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 October 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 627 618 739
Rank change year-on-year -9 +121 -42
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 184 36 48
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.072% 0.066%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.081% 0.069%
Number of salaries quoted 147 23 46
10th Percentile £61,600 £72,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £70,200 £75,625 £62,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £69,654
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +18.44% -15.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £69,308
% change year-on-year -9.09% +19.03% -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 109,143 44,565 69,871
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 89.75% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 74,344 25,695 40,313
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,825 £35,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £54,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.34% -0.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -6.50% -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 8 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 8 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 -5 153 £75,000 -11.76% 433
UK excluding London -3 119 £75,000 -9.09% 165
London -31 52 £90,000 -5.26% 283
South East -15 40 £75,000 -9.09% 35
North of England -31 36 £70,400 +12.64% 41
North West - 31 £70,400 - 29
Work from Home -23 25 £85,250 +3.33% 177
Wales -56 20 £70,000 -6.67% 2
West Midlands -29 13 £75,000 -11.76% 8
Midlands -30 13 £75,000 -11.76% 14
South West - 9 £75,000 - 25
Yorkshire -30 5 £82,500 +32.00% 11
Scotland - 1 - - 30

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 177 (96.20%) Platform Engineering
2 114 (61.96%) Azure
3 98 (53.26%) CI/CD
3 98 (53.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 89 (48.37%) DevOps
5 86 (46.74%) Terraform
6 61 (33.15%) Kubernetes
7 52 (28.26%) Python
8 43 (23.37%) Security Cleared
9 37 (20.11%) AWS
10 35 (19.02%) GitHub
10 35 (19.02%) Microsoft
10 35 (19.02%) Observability
11 33 (17.93%) Azure DevOps
12 29 (15.76%) Cloud Security
12 29 (15.76%) SC Cleared
13 27 (14.67%) GitHub Actions
14 26 (14.13%) GCP
14 26 (14.13%) Infrastructure Automation
15 25 (13.59%) Mentoring
16 24 (13.04%) Azure AKS
16 24 (13.04%) Bash
17 23 (12.50%) AI
17 23 (12.50%) RBAC
18 21 (11.41%) Containerisation
18 21 (11.41%) PowerShell
18 21 (11.41%) Software Engineering
18 21 (11.41%) SQL
19 18 (9.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 17 (9.24%) Infrastructure 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 (3.80%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.54%) Confluence
4 1 (0.54%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.63%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 114 (61.96%) Azure
2 37 (20.11%) AWS
3 35 (19.02%) GitHub
4 33 (17.93%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (14.67%) GitHub Actions
6 26 (14.13%) GCP
7 24 (13.04%) Azure AKS
8 15 (8.15%) Serverless
9 13 (7.07%) Azure AI
9 13 (7.07%) Snowflake
10 11 (5.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 10 (5.43%) Amazon S3
11 10 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (5.43%) Azure Key Vault
12 9 (4.89%) Power Platform
13 7 (3.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (3.26%) Datadog
14 6 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
15 5 (2.72%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (2.72%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.07%) Firewall
2 6 (3.26%) VPN
3 4 (2.17%) BGP
3 4 (2.17%) DNS
4 3 (1.63%) WAN
5 2 (1.09%) SAN
5 2 (1.09%) VoIP
6 1 (0.54%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.35%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.72%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (2.72%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.63%) BigQuery
3 3 (1.63%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.54%) Big Data
4 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.54%) Metadata
4 1 (0.54%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 7 (3.80%) GitLab
2 6 (3.26%) CircleCI
3 5 (2.72%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.17%) Artifactory
4 4 (2.17%) MLflow
5 2 (1.09%) Git
5 2 (1.09%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.54%) JIRA
General
1 34 (18.48%) Finance
2 24 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 10 (5.43%) Public Sector
4 3 (1.63%) Banking
4 3 (1.63%) Law
5 2 (1.09%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.09%) Legal
6 1 (0.54%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (46.74%) Terraform
2 14 (7.61%) Node.js
3 11 (5.98%) Pulumi
4 6 (3.26%) OpenTofu
5 4 (2.17%) ONNX
5 4 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (2.17%) RESTful
5 4 (2.17%) Web Services
6 3 (1.63%) FastAPI
6 3 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.63%) PySpark
7 2 (1.09%) REST
7 2 (1.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 48 (26.09%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.89%) Onboarding
3 3 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (1.63%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.09%) FMCG
4 2 (1.09%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.54%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.54%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.54%) Clustering
5 1 (0.54%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.54%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.54%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.54%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.26%) Linux
2 1 (0.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (96.20%) Platform Engineering
2 98 (53.26%) CI/CD
2 98 (53.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 89 (48.37%) DevOps
4 35 (19.02%) Observability
5 29 (15.76%) Cloud Security
6 26 (14.13%) Infrastructure Automation
7 25 (13.59%) Mentoring
8 23 (12.50%) AI
8 23 (12.50%) RBAC
9 21 (11.41%) Containerisation
9 21 (11.41%) Software Engineering
10 18 (9.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 17 (9.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 15 (8.15%) Analytics
13 14 (7.61%) Agile
13 14 (7.61%) Data Pipeline
13 14 (7.61%) Disaster Recovery
13 14 (7.61%) Performance Optimisation
13 14 (7.61%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 52 (28.26%) Python
2 24 (13.04%) Bash
3 21 (11.41%) PowerShell
3 21 (11.41%) SQL
4 9 (4.89%) Bicep
4 9 (4.89%) C#
5 5 (2.72%) Go
5 5 (2.72%) Java
6 4 (2.17%) Groovy
6 4 (2.17%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.09%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 43 (23.37%) Security Cleared
2 29 (15.76%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.61%) DV Cleared
4 7 (3.80%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.09%) Degree
7 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (5.43%) Docker
2 5 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.54%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 61 (33.15%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.70%) Ansible
3 10 (5.43%) Grafana
3 10 (5.43%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.26%) Istio
5 4 (2.17%) Kubeflow
5 4 (2.17%) linkerd
5 4 (2.17%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.09%) Argo
6 2 (1.09%) Packer
7 1 (0.54%) Opsview
7 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (19.02%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.70%) Google
3 13 (7.07%) Foundry
4 7 (3.80%) Databricks
4 7 (3.80%) VMware
5 5 (2.72%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.63%) Oracle
7 1 (0.54%) Citrix
7 1 (0.54%) F5
7 1 (0.54%) Rackspace
7 1 (0.54%) Veeam
7 1 (0.54%) YouTube