Senior Platform Engineer Job Trends

Senior Platform Engineer
UK

The median Senior Platform Engineer salary in the UK is £82,563 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 June 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 630 619 869
Rank change year-on-year -11 +250 -36
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 122 42 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.093% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.10% 0.040%
Number of salaries quoted 108 36 39
10th Percentile £66,750 £64,129 £57,500
25th Percentile £71,250 £71,875 £63,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,563 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.08% +3.13% +8.47%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,125 £96,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £101,875 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £74,692 £70,000
% change year-on-year +0.41% +6.70% -

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 88,632 40,228 103,596
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 89.47% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 60,836 22,885 74,815
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,603
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 21 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 21 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 -5 107 £82,625 +0.15% 39
London +15 54 £97,500 +8.33% 18
UK excluding London -26 54 £75,000 +0.41% 35
Work from Home +28 33 £85,250 +3.33% 16
North of England -15 20 £70,400 +4.30% 8
South East -11 19 £75,000 -9.09% 15
North West +15 15 £70,400 +1.47% 6
West Midlands - 7 £70,000 - 1
Midlands - 7 £70,000 - 5
Yorkshire -34 4 £62,500 - 2
South West - 4 £75,000 - 2
Wales - 3 £68,500 - 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 21 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.

1 116 (95.08%) Platform Engineering
2 76 (62.30%) Terraform
3 73 (59.84%) CI/CD
3 73 (59.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (50.82%) Azure
5 48 (39.34%) Python
6 47 (38.52%) AWS
6 47 (38.52%) DevOps
7 41 (33.61%) Kubernetes
8 35 (28.69%) Observability
8 35 (28.69%) Security Cleared
9 25 (20.49%) GitHub
10 24 (19.67%) Cloud Security
11 23 (18.85%) Microsoft
12 21 (17.21%) RBAC
12 21 (17.21%) SC Cleared
13 20 (16.39%) Amazon S3
13 20 (16.39%) Bash
13 20 (16.39%) Infrastructure Automation
13 20 (16.39%) Mentoring
14 19 (15.57%) Azure DevOps
14 19 (15.57%) Containerisation
15 18 (14.75%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (13.93%) AI
16 17 (13.93%) Azure AKS
17 16 (13.11%) Agile
17 16 (13.11%) Ansible
17 16 (13.11%) GCP
17 16 (13.11%) Linux
18 15 (12.30%) 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 (4.92%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.64%) IIS
3 1 (0.82%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (2.46%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 62 (50.82%) Azure
2 47 (38.52%) AWS
3 25 (20.49%) GitHub
4 20 (16.39%) Amazon S3
5 19 (15.57%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (14.75%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (13.93%) Azure AKS
8 16 (13.11%) GCP
9 15 (12.30%) Serverless
10 14 (11.48%) Pulumi
11 13 (10.66%) Amazon ECR
12 11 (9.02%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (8.20%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (8.20%) PaaS
14 9 (7.38%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (6.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (6.56%) Snowflake
16 7 (5.74%) Amazon ECS
16 7 (5.74%) AWS KMS
16 7 (5.74%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.20%) Firewall
2 5 (4.10%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.46%) VPN
4 2 (1.64%) BGP
4 2 (1.64%) WAN
5 1 (0.82%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.82%) DNS
5 1 (0.82%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.92%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.10%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (4.10%) BigQuery
2 5 (4.10%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.10%) Redis
3 3 (2.46%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.82%) Big Data
4 1 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.82%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.82%) Parquet
4 1 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (4.92%) CircleCI
2 5 (4.10%) GitLab
3 3 (2.46%) Artifactory
3 3 (2.46%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.64%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.82%) Git
General
1 20 (16.39%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.11%) Finance
3 12 (9.84%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.46%) Law
6 2 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.82%) Advertising
7 1 (0.82%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.30%) Node.js
2 5 (4.10%) Django
3 4 (3.28%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (3.28%) RESTful
4 3 (2.46%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (2.46%) PySpark
4 3 (2.46%) Web Services
5 2 (1.64%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.64%) REST
5 2 (1.64%) SOAP
6 1 (0.82%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.82%) CrewAI
6 1 (0.82%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.82%) JWT
6 1 (0.82%) LangChain
6 1 (0.82%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 26 (21.31%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.10%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (4.10%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.28%) Hedge funds
4 1 (0.82%) Clustering
4 1 (0.82%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.82%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.11%) Linux
2 5 (4.10%) Unix
3 1 (0.82%) VMS
3 1 (0.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (95.08%) Platform Engineering
2 73 (59.84%) CI/CD
2 73 (59.84%) Infrastructure as Code
3 47 (38.52%) DevOps
4 35 (28.69%) Observability
5 24 (19.67%) Cloud Security
6 21 (17.21%) RBAC
7 20 (16.39%) Infrastructure Automation
7 20 (16.39%) Mentoring
8 19 (15.57%) Containerisation
9 17 (13.93%) AI
10 16 (13.11%) Agile
11 14 (11.48%) Analytics
12 13 (10.66%) Incident Response
13 12 (9.84%) Fintech
13 12 (9.84%) Migration
13 12 (9.84%) Secrets Management
14 11 (9.02%) Disaster Recovery
14 11 (9.02%) Performance Optimisation
14 11 (9.02%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 48 (39.34%) Python
2 20 (16.39%) Bash
3 12 (9.84%) PowerShell
4 9 (7.38%) SQL
5 6 (4.92%) Java
6 5 (4.10%) Go
7 4 (3.28%) Bicep
8 3 (2.46%) Groovy
9 1 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 35 (28.69%) Security Cleared
2 21 (17.21%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.84%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.74%) Azure Certification
5 6 (4.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.64%) Degree
7 1 (0.82%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.64%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.82%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (9.02%) Docker
2 4 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.46%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 76 (62.30%) Terraform
2 41 (33.61%) Kubernetes
3 16 (13.11%) Ansible
4 12 (9.84%) Grafana
4 12 (9.84%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.92%) Istio
6 5 (4.10%) AWS Copilot
6 5 (4.10%) Progress Chef
7 4 (3.28%) linkerd
8 3 (2.46%) Argo
8 3 (2.46%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.64%) Puppet
9 2 (1.64%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.82%) Packer
Vendors
1 23 (18.85%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.02%) Google
3 6 (4.92%) Foundry
3 6 (4.92%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.46%) Databricks
4 3 (2.46%) Oracle
4 3 (2.46%) VMware
5 2 (1.64%) Cribl.io
6 1 (0.82%) Citrix
6 1 (0.82%) F5