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 September 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 629 627 740
Rank change year-on-year -2 +113 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 167 32 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.065% 0.060%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.073% 0.063%
Number of salaries quoted 142 21 45
10th Percentile £65,000 £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% -17.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,000 £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 104,829 44,090 74,355
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.80% 89.66% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 72,155 25,926 46,385
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,424 £75,000 £73,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 8 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 8 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 +5 144 £75,000 -11.76% 260
UK excluding London -4 102 £75,000 -9.09% 133
London -21 53 £90,000 -2.17% 158
South East -10 35 £75,000 -9.09% 25
North of England -28 33 £70,400 +12.64% 32
North West - 28 £70,400 - 19
Work from Home -15 24 £85,250 +3.33% 120
West Midlands -21 13 £75,000 - 4
Midlands -24 13 £75,000 - 9
Wales -56 13 £70,000 -6.67% 5
South West - 7 £75,000 - 23
Yorkshire -35 5 £82,500 +32.00% 13
Scotland - 1 - - 26

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 160 (95.81%) Platform Engineering
2 104 (62.28%) Azure
3 98 (58.68%) CI/CD
4 97 (58.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 85 (50.90%) Terraform
6 84 (50.30%) DevOps
7 59 (35.33%) Kubernetes
8 55 (32.93%) Python
9 41 (24.55%) AWS
9 41 (24.55%) Security Cleared
10 37 (22.16%) Observability
11 35 (20.96%) GitHub
12 34 (20.36%) Azure DevOps
13 29 (17.37%) Microsoft
14 27 (16.17%) Cloud Security
14 27 (16.17%) SC Cleared
15 26 (15.57%) GitHub Actions
15 26 (15.57%) Infrastructure Automation
16 25 (14.97%) GCP
16 25 (14.97%) Mentoring
17 24 (14.37%) AI
18 23 (13.77%) Azure AKS
18 23 (13.77%) Bash
18 23 (13.77%) RBAC
19 22 (13.17%) Containerisation
19 22 (13.17%) SQL
20 21 (12.57%) Software Engineering
21 20 (11.98%) PowerShell
22 17 (10.18%) Analytics
22 17 (10.18%) 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 (4.19%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.60%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.80%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 104 (62.28%) Azure
2 41 (24.55%) AWS
3 35 (20.96%) GitHub
4 34 (20.36%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (15.57%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (14.97%) GCP
7 23 (13.77%) Azure AKS
8 16 (9.58%) Serverless
9 14 (8.38%) Azure AI
10 13 (7.78%) Amazon S3
10 13 (7.78%) Snowflake
11 11 (6.59%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (6.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 8 (4.79%) Azure Key Vault
13 7 (4.19%) Power Platform
14 6 (3.59%) Datadog
15 5 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (2.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 5 (2.99%) PaaS
16 4 (2.40%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.78%) Firewall
2 6 (3.59%) VPN
3 4 (2.40%) BGP
4 3 (1.80%) DNS
4 3 (1.80%) WAN
5 2 (1.20%) SAN
5 2 (1.20%) VoIP
6 1 (0.60%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.79%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (2.40%) BigQuery
4 3 (1.80%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.80%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.60%) Big Data
6 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.60%) Metadata
6 1 (0.60%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 6 (3.59%) CircleCI
1 6 (3.59%) GitLab
2 5 (2.99%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.40%) MLflow
4 3 (1.80%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.20%) Git
5 2 (1.20%) Oracle APEX
General
1 36 (21.56%) Finance
2 27 (16.17%) Social Skills
3 10 (5.99%) Public Sector
4 3 (1.80%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (1.80%) Banking
4 3 (1.80%) Law
5 2 (1.20%) Legal
6 1 (0.60%) Advertising
6 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (50.90%) Terraform
2 15 (8.98%) Node.js
3 11 (6.59%) Pulumi
4 6 (3.59%) OpenTofu
5 4 (2.40%) ONNX
5 4 (2.40%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (2.40%) RESTful
5 4 (2.40%) Web Services
6 3 (1.80%) FastAPI
6 3 (1.80%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.80%) PySpark
7 2 (1.20%) REST
7 2 (1.20%) SOAP
8 1 (0.60%) CrewAI
8 1 (0.60%) JWT
8 1 (0.60%) LangChain
8 1 (0.60%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 41 (24.55%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.39%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.80%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.20%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.60%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.60%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.60%) Clustering
6 1 (0.60%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.60%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.59%) Linux
2 1 (0.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (95.81%) Platform Engineering
2 98 (58.68%) CI/CD
3 97 (58.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 84 (50.30%) DevOps
5 37 (22.16%) Observability
6 27 (16.17%) Cloud Security
7 26 (15.57%) Infrastructure Automation
8 25 (14.97%) Mentoring
9 24 (14.37%) AI
10 23 (13.77%) RBAC
11 22 (13.17%) Containerisation
12 21 (12.57%) Software Engineering
13 17 (10.18%) Analytics
13 17 (10.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 15 (8.98%) Performance Optimisation
15 14 (8.38%) Disaster Recovery
15 14 (8.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 14 (8.38%) Software Delivery
16 13 (7.78%) Agile
16 13 (7.78%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 55 (32.93%) Python
2 23 (13.77%) Bash
3 22 (13.17%) SQL
4 20 (11.98%) PowerShell
5 9 (5.39%) C#
6 7 (4.19%) Bicep
7 6 (3.59%) Go
7 6 (3.59%) Java
8 4 (2.40%) Groovy
8 4 (2.40%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.20%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 41 (24.55%) Security Cleared
2 27 (16.17%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.38%) DV Cleared
4 8 (4.79%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.20%) Degree
7 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.80%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (6.59%) Docker
2 5 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 59 (35.33%) Kubernetes
2 16 (9.58%) Ansible
3 10 (5.99%) Grafana
3 10 (5.99%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.59%) Istio
5 4 (2.40%) Kubeflow
5 4 (2.40%) linkerd
5 4 (2.40%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.20%) Argo
6 2 (1.20%) Packer
7 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (17.37%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.38%) Foundry
3 13 (7.78%) Google
4 6 (3.59%) OpenAI
5 5 (2.99%) Databricks
6 4 (2.40%) VMware
7 3 (1.80%) Oracle
8 1 (0.60%) Citrix
8 1 (0.60%) F5
8 1 (0.60%) Rackspace