Platform Engineer Jobs in England

Platform Engineer
UK > England

The median Platform Engineer salary in England is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 463 483 690
Rank change year-on-year +20 +207 -286
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 411 510 526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.58% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.63% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 234 367 384
10th Percentile £55,000 £43,750 £43,250
25th Percentile £62,813 £55,000 £53,288
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £95,750 £88,125 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 81,760 80,739 129,993
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.54% 91.52% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 60,876 51,417 74,746
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in England

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in England

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in England

Platform Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +89 172 £85,000 +6.25% 68
North of England +31 114 £60,000 -13.60% 27
North West -20 57 £65,000 -7.14% 17
Yorkshire +78 47 £60,000 -13.60% 10
Midlands -3 38 £65,000 -7.14% 2
South West -29 38 £67,500 -2.80% 8
South East -13 30 £60,000 +14.29% 25
West Midlands +2 20 £70,000 - 2
East Midlands +8 18 £60,000 -18.64%
East of England +4 13 £80,000 +72.04% 8
North East +4 12 £80,000 +14.29%
Platform Engineer
UK

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, 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 job ads across the England region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 399 (97.08%) Platform Engineering
2 262 (63.75%) DevOps
3 191 (46.47%) Agile
4 189 (45.99%) Problem-Solving
5 179 (43.55%) GCP
6 168 (40.88%) Azure
7 163 (39.66%) Google
8 159 (38.69%) Data Pipeline
9 157 (38.20%) BigQuery
10 156 (37.96%) Data Engineering
10 156 (37.96%) Terraform
10 156 (37.96%) Analytical Skills
11 152 (36.98%) DataOps
12 151 (36.74%) Data Science
13 150 (36.50%) Mentoring
14 144 (35.04%) Change Management
15 143 (34.79%) GDPR
16 142 (34.55%) Self-Motivation
17 141 (34.31%) Looker
18 139 (33.82%) Kubernetes
19 135 (32.85%) Infrastructure as Code
20 126 (30.66%) Python
21 113 (27.49%) CI/CD
22 109 (26.52%) AWS
23 99 (24.09%) Docker
24 69 (16.79%) PowerShell
24 69 (16.79%) Linux
25 66 (16.06%) Ansible
26 65 (15.82%) Bash
27 59 (14.36%) Social Skills

