Senior Platform Engineer Job Trends

Senior Platform Engineer
UK

The median Senior Platform Engineer salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 November 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 606 692 681
Rank change year-on-year +86 -11 +294
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 43 53 27
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.081% 0.078% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.090% 0.083% 0.055%
Number of salaries quoted 31 50 20
10th Percentile - £47,500 £64,750
25th Percentile £68,813 £64,471 £65,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -11.76%
75th Percentile £88,875 £88,438 £89,375
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,500 £115,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,801 £69,308 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.48% -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 47,921 63,941 49,281
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.18% 94.47% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 30,174 35,998 38,349
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £51,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.77% -1.90% -

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 24 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 24 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 +90 35 £85,000 +13.33% 13
UK excluding London +99 21 £73,801 +6.48% 13
London +41 17 £87,500 +12.90% 7
Work from Home +80 6 £85,000 +22.64% 14
Midlands +73 6 £90,000 +29.86% 1
West Midlands +64 6 £90,000 +29.86% 1
South East +42 4 £83,750 +24.07% 3
North of England +37 4 £73,801 +6.48% 3
Wales +15 3 £73,801 +6.48%
Scotland +13 3 £73,801 +6.48% 4
North East +17 2 £73,801 +6.48%
North West +47 1 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Northern Ireland +2 1 £73,801 +6.48%
Yorkshire - 1 £62,500 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 42 (97.67%) Platform Engineering
2 28 (65.12%) Infrastructure as Code
2 28 (65.12%) Python
3 27 (62.79%) CI/CD
4 26 (60.47%) Security Cleared
4 26 (60.47%) Terraform
5 23 (53.49%) DevOps
6 21 (48.84%) AWS
6 21 (48.84%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (46.51%) Azure
7 20 (46.51%) Docker
7 20 (46.51%) Linux
7 20 (46.51%) SC Cleared
8 19 (44.19%) Observability
9 18 (41.86%) Kubernetes
10 17 (39.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 16 (37.21%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (37.21%) GCP
12 15 (34.88%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (34.88%) Migration
12 15 (34.88%) TCP/IP
13 14 (32.56%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (32.56%) PostgreSQL
14 13 (30.23%) Google
14 13 (30.23%) PaaS
14 13 (30.23%) Redis
14 13 (30.23%) Unix
15 12 (27.91%) Amazon ECR
15 12 (27.91%) Amazon ElastiCache
15 12 (27.91%) 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 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.65%) nginx
2 1 (2.33%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) IIS
2 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (48.84%) AWS
2 20 (46.51%) Azure
3 16 (37.21%) AWS CloudFormation
3 16 (37.21%) GCP
4 15 (34.88%) Amazon ECS
5 13 (30.23%) PaaS
6 12 (27.91%) Amazon ECR
6 12 (27.91%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 12 (27.91%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 12 (27.91%) dbt
6 12 (27.91%) Pulumi
6 12 (27.91%) Sentry
7 4 (9.30%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (6.98%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (6.98%) AWS KMS
9 2 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (4.65%) Dagster
9 2 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (4.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (34.88%) TCP/IP
2 4 (9.30%) DNS
2 4 (9.30%) Firewall
2 4 (9.30%) VPN
3 2 (4.65%) BGP
3 2 (4.65%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (4.65%) MQTT
3 2 (4.65%) OSPF
3 2 (4.65%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (4.65%) RTMP
3 2 (4.65%) VLAN
3 2 (4.65%) WAN
3 2 (4.65%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (4.65%) Wireless
4 1 (2.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (32.56%) Amazon RDS
1 14 (32.56%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (30.23%) Redis
3 12 (27.91%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (6.98%) Delta Lake
4 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.65%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (4.65%) Data Lake
5 2 (4.65%) Metadata
5 2 (4.65%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.65%) MySQL
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Jenkins
2 4 (9.30%) Git
2 4 (9.30%) GitLab
3 2 (4.65%) Jaeger
3 2 (4.65%) MLflow
3 2 (4.65%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.33%) JIRA
General
1 10 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.28%) Law
3 4 (9.30%) Finance
3 4 (9.30%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.65%) Agriculture
4 2 (4.65%) Banking
5 1 (2.33%) Back Office
5 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.33%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (27.91%) Django
2 6 (13.95%) GraphQL
2 6 (13.95%) REST
3 3 (6.98%) AWS CDK
4 2 (4.65%) FastAPI
4 2 (4.65%) Kafka
4 2 (4.65%) Keycloak
4 2 (4.65%) WebRTC
5 1 (2.33%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.33%) LDAP
5 1 (2.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (27.91%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (25.58%) Product Ownership
3 7 (16.28%) Cloud Native
4 6 (13.95%) CMDB
5 2 (4.65%) IoT
5 2 (4.65%) MPEG
5 2 (4.65%) Robotics
5 2 (4.65%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.33%) Clustering
6 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (46.51%) Linux
2 13 (30.23%) Unix
3 2 (4.65%) Windows
4 1 (2.33%) Solaris
4 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (97.67%) Platform Engineering
2 28 (65.12%) Infrastructure as Code
3 27 (62.79%) CI/CD
4 23 (53.49%) DevOps
5 21 (48.84%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (44.19%) Observability
7 17 (39.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 15 (34.88%) Migration
9 12 (27.91%) Clean Code
9 12 (27.91%) Open Source
9 12 (27.91%) Prototyping
9 12 (27.91%) Service-Level Objective
10 11 (25.58%) Agile
11 10 (23.26%) Analytics
11 10 (23.26%) Root Cause Analysis
12 7 (16.28%) Performance Optimisation
12 7 (16.28%) Scrum
13 6 (13.95%) Business Strategy
13 6 (13.95%) DevSecOps
13 6 (13.95%) IT Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (65.12%) Python
2 8 (18.60%) Bash
3 7 (16.28%) JavaScript
4 5 (11.63%) SQL
5 4 (9.30%) Go
6 3 (6.98%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.33%) Bicep
7 1 (2.33%) Bourne shell
7 1 (2.33%) C-shell
7 1 (2.33%) Perl
7 1 (2.33%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (60.47%) Security Cleared
2 20 (46.51%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.63%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.33%) GDPR
2 1 (2.33%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.33%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (46.51%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) NFS
2 2 (4.65%) vCloud
2 2 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (60.47%) Terraform
2 18 (41.86%) Kubernetes
3 12 (27.91%) AWS Copilot
4 9 (20.93%) Grafana
5 7 (16.28%) Ansible
6 6 (13.95%) Prometheus
7 3 (6.98%) Argo
8 1 (2.33%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (2.33%) Oracle ZFS
8 1 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (2.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 13 (30.23%) Google
2 6 (13.95%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.98%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.65%) Cisco
4 2 (4.65%) MikroTik
4 2 (4.65%) NETGEAR
4 2 (4.65%) Oracle
4 2 (4.65%) Sonatype
4 2 (4.65%) Starlink
4 2 (4.65%) Ubiquiti
4 2 (4.65%) VMware
5 1 (2.33%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.33%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.33%) EMC
5 1 (2.33%) HP
5 1 (2.33%) NetApp
5 1 (2.33%) Qualys
5 1 (2.33%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.33%) Splunk
5 1 (2.33%) VocaLink