Hybrid/Remote Platform Engineer Job Trends

Platform Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Platform Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 April 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 336 425
Rank change year-on-year +68 +89 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 133 63 141
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.74% 0.47% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 0.51% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 109 51 127
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £52,000
25th Percentile £68,813 £62,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £88,125 £96,125
90th Percentile - £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +6.67% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work 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 16,722 12,400 31,017
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.61% 92.93% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 12,033 9,079 24,854
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -10.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Platform Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Platform Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote Platform Engineer job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Platform Engineer job vacancies

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Platform Engineer salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 21 April 2026, 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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 127 (95.49%) Platform Engineering
2 80 (60.15%) CI/CD
3 78 (58.65%) Azure
4 77 (57.89%) Python
5 70 (52.63%) Terraform
6 65 (48.87%) DevOps
7 64 (48.12%) Infrastructure as Code
8 54 (40.60%) AWS
9 50 (37.59%) Kubernetes
10 43 (32.33%) Linux
11 34 (25.56%) GitHub
12 29 (21.80%) Ansible
12 29 (21.80%) Data Pipeline
12 29 (21.80%) SQL
13 28 (21.05%) Analytics
14 27 (20.30%) PowerShell
15 26 (19.55%) Bash
15 26 (19.55%) Infrastructure Automation
15 26 (19.55%) Observability
16 24 (18.05%) Docker
16 24 (18.05%) GitHub Actions
17 23 (17.29%) Grafana
17 23 (17.29%) High Availability
18 21 (15.79%) Azure Data Factory
18 21 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
18 21 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
18 21 (15.79%) Databricks
19 20 (15.04%) Amazon EC2
19 20 (15.04%) Disaster Recovery
19 20 (15.04%) Prometheus

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 (5.26%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.75%) Anypoint
2 1 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.75%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.75%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (3.01%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 78 (58.65%) Azure
2 54 (40.60%) AWS
3 34 (25.56%) GitHub
4 24 (18.05%) GitHub Actions
5 21 (15.79%) Azure Data Factory
5 21 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (15.04%) Amazon EC2
7 19 (14.29%) Amazon S3
7 19 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 18 (13.53%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (12.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 16 (12.03%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (12.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 13 (9.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 12 (9.02%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 10 (7.52%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (7.52%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (7.52%) GCP
12 10 (7.52%) Serverless
13 9 (6.77%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.26%) DNS
2 6 (4.51%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.76%) Firewall
3 5 (3.76%) VPN
4 1 (0.75%) Broadband
4 1 (0.75%) DHCP
4 1 (0.75%) Network Security
4 1 (0.75%) Skype
4 1 (0.75%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.75%) VoIP
4 1 (0.75%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.78%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (12.03%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (8.27%) Data Lake
3 11 (8.27%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (5.26%) Delta Lake
6 6 (4.51%) Redis
7 5 (3.76%) Spark SQL
8 4 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (3.01%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.26%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.50%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.75%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.75%) Flink
11 1 (0.75%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.75%) MySQL
11 1 (0.75%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (13.53%) Git
2 10 (7.52%) Jenkins
3 9 (6.77%) GitLab
4 8 (6.02%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.75%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.75%) JIRA
General
1 35 (26.32%) Finance
2 33 (24.81%) Social Skills
3 11 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.01%) Law
6 4 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.26%) Billing
7 3 (2.26%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.26%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.50%) Military
9 1 (0.75%) Games
9 1 (0.75%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.02%) PySpark
2 7 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (5.26%) Loki
3 5 (3.76%) Django
4 4 (3.01%) Node.js
4 4 (3.01%) OAuth
4 4 (3.01%) OpenID
5 3 (2.26%) EDI
5 3 (2.26%) YAML
6 2 (1.50%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.50%) Kafka
6 2 (1.50%) REST
6 2 (1.50%) Spring
6 2 (1.50%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.75%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.75%) Celery
7 1 (0.75%) JSON
7 1 (0.75%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.75%) Ray
7 1 (0.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.52%) Public Cloud
3 9 (6.77%) Private Cloud
4 6 (4.51%) Hedge funds
5 5 (3.76%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.01%) CMDB
6 4 (3.01%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.26%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.50%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.50%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.50%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.50%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.50%) Replication
9 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.75%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 43 (32.33%) Linux
2 17 (12.78%) Windows
3 11 (8.27%) Windows Server
4 10 (7.52%) Unix
5 2 (1.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (95.49%) Platform Engineering
2 80 (60.15%) CI/CD
3 65 (48.87%) DevOps
4 64 (48.12%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (21.80%) Data Pipeline
6 28 (21.05%) Analytics
7 26 (19.55%) Infrastructure Automation
7 26 (19.55%) Observability
8 23 (17.29%) High Availability
9 21 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (15.04%) Disaster Recovery
11 19 (14.29%) Agile
11 19 (14.29%) Cloud Security
11 19 (14.29%) Data Modelling
12 18 (13.53%) Containerisation
12 18 (13.53%) Data Engineering
13 16 (12.03%) Incident Response
14 15 (11.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 14 (10.53%) Fintech
15 14 (10.53%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 77 (57.89%) Python
2 29 (21.80%) SQL
3 27 (20.30%) PowerShell
4 26 (19.55%) Bash
5 11 (8.27%) Scala
6 9 (6.77%) Java
7 5 (3.76%) Bicep
8 4 (3.01%) Go
9 1 (0.75%) C#
9 1 (0.75%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (11.28%) Azure Certification
1 15 (11.28%) Degree
2 14 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 13 (9.77%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.26%) CITP
6 2 (1.50%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.78%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.26%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.50%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.50%) QA
5 1 (0.75%) GDPR
System Software
1 24 (18.05%) Docker
2 9 (6.77%) Active Directory
3 8 (6.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (4.51%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.50%) vSphere
6 1 (0.75%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.75%) vCloud
6 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 70 (52.63%) Terraform
2 50 (37.59%) Kubernetes
3 29 (21.80%) Ansible
4 23 (17.29%) Grafana
5 20 (15.04%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.76%) AWS Copilot
6 5 (3.76%) Packer
7 4 (3.01%) Progress Chef
7 4 (3.01%) Puppet
7 4 (3.01%) ZABBIX
8 3 (2.26%) Argo
9 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (15.79%) Databricks
2 19 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 13 (9.77%) VMware
4 6 (4.51%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.76%) Google
6 4 (3.01%) Cisco
6 4 (3.01%) Cribl.io
6 4 (3.01%) EMC
6 4 (3.01%) F5
6 4 (3.01%) Palo Alto
6 4 (3.01%) Splunk
7 3 (2.26%) Planon
7 3 (2.26%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.50%) Foundry
8 2 (1.50%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.75%) IFS
9 1 (0.75%) Okta
9 1 (0.75%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.75%) Workday
9 1 (0.75%) Zscaler