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 8 August 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 640 658 777
Rank change year-on-year +18 +119 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 147 36 42
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.073% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.081% 0.053%
Number of salaries quoted 128 29 40
10th Percentile £65,000 £64,509 £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 £93,750 £95,313
90th Percentile £104,875 £100,000 £110,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -3.33%

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 99,002 44,694 78,791
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 90.02% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 67,676 26,534 53,124
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,450
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -2.00% -6.79%

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 8 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 8 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 -13 127 £75,000 -10.45% 252
UK excluding London -19 84 £75,000 -6.25% 98
London -7 52 £90,000 - 171
Work from Home -8 33 £85,250 +3.33% 98
North of England -15 33 £72,351 +4.28% 40
North West +21 27 £74,301 +7.09% 22
South East -19 22 £75,000 -10.45% 11
West Midlands - 12 £75,000 - 2
Midlands - 12 £75,000 - 7
Wales - 11 £70,000 - 4
Yorkshire -32 5 £62,500 - 16
South West - 5 £75,000 - 13
North East - 1 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £73,801 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 141 (95.92%) Platform Engineering
2 91 (61.90%) CI/CD
3 88 (59.86%) Azure
4 86 (58.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 78 (53.06%) Terraform
6 69 (46.94%) DevOps
7 58 (39.46%) Python
8 48 (32.65%) Kubernetes
9 41 (27.89%) AWS
10 39 (26.53%) Security Cleared
11 34 (23.13%) Observability
12 31 (21.09%) GitHub
13 27 (18.37%) Azure DevOps
14 25 (17.01%) Mentoring
15 24 (16.33%) Cloud Security
15 24 (16.33%) GCP
15 24 (16.33%) SC Cleared
16 23 (15.65%) GitHub Actions
17 22 (14.97%) Bash
18 21 (14.29%) AI
18 21 (14.29%) Microsoft
19 20 (13.61%) Infrastructure Automation
19 20 (13.61%) RBAC
20 19 (12.93%) Azure AKS
20 19 (12.93%) Containerisation
21 18 (12.24%) Agile
22 16 (10.88%) Amazon S3
22 16 (10.88%) Google
22 16 (10.88%) SQL
23 15 (10.20%) Analytics

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 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.68%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.04%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 88 (59.86%) Azure
2 41 (27.89%) AWS
3 31 (21.09%) GitHub
4 27 (18.37%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (16.33%) GCP
6 23 (15.65%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (12.93%) Azure AKS
8 16 (10.88%) Amazon S3
9 15 (10.20%) Serverless
10 14 (9.52%) Pulumi
11 13 (8.84%) Azure AI
12 11 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (7.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 10 (6.80%) Amazon ECR
13 10 (6.80%) PaaS
13 10 (6.80%) Snowflake
14 9 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (5.44%) dbt
16 7 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
17 6 (4.08%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.84%) Firewall
2 6 (4.08%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.40%) VPN
4 3 (2.04%) BGP
4 3 (2.04%) DNS
5 2 (1.36%) SAN
5 2 (1.36%) VoIP
5 2 (1.36%) WAN
6 1 (0.68%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (3.40%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (3.40%) Redis
2 4 (2.72%) BigQuery
2 4 (2.72%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.04%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.68%) Big Data
4 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.68%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 6 (4.08%) CircleCI
2 5 (3.40%) GitLab
3 4 (2.72%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.72%) MLflow
4 3 (2.04%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.36%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.68%) Git
General
1 37 (25.17%) Finance
2 20 (13.61%) Social Skills
3 10 (6.80%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.04%) Law
6 2 (1.36%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.36%) Banking
7 1 (0.68%) Advertising
7 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.68%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.20%) Node.js
2 5 (3.40%) Django
3 4 (2.72%) ONNX
3 4 (2.72%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (2.72%) RESTful
3 4 (2.72%) Web Services
4 3 (2.04%) FastAPI
4 3 (2.04%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (2.04%) PySpark
5 2 (1.36%) REST
5 2 (1.36%) SOAP
6 1 (0.68%) CrewAI
6 1 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.68%) JWT
6 1 (0.68%) LangChain
6 1 (0.68%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 27 (18.37%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.40%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.72%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.36%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.36%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.68%) Clustering
6 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.68%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.20%) Linux
2 5 (3.40%) Unix
3 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (95.92%) Platform Engineering
2 91 (61.90%) CI/CD
3 86 (58.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (46.94%) DevOps
5 34 (23.13%) Observability
6 25 (17.01%) Mentoring
7 24 (16.33%) Cloud Security
8 21 (14.29%) AI
9 20 (13.61%) Infrastructure Automation
9 20 (13.61%) RBAC
10 19 (12.93%) Containerisation
11 18 (12.24%) Agile
12 15 (10.20%) Analytics
13 13 (8.84%) Performance Optimisation
13 13 (8.84%) Software Engineering
14 12 (8.16%) Disaster Recovery
14 12 (8.16%) Migration
15 11 (7.48%) Fintech
15 11 (7.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 11 (7.48%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 58 (39.46%) Python
2 22 (14.97%) Bash
3 16 (10.88%) SQL
4 14 (9.52%) PowerShell
5 10 (6.80%) Java
6 7 (4.76%) C#
7 6 (4.08%) Go
8 5 (3.40%) Bicep
9 4 (2.72%) Groovy
9 4 (2.72%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 39 (26.53%) Security Cleared
2 24 (16.33%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.84%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.76%) Azure Certification
5 6 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.36%) Degree
7 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.04%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (8.16%) Docker
2 4 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 78 (53.06%) Terraform
2 48 (32.65%) Kubernetes
3 14 (9.52%) Ansible
4 10 (6.80%) Grafana
4 10 (6.80%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.08%) Istio
6 5 (3.40%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (2.72%) Kubeflow
7 4 (2.72%) linkerd
7 4 (2.72%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.04%) Argo
9 1 (0.68%) Packer
9 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.88%) Google
3 13 (8.84%) Foundry
4 6 (4.08%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.04%) Databricks
5 3 (2.04%) Oracle
6 2 (1.36%) VMware
7 1 (0.68%) Citrix
7 1 (0.68%) F5
7 1 (0.68%) Rackspace