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 September 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 630 631 746
Rank change year-on-year +1 +115 -20
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 171 32 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.065% 0.060%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.072% 0.063%
Number of salaries quoted 144 21 45
10th Percentile £61,675 £72,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £70,400 £75,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +13.79% -15.94%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £84,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £69,308
% change year-on-year -9.09% +19.03% -4.40%

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 106,119 44,341 74,255
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.46% 89.67% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 73,014 26,036 45,320
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 September 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 September 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 +28 145 £75,000 -11.76% 364
UK excluding London -12 106 £75,000 -9.09% 172
London -18 52 £90,000 -5.26% 222
South East -6 37 £75,000 -9.09% 30
North of England -25 33 £70,400 +12.64% 45
North West - 28 £70,400 - 29
Work from Home -21 25 £85,250 +3.33% 151
Wales -58 15 £70,000 -6.67% 6
West Midlands -24 13 £75,000 - 5
Midlands -35 13 £75,000 - 13
South West - 7 £75,000 - 27
Yorkshire -26 5 £82,500 +32.00% 14
Scotland - 1 - - 31

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

For the 6 months to 14 September 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.

1 164 (95.91%) Platform Engineering
2 107 (62.57%) Azure
3 97 (56.73%) CI/CD
3 97 (56.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 85 (49.71%) DevOps
5 84 (49.12%) Terraform
6 59 (34.50%) Kubernetes
7 55 (32.16%) Python
8 42 (24.56%) Security Cleared
9 40 (23.39%) AWS
10 36 (21.05%) Observability
11 35 (20.47%) GitHub
12 34 (19.88%) Azure DevOps
13 31 (18.13%) Microsoft
14 28 (16.37%) SC Cleared
15 27 (15.79%) Cloud Security
16 26 (15.20%) GitHub Actions
16 26 (15.20%) Infrastructure Automation
17 25 (14.62%) GCP
17 25 (14.62%) Mentoring
18 24 (14.04%) AI
19 23 (13.45%) Azure AKS
19 23 (13.45%) Bash
20 22 (12.87%) Containerisation
20 22 (12.87%) RBAC
20 22 (12.87%) SQL
21 21 (12.28%) Software Engineering
22 20 (11.70%) PowerShell
23 17 (9.94%) Analytics
23 17 (9.94%) 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 (4.09%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.34%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.58%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.75%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 107 (62.57%) Azure
2 40 (23.39%) AWS
3 35 (20.47%) GitHub
4 34 (19.88%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (15.20%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (14.62%) GCP
7 23 (13.45%) Azure AKS
8 16 (9.36%) Serverless
9 14 (8.19%) Azure AI
10 13 (7.60%) Snowflake
11 12 (7.02%) Amazon S3
12 11 (6.43%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (6.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 8 (4.68%) Azure Key Vault
14 7 (4.09%) Power Platform
15 6 (3.51%) Datadog
16 5 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
16 5 (2.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 5 (2.92%) PaaS
17 4 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.60%) Firewall
2 6 (3.51%) VPN
3 4 (2.34%) BGP
4 3 (1.75%) DNS
4 3 (1.75%) WAN
5 2 (1.17%) SAN
5 2 (1.17%) VoIP
6 1 (0.58%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.58%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.68%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (2.34%) BigQuery
4 3 (1.75%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.75%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.58%) Big Data
6 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.58%) Metadata
6 1 (0.58%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 6 (3.51%) CircleCI
1 6 (3.51%) GitLab
2 5 (2.92%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.34%) MLflow
4 3 (1.75%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.17%) Git
5 2 (1.17%) Oracle APEX
General
1 36 (21.05%) Finance
2 27 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 10 (5.85%) Public Sector
4 3 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (1.75%) Banking
4 3 (1.75%) Law
5 2 (1.17%) Legal
6 1 (0.58%) Advertising
6 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.58%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (49.12%) Terraform
2 15 (8.77%) Node.js
3 11 (6.43%) Pulumi
4 6 (3.51%) OpenTofu
5 4 (2.34%) ONNX
5 4 (2.34%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (2.34%) RESTful
5 4 (2.34%) Web Services
6 3 (1.75%) FastAPI
6 3 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.75%) PySpark
7 2 (1.17%) REST
7 2 (1.17%) SOAP
8 1 (0.58%) CrewAI
8 1 (0.58%) JWT
8 1 (0.58%) LangChain
8 1 (0.58%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 44 (25.73%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.75%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.17%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.58%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.58%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.58%) Clustering
6 1 (0.58%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.58%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.51%) Linux
2 1 (0.58%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (95.91%) Platform Engineering
2 97 (56.73%) CI/CD
2 97 (56.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 85 (49.71%) DevOps
4 36 (21.05%) Observability
5 27 (15.79%) Cloud Security
6 26 (15.20%) Infrastructure Automation
7 25 (14.62%) Mentoring
8 24 (14.04%) AI
9 22 (12.87%) Containerisation
9 22 (12.87%) RBAC
10 21 (12.28%) Software Engineering
11 17 (9.94%) Analytics
11 17 (9.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 15 (8.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 15 (8.77%) Performance Optimisation
13 14 (8.19%) Disaster Recovery
13 14 (8.19%) Software Delivery
14 13 (7.60%) Agile
14 13 (7.60%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 55 (32.16%) Python
2 23 (13.45%) Bash
3 22 (12.87%) SQL
4 20 (11.70%) PowerShell
5 9 (5.26%) C#
6 7 (4.09%) Bicep
7 6 (3.51%) Go
7 6 (3.51%) Java
8 4 (2.34%) Groovy
8 4 (2.34%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.17%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 42 (24.56%) Security Cleared
2 28 (16.37%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.19%) DV Cleared
4 8 (4.68%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.17%) Degree
7 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.75%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (6.43%) Docker
2 5 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.58%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 59 (34.50%) Kubernetes
2 16 (9.36%) Ansible
3 10 (5.85%) Grafana
3 10 (5.85%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.51%) Istio
5 4 (2.34%) Kubeflow
5 4 (2.34%) linkerd
5 4 (2.34%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.17%) Argo
6 2 (1.17%) Packer
7 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (18.13%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.19%) Foundry
3 13 (7.60%) Google
4 6 (3.51%) OpenAI
5 5 (2.92%) Databricks
5 5 (2.92%) VMware
6 3 (1.75%) Oracle
7 1 (0.58%) Citrix
7 1 (0.58%) F5
7 1 (0.58%) Rackspace
7 1 (0.58%) Veeam