Senior Platform Engineer Job Trends

Senior Platform Engineer
UK

The median Senior Platform Engineer salary in the UK is £77,838 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 July 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 611 657 801
Rank change year-on-year +46 +144 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 141 38 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.077% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.086% 0.052%
Number of salaries quoted 124 32 43
10th Percentile £67,894 £70,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £71,063 £76,250 £63,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,838 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% +9.68% -8.82%
75th Percentile £90,625 £98,125 £96,875
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +3.45%

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 94,832 44,261 86,457
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.34% 90.17% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 64,920 26,252 60,421
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,389
Median % change year-on-year - +1.12% -9.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,219
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.21%

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 24 July 2026.

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 24 July 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 +5 123 £80,000 -5.88% 136
UK excluding London -8 76 £75,000 -9.09% 55
London 0 53 £96,250 +6.94% 88
Work from Home +4 33 £85,250 +3.33% 50
North of England -11 29 £72,351 +4.28% 26
North West +15 23 £74,301 +7.09% 22
South East -2 21 £75,000 -9.09% 6
West Midlands - 12 £75,000 - 3
Midlands - 12 £75,000 - 4
Wales - 8 £70,500 - 4
South West - 5 £75,000 - 7
Yorkshire - 5 £62,500 - 4
North East - 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 £73,801 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 24 July 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.

1 135 (95.74%) Platform Engineering
2 86 (60.99%) CI/CD
3 82 (58.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 81 (57.45%) Azure
5 77 (54.61%) Terraform
6 62 (43.97%) DevOps
7 54 (38.30%) Python
8 45 (31.91%) Kubernetes
9 44 (31.21%) AWS
10 38 (26.95%) Security Cleared
11 33 (23.40%) Observability
12 28 (19.86%) GitHub
13 24 (17.02%) Azure DevOps
13 24 (17.02%) Cloud Security
13 24 (17.02%) Mentoring
14 23 (16.31%) Microsoft
14 23 (16.31%) SC Cleared
15 21 (14.89%) AI
15 21 (14.89%) GitHub Actions
16 20 (14.18%) Bash
16 20 (14.18%) GCP
16 20 (14.18%) RBAC
17 18 (12.77%) Amazon S3
17 18 (12.77%) Azure AKS
18 17 (12.06%) Agile
18 17 (12.06%) Containerisation
18 17 (12.06%) Infrastructure Automation
19 15 (10.64%) Linux
19 15 (10.64%) Node.js
19 15 (10.64%) Serverless

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 6 (4.26%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.42%) IIS
3 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (2.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 81 (57.45%) Azure
2 44 (31.21%) AWS
3 28 (19.86%) GitHub
4 24 (17.02%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (14.89%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (14.18%) GCP
7 18 (12.77%) Amazon S3
7 18 (12.77%) Azure AKS
8 15 (10.64%) Serverless
9 14 (9.93%) Pulumi
10 12 (8.51%) Amazon ECR
11 11 (7.80%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (7.80%) Azure AI
12 10 (7.09%) PaaS
13 9 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (5.67%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (5.67%) dbt
14 8 (5.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 8 (5.67%) Snowflake
15 7 (4.96%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.51%) Firewall
2 5 (3.55%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.84%) VPN
4 2 (1.42%) BGP
4 2 (1.42%) DNS
4 2 (1.42%) SAN
4 2 (1.42%) VoIP
4 2 (1.42%) WAN
5 1 (0.71%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.26%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.55%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (3.55%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.55%) Redis
3 4 (2.84%) BigQuery
4 3 (2.13%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.71%) Big Data
5 1 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.71%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.71%) Parquet
5 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (4.26%) CircleCI
2 5 (3.55%) GitLab
3 4 (2.84%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.13%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.42%) MLflow
5 2 (1.42%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.71%) Git
General
1 30 (21.28%) Finance
2 18 (12.77%) Social Skills
3 11 (7.80%) Public Sector
4 5 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.13%) Law
6 2 (1.42%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.71%) Advertising
7 1 (0.71%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.64%) Node.js
2 5 (3.55%) Django
3 4 (2.84%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (2.84%) RESTful
3 4 (2.84%) Web Services
4 3 (2.13%) FastAPI
4 3 (2.13%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (2.13%) PySpark
5 2 (1.42%) ONNX
5 2 (1.42%) REST
5 2 (1.42%) SOAP
6 1 (0.71%) CrewAI
6 1 (0.71%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.71%) JWT
6 1 (0.71%) LangChain
6 1 (0.71%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 27 (19.15%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.55%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (3.55%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.84%) Hedge funds
4 1 (0.71%) Clustering
4 1 (0.71%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.71%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.71%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.64%) Linux
2 5 (3.55%) Unix
3 1 (0.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (95.74%) Platform Engineering
2 86 (60.99%) CI/CD
3 82 (58.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (43.97%) DevOps
5 33 (23.40%) Observability
6 24 (17.02%) Cloud Security
6 24 (17.02%) Mentoring
7 21 (14.89%) AI
8 20 (14.18%) RBAC
9 17 (12.06%) Agile
9 17 (12.06%) Containerisation
9 17 (12.06%) Infrastructure Automation
10 13 (9.22%) Analytics
11 12 (8.51%) Fintech
11 12 (8.51%) Incident Response
11 12 (8.51%) Migration
12 11 (7.80%) Decision-Making
12 11 (7.80%) Disaster Recovery
12 11 (7.80%) Secrets Management
12 11 (7.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 54 (38.30%) Python
2 20 (14.18%) Bash
3 14 (9.93%) PowerShell
4 12 (8.51%) SQL
5 8 (5.67%) Java
6 6 (4.26%) Bicep
7 5 (3.55%) C#
7 5 (3.55%) Go
8 4 (2.84%) Groovy
9 2 (1.42%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 38 (26.95%) Security Cleared
2 23 (16.31%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.51%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.96%) Azure Certification
5 6 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.42%) Degree
7 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.71%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (8.51%) Docker
2 3 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 77 (54.61%) Terraform
2 45 (31.91%) Kubernetes
3 13 (9.22%) Ansible
4 10 (7.09%) Grafana
4 10 (7.09%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.26%) Istio
6 5 (3.55%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (2.84%) linkerd
7 4 (2.84%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.13%) Argo
8 3 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.42%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.71%) Packer
Vendors
1 23 (16.31%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.93%) Google
3 11 (7.80%) Foundry
4 6 (4.26%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.13%) Databricks
5 3 (2.13%) Oracle
6 2 (1.42%) VMware
7 1 (0.71%) Citrix
7 1 (0.71%) F5