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 August 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 648 644 760
Rank change year-on-year -4 +116 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 147 34 48
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.068% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.076% 0.061%
Number of salaries quoted 127 24 46
10th Percentile £65,000 £66,156 £47,500
25th Percentile £70,500 £74,375 £62,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,125 £86,250
90th Percentile £105,250 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £69,308
% change year-on-year -6.25% +15.43% -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 100,001 44,901 79,174
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 89.94% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 68,291 26,543 52,845
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,122 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.10% -3.76% -6.54%

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 August 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 August 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 +25 127 £75,000 -10.45% 247
UK excluding London -24 83 £75,000 -6.25% 97
London -14 52 £90,000 - 171
North of England -15 30 £72,700 +10.25% 37
Work from Home -6 28 £85,250 +3.33% 103
North West +19 26 £72,700 +4.78% 18
South East -10 24 £75,000 -10.45% 13
West Midlands -13 13 £75,000 -
Midlands -14 13 £75,000 - 6
Wales -52 10 £70,000 -6.67% 4
South West - 5 £75,000 - 11
Yorkshire -32 4 - - 17
Scotland - 1 - - 19

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

For the 6 months to 14 August 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.

1 140 (95.24%) Platform Engineering
2 89 (60.54%) Azure
3 88 (59.86%) CI/CD
4 83 (56.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 75 (51.02%) Terraform
6 67 (45.58%) DevOps
7 53 (36.05%) Python
8 49 (33.33%) Kubernetes
9 39 (26.53%) AWS
10 36 (24.49%) Security Cleared
11 31 (21.09%) GitHub
12 30 (20.41%) Observability
13 28 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
14 25 (17.01%) Mentoring
15 23 (15.65%) AI
15 23 (15.65%) Cloud Security
15 23 (15.65%) GitHub Actions
16 22 (14.97%) GCP
16 22 (14.97%) Microsoft
17 21 (14.29%) Bash
17 21 (14.29%) RBAC
17 21 (14.29%) SC Cleared
18 20 (13.61%) Infrastructure Automation
19 19 (12.93%) Azure AKS
20 16 (10.88%) Serverless
20 16 (10.88%) SQL
21 15 (10.20%) Amazon S3
21 15 (10.20%) Analytics
21 15 (10.20%) Ansible
21 15 (10.20%) Containerisation

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 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.68%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.04%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 89 (60.54%) Azure
2 39 (26.53%) AWS
3 31 (21.09%) GitHub
4 28 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (15.65%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (14.97%) GCP
7 19 (12.93%) Azure AKS
8 16 (10.88%) Serverless
9 15 (10.20%) Amazon S3
10 14 (9.52%) Azure AI
11 11 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (7.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 11 (7.48%) Snowflake
12 9 (6.12%) Pulumi
13 6 (4.08%) Azure Key Vault
13 6 (4.08%) Datadog
14 5 (3.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (3.40%) Amazon ECR
14 5 (3.40%) PaaS
14 5 (3.40%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.84%) Firewall
2 6 (4.08%) VPN
3 4 (2.72%) BGP
4 3 (2.04%) DNS
4 3 (2.04%) WAN
5 2 (1.36%) SAN
5 2 (1.36%) VoIP
6 1 (0.68%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.72%) BigQuery
1 4 (2.72%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.04%) Delta Lake
3 2 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.68%) Big Data
4 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.68%) Metadata
4 1 (0.68%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 6 (4.08%) CircleCI
1 6 (4.08%) GitLab
2 4 (2.72%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.72%) MLflow
3 3 (2.04%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.36%) Git
4 2 (1.36%) Oracle APEX
General
1 39 (26.53%) Finance
2 21 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 10 (6.80%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.04%) Banking
4 3 (2.04%) Law
5 1 (0.68%) Advertising
5 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
5 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.68%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.20%) Node.js
2 4 (2.72%) ONNX
2 4 (2.72%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (2.72%) RESTful
2 4 (2.72%) Web Services
3 3 (2.04%) FastAPI
3 3 (2.04%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (2.04%) PySpark
4 2 (1.36%) REST
4 2 (1.36%) SOAP
5 1 (0.68%) CrewAI
5 1 (0.68%) JWT
5 1 (0.68%) LangChain
5 1 (0.68%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 28 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.72%) Hedge funds
4 3 (2.04%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.36%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.68%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.68%) Clustering
6 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.68%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.80%) Linux
2 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (95.24%) Platform Engineering
2 88 (59.86%) CI/CD
3 83 (56.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (45.58%) DevOps
5 30 (20.41%) Observability
6 25 (17.01%) Mentoring
7 23 (15.65%) AI
7 23 (15.65%) Cloud Security
8 21 (14.29%) RBAC
9 20 (13.61%) Infrastructure Automation
10 15 (10.20%) Analytics
10 15 (10.20%) Containerisation
10 15 (10.20%) Software Engineering
11 13 (8.84%) Agile
11 13 (8.84%) Performance Optimisation
12 12 (8.16%) Decision-Making
12 12 (8.16%) Disaster Recovery
12 12 (8.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 11 (7.48%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (7.48%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 53 (36.05%) Python
2 21 (14.29%) Bash
3 16 (10.88%) SQL
4 14 (9.52%) PowerShell
5 9 (6.12%) C#
6 6 (4.08%) Go
6 6 (4.08%) Java
7 5 (3.40%) Bicep
8 4 (2.72%) Groovy
8 4 (2.72%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 36 (24.49%) Security Cleared
2 21 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.52%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.44%) Azure Certification
5 6 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.36%) Degree
7 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.04%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (4.08%) Docker
2 5 (3.40%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 75 (51.02%) Terraform
2 49 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 15 (10.20%) Ansible
4 10 (6.80%) Grafana
4 10 (6.80%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.08%) Istio
6 4 (2.72%) Kubeflow
6 4 (2.72%) linkerd
6 4 (2.72%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.36%) Argo
7 2 (1.36%) Packer
8 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (14.97%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.52%) Foundry
3 12 (8.16%) Google
4 6 (4.08%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.04%) Databricks
5 3 (2.04%) Oracle
6 2 (1.36%) VMware
7 1 (0.68%) Citrix
7 1 (0.68%) F5
7 1 (0.68%) Rackspace