Senior Platform Engineer Jobs

Senior Platform Engineer
UK

The median Senior Platform Engineer salary in the UK is £83,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 679 861 845
Rank change year-on-year +182 -16 +345
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 42 46 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.043% 0.094%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% 0.045% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 36 44 50
10th Percentile £64,509 £47,500 £62,250
25th Percentile £74,375 £62,875 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £76,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.84% +1.67% -9.64%
75th Percentile £98,125 £94,063 £100,000
90th Percentile £101,875 £115,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £71,250
% change year-on-year +10.34% +1.75% -1.72%

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 52,512 102,387 81,388
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.85% 94.81% 91.21%
Number of salaries quoted 28,421 72,229 54,035
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,750 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +4.95%

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Platform Engineer in the UK

Senior Platform Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Platform Engineer in the UK

Senior Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Platform Engineer in the UK

Senior Platform Engineer
Top 8 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 2 July 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 +150 40 £85,000 +11.48% 145
London +93 25 £90,000 +20.00% 89
Work from Home +113 12 £82,500 +3.13% 93
UK excluding London +188 9 £80,000 +10.34% 56
South East - 5 £82,500 - 15
North of England +51 4 £68,442 -7.20% 29
North West +24 3 £69,384 +2.79% 17
Yorkshire +56 1 £60,000 -25.00% 10

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 July 2025, Senior Platform Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 41 (97.62%) Platform Engineering
2 25 (59.52%) Terraform
3 24 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 24 (57.14%) Python
4 22 (52.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (50.00%) AWS
6 20 (47.62%) Azure
7 17 (40.48%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (40.48%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (38.10%) Kubernetes
9 15 (35.71%) DevOps
10 14 (33.33%) Security Cleared
11 12 (28.57%) SC Cleared
11 12 (28.57%) Bash
12 10 (23.81%) Mentoring
12 10 (23.81%) Linux
13 9 (21.43%) Amazon S3
13 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure Automation
13 9 (21.43%) Grafana
14 8 (19.05%) Serverless
14 8 (19.05%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (19.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (19.05%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (19.05%) VPN
14 8 (19.05%) Finance
15 7 (16.67%) PowerShell
15 7 (16.67%) GCP
15 7 (16.67%) Docker
15 7 (16.67%) PaaS
15 7 (16.67%) GitHub

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
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 4 (9.52%) SharePoint
2 3 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (50.00%) AWS
2 20 (47.62%) Azure
3 17 (40.48%) AWS CloudFormation
4 9 (21.43%) Amazon S3
5 8 (19.05%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (19.05%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (19.05%) Serverless
5 8 (19.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (16.67%) GCP
6 7 (16.67%) GitHub
6 7 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (16.67%) PaaS
7 6 (14.29%) AWS KMS
7 6 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (14.29%) Pulumi
8 5 (11.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (11.90%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (11.90%) AWS Control Tower
9 4 (9.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 8 (19.05%) VPN
2 3 (7.14%) DNS
2 3 (7.14%) Firewall
3 2 (4.76%) Internet
3 2 (4.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (11.90%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (9.52%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (4.76%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.76%) Hadoop
4 2 (4.76%) HBase
4 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.76%) Redis
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (2.38%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.38%) Power BI
5 1 (2.38%) Power Query
5 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Git
1 3 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.76%) GitLab
3 1 (2.38%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.38%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 8 (19.05%) Finance
2 5 (11.90%) Advertising
2 5 (11.90%) Banking
2 5 (11.90%) Public Sector
2 5 (11.90%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Law
4 3 (7.14%) Financial Institution
4 3 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Games
5 1 (2.38%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.90%) AWS CDK
2 3 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (4.76%) Django
3 2 (4.76%) Kafka
3 2 (4.76%) Loki
3 2 (4.76%) Node.js
3 2 (4.76%) YAML
4 1 (2.38%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.38%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.38%) JSON
4 1 (2.38%) PySpark
4 1 (2.38%) React
4 1 (2.38%) REST
4 1 (2.38%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.14%) Virtual Team
3 2 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.81%) Linux
2 4 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (97.62%) Platform Engineering
2 24 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 22 (52.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (40.48%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (35.71%) DevOps
6 10 (23.81%) Mentoring
7 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure Automation
8 7 (16.67%) Analytics
8 7 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 7 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 6 (14.29%) Data Analytics
9 6 (14.29%) Observability
9 6 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
10 5 (11.90%) Identity Access Management
10 5 (11.90%) Technical Leadership
10 5 (11.90%) Test Automation
10 5 (11.90%) Threat Detection
11 4 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence
11 4 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
11 4 (9.52%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 24 (57.14%) Python
2 12 (28.57%) Bash
3 7 (16.67%) Go
3 7 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 4 (9.52%) Java
5 3 (7.14%) SQL
6 1 (2.38%) Bicep
6 1 (2.38%) C#
6 1 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.38%) Groovy
6 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.38%) PHP
6 1 (2.38%) Ruby
6 1 (2.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 3 (7.14%) DV Cleared
3 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) GDPR
2 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (16.67%) Docker
2 6 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
2 6 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (59.52%) Terraform
2 16 (38.10%) Kubernetes
3 9 (21.43%) Grafana
4 6 (14.29%) Ansible
5 3 (7.14%) Prometheus
6 2 (4.76%) AWS Copilot
6 2 (4.76%) Progress Chef
6 2 (4.76%) Puppet
7 1 (2.38%) Consul
7 1 (2.38%) Packer
7 1 (2.38%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) Citrix
1 6 (14.29%) VMware
2 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.52%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.76%) Cloudera
4 2 (4.76%) Google
4 2 (4.76%) Hitachi
5 1 (2.38%) Dynatrace