Senior Platform Engineer Job Trends

Senior Platform Engineer
UK

The median Senior Platform Engineer salary in the UK is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 643 749 728
Rank change year-on-year +106 -21 +363
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 33 47 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.067% 0.060% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.063% 0.086%
Number of salaries quoted 21 45 28
10th Percentile £72,500 £47,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £68,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £72,500 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year +13.79% -15.94% +3.92%
75th Percentile £92,500 £84,500 £95,625
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 £69,308 £72,500
% change year-on-year +19.03% -4.40% -

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 44,338 74,395 56,728
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.65% 95.25% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 26,053 44,780 43,966
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Platform Engineer 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 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Platform Engineer in the UK

Senior Platform Engineer
Top 10 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 18 September 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 +98 31 £85,000 +13.33% 25
London +55 18 £95,000 +26.67% 18
UK excluding London +113 8 £82,500 +19.03% 11
Work from Home +60 7 £82,500 +10.00% 7
South East - 5 £82,500 - 4
Midlands +51 1 - - 2
West Midlands +46 1 - - 1
North of England +19 1 £62,500 -9.82% 4
Wales +18 1 £75,000 +8.21% 1
Yorkshire - 1 £62,500 -

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Senior Platform Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (96.97%) Platform Engineering
2 23 (69.70%) Python
3 22 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (57.58%) AWS
5 16 (48.48%) CI/CD
5 16 (48.48%) Kubernetes
5 16 (48.48%) Terraform
6 14 (42.42%) Grafana
7 13 (39.39%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (39.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (39.39%) Security Cleared
8 12 (36.36%) Bash
9 11 (33.33%) Social Skills
9 11 (33.33%) Mentoring
9 11 (33.33%) SC Cleared
10 10 (30.30%) Agile
10 10 (30.30%) Product Ownership
11 9 (27.27%) DevOps
11 9 (27.27%) Azure
11 9 (27.27%) Analytics
12 8 (24.24%) Root Cause Analysis
12 8 (24.24%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (24.24%) Amazon S3
12 8 (24.24%) Ansible
12 8 (24.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (24.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 7 (21.21%) Serverless
13 7 (21.21%) GCP
13 7 (21.21%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (21.21%) Observability

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (6.06%) nginx
1 2 (6.06%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 19 (57.58%) AWS
2 13 (39.39%) AWS CloudFormation
3 9 (27.27%) Azure
4 8 (24.24%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (24.24%) Amazon S3
4 8 (24.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 7 (21.21%) AWS KMS
5 7 (21.21%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (21.21%) GCP
5 7 (21.21%) Serverless
6 5 (15.15%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (12.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (12.12%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (12.12%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 4 (12.12%) AWS Control Tower
7 4 (12.12%) Route 53
8 3 (9.09%) Amazon Cognito
8 3 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (9.09%) CloudFront
9 2 (6.06%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.15%) DNS
1 5 (15.15%) Firewall
1 5 (15.15%) VPN
2 3 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 2 (6.06%) BGP
3 2 (6.06%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (6.06%) MQTT
3 2 (6.06%) OSPF
3 2 (6.06%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (6.06%) RTMP
3 2 (6.06%) VLAN
3 2 (6.06%) WAN
3 2 (6.06%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (6.06%) Wireless
4 1 (3.03%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (12.12%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (9.09%) Data Lake
4 2 (6.06%) Metadata
4 2 (6.06%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.06%) MySQL
4 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (3.03%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.03%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (3.03%) Power BI
5 1 (3.03%) Power Query
5 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) GitLab
1 5 (15.15%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.12%) Git
3 2 (6.06%) Jaeger
3 2 (6.06%) MLflow
3 2 (6.06%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 11 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.18%) Finance
2 6 (18.18%) Law
3 4 (12.12%) Advertising
3 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.06%) Agriculture
4 2 (6.06%) Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Back Office
5 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.03%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) AWS CDK
1 5 (15.15%) GraphQL
1 5 (15.15%) REST
2 2 (6.06%) FastAPI
2 2 (6.06%) Kafka
2 2 (6.06%) Keycloak
2 2 (6.06%) Loki
2 2 (6.06%) WebRTC
3 1 (3.03%) LDAP
3 1 (3.03%) PySpark
3 1 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (30.30%) Product Ownership
2 6 (18.18%) Cloud Native
3 5 (15.15%) CMDB
4 3 (9.09%) Virtual Team
5 2 (6.06%) IoT
5 2 (6.06%) MPEG
5 2 (6.06%) Robotics
6 1 (3.03%) Clustering
6 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Linux
2 1 (3.03%) Solaris
2 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (96.97%) Platform Engineering
2 22 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (48.48%) CI/CD
4 13 (39.39%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (33.33%) Mentoring
6 10 (30.30%) Agile
7 9 (27.27%) Analytics
7 9 (27.27%) DevOps
8 8 (24.24%) Root Cause Analysis
8 8 (24.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 7 (21.21%) Observability
10 6 (18.18%) Scrum
11 5 (15.15%) Business Strategy
11 5 (15.15%) Data Analysis
11 5 (15.15%) IT Asset Management
11 5 (15.15%) Performance Optimisation
11 5 (15.15%) Software Engineering
12 4 (12.12%) Collaborative Culture
12 4 (12.12%) Identity Access Management
12 4 (12.12%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 23 (69.70%) Python
2 12 (36.36%) Bash
3 7 (21.21%) Go
4 6 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 4 (12.12%) PowerShell
6 3 (9.09%) SQL
7 1 (3.03%) Bourne shell
7 1 (3.03%) C-shell
7 1 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (3.03%) Perl
7 1 (3.03%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (39.39%) Security Cleared
2 11 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Docker
2 2 (6.06%) NFS
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (48.48%) Kubernetes
1 16 (48.48%) Terraform
2 14 (42.42%) Grafana
3 8 (24.24%) Ansible
4 5 (15.15%) Prometheus
5 3 (9.09%) Argo
6 1 (3.03%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (3.03%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) ServiceNow
2 2 (6.06%) Cisco
2 2 (6.06%) Hitachi
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.06%) MikroTik
2 2 (6.06%) NETGEAR
2 2 (6.06%) Sonatype
2 2 (6.06%) Starlink
2 2 (6.06%) Ubiquiti
3 1 (3.03%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.03%) EMC
3 1 (3.03%) Google
3 1 (3.03%) HP
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle
3 1 (3.03%) Qualys
3 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.03%) Splunk
3 1 (3.03%) VMware
3 1 (3.03%) VocaLink