Platform Engineering Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Platform Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Platform Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 344 304
Rank change year-on-year +59 -40 +53
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 134 259 445
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.88% 0.77% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.84% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 105 221 358
10th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £83,750 £96,250 £103,770
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £138,750
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -3.23% +6.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Platform Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,134 30,993 40,912
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.17% 91.62% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 9,780 23,560 28,419
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Platform Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

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

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Platform Engineering salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Platform Engineering salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineering
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 13 (9.70%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (5.22%) Apache
3 5 (3.73%) Confluence
3 5 (3.73%) NetWeaver
3 5 (3.73%) Tomcat
4 3 (2.24%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.49%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 5 (3.73%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 55 (41.04%) Azure
2 53 (39.55%) AWS
3 26 (19.40%) GitHub
4 20 (14.93%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (12.69%) GCP
6 14 (10.45%) IaaS
6 14 (10.45%) PaaS
7 13 (9.70%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (8.96%) SaaS
9 11 (8.21%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (8.21%) Serverless
10 9 (6.72%) Amazon S3
10 9 (6.72%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (5.97%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (5.97%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (5.22%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (5.22%) Datadog
13 6 (4.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (4.48%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (4.48%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.97%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.99%) DHCP
2 4 (2.99%) DNS
2 4 (2.99%) HTTP
3 2 (1.49%) Internet
4 1 (0.75%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (3.73%) BusinessObjects
2 5 (3.73%) DynamoDB
2 5 (3.73%) SAP BW
2 5 (3.73%) SAP Data Services
2 5 (3.73%) SAP HANA
2 5 (3.73%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.24%) Redis
5 2 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.49%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.75%) ClickHouse
6 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.75%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.75%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (15.67%) Jenkins
2 18 (13.43%) GitLab
3 13 (9.70%) SonarQube
4 11 (8.21%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (5.97%) JIRA
6 7 (5.22%) Git
6 7 (5.22%) TeamCity
7 6 (4.48%) Oracle Forms
8 5 (3.73%) Cypress.io
8 5 (3.73%) Vite
8 5 (3.73%) webpack
9 2 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.75%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.75%) CircleCI
General
1 39 (29.10%) Finance
2 20 (14.93%) Social Skills
3 18 (13.43%) Banking
4 11 (8.21%) Law
5 5 (3.73%) Advertising
5 5 (3.73%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.73%) Games
5 5 (3.73%) General Ledger
5 5 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (3.73%) Marketing
5 5 (3.73%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.75%) Front Office
6 1 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 58 (43.28%) Platform Engineer
2 40 (29.85%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (20.15%) Senior
4 24 (17.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 19 (14.18%) Python Engineer
6 15 (11.19%) AWS Engineer
6 15 (11.19%) Lead
7 14 (10.45%) Azure Engineer
7 14 (10.45%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 13 (9.70%) Cloud Engineer
9 11 (8.21%) Gen AI Engineer
10 10 (7.46%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 10 (7.46%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 10 (7.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (5.97%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (5.97%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 8 (5.97%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 8 (5.97%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 7 (5.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 7 (5.22%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (15.67%) REST
2 14 (10.45%) React
3 9 (6.72%) Kafka
4 8 (5.97%) Node.js
5 7 (5.22%) Web Services
6 6 (4.48%) ADO
7 5 (3.73%) .NET
7 5 (3.73%) AWS CDK
7 5 (3.73%) Enzyme
7 5 (3.73%) Jest
7 5 (3.73%) Next.js
7 5 (3.73%) OpenAPI
7 5 (3.73%) Parceljs
7 5 (3.73%) Svelte
7 5 (3.73%) Vue
7 5 (3.73%) WebAssembly
8 3 (2.24%) Middleware
8 3 (2.24%) Spring
8 3 (2.24%) Spring Boot
8 3 (2.24%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.67%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.72%) Public Cloud
3 8 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (3.73%) Algorithms
5 5 (3.73%) Distributed Computing
5 5 (3.73%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.99%) Clustering
6 4 (2.99%) Replication
7 2 (1.49%) Blog
7 2 (1.49%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.75%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.75%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.75%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.75%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 25 (18.66%) Linux
2 13 (9.70%) Windows
3 11 (8.21%) Windows Server
4 9 (6.72%) Unix
5 8 (5.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (3.73%) AIX
7 3 (2.24%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (2.24%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (2.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (2.24%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.75%) Solaris
8 1 (0.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (62.69%) CI/CD
2 80 (59.70%) DevOps
3 58 (43.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (32.09%) Agile
4 43 (32.09%) Containerisation
5 34 (25.37%) Machine Learning
6 24 (17.91%) Artificial Intelligence
7 22 (16.42%) Observability
8 21 (15.67%) Software Engineering
9 18 (13.43%) Mentoring
10 17 (12.69%) Migration
11 16 (11.94%) Generative AI
12 15 (11.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 14 (10.45%) Technical Leadership
14 13 (9.70%) Cloud Security
14 13 (9.70%) Event-Driven
14 13 (9.70%) Infrastructure Management
15 12 (8.96%) Continuous Improvement
15 12 (8.96%) Continuous Integration
16 11 (8.21%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 84 (62.69%) Python
2 27 (20.15%) Bash
3 23 (17.16%) PowerShell
4 20 (14.93%) Java
5 17 (12.69%) Go
6 14 (10.45%) TypeScript
7 13 (9.70%) Bicep
8 10 (7.46%) SQL
9 8 (5.97%) Ruby
10 7 (5.22%) JavaScript
10 7 (5.22%) Rust
10 7 (5.22%) Scala
11 6 (4.48%) Clojure
11 6 (4.48%) Elixir
12 5 (3.73%) C
13 4 (2.99%) C#
13 4 (2.99%) Perl
14 2 (1.49%) C++
14 2 (1.49%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (5.22%) SC Cleared
1 7 (5.22%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.73%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.24%) AWS Certification
3 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.96%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.99%) GDPR
2 4 (2.99%) QA
2 4 (2.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.75%) NIST
4 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 50 (37.31%) Docker
2 5 (3.73%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.49%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.49%) Firmware
4 2 (1.49%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (46.27%) Terraform
2 56 (41.79%) Kubernetes
3 44 (32.84%) Ansible
4 14 (10.45%) Prometheus
5 11 (8.21%) Puppet
6 9 (6.72%) Grafana
7 8 (5.97%) Progress Chef
8 5 (3.73%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 4 (2.99%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (1.49%) AWS Copilot
10 2 (1.49%) SCCM
11 1 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.75%) Argo
11 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 1 (0.75%) SCOM
11 1 (0.75%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (12.69%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.46%) Oracle
3 9 (6.72%) IBM
4 6 (4.48%) Databricks
4 6 (4.48%) VMware
5 5 (3.73%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.73%) SAP
6 4 (2.99%) Google
6 4 (2.99%) IBM Sterling
7 3 (2.24%) EMC
7 3 (2.24%) TOWER Software
8 2 (1.49%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.49%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.75%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.75%) Hyperion
9 1 (0.75%) Netskope
9 1 (0.75%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.75%) Splunk