Senior Platform Engineer Job Trends

Senior Platform Engineer
UK

The median Senior Platform Engineer salary in the UK is £81,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 June 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 625 634 856
Rank change year-on-year +9 +222 -33
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 129 42 44
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.090% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.10% 0.044%
Number of salaries quoted 114 36 42
10th Percentile £66,975 £64,509 £48,750
25th Percentile £71,250 £74,375 £63,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £83,750 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% +8.06% +3.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,125 £94,688
90th Percentile £110,000 £101,875 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% +1.75%

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 90,569 41,555 99,935
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 89.51% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 62,167 23,987 72,008
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,673 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% +7.95% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.00% - -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 30 June 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 30 June 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 +3 113 £82,500 -2.94% 33
UK excluding London -13 60 £75,000 -6.25% 25
London -1 55 £95,000 +5.56% 13
Work from Home +12 34 £85,250 +3.33% 15
North of England -36 24 £70,400 +2.86% 5
South East -10 19 £75,000 -9.09% 10
North West +14 18 £70,400 +1.47% 4
West Midlands - 7 £70,000 - 1
Midlands - 7 £70,000 - 4
Yorkshire -27 5 £62,500 +4.17% 1
South West - 5 £75,000 - 3
Wales - 4 £70,500 - 2
North East - 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 £73,801 -

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

For the 6 months to 30 June 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.

1 123 (95.35%) Platform Engineering
2 80 (62.02%) Terraform
3 79 (61.24%) CI/CD
3 79 (61.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (51.16%) Azure
5 53 (41.09%) DevOps
6 51 (39.53%) Python
7 47 (36.43%) AWS
8 45 (34.88%) Kubernetes
9 37 (28.68%) Security Cleared
10 35 (27.13%) Observability
11 27 (20.93%) GitHub
12 24 (18.60%) Cloud Security
13 23 (17.83%) Microsoft
14 22 (17.05%) Mentoring
14 22 (17.05%) SC Cleared
15 21 (16.28%) Azure DevOps
15 21 (16.28%) RBAC
16 20 (15.50%) Amazon S3
16 20 (15.50%) Bash
16 20 (15.50%) GitHub Actions
16 20 (15.50%) Infrastructure Automation
17 19 (14.73%) Containerisation
18 18 (13.95%) AI
18 18 (13.95%) GCP
18 18 (13.95%) Linux
19 17 (13.18%) Agile
19 17 (13.18%) Azure AKS
20 16 (12.40%) Ansible
21 15 (11.63%) Node.js

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 6 (4.65%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.55%) IIS
4 1 (0.78%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.55%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (2.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 66 (51.16%) Azure
2 47 (36.43%) AWS
3 27 (20.93%) GitHub
4 21 (16.28%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (15.50%) Amazon S3
5 20 (15.50%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (13.95%) GCP
7 17 (13.18%) Azure AKS
8 15 (11.63%) Serverless
9 14 (10.85%) Pulumi
10 13 (10.08%) Amazon ECR
11 11 (8.53%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (7.75%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (7.75%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (7.75%) PaaS
13 8 (6.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (6.20%) dbt
13 8 (6.20%) Snowflake
14 7 (5.43%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (5.43%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.53%) Firewall
2 5 (3.88%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.10%) VPN
4 2 (1.55%) BGP
4 2 (1.55%) DNS
4 2 (1.55%) VoIP
4 2 (1.55%) WAN
5 1 (0.78%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.78%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.65%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (3.88%) BigQuery
2 5 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.88%) Redis
3 3 (2.33%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.78%) Big Data
4 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.78%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.78%) Parquet
4 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (4.65%) CircleCI
2 5 (3.88%) GitLab
3 4 (3.10%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.33%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.55%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.78%) Git
General
1 20 (15.50%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.95%) Finance
3 12 (9.30%) Public Sector
4 5 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.33%) Law
6 2 (1.55%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.78%) Advertising
7 1 (0.78%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.63%) Node.js
2 5 (3.88%) Django
3 4 (3.10%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (3.10%) RESTful
3 4 (3.10%) Web Services
4 3 (2.33%) FastAPI
4 3 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (2.33%) PySpark
5 2 (1.55%) REST
5 2 (1.55%) SOAP
6 1 (0.78%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.78%) CrewAI
6 1 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.78%) JWT
6 1 (0.78%) LangChain
6 1 (0.78%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 28 (21.71%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.88%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (3.88%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.10%) Hedge funds
4 1 (0.78%) Clustering
4 1 (0.78%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.78%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.78%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.95%) Linux
2 5 (3.88%) Unix
3 1 (0.78%) VMS
3 1 (0.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (95.35%) Platform Engineering
2 79 (61.24%) CI/CD
2 79 (61.24%) Infrastructure as Code
3 53 (41.09%) DevOps
4 35 (27.13%) Observability
5 24 (18.60%) Cloud Security
6 22 (17.05%) Mentoring
7 21 (16.28%) RBAC
8 20 (15.50%) Infrastructure Automation
9 19 (14.73%) Containerisation
10 18 (13.95%) AI
11 17 (13.18%) Agile
12 14 (10.85%) Analytics
13 13 (10.08%) Incident Response
14 12 (9.30%) Fintech
14 12 (9.30%) Migration
14 12 (9.30%) Secrets Management
15 11 (8.53%) Decision-Making
15 11 (8.53%) Performance Optimisation
15 11 (8.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 51 (39.53%) Python
2 20 (15.50%) Bash
3 13 (10.08%) PowerShell
4 10 (7.75%) SQL
5 6 (4.65%) Java
6 5 (3.88%) Bicep
6 5 (3.88%) Go
7 4 (3.10%) Groovy
8 1 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 37 (28.68%) Security Cleared
2 22 (17.05%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.30%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.43%) Azure Certification
5 6 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.55%) Degree
7 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.78%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (10.08%) Docker
2 4 (3.10%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.33%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 80 (62.02%) Terraform
2 45 (34.88%) Kubernetes
3 16 (12.40%) Ansible
4 12 (9.30%) Grafana
4 12 (9.30%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.65%) Istio
5 6 (4.65%) Progress Chef
6 5 (3.88%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (3.10%) linkerd
8 3 (2.33%) Argo
8 3 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.55%) Puppet
9 2 (1.55%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.78%) Packer
Vendors
1 23 (17.83%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.30%) Google
3 6 (4.65%) Foundry
3 6 (4.65%) OpenAI
4 4 (3.10%) VMware
5 3 (2.33%) Databricks
5 3 (2.33%) Oracle
6 2 (1.55%) Cribl.io
7 1 (0.78%) Citrix
7 1 (0.78%) F5