Senior Platform Engineer Job Trends

Senior Platform Engineer
UK

The median Senior Platform Engineer salary in the UK is £85,125 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 May 2026.

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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 628 609 845
Rank change year-on-year -19 +236 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 87 38 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.096% 0.087% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.098% 0.043%
Number of salaries quoted 78 30 38
10th Percentile £68,194 £63,625 £61,750
25th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,125 £82,500 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% -10.81% +7.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £103,750 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,301 £68,442 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.56% -2.23% -3.45%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 84,829 38,939 91,215
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.28% 89.48% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 55,870 22,758 66,964
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,508
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.51% -12.49%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%

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 15 May 2026.

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 15 May 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 -3 77 £85,250 +3.33% 33
London -5 48 £100,000 +11.11% 19
Work from Home +55 33 £85,250 +3.33% 18
UK excluding London -34 29 £74,301 +8.56% 17
North of England -27 12 £70,400 +4.30% 6
North West +4 9 £70,400 +2.86% 6
South East -14 9 £75,000 -11.76% 5
Midlands - 3 £80,000 - 3
Wales - 3 £68,500 -
West Midlands - 3 £80,000 - 3
Yorkshire -53 2 £62,500 -
North East - 1 - -
South West - 1 £75,000 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £73,801 -

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 2026, 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 82 (94.25%) Platform Engineering
2 54 (62.07%) Infrastructure as Code
3 53 (60.92%) Terraform
4 49 (56.32%) CI/CD
5 41 (47.13%) Azure
6 36 (41.38%) AWS
7 34 (39.08%) DevOps
8 30 (34.48%) Observability
8 30 (34.48%) Python
9 27 (31.03%) Kubernetes
10 21 (24.14%) Security Cleared
11 20 (22.99%) Linux
12 18 (20.69%) Microsoft
13 17 (19.54%) Cloud Security
13 17 (19.54%) RBAC
14 15 (17.24%) Amazon S3
14 15 (17.24%) Azure DevOps
14 15 (17.24%) Containerisation
14 15 (17.24%) GitHub
15 14 (16.09%) Infrastructure Automation
15 14 (16.09%) SC Cleared
16 13 (14.94%) AI
16 13 (14.94%) Amazon ECR
16 13 (14.94%) Analytics
16 13 (14.94%) Bash
16 13 (14.94%) GCP
16 13 (14.94%) Incident Response
17 12 (13.79%) Ansible
17 12 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (13.79%) Mentoring

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 3 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.15%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 41 (47.13%) Azure
2 36 (41.38%) AWS
3 15 (17.24%) Amazon S3
3 15 (17.24%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (17.24%) GitHub
4 13 (14.94%) Amazon ECR
4 13 (14.94%) GCP
5 12 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (11.49%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (11.49%) Azure AKS
6 10 (11.49%) PaaS
7 9 (10.34%) Serverless
8 8 (9.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (9.20%) Snowflake
9 7 (8.05%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (8.05%) AWS KMS
9 7 (8.05%) Pulumi
9 7 (8.05%) Route 53
10 6 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (5.75%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.75%) Firewall
1 5 (5.75%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.30%) VPN
3 1 (1.15%) BGP
3 1 (1.15%) DNS
3 1 (1.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.75%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (5.75%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (5.75%) Redis
2 4 (4.60%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.45%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.15%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.15%) Power BI
4 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.30%) CircleCI
1 2 (2.30%) GitLab
2 1 (1.15%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.15%) Git
2 1 (1.15%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle APEX
General
1 18 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 17 (19.54%) Finance
3 6 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.15%) Advertising
5 1 (1.15%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.15%) Law
5 1 (1.15%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.75%) Django
1 5 (5.75%) Node.js
2 2 (2.30%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.15%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.15%) CrewAI
3 1 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.15%) JWT
3 1 (1.15%) LangChain
3 1 (1.15%) OAuth
3 1 (1.15%) REST
3 1 (1.15%) SOAP
3 1 (1.15%) SPFx
3 1 (1.15%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.49%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.90%) Hedge funds
3 5 (5.75%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (5.75%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.15%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.15%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.15%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (22.99%) Linux
2 5 (5.75%) Unix
3 3 (3.45%) Windows
4 2 (2.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (94.25%) Platform Engineering
2 54 (62.07%) Infrastructure as Code
3 49 (56.32%) CI/CD
4 34 (39.08%) DevOps
5 30 (34.48%) Observability
6 17 (19.54%) Cloud Security
6 17 (19.54%) RBAC
7 15 (17.24%) Containerisation
8 14 (16.09%) Infrastructure Automation
9 13 (14.94%) AI
9 13 (14.94%) Analytics
9 13 (14.94%) Incident Response
10 12 (13.79%) Mentoring
11 11 (12.64%) Fintech
11 11 (12.64%) Migration
11 11 (12.64%) Secrets Management
12 10 (11.49%) Disaster Recovery
13 9 (10.34%) Agile
14 8 (9.20%) High Availability
14 8 (9.20%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 30 (34.48%) Python
2 13 (14.94%) Bash
3 10 (11.49%) PowerShell
4 7 (8.05%) SQL
5 6 (6.90%) Java
6 2 (2.30%) Bicep
6 2 (2.30%) Go
7 1 (1.15%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 21 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 14 (16.09%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.90%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.75%) Azure Certification
4 5 (5.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.15%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.15%) QA
1 1 (1.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (11.49%) Docker
2 4 (4.60%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.30%) vSphere
4 1 (1.15%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.15%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 53 (60.92%) Terraform
2 27 (31.03%) Kubernetes
3 12 (13.79%) Ansible
4 6 (6.90%) Grafana
4 6 (6.90%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.75%) AWS Copilot
6 3 (3.45%) Argo
6 3 (3.45%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.30%) Istio
7 2 (2.30%) Puppet
7 2 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (2.30%) ZABBIX
8 1 (1.15%) Packer
Vendors
1 18 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.64%) Google
3 5 (5.75%) Foundry
3 5 (5.75%) OpenAI
3 5 (5.75%) VMware
4 2 (2.30%) Cribl.io
4 2 (2.30%) Oracle
5 1 (1.15%) Citrix
5 1 (1.15%) NetApp