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 5 August 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 647 648 772
Rank change year-on-year +1 +124 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 144 35 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.071% 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.078% 0.057%
Number of salaries quoted 126 28 43
10th Percentile £66,250 £68,353 £47,500
25th Percentile £70,500 £75,938 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £83,750 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +8.06% -11.43%
75th Percentile £90,000 £94,688 £96,875
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £81,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +16.07% -5.08%

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 98,241 44,677 79,563
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.17% 90.06% 94.91%
Number of salaries quoted 67,184 26,547 53,755
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £90,793
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 5 August 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 5 August 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 +10 125 £75,000 -11.76% 231
UK excluding London -11 81 £75,000 -7.69% 81
London -22 52 £92,500 +2.78% 163
Work from Home +5 33 £85,250 +3.33% 87
North of England -6 32 £74,301 +7.09% 30
North West +25 26 £74,651 +7.59% 16
South East -11 22 £75,000 -10.45% 9
West Midlands - 11 £75,000 - 3
Midlands - 11 £75,000 - 8
Wales - 10 £70,500 - 4
Yorkshire - 5 £62,500 - 12
South West - 5 £75,000 - 10
North East - 1 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £73,801 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 5 August 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.

1 138 (95.83%) Platform Engineering
2 90 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 86 (59.72%) Azure
3 86 (59.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 78 (54.17%) Terraform
5 67 (46.53%) DevOps
6 56 (38.89%) Python
7 48 (33.33%) Kubernetes
8 42 (29.17%) AWS
9 39 (27.08%) Security Cleared
10 34 (23.61%) Observability
11 30 (20.83%) GitHub
12 26 (18.06%) Azure DevOps
13 25 (17.36%) Mentoring
14 24 (16.67%) Cloud Security
14 24 (16.67%) SC Cleared
15 23 (15.97%) GCP
16 22 (15.28%) GitHub Actions
17 21 (14.58%) Bash
17 21 (14.58%) Microsoft
18 20 (13.89%) AI
18 20 (13.89%) RBAC
19 19 (13.19%) Azure AKS
19 19 (13.19%) Containerisation
19 19 (13.19%) Infrastructure Automation
20 18 (12.50%) Agile
21 17 (11.81%) Amazon S3
22 15 (10.42%) Google
22 15 (10.42%) Linux
22 15 (10.42%) 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 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.69%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.69%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.08%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 86 (59.72%) Azure
2 42 (29.17%) AWS
3 30 (20.83%) GitHub
4 26 (18.06%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (15.97%) GCP
6 22 (15.28%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (13.19%) Azure AKS
8 17 (11.81%) Amazon S3
9 15 (10.42%) Serverless
10 14 (9.72%) Pulumi
11 12 (8.33%) Azure AI
12 11 (7.64%) Amazon ECR
12 11 (7.64%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (6.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 10 (6.94%) PaaS
14 9 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (6.25%) Snowflake
15 8 (5.56%) dbt
16 7 (4.86%) Amazon ECS
17 6 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.03%) Firewall
2 6 (4.17%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.47%) VPN
4 3 (2.08%) BGP
4 3 (2.08%) DNS
5 2 (1.39%) SAN
5 2 (1.39%) VoIP
5 2 (1.39%) WAN
6 1 (0.69%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (3.47%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (3.47%) Redis
2 4 (2.78%) BigQuery
2 4 (2.78%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.08%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.69%) Big Data
4 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.69%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.69%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 6 (4.17%) CircleCI
2 5 (3.47%) GitLab
3 4 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.08%) Artifactory
4 3 (2.08%) MLflow
5 2 (1.39%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.69%) Git
General
1 34 (23.61%) Finance
2 19 (13.19%) Social Skills
3 10 (6.94%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.08%) Law
6 2 (1.39%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.39%) Banking
7 1 (0.69%) Advertising
7 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.69%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.69%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.42%) Node.js
2 5 (3.47%) Django
3 4 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (2.78%) RESTful
3 4 (2.78%) Web Services
4 3 (2.08%) FastAPI
4 3 (2.08%) ONNX
4 3 (2.08%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (2.08%) PySpark
5 2 (1.39%) REST
5 2 (1.39%) SOAP
6 1 (0.69%) CrewAI
6 1 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.69%) JWT
6 1 (0.69%) LangChain
6 1 (0.69%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 27 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.47%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.78%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.39%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.39%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.69%) Clustering
6 1 (0.69%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.42%) Linux
2 5 (3.47%) Unix
3 1 (0.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (95.83%) Platform Engineering
2 90 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 86 (59.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (46.53%) DevOps
5 34 (23.61%) Observability
6 25 (17.36%) Mentoring
7 24 (16.67%) Cloud Security
8 20 (13.89%) AI
8 20 (13.89%) RBAC
9 19 (13.19%) Containerisation
9 19 (13.19%) Infrastructure Automation
10 18 (12.50%) Agile
11 14 (9.72%) Analytics
12 12 (8.33%) Fintech
12 12 (8.33%) Migration
12 12 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
12 12 (8.33%) Software Engineering
13 11 (7.64%) Decision-Making
13 11 (7.64%) Incident Response
13 11 (7.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 56 (38.89%) Python
2 21 (14.58%) Bash
3 14 (9.72%) PowerShell
3 14 (9.72%) SQL
4 9 (6.25%) Java
5 6 (4.17%) C#
5 6 (4.17%) Go
6 5 (3.47%) Bicep
7 4 (2.78%) Groovy
8 3 (2.08%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 39 (27.08%) Security Cleared
2 24 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.03%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.86%) Azure Certification
5 6 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.39%) Degree
7 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.08%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (8.33%) Docker
2 4 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 78 (54.17%) Terraform
2 48 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 14 (9.72%) Ansible
4 10 (6.94%) Grafana
4 10 (6.94%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.17%) Istio
6 5 (3.47%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (2.78%) linkerd
7 4 (2.78%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.08%) Argo
8 3 (2.08%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.69%) Packer
9 1 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.42%) Google
3 12 (8.33%) Foundry
4 6 (4.17%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.08%) Databricks
5 3 (2.08%) Oracle
6 2 (1.39%) VMware
7 1 (0.69%) Citrix
7 1 (0.69%) F5
7 1 (0.69%) Rackspace