Senior Platform Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior Platform Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Platform Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 423 564 610
Rank change year-on-year +141 +46 +176
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 9 19 52
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.055% 0.056% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.060% 0.058% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 8 18 28
10th Percentile £63,156 £56,650 £64,250
25th Percentile £64,509 £62,813 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £87,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% -7.89% +16.56%
75th Percentile £87,188 £95,938 £100,000
90th Percentile £95,250 £124,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £92,500 £86,250
% change year-on-year -10.81% +7.25% +1.47%

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 14,908 32,504 40,687
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.86% 96.00% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 9,956 24,955 28,926
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,005 £36,679
25th Percentile £43,500 £42,500 £47,447
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 £93,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

Senior Platform Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Senior Platform Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior Platform Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Senior Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Senior Platform Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (88.89%) Platform Engineering
2 7 (77.78%) Python
3 6 (66.67%) AWS
3 6 (66.67%) Terraform
4 5 (55.56%) Docker
5 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
5 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
5 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (44.44%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (44.44%) DevOps
5 4 (44.44%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (44.44%) Linux
5 4 (44.44%) Azure
6 3 (33.33%) Bash
6 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
6 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
6 3 (33.33%) Unix
6 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
6 3 (33.33%) Serverless
6 3 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (33.33%) GCP
6 3 (33.33%) AWS Control Tower
6 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
7 2 (22.22%) AWS CDK
7 2 (22.22%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (22.22%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
7 2 (22.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (22.22%) AWS CodeBuild

Senior 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) AWS Control Tower
3 3 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (33.33%) GCP
3 3 (33.33%) Serverless
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon ECR
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
4 2 (22.22%) AWS CodeBuild
4 2 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (22.22%) dbt
4 2 (22.22%) Pulumi
4 2 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Internet
1 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (22.22%) DynamoDB
2 2 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (22.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (22.22%) Advertising
1 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) AWS CDK
1 2 (22.22%) Django
1 2 (22.22%) YAML
2 1 (11.11%) AWS SAM
2 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
2 1 (11.11%) Node.js
2 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
3 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Application Performance Monitoring
4 2 (22.22%) Clean Code
4 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 2 (22.22%) Open Source
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Prototyping
4 2 (22.22%) Threat Detection
5 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Go
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (22.22%) Ansible
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft