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 4 September 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 638 649 746
Rank change year-on-year +11 +97 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 163 32 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.065% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.073% 0.062%
Number of salaries quoted 141 22 45
10th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £70,500 £75,313 £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 £91,500 £84,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,125 £100,000
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 103,497 43,997 75,693
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.82% 89.68% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 71,228 25,950 47,905
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,169 £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 £76,250 £74,258 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,159
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 4 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 4 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 +12 142 £75,000 -10.45% 241
UK excluding London -19 98 £75,000 -9.09% 131
London -14 53 £90,000 -2.17% 138
South East -15 34 £75,000 -9.09% 24
North of England -25 33 £70,400 +12.64% 36
North West - 28 £70,400 - 20
Work from Home -29 25 £85,250 +3.33% 112
West Midlands -15 13 £75,000 - 4
Midlands -25 13 £75,000 - 8
Wales -61 11 £70,000 -6.67% 6
South West - 6 £75,000 - 20
Yorkshire -37 5 £82,500 +32.00% 16
Scotland - 1 - - 24

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

For the 6 months to 4 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.

1 156 (95.71%) Platform Engineering
2 100 (61.35%) Azure
3 96 (58.90%) CI/CD
4 94 (57.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 83 (50.92%) Terraform
6 82 (50.31%) DevOps
7 57 (34.97%) Kubernetes
8 55 (33.74%) Python
9 41 (25.15%) AWS
10 40 (24.54%) Security Cleared
11 36 (22.09%) Observability
12 35 (21.47%) GitHub
13 33 (20.25%) Azure DevOps
14 26 (15.95%) Cloud Security
14 26 (15.95%) GitHub Actions
14 26 (15.95%) Microsoft
14 26 (15.95%) SC Cleared
15 25 (15.34%) GCP
15 25 (15.34%) Infrastructure Automation
15 25 (15.34%) Mentoring
16 24 (14.72%) AI
17 23 (14.11%) Bash
18 22 (13.50%) Azure AKS
18 22 (13.50%) RBAC
19 21 (12.88%) Containerisation
19 21 (12.88%) SQL
20 20 (12.27%) Software Engineering
21 18 (11.04%) PowerShell
22 17 (10.43%) Analytics
23 16 (9.82%) Ansible

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 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.61%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.84%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 100 (61.35%) Azure
2 41 (25.15%) AWS
3 35 (21.47%) GitHub
4 33 (20.25%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (15.95%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (15.34%) GCP
7 22 (13.50%) Azure AKS
8 16 (9.82%) Serverless
9 14 (8.59%) Azure AI
10 13 (7.98%) Amazon S3
10 13 (7.98%) Snowflake
11 11 (6.75%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (6.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 7 (4.29%) Azure Key Vault
13 6 (3.68%) Datadog
13 6 (3.68%) Power Platform
14 5 (3.07%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (3.07%) PaaS
15 4 (2.45%) IaaS
15 4 (2.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.98%) Firewall
2 6 (3.68%) VPN
3 4 (2.45%) BGP
4 3 (1.84%) DNS
4 3 (1.84%) WAN
5 2 (1.23%) SAN
5 2 (1.23%) VoIP
6 1 (0.61%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.29%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (2.45%) BigQuery
3 3 (1.84%) Delta Lake
4 2 (1.23%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.61%) Big Data
5 1 (0.61%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.61%) Metadata
5 1 (0.61%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 6 (3.68%) CircleCI
1 6 (3.68%) GitLab
2 5 (3.07%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.45%) MLflow
4 3 (1.84%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.23%) Git
5 2 (1.23%) Oracle APEX
General
1 37 (22.70%) Finance
2 26 (15.95%) Social Skills
3 10 (6.13%) Public Sector
4 3 (1.84%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (1.84%) Banking
4 3 (1.84%) Law
5 2 (1.23%) Legal
6 1 (0.61%) Advertising
6 1 (0.61%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (50.92%) Terraform
2 15 (9.20%) Node.js
3 11 (6.75%) Pulumi
4 6 (3.68%) OpenTofu
5 4 (2.45%) ONNX
5 4 (2.45%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (2.45%) RESTful
5 4 (2.45%) Web Services
6 3 (1.84%) FastAPI
6 3 (1.84%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.84%) PySpark
7 2 (1.23%) REST
7 2 (1.23%) SOAP
8 1 (0.61%) CrewAI
8 1 (0.61%) JWT
8 1 (0.61%) LangChain
8 1 (0.61%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 37 (22.70%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.52%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.84%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.23%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.61%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.61%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.61%) Clustering
6 1 (0.61%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.61%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.61%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.29%) Linux
2 1 (0.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (95.71%) Platform Engineering
2 96 (58.90%) CI/CD
3 94 (57.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 82 (50.31%) DevOps
5 36 (22.09%) Observability
6 26 (15.95%) Cloud Security
7 25 (15.34%) Infrastructure Automation
7 25 (15.34%) Mentoring
8 24 (14.72%) AI
9 22 (13.50%) RBAC
10 21 (12.88%) Containerisation
11 20 (12.27%) Software Engineering
12 17 (10.43%) Analytics
13 16 (9.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 15 (9.20%) Performance Optimisation
15 14 (8.59%) Disaster Recovery
16 13 (7.98%) Agile
16 13 (7.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 13 (7.98%) Software Delivery
17 12 (7.36%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 55 (33.74%) Python
2 23 (14.11%) Bash
3 21 (12.88%) SQL
4 18 (11.04%) PowerShell
5 9 (5.52%) C#
6 6 (3.68%) Bicep
6 6 (3.68%) Go
6 6 (3.68%) Java
7 4 (2.45%) Groovy
7 4 (2.45%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.23%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 40 (24.54%) Security Cleared
2 26 (15.95%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.59%) DV Cleared
4 8 (4.91%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.23%) Degree
7 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.84%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (6.13%) Docker
2 5 (3.07%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 57 (34.97%) Kubernetes
2 16 (9.82%) Ansible
3 10 (6.13%) Grafana
3 10 (6.13%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.68%) Istio
5 4 (2.45%) Kubeflow
5 4 (2.45%) linkerd
5 4 (2.45%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.23%) Argo
6 2 (1.23%) Packer
7 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (15.95%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.59%) Foundry
3 13 (7.98%) Google
4 6 (3.68%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.45%) Databricks
6 3 (1.84%) Oracle
6 3 (1.84%) VMware
7 1 (0.61%) Citrix
7 1 (0.61%) F5
7 1 (0.61%) Rackspace