Senior Platform Engineer Job Trends

Senior Platform Engineer
UK

The median Senior Platform Engineer salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 615 701 679
Rank change year-on-year +86 -22 +306
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 48 53 31
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.091% 0.078% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.082% 0.062%
Number of salaries quoted 36 51 22
10th Percentile - £47,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £68,813 £64,471 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -11.76%
75th Percentile £89,250 £86,250 £93,125
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £97,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £69,308 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.21% -0.99% -

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 47,621 64,483 50,300
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.89% 94.87% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 29,449 36,300 38,919
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,500 £50,055 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.10% -4.66% -

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Senior Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Platform Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Senior Platform Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Platform Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Senior Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Platform Engineer in the UK

Senior Platform Engineer
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Platform Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 14 November 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 +92 40 £82,500 +10.00% 43
UK excluding London +98 24 £75,000 +8.21% 23
London +47 18 £83,750 +8.06% 21
Work from Home +57 8 £85,000 +22.64% 23
South East +38 7 £82,500 +22.22% 2
Midlands +62 6 £90,000 +29.86% 4
West Midlands +45 6 £90,000 +29.86% 4
North of England +33 4 £73,801 +6.48% 9
Wales +9 3 £73,801 +6.48%
Scotland 0 3 £73,801 +6.48% 1
North East +8 2 £73,801 +6.48%
North West +42 1 £73,801 +6.48% 6
Northern Ireland +3 1 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Yorkshire - 1 £62,500 - 3

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 November 2025, Senior Platform Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 47 (97.92%) Platform Engineering
2 34 (70.83%) Python
3 31 (64.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (60.42%) Security Cleared
5 28 (58.33%) CI/CD
5 28 (58.33%) Terraform
6 26 (54.17%) AWS
7 25 (52.08%) DevOps
8 24 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (47.92%) SC Cleared
10 21 (43.75%) Azure
11 20 (41.67%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (41.67%) Docker
12 19 (39.58%) Linux
13 18 (37.50%) Kubernetes
13 18 (37.50%) Observability
13 18 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 17 (35.42%) GCP
15 16 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
16 15 (31.25%) Amazon ECS
16 15 (31.25%) Migration
16 15 (31.25%) TCP/IP
17 14 (29.17%) PostgreSQL
18 13 (27.08%) Google
18 13 (27.08%) Redis
18 13 (27.08%) Unix
19 12 (25.00%) Agile
19 12 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
19 12 (25.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
19 12 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.17%) nginx
1 2 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.08%) Confluence
2 1 (2.08%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 26 (54.17%) AWS
2 21 (43.75%) Azure
3 20 (41.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (35.42%) GCP
5 15 (31.25%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
6 12 (25.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 12 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 12 (25.00%) dbt
6 12 (25.00%) PaaS
6 12 (25.00%) Pulumi
6 12 (25.00%) Sentry
7 6 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (12.50%) Amazon S3
7 6 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (10.42%) AWS KMS
8 5 (10.42%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (10.42%) Serverless
9 4 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (6.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 15 (31.25%) TCP/IP
2 5 (10.42%) DNS
2 5 (10.42%) Firewall
2 5 (10.42%) VPN
3 2 (4.17%) BGP
3 2 (4.17%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (4.17%) MQTT
3 2 (4.17%) OSPF
3 2 (4.17%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (4.17%) RTMP
3 2 (4.17%) VLAN
3 2 (4.17%) WAN
3 2 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (4.17%) Wireless
4 1 (2.08%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (29.17%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (27.08%) Redis
4 12 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (6.25%) Data Lake
5 3 (6.25%) Delta Lake
6 2 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (4.17%) Metadata
6 2 (4.17%) MongoDB
6 2 (4.17%) MySQL
6 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.08%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (2.08%) Power BI
7 1 (2.08%) Power Query
7 1 (2.08%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 5 (10.42%) Git
2 5 (10.42%) GitLab
3 2 (4.17%) Jaeger
3 2 (4.17%) MLflow
3 2 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 12 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.58%) Law
3 6 (12.50%) Finance
4 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.17%) Advertising
5 2 (4.17%) Agriculture
5 2 (4.17%) Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Back Office
6 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.08%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (25.00%) Django
2 6 (12.50%) GraphQL
2 6 (12.50%) REST
3 3 (6.25%) AWS CDK
4 2 (4.17%) FastAPI
4 2 (4.17%) Kafka
4 2 (4.17%) Keycloak
4 2 (4.17%) WebRTC
5 1 (2.08%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.08%) LDAP
5 1 (2.08%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (22.92%) Product Ownership
3 7 (14.58%) Cloud Native
4 6 (12.50%) CMDB
5 3 (6.25%) Virtual Team
6 2 (4.17%) IoT
6 2 (4.17%) MPEG
6 2 (4.17%) Robotics
6 2 (4.17%) Security Posture
7 1 (2.08%) Clustering
7 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 19 (39.58%) Linux
2 13 (27.08%) Unix
3 1 (2.08%) Solaris
3 1 (2.08%) Windows
3 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (97.92%) Platform Engineering
2 31 (64.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 28 (58.33%) CI/CD
4 25 (52.08%) DevOps
5 24 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (37.50%) Observability
6 18 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 15 (31.25%) Migration
8 12 (25.00%) Agile
8 12 (25.00%) Clean Code
8 12 (25.00%) Open Source
8 12 (25.00%) Prototyping
8 12 (25.00%) Service-Level Objective
9 11 (22.92%) Analytics
10 9 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
11 8 (16.67%) Mentoring
12 7 (14.58%) Scrum
13 6 (12.50%) Data Analysis
13 6 (12.50%) IT Asset Management
13 6 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 34 (70.83%) Python
2 12 (25.00%) Bash
3 7 (14.58%) JavaScript
4 4 (8.33%) Go
4 4 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 4 (8.33%) SQL
5 1 (2.08%) Bourne shell
5 1 (2.08%) C-shell
5 1 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.08%) Perl
5 1 (2.08%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (60.42%) Security Cleared
2 23 (47.92%) SC Cleared
3 6 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (2.08%) GDPR
2 1 (2.08%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (41.67%) Docker
2 2 (4.17%) NFS
3 1 (2.08%) vCloud
3 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (58.33%) Terraform
2 18 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 12 (25.00%) AWS Copilot
3 12 (25.00%) Grafana
4 9 (18.75%) Ansible
5 7 (14.58%) Prometheus
6 3 (6.25%) Argo
7 1 (2.08%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (2.08%) Oracle ZFS
7 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (2.08%) VxRail
Vendors
1 13 (27.08%) Google
2 6 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.17%) Cisco
4 2 (4.17%) MikroTik
4 2 (4.17%) NETGEAR
4 2 (4.17%) Oracle
4 2 (4.17%) Sonatype
4 2 (4.17%) Starlink
4 2 (4.17%) Ubiquiti
5 1 (2.08%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.08%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.08%) EMC
5 1 (2.08%) HP
5 1 (2.08%) Qualys
5 1 (2.08%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.08%) Splunk
5 1 (2.08%) VMware
5 1 (2.08%) VocaLink