Re-Platforming Job Trends

Re-Platforming
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Re-Platforming skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 730 612 714
Rank change year-on-year -118 +102 -92
Permanent jobs citing Re-Platforming 80 42 73
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.068% 0.085% 0.100%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.093% 0.095% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 25 21 33
10th Percentile £45,000 £60,000 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £67,500 £56,809
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +23.08% -23.53%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £145,000 £110,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £75,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year -36.67% +22.54% -15.58%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Re-Platforming falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,155 44,192 60,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.18% 88.99% 81.99%
Number of salaries quoted 59,150 24,458 32,463
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,325 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,608
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Re-Platforming
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Re-Platforming relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Re-Platforming job vacancy trend in the UK

Re-Platforming
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Re-Platforming.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Re-Platforming

Re-Platforming
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Re-Platforming over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Re-Platforming in the UK

Re-Platforming
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Re-Platforming within the UK over the 6 months to 8 October 2026. 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 -83 78 £80,000 - 131
UK excluding London -73 52 £47,500 -36.67% 62
Midlands -8 34 £50,000 -71.43% 4
Work from Home -26 31 £80,000 - 60
London -60 26 £80,000 -8.57% 77
West Midlands - 17 £50,000 - 4
East Midlands - 17 - -
North of England -57 13 £45,000 -40.00% 18
Yorkshire -27 8 £130,000 - 6
North East - 5 £45,000 - 2
East of England - 3 - - 6
South East -51 1 - - 9
Wales - 1 £55,000 - 2

Re-Platforming
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (7.50%) CICS
2 1 (1.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.50%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 27 (33.75%) Serverless
2 26 (32.50%) GitHub
3 25 (31.25%) AWS
3 25 (31.25%) Azure
4 23 (28.75%) GitHub Actions
5 20 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (7.50%) Amazon Cognito
7 6 (7.50%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (7.50%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (7.50%) Amazon EventBridge
7 6 (7.50%) Amazon S3
7 6 (7.50%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (7.50%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (6.25%) Firebase
8 5 (6.25%) Power Platform
8 5 (6.25%) Stripe
8 5 (6.25%) TestFlight
9 4 (5.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.00%) Firewall
2 3 (3.75%) VPN
3 2 (2.50%) DNS
3 2 (2.50%) Network Security
4 1 (1.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.75%) Relational Database
2 6 (7.50%) Db2
2 6 (7.50%) DynamoDB
3 4 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (5.00%) Power BI
3 4 (5.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.50%) Metadata
4 2 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.25%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.25%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.25%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.25%) Redis
5 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.25%) Crashlytics
2 5 (6.25%) XCTest
General
1 32 (40.00%) Finance
2 30 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 16 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (15.00%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.00%) Retail
6 2 (2.50%) Billing
6 2 (2.50%) Marketing
6 2 (2.50%) Police
7 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.25%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 30 (37.50%) Senior
2 23 (28.75%) Consultant
3 16 (20.00%) Applications Consultant
3 16 (20.00%) Mainframe Consultant
4 14 (17.50%) Architect
5 12 (15.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 10 (12.50%) Senior Architect
7 9 (11.25%) Digital Architect
7 9 (11.25%) Lead
8 7 (8.75%) Lead Architect
8 7 (8.75%) Senior Digital Architect
9 6 (7.50%) COBOL Consultant
9 6 (7.50%) Java Consultant
9 6 (7.50%) Professional Services Consultant
9 6 (7.50%) Senior Consultant
9 6 (7.50%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 6 (7.50%) Senior Professional Services Consultant
10 5 (6.25%) Digital Producer
10 5 (6.25%) Mobile Engineer
10 5 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (25.00%) .NET
2 17 (21.25%) React
2 17 (21.25%) Spring
2 17 (21.25%) Spring Boot
3 16 (20.00%) ISPF
4 7 (8.75%) Node.js
5 6 (7.50%) AWS CDK
5 6 (7.50%) Next.js
6 5 (6.25%) SwiftUI
6 5 (6.25%) Terraform
6 5 (6.25%) UIKit
7 3 (3.75%) Middleware
7 3 (3.75%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (3.75%) REST
8 2 (2.50%) CrewAI
8 2 (2.50%) CSS
8 2 (2.50%) HTML
8 2 (2.50%) jQuery
8 2 (2.50%) LangChain
8 2 (2.50%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 25 (31.25%) Legacy Applications
2 21 (26.25%) Cloud Native
3 17 (21.25%) Greenfield Project
4 16 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (20.00%) Mainframe
5 14 (17.50%) Mobile App
6 9 (11.25%) Data Centre
7 7 (8.75%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (7.50%) Onboarding
9 3 (3.75%) Management Information System
10 2 (2.50%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (2.50%) Derivative
10 2 (2.50%) Equities
10 2 (2.50%) Fixed Income
10 2 (2.50%) Hedge funds
10 2 (2.50%) Security Posture
10 2 (2.50%) Virtual Team
11 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
11 1 (1.25%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (36.25%) CI/CD
2 26 (32.50%) Mentoring
3 25 (31.25%) Collaborative Culture
3 25 (31.25%) DevOps
3 25 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (30.00%) Migration
5 21 (26.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (20.00%) Agile
6 16 (20.00%) Batch Processing
6 16 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 16 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 15 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (16.25%) Analytics
8 13 (16.25%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (16.25%) Technical Leadership
9 12 (15.00%) Clean Code
9 12 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 12 (15.00%) Microservices
9 12 (15.00%) Personalization
9 12 (15.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 21 (26.25%) Java
2 18 (22.50%) TypeScript
3 16 (20.00%) COBOL
3 16 (20.00%) JCL
4 10 (12.50%) SQL
5 6 (7.50%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.25%) C#
6 5 (6.25%) Kotlin
6 5 (6.25%) Swift
7 4 (5.00%) Bicep
7 4 (5.00%) Python
8 3 (3.75%) Scala
9 2 (2.50%) Go
9 2 (2.50%) R
9 2 (2.50%) Ruby
10 1 (1.25%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.25%) PHP
10 1 (1.25%) SOQL
10 1 (1.25%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 10 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.25%) Azure Certification
3 3 (3.75%) Degree
3 3 (3.75%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.75%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.25%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.50%) QA
3 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (11.25%) Docker
2 2 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (11.25%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.50%) Progress Chef
2 6 (7.50%) Puppet
3 3 (3.75%) Grafana
4 1 (1.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (12.50%) Broadcom
2 9 (11.25%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.25%) Amplitude
3 5 (6.25%) Braze
3 5 (6.25%) Oracle
4 4 (5.00%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.50%) Databricks
5 2 (2.50%) SAP
6 1 (1.25%) Adobe
6 1 (1.25%) Google
6 1 (1.25%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.25%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.25%) VMware