Hybrid/Remote Platform Support Engineer Job Trends

Platform Support Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Platform Support Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £76,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 October 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 406 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Support Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.012% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £67,875 - -
25th Percentile £68,438 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 - -
75th Percentile £83,438 - -
90th Percentile £83,625 - -
UK median annual salary £75,000 £55,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +36.36% -24.14% +93.33%

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 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 15,240 19,589 22,391
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.76% 96.58% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 8,641 12,406 18,278
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £39,625 £45,000 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,888 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.19% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £56,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -6.67% -

Platform Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

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

Platform Support Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Platform Support Engineer
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote Platform Support Engineer job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Platform Support Engineer job vacancies

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

For the 6 months to 19 October 2025, Platform Support 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 Support Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Datadog
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving

Platform Support 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Datadog
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk