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 19 December 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 610 676 687
Rank change year-on-year +66 +11 +232
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 43 49 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.073% 0.086% 0.045%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.081% 0.092% 0.047%
Number of salaries quoted 32 46 20
10th Percentile - £47,500 £64,750
25th Percentile £68,813 £64,471 £71,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,308 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% -18.46% -
75th Percentile £95,625 £88,438 £116,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,801 £69,308 £73,750
% change year-on-year +6.48% -6.02% +5.36%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 53,173 53,172 46,462
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.28% 93.59% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 32,782 28,551 36,094
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,634 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,589 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.45% - -

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025. 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 +84 35 £82,500 +10.00% 46
UK excluding London +68 21 £73,801 +6.48% 45
London +49 18 £100,000 +25.00% 6
Work from Home +54 7 £83,750 +20.84% 37
West Midlands +36 6 £90,000 +29.86% 3
Midlands +20 6 £90,000 +29.86% 4
North of England +26 5 £73,801 +6.48% 11
South East +42 3 £82,500 +22.22% 7
Scotland +13 3 £73,801 +6.48%
Wales +4 3 £73,801 +6.48% 3
North West +28 2 £76,901 +10.96% 2
North East +9 2 £73,801 +6.48%
Northern Ireland -4 1 £73,801 +6.48%
Yorkshire - 1 £62,500 - 9

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

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, 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 42 (97.67%) Platform Engineering
2 25 (58.14%) CI/CD
2 25 (58.14%) DevOps
2 25 (58.14%) Linux
2 25 (58.14%) Python
2 25 (58.14%) Terraform
3 24 (55.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (51.16%) AWS
5 21 (48.84%) Azure
5 21 (48.84%) Docker
5 21 (48.84%) Security Cleared
6 18 (41.86%) Observability
6 18 (41.86%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (37.21%) GCP
7 16 (37.21%) SC Cleared
8 15 (34.88%) Kubernetes
8 15 (34.88%) Migration
8 15 (34.88%) TCP/IP
9 14 (32.56%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (32.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (32.56%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (32.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 13 (30.23%) Amazon RDS
10 13 (30.23%) Google
10 13 (30.23%) PaaS
10 13 (30.23%) Redis
10 13 (30.23%) Unix
11 12 (27.91%) Amazon ECR
11 12 (27.91%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 12 (27.91%) Amazon OpenSearch

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 2 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.65%) nginx
1 2 (4.65%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.33%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 22 (51.16%) AWS
2 21 (48.84%) Azure
3 16 (37.21%) GCP
4 14 (32.56%) Amazon ECS
4 14 (32.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (30.23%) PaaS
6 12 (27.91%) Amazon ECR
6 12 (27.91%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 12 (27.91%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 12 (27.91%) dbt
6 12 (27.91%) Pulumi
6 12 (27.91%) Sentry
7 4 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (4.65%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (4.65%) AWS KMS
9 2 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (4.65%) Dagster
9 2 (4.65%) GitHub
9 2 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (34.88%) TCP/IP
2 3 (6.98%) DNS
2 3 (6.98%) Firewall
2 3 (6.98%) VPN
3 2 (4.65%) BGP
3 2 (4.65%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (4.65%) MQTT
3 2 (4.65%) OSPF
3 2 (4.65%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (4.65%) RTMP
3 2 (4.65%) VLAN
3 2 (4.65%) WAN
3 2 (4.65%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (4.65%) Wireless
4 1 (2.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (32.56%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (30.23%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (30.23%) Redis
3 12 (27.91%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (6.98%) Delta Lake
4 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.65%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (4.65%) Data Lake
5 2 (4.65%) Metadata
5 2 (4.65%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.65%) MySQL
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (2.33%) Power BI
6 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Jenkins
2 4 (9.30%) Git
2 4 (9.30%) GitLab
3 2 (4.65%) Jaeger
3 2 (4.65%) MLflow
3 2 (4.65%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.33%) JIRA
General
1 9 (20.93%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.95%) Law
3 5 (11.63%) Finance
4 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.65%) Agriculture
6 1 (2.33%) Back Office
6 1 (2.33%) Banking
6 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (27.91%) Django
2 6 (13.95%) GraphQL
2 6 (13.95%) REST
3 2 (4.65%) AWS CDK
3 2 (4.65%) FastAPI
3 2 (4.65%) Kafka
3 2 (4.65%) Keycloak
3 2 (4.65%) WebRTC
4 1 (2.33%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.33%) LDAP
4 1 (2.33%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 12 (27.91%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (18.60%) Product Ownership
3 6 (13.95%) CMDB
4 3 (6.98%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.65%) IoT
5 2 (4.65%) MPEG
5 2 (4.65%) Robotics
5 2 (4.65%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.33%) Clustering
6 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.33%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.33%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 25 (58.14%) Linux
2 13 (30.23%) Unix
3 3 (6.98%) Windows
4 1 (2.33%) Solaris
4 1 (2.33%) VMS
4 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (97.67%) Platform Engineering
2 25 (58.14%) CI/CD
2 25 (58.14%) DevOps
3 24 (55.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (41.86%) Observability
4 18 (41.86%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (34.88%) Migration
6 14 (32.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 12 (27.91%) Clean Code
7 12 (27.91%) Open Source
7 12 (27.91%) Prototyping
7 12 (27.91%) Service-Level Objective
8 10 (23.26%) Agile
8 10 (23.26%) Analytics
8 10 (23.26%) Root Cause Analysis
9 7 (16.28%) Performance Optimisation
9 7 (16.28%) Scrum
10 6 (13.95%) Data Analysis
10 6 (13.95%) High Availability
10 6 (13.95%) IT Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (58.14%) Python
2 7 (16.28%) Bash
2 7 (16.28%) JavaScript
3 4 (9.30%) SQL
4 3 (6.98%) Go
5 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.33%) Bicep
6 1 (2.33%) Bourne shell
6 1 (2.33%) C-shell
6 1 (2.33%) Perl
6 1 (2.33%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (48.84%) Security Cleared
2 16 (37.21%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.63%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.33%) GDPR
2 1 (2.33%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.33%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (48.84%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) NFS
2 2 (4.65%) vCloud
2 2 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.33%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (58.14%) Terraform
2 15 (34.88%) Kubernetes
3 12 (27.91%) AWS Copilot
4 8 (18.60%) Grafana
5 7 (16.28%) Ansible
6 6 (13.95%) Prometheus
7 3 (6.98%) Argo
8 1 (2.33%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (2.33%) Oracle ZFS
8 1 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (2.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 13 (30.23%) Google
2 6 (13.95%) ServiceNow
3 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.98%) VMware
5 2 (4.65%) Cisco
5 2 (4.65%) MikroTik
5 2 (4.65%) NETGEAR
5 2 (4.65%) Oracle
5 2 (4.65%) Sonatype
5 2 (4.65%) Starlink
5 2 (4.65%) Ubiquiti
6 1 (2.33%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.33%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.33%) EMC
6 1 (2.33%) HP
6 1 (2.33%) NetApp
6 1 (2.33%) Qualys
6 1 (2.33%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.33%) Splunk
6 1 (2.33%) VocaLink