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 12 August 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 636 654 776
Rank change year-on-year +18 +122 -15
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 149 34 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.068% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.076% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 130 25 41
10th Percentile £65,000 £66,705 £47,500
25th Percentile £70,500 £75,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £104,125 £97,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £81,250 £72,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +12.07% -

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 99,712 44,763 79,353
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 89.90% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 68,207 26,557 53,034
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.25% -3.00% -6.54%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 +17 129 £75,000 -9.09% 288
UK excluding London -20 85 £75,000 -7.69% 117
London -13 53 £90,000 +2.86% 193
Work from Home +5 33 £85,250 +3.33% 121
North of England -21 32 £74,301 +12.68% 42
North West +6 27 £74,301 +7.09% 21
South East -12 23 £75,000 -10.45% 16
West Midlands - 13 £75,000 - 1
Midlands - 13 £75,000 - 9
Wales - 11 £70,000 - 4
South West - 5 £75,000 - 16
Yorkshire -24 4 - - 19
North East - 1 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £73,801 - 5

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

For the 6 months to 12 August 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.

1 142 (95.30%) Platform Engineering
2 91 (61.07%) Azure
2 91 (61.07%) CI/CD
3 86 (57.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 78 (52.35%) Terraform
5 70 (46.98%) DevOps
6 57 (38.26%) Python
7 48 (32.21%) Kubernetes
8 41 (27.52%) AWS
9 40 (26.85%) Security Cleared
10 34 (22.82%) Observability
11 31 (20.81%) GitHub
12 28 (18.79%) Azure DevOps
13 25 (16.78%) GCP
13 25 (16.78%) Mentoring
13 25 (16.78%) SC Cleared
14 23 (15.44%) Cloud Security
14 23 (15.44%) GitHub Actions
15 22 (14.77%) Microsoft
16 21 (14.09%) AI
16 21 (14.09%) Bash
16 21 (14.09%) RBAC
17 20 (13.42%) Infrastructure Automation
18 19 (12.75%) Azure AKS
18 19 (12.75%) Containerisation
19 18 (12.08%) Agile
20 17 (11.41%) Google
21 16 (10.74%) Serverless
21 16 (10.74%) SQL
22 15 (10.07%) Amazon S3

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 7 (4.70%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.67%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.67%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.01%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 91 (61.07%) Azure
2 41 (27.52%) AWS
3 31 (20.81%) GitHub
4 28 (18.79%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (16.78%) GCP
6 23 (15.44%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (12.75%) Azure AKS
8 16 (10.74%) Serverless
9 15 (10.07%) Amazon S3
10 14 (9.40%) Azure AI
10 14 (9.40%) Pulumi
11 11 (7.38%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (7.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 10 (6.71%) Amazon ECR
12 10 (6.71%) PaaS
12 10 (6.71%) Snowflake
13 9 (6.04%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (5.37%) dbt
15 7 (4.70%) Amazon ECS
16 6 (4.03%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.72%) Firewall
2 6 (4.03%) TCP/IP
2 6 (4.03%) VPN
3 4 (2.68%) BGP
4 3 (2.01%) DNS
4 3 (2.01%) WAN
5 2 (1.34%) SAN
5 2 (1.34%) VoIP
6 1 (0.67%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (3.36%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (3.36%) Redis
2 4 (2.68%) BigQuery
2 4 (2.68%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.01%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.67%) Big Data
4 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.67%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.67%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 6 (4.03%) CircleCI
1 6 (4.03%) GitLab
2 4 (2.68%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.68%) MLflow
3 3 (2.01%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.34%) Git
4 2 (1.34%) Oracle APEX
General
1 38 (25.50%) Finance
2 21 (14.09%) Social Skills
3 10 (6.71%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.01%) Law
6 2 (1.34%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.34%) Banking
7 1 (0.67%) Advertising
7 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.67%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.67%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.07%) Node.js
2 5 (3.36%) Django
3 4 (2.68%) ONNX
3 4 (2.68%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (2.68%) RESTful
3 4 (2.68%) Web Services
4 3 (2.01%) FastAPI
4 3 (2.01%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (2.01%) PySpark
5 2 (1.34%) REST
5 2 (1.34%) SOAP
6 1 (0.67%) CrewAI
6 1 (0.67%) JWT
6 1 (0.67%) LangChain
6 1 (0.67%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 28 (18.79%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.70%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.36%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.68%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.34%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.34%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.67%) Clustering
6 1 (0.67%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.07%) Linux
2 5 (3.36%) Unix
3 1 (0.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (95.30%) Platform Engineering
2 91 (61.07%) CI/CD
3 86 (57.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (46.98%) DevOps
5 34 (22.82%) Observability
6 25 (16.78%) Mentoring
7 23 (15.44%) Cloud Security
8 21 (14.09%) AI
8 21 (14.09%) RBAC
9 20 (13.42%) Infrastructure Automation
10 19 (12.75%) Containerisation
11 18 (12.08%) Agile
12 15 (10.07%) Analytics
12 15 (10.07%) Software Engineering
13 13 (8.72%) Performance Optimisation
14 12 (8.05%) Disaster Recovery
14 12 (8.05%) Migration
15 11 (7.38%) Decision-Making
15 11 (7.38%) Fintech
15 11 (7.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 57 (38.26%) Python
2 21 (14.09%) Bash
3 16 (10.74%) SQL
4 14 (9.40%) PowerShell
5 10 (6.71%) Java
6 9 (6.04%) C#
7 6 (4.03%) Go
8 5 (3.36%) Bicep
9 4 (2.68%) Groovy
9 4 (2.68%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 40 (26.85%) Security Cleared
2 25 (16.78%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.72%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.37%) Azure Certification
5 6 (4.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.34%) Degree
7 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.01%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (7.38%) Docker
2 5 (3.36%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 78 (52.35%) Terraform
2 48 (32.21%) Kubernetes
3 14 (9.40%) Ansible
4 10 (6.71%) Grafana
4 10 (6.71%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.03%) Istio
6 5 (3.36%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (2.68%) Kubeflow
7 4 (2.68%) linkerd
7 4 (2.68%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.34%) Argo
8 2 (1.34%) Packer
9 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (14.77%) Microsoft
2 17 (11.41%) Google
3 14 (9.40%) Foundry
4 6 (4.03%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.01%) Databricks
5 3 (2.01%) Oracle
6 2 (1.34%) VMware
7 1 (0.67%) Citrix
7 1 (0.67%) F5
7 1 (0.67%) Rackspace