) Salt
9 14 (1.64%) Istio
10 12 (1.41%) Packer
11 8 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.47%) Argo
12 4 (0.47%) 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
14 2 (0.23%) SCOM
Vendors
1 391 (45.89%) Google
2 117 (13.73%) Microsoft
3 31 (3.64%) Databricks
4 14 (1.64%) New Relic
5 11 (1.29%) Red Hat
6 10 (1.17%) Atlassian
6 10 (1.17%) Splunk
7 9 (1.06%) SaltStack
8 8 (0.94%) YouTube
9 7 (0.82%) Alteryx
9 7 (0.82%) Oracle
9 7 (0.82%) Serena
10 6 (0.70%) PagerDuty
10 6 (0.70%) VMware
11 5 (0.59%) 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%) Wallstreet Suite