Platform Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Platform Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Platform Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 447 446
Rank change year-on-year +115 -1 +95
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 65 145 242
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.43% 0.43% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.45% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 54 130 177
10th Percentile £49,375 £49,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,813 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £86,250 £96,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £71,750 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.33% +7.14% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Platform Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Platform Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Platform Engineer.

Platform Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Platform Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 58 (89.23%) Platform Engineering
2 46 (70.77%) Python
3 41 (63.08%) CI/CD
3 41 (63.08%) DevOps
4 34 (52.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (49.23%) Terraform
5 32 (49.23%) Azure
6 31 (47.69%) Kubernetes
7 28 (43.08%) Ansible
8 25 (38.46%) Docker
8 25 (38.46%) AWS
9 21 (32.31%) Containerisation
9 21 (32.31%) Finance
10 16 (24.62%) Bash
11 15 (23.08%) PowerShell
11 15 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (20.00%) Agile
12 13 (20.00%) Microsoft
13 12 (18.46%) Linux
13 12 (18.46%) Machine Learning
13 12 (18.46%) Bicep
14 10 (15.38%) GitLab
14 10 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (15.38%) Social Skills
14 10 (15.38%) PaaS
14 10 (15.38%) Jenkins
14 10 (15.38%) GitHub
14 10 (15.38%) Data Security
15 9 (13.85%) REST
15 9 (13.85%) SaaS

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.08%) Confluence
2 2 (3.08%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 32 (49.23%) Azure
2 25 (38.46%) AWS
3 10 (15.38%) GitHub
3 10 (15.38%) PaaS
4 9 (13.85%) GCP
4 9 (13.85%) SaaS
5 8 (12.31%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (12.31%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (9.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (9.23%) Azure AKS
6 6 (9.23%) IaaS
7 5 (7.69%) Amazon S3
7 5 (7.69%) Serverless
7 5 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (6.15%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (6.15%) AWS Control Tower
8 4 (6.15%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.62%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (4.62%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.08%) Internet
3 1 (1.54%) DHCP
3 1 (1.54%) DNS
3 1 (1.54%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.23%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (4.62%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (4.62%) DynamoDB
2 3 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.62%) Redis
3 2 (3.08%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.54%) ClickHouse
4 1 (1.54%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.54%) MySQL
4 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (15.38%) GitLab
1 10 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 7 (10.77%) Sonatype Nexus
2 7 (10.77%) TeamCity
3 6 (9.23%) SonarQube
4 3 (4.62%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (3.08%) JIRA
5 2 (3.08%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.54%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.54%) Git
6 1 (1.54%) Zephyr
General
1 21 (32.31%) Finance
2 10 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.77%) Banking
4 5 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.62%) Advertising
5 3 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.62%) Marketing
5 3 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.54%) Front Office
6 1 (1.54%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.85%) REST
2 6 (9.23%) ADO
2 6 (9.23%) Kafka
3 5 (7.69%) AWS CDK
4 3 (4.62%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (4.62%) Spring
4 3 (4.62%) Spring Boot
4 3 (4.62%) YAML
5 2 (3.08%) .NET
5 2 (3.08%) Django
5 2 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (3.08%) Node.js
6 1 (1.54%) AWS SAM
6 1 (1.54%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.54%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.23%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.69%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (6.15%) Clustering
3 4 (6.15%) Replication
4 2 (3.08%) Blog
4 2 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.54%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.54%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (18.46%) Linux
2 6 (9.23%) Windows
3 4 (6.15%) Unix
3 4 (6.15%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.62%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (4.62%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (4.62%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (4.62%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.54%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (89.23%) Platform Engineering
2 41 (63.08%) CI/CD
2 41 (63.08%) DevOps
3 34 (52.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (32.31%) Containerisation
5 15 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (20.00%) Agile
7 12 (18.46%) Machine Learning
8 10 (15.38%) Data Security
8 10 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (12.31%) Artificial Intelligence
9 8 (12.31%) Cloud Security
9 8 (12.31%) Roadmaps
10 7 (10.77%) Collaborative Culture
10 7 (10.77%) High Availability
10 7 (10.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 7 (10.77%) Mentoring
10 7 (10.77%) Migration
10 7 (10.77%) Security Hardening
11 6 (9.23%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 46 (70.77%) Python
2 16 (24.62%) Bash
3 15 (23.08%) PowerShell
4 12 (18.46%) Bicep
5 8 (12.31%) Ruby
6 7 (10.77%) SQL
7 5 (7.69%) Go
8 4 (6.15%) Perl
9 3 (4.62%) Java
9 3 (4.62%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.54%) C#
10 1 (1.54%) C++
10 1 (1.54%) Groovy
10 1 (1.54%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.54%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (9.23%) SC Cleared
1 6 (9.23%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.15%) Azure Certification
3 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.54%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.54%) Degree
4 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.15%) GDPR
1 4 (6.15%) QA
1 4 (6.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.54%) NIST
3 1 (1.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (38.46%) Docker
2 4 (6.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.62%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.62%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 32 (49.23%) Terraform
2 31 (47.69%) Kubernetes
3 28 (43.08%) Ansible
4 7 (10.77%) Progress Chef
4 7 (10.77%) Puppet
5 6 (9.23%) Grafana
5 6 (9.23%) Prometheus
6 4 (6.15%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (3.08%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (3.08%) SCCM
8 1 (1.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (1.54%) SCOM
8 1 (1.54%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.77%) Oracle
3 5 (7.69%) Databricks
3 5 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 4 (6.15%) VMware
5 3 (4.62%) EMC
5 3 (4.62%) Google
5 3 (4.62%) TOWER Software
6 1 (1.54%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.54%) Citrix
6 1 (1.54%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.54%) Splunk