Senior Platform Engineer Job Trends

Senior Platform Engineer
UK

The median Senior Platform Engineer salary in the UK is £78,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 November 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 620 699 688
Rank change year-on-year +79 -11 +287
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 46 53 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.086% 0.079% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.096% 0.083% 0.052%
Number of salaries quoted 34 51 19
10th Percentile - £47,500 £64,500
25th Percentile £68,813 £64,471 £65,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -6.67% -11.24%
75th Percentile £88,938 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £101,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,401 £69,308 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.35% -0.99% -

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 48,105 63,733 49,629
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.16% 94.54% 95.38%
Number of salaries quoted 30,175 35,701 38,478
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,048 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.74% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £51,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.77% -1.90% -

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 21 November 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 21 November 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 +101 38 £82,500 +10.00% 48
UK excluding London +81 23 £74,401 +7.35% 25
London +40 17 £87,500 +12.90% 27
Work from Home +76 8 £82,500 +19.03% 28
Midlands +63 6 £90,000 +29.86% 1
South East +59 6 £82,500 +22.22% 6
West Midlands +53 6 £90,000 +29.86%
North of England +36 4 £73,801 +6.48% 9
Wales +14 3 £73,801 +6.48%
Scotland +13 3 £73,801 +6.48% 2
North East +9 2 £73,801 +6.48%
North West +38 1 £73,801 +6.48% 7
Northern Ireland +7 1 £73,801 +6.48%
Yorkshire - 1 £62,500 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 21 November 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 45 (97.83%) Platform Engineering
2 31 (67.39%) Python
3 30 (65.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (60.87%) CI/CD
4 28 (60.87%) Security Cleared
4 28 (60.87%) Terraform
5 25 (54.35%) DevOps
6 24 (52.17%) AWS
7 23 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (47.83%) SC Cleared
9 21 (45.65%) Azure
10 20 (43.48%) Docker
10 20 (43.48%) Linux
11 19 (41.30%) Kubernetes
11 19 (41.30%) Observability
12 18 (39.13%) AWS CloudFormation
12 18 (39.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 17 (36.96%) GCP
14 15 (32.61%) Amazon ECS
14 15 (32.61%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (32.61%) Migration
14 15 (32.61%) TCP/IP
15 14 (30.43%) PostgreSQL
16 13 (28.26%) Google
16 13 (28.26%) PaaS
16 13 (28.26%) Redis
16 13 (28.26%) Unix
17 12 (26.09%) Agile
17 12 (26.09%) Amazon ECR
17 12 (26.09%) Amazon ElastiCache

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 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.35%) nginx
2 1 (2.17%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) IIS
2 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 24 (52.17%) AWS
2 21 (45.65%) Azure
3 18 (39.13%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (36.96%) GCP
5 15 (32.61%) Amazon ECS
6 13 (28.26%) PaaS
7 12 (26.09%) Amazon ECR
7 12 (26.09%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 12 (26.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 12 (26.09%) dbt
7 12 (26.09%) Pulumi
7 12 (26.09%) Sentry
8 4 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (8.70%) Amazon S3
8 4 (8.70%) AWS KMS
8 4 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (6.52%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (32.61%) TCP/IP
2 5 (10.87%) DNS
2 5 (10.87%) Firewall
2 5 (10.87%) VPN
3 2 (4.35%) BGP
3 2 (4.35%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (4.35%) MQTT
3 2 (4.35%) OSPF
3 2 (4.35%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (4.35%) RTMP
3 2 (4.35%) VLAN
3 2 (4.35%) WAN
3 2 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (4.35%) Wireless
4 1 (2.17%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (32.61%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (30.43%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (28.26%) Redis
4 12 (26.09%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (6.52%) Delta Lake
5 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (4.35%) Data Lake
6 2 (4.35%) Metadata
6 2 (4.35%) MongoDB
6 2 (4.35%) MySQL
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.17%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (2.17%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Jenkins
2 5 (10.87%) Git
2 5 (10.87%) GitLab
3 2 (4.35%) Jaeger
3 2 (4.35%) MLflow
3 2 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.17%) JIRA
General
1 12 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.22%) Law
3 5 (10.87%) Finance
4 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.35%) Agriculture
5 2 (4.35%) Banking
6 1 (2.17%) Advertising
6 1 (2.17%) Back Office
6 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.17%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (26.09%) Django
2 6 (13.04%) GraphQL
2 6 (13.04%) REST
3 3 (6.52%) AWS CDK
4 2 (4.35%) FastAPI
4 2 (4.35%) Kafka
4 2 (4.35%) Keycloak
4 2 (4.35%) WebRTC
5 1 (2.17%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.17%) LDAP
5 1 (2.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.09%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (23.91%) Product Ownership
3 7 (15.22%) Cloud Native
4 6 (13.04%) CMDB
5 2 (4.35%) IoT
5 2 (4.35%) MPEG
5 2 (4.35%) Robotics
5 2 (4.35%) Security Posture
5 2 (4.35%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.17%) Clustering
6 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 20 (43.48%) Linux
2 13 (28.26%) Unix
3 2 (4.35%) Windows
4 1 (2.17%) Solaris
4 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (97.83%) Platform Engineering
2 30 (65.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 28 (60.87%) CI/CD
4 25 (54.35%) DevOps
5 23 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (41.30%) Observability
7 18 (39.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 15 (32.61%) Migration
9 12 (26.09%) Agile
9 12 (26.09%) Clean Code
9 12 (26.09%) Open Source
9 12 (26.09%) Prototyping
9 12 (26.09%) Service-Level Objective
10 11 (23.91%) Analytics
11 10 (21.74%) Root Cause Analysis
12 7 (15.22%) Mentoring
12 7 (15.22%) Performance Optimisation
12 7 (15.22%) Scrum
13 6 (13.04%) DevSecOps
13 6 (13.04%) IT Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (67.39%) Python
2 10 (21.74%) Bash
3 7 (15.22%) JavaScript
4 5 (10.87%) SQL
5 4 (8.70%) Go
5 4 (8.70%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.17%) Bicep
6 1 (2.17%) Bourne shell
6 1 (2.17%) C-shell
6 1 (2.17%) Perl
6 1 (2.17%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (60.87%) Security Cleared
2 22 (47.83%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.04%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.17%) GDPR
2 1 (2.17%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.17%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.17%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (43.48%) Docker
2 2 (4.35%) NFS
2 2 (4.35%) vCloud
2 2 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.17%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (60.87%) Terraform
2 19 (41.30%) Kubernetes
3 12 (26.09%) AWS Copilot
4 11 (23.91%) Grafana
5 9 (19.57%) Ansible
6 7 (15.22%) Prometheus
7 3 (6.52%) Argo
8 1 (2.17%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (2.17%) Oracle ZFS
8 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (2.17%) VxRail
Vendors
1 13 (28.26%) Google
2 6 (13.04%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.35%) Cisco
4 2 (4.35%) MikroTik
4 2 (4.35%) NETGEAR
4 2 (4.35%) Oracle
4 2 (4.35%) Sonatype
4 2 (4.35%) Starlink
4 2 (4.35%) Ubiquiti
4 2 (4.35%) VMware
5 1 (2.17%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.17%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.17%) EMC
5 1 (2.17%) HP
5 1 (2.17%) NetApp
5 1 (2.17%) Qualys
5 1 (2.17%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.17%) Splunk
5 1 (2.17%) VocaLink