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 14 October 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 618 624 697
Rank change year-on-year +6 +73 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 188 42 48
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.085% 0.068%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.095% 0.071%
Number of salaries quoted 149 29 46
10th Percentile £60,200 - £47,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £68,813 £62,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £69,654
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.85% -16.83%
75th Percentile £90,000 £89,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £69,308
% change year-on-year - +8.21% -6.02%

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 109,855 44,157 67,766
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 89.76% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 74,567 25,766 38,707
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% -2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -4.76%

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 14 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Platform Engineer in the UK

Senior Platform Engineer
Top 13 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 14 October 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 -15 156 £75,000 -9.09% 368
UK excluding London -29 121 £75,000 - 148
London -26 54 £90,000 -1.37% 221
South East -4 41 £75,000 -9.09% 40
North of England -27 36 £70,400 -4.61% 37
North West +1 31 £70,400 -4.61% 26
Work from Home -26 25 £85,250 +1.79% 291
Wales -52 21 £70,000 -5.91%
West Midlands -26 13 £75,000 -5.54% 7
Midlands -41 13 £75,000 -5.54% 16
South West - 9 £75,000 - 23
Yorkshire -30 5 £82,500 +32.00% 9
Scotland +10 1 - - 18

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

For the 6 months to 14 October 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.

1 181 (96.28%) Platform Engineering
2 116 (61.70%) Azure
3 99 (52.66%) CI/CD
4 98 (52.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 88 (46.81%) DevOps
6 87 (46.28%) Terraform
7 62 (32.98%) Kubernetes
8 55 (29.26%) Python
9 43 (22.87%) Security Cleared
10 38 (20.21%) AWS
11 36 (19.15%) Microsoft
11 36 (19.15%) Observability
12 35 (18.62%) GitHub
13 32 (17.02%) Azure DevOps
14 29 (15.43%) SC Cleared
15 27 (14.36%) Cloud Security
15 27 (14.36%) GCP
15 27 (14.36%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (14.36%) Infrastructure Automation
16 25 (13.30%) Mentoring
17 24 (12.77%) Bash
17 24 (12.77%) RBAC
18 23 (12.23%) AI
18 23 (12.23%) Azure AKS
18 23 (12.23%) SQL
19 22 (11.70%) Containerisation
20 21 (11.17%) PowerShell
20 21 (11.17%) Software Engineering
21 18 (9.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
21 18 (9.57%) Site Reliability Engineering

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 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.53%) Confluence
4 1 (0.53%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 116 (61.70%) Azure
2 38 (20.21%) AWS
3 35 (18.62%) GitHub
4 32 (17.02%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (14.36%) GCP
5 27 (14.36%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (12.23%) Azure AKS
7 14 (7.45%) Serverless
8 13 (6.91%) Azure AI
9 12 (6.38%) Snowflake
10 11 (5.85%) Azure Key Vault
10 11 (5.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 10 (5.32%) Amazon S3
11 10 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (4.79%) Power Platform
13 8 (4.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
15 6 (3.19%) Datadog
16 5 (2.66%) AWS CloudFormation
16 5 (2.66%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.45%) Firewall
2 7 (3.72%) VPN
3 6 (3.19%) DNS
4 4 (2.13%) BGP
5 3 (1.60%) WAN
6 2 (1.06%) BIG-IP
6 2 (1.06%) SAN
6 2 (1.06%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.06%) VoIP
7 1 (0.53%) HTTP
7 1 (0.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.26%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (2.66%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.60%) BigQuery
3 3 (1.60%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.53%) Big Data
4 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.53%) Metadata
4 1 (0.53%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 7 (3.72%) GitLab
2 6 (3.19%) CircleCI
3 5 (2.66%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.13%) Artifactory
4 4 (2.13%) MLflow
5 2 (1.06%) Git
5 2 (1.06%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.53%) JIRA
General
1 37 (19.68%) Finance
2 26 (13.83%) Social Skills
3 10 (5.32%) Public Sector
4 4 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (2.13%) Banking
5 3 (1.60%) Law
6 2 (1.06%) Legal
7 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (46.28%) Terraform
2 14 (7.45%) Node.js
3 12 (6.38%) Pulumi
4 6 (3.19%) OpenTofu
5 4 (2.13%) ONNX
5 4 (2.13%) PySpark
5 4 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (2.13%) RESTful
5 4 (2.13%) Web Services
6 3 (1.60%) FastAPI
6 3 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.06%) REST
7 2 (1.06%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 50 (26.60%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.79%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (2.13%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.06%) FMCG
5 2 (1.06%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.53%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.53%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.53%) Clustering
6 1 (0.53%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.53%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.53%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.53%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.72%) Linux
2 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.53%) VMS
2 1 (0.53%) Windows
2 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (96.28%) Platform Engineering
2 99 (52.66%) CI/CD
3 98 (52.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 88 (46.81%) DevOps
5 36 (19.15%) Observability
6 27 (14.36%) Cloud Security
6 27 (14.36%) Infrastructure Automation
7 25 (13.30%) Mentoring
8 24 (12.77%) RBAC
9 23 (12.23%) AI
10 22 (11.70%) Containerisation
11 21 (11.17%) Software Engineering
12 18 (9.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 18 (9.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 17 (9.04%) Analytics
14 15 (7.98%) Disaster Recovery
15 14 (7.45%) Agile
15 14 (7.45%) Data Pipeline
15 14 (7.45%) Performance Optimisation
15 14 (7.45%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 55 (29.26%) Python
2 24 (12.77%) Bash
3 23 (12.23%) SQL
4 21 (11.17%) PowerShell
5 10 (5.32%) Bicep
6 9 (4.79%) C#
7 5 (2.66%) Go
7 5 (2.66%) Java
8 4 (2.13%) Groovy
8 4 (2.13%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 43 (22.87%) Security Cleared
2 29 (15.43%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.45%) DV Cleared
4 7 (3.72%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.06%) Degree
7 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.13%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (5.85%) Docker
2 5 (2.66%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 62 (32.98%) Kubernetes
2 17 (9.04%) Ansible
3 10 (5.32%) Grafana
3 10 (5.32%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.19%) Istio
5 4 (2.13%) Kubeflow
5 4 (2.13%) linkerd
5 4 (2.13%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.06%) Argo
6 2 (1.06%) Packer
6 2 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.53%) Opsview
Vendors
1 36 (19.15%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.51%) Google
3 13 (6.91%) Foundry
4 8 (4.26%) Databricks
5 7 (3.72%) VMware
6 5 (2.66%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.60%) Oracle
8 2 (1.06%) F5
9 1 (0.53%) Citrix
9 1 (0.53%) Rackspace
9 1 (0.53%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.53%) Veeam
9 1 (0.53%) YouTube