Platform Specialist Jobs with Work from Home Options

Platform Specialist
UK > Work from Home

The median Platform Specialist salary in Work from Home is £100,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 586 661 859
Rank change year-on-year +75 +198 -286
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Specialist 9 3 8
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.027% 0.007% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.008% 0.012%
Number of salaries quoted 9 2 8
10th Percentile £70,516 £59,000 £38,578
25th Percentile - £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +48.15% +3.85% +44.44%
75th Percentile - £73,750 -
90th Percentile £103,000 £76,000 £77,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.23% +29.17% +22.83%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 32,493 38,794 68,341
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.05% 95.92% 97.35%
Number of salaries quoted 24,878 27,614 41,915
10th Percentile £33,009 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Platform Specialist
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Platform Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Platform Specialist trend for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Specialist
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Platform Specialist.

Platform Specialist salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Specialist
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Platform Specialist over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Platform Specialist salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, Platform Specialist 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 remote work options featuring Platform Specialist in the job title.

1 3 (33.33%) Azure
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) Data Management
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
3 1 (11.11%) Data Integration
3 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
3 1 (11.11%) ETL
3 1 (11.11%) Linux
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Hedge funds
3 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (11.11%) R

Platform Specialist 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 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (11.11%) Delta Lake
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Back Office
2 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Social Science
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (11.11%) Hedge funds
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
2 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (11.11%) Data Governance
2 1 (11.11%) Data Integration
2 1 (11.11%) Data Management
2 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
2 1 (11.11%) Data Science
2 1 (11.11%) Data Security
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) ETL
2 1 (11.11%) Generative AI
2 1 (11.11%) Migration
2 1 (11.11%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Bash
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) R
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
2 1 (11.11%) VMware