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (2.43%) Apache Spark
1 10 (2.43%) Confluence
2 9 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.49%) Apache
4 1 (0.24%) IIS
4 1 (0.24%) nginx
4 1 (0.24%) SAS
4 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 179 (43.55%) GCP
2 168 (40.88%) Azure
3 109 (26.52%) AWS
4 41 (9.98%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (9.73%) GitHub
6 39 (9.49%) PaaS
7 32 (7.79%) Serverless
8 28 (6.81%) Azure AKS
9 22 (5.35%) IaaS
9 22 (5.35%) SaaS
10 21 (5.11%) Power Platform
11 19 (4.62%) Cloud Computing
12 15 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (3.41%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (3.41%) Amazon S3
13 14 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (3.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 14 (3.41%) Route 53
13 14 (3.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 11 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.62%) Firewall
2 15 (3.65%) Network Security
3 12 (2.92%) DNS
4 3 (0.73%) Internet
4 3 (0.73%) IPv4
4 3 (0.73%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.73%) VPN
5 2 (0.49%) DHCP
5 2 (0.49%) tcpdump
5 2 (0.49%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.24%) Broadband
6 1 (0.24%) FTP
6 1 (0.24%) SSL
6 1 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (38.20%) BigQuery
2 141 (34.31%) Looker
3 23 (5.60%) MongoDB
4 20 (4.87%) Azure SQL Database
5 19 (4.62%) MySQL
5 19 (4.62%) Power BI
6 15 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (2.68%) MariaDB
8 11 (2.68%) Redis
9 10 (2.43%) Data Lake
10 9 (2.19%) NoSQL
11 7 (1.70%) Big Data
11 7 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.46%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.97%) InfluxDB
14 3 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
15 2 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
16 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
16 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 48 (11.68%) Jenkins
2 40 (9.73%) Git
3 19 (4.62%) JIRA
4 17 (4.14%) Octopus Deploy
5 15 (3.65%) TeamCity
6 11 (2.68%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.19%) Artifactory
7 9 (2.19%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (2.19%) Subversion
8 8 (1.95%) GitLab
9 7 (1.70%) Snyk
10 6 (1.46%) RStudio
10 6 (1.46%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (1.22%) DTrace
11 5 (1.22%) GDB
12 4 (0.97%) CircleCI
13 1 (0.24%) GoCD
13 1 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
13 1 (0.24%) Vagrant
13 1 (0.24%) Zephyr
General
1 156 (37.96%) Analytical Skills
2 59 (14.36%) Social Skills
3 57 (13.87%) Finance
4 23 (5.60%) Retail
5 18 (4.38%) Banking
5 18 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (1.95%) Law
7 7 (1.70%) Games
7 7 (1.70%) Retail Banking
8 5 (1.22%) Health Technology
9 4 (0.97%) Front Office
10 3 (0.73%) Legal
11 2 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.49%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.49%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.24%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.24%) Military
12 1 (0.24%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.89%) Kafka
2 14 (3.41%) ARM Templates
3 13 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (1.95%) SAML
5 7 (1.70%) .NET
6 4 (0.97%) Node.js
7 3 (0.73%) Middleware
7 3 (0.73%) PySpark
7 3 (0.73%) React
8 2 (0.49%) Keycloak
8 2 (0.49%) Loki
8 2 (0.49%) REST
9 1 (0.24%) ADO
9 1 (0.24%) Anaconda
9 1 (0.24%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.24%) JSON
9 1 (0.24%) RESTful
9 1 (0.24%) Vue
9 1 (0.24%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 142 (34.55%) Self-Motivation
2 24 (5.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 20 (4.87%) Linux Command Line
4 17 (4.14%) Data Centre
5 16 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.95%) Cloud Native
7 8 (1.95%) Clustering
7 8 (1.95%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.95%) Public Cloud
7 8 (1.95%) Replication
8 7 (1.70%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.22%) Blog
9 5 (1.22%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.22%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.49%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 1 (0.24%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 69 (16.79%) Linux
2 24 (5.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 22 (5.35%) Windows
4 11 (2.68%) Unix
5 9 (2.19%) Windows Server
6 8 (1.95%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (1.95%) Solaris
7 4 (0.97%) VMS
8 3 (0.73%) CentOS
8 3 (0.73%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 399 (97.08%) Platform Engineering
2 262 (63.75%) DevOps
3 191 (46.47%) Agile
4 189 (45.99%) Problem-Solving
5 159 (38.69%) Data Pipeline
6 156 (37.96%) Data Engineering
7 152 (36.98%) DataOps
8 151 (36.74%) Data Science
9 150 (36.50%) Mentoring
10 144 (35.04%) Change Management
11 135 (32.85%) Infrastructure as Code
12 113 (27.49%) CI/CD
13 52 (12.65%) Containerisation
14 45 (10.95%) Continuous Improvement
15 41 (9.98%) Configuration Management
16 38 (9.25%) Analytics
17 34 (8.27%) Infrastructure Automation
18 29 (7.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 25 (6.08%) Cloud Security
20 24 (5.84%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 126 (30.66%) Python
2 69 (16.79%) PowerShell
3 65 (15.82%) Bash
4 56 (13.63%) SQL
5 38 (9.25%) Java
6 28 (6.81%) C#
6 28 (6.81%) Go
7 25 (6.08%) Bicep
8 13 (3.16%) Ruby
9 12 (2.92%) JavaScript
10 11 (2.68%) Perl
11 9 (2.19%) Groovy
12 8 (1.95%) Shell Script
13 7 (1.70%) PHP
13 7 (1.70%) R
13 7 (1.70%) TypeScript
14 6 (1.46%) C
15 5 (1.22%) OCaml
15 5 (1.22%) SystemTap
16 4 (0.97%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (3.16%) Degree
1 13 (3.16%) Security Cleared
2 11 (2.68%) SC Cleared
3 10 (2.43%) Azure Certification
4 7 (1.70%) AWS Certification
5 6 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (0.49%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.49%) Linux+ Certification
8 2 (0.49%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.49%) PhD
8 2 (0.49%) RHCE
9 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (34.79%) GDPR
2 14 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.95%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.46%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.46%) QA
5 1 (0.24%) SEPA
System Software
1 99 (24.09%) Docker
2 13 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (2.68%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.49%) KVM
Systems Management
1 156 (37.96%) Terraform
2 139 (33.82%) Kubernetes
3 66 (16.06%) Ansible
4 28 (6.81%) Puppet
5 26 (6.33%) Progress Chef
6 24 (5.84%) Grafana
7 23 (5.60%) Prometheus
8 15 (3.65%) Salt
9 12 (2.92%) Packer
10 11 (2.68%) Istio
11 7 (1.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.73%) Argo
12 3 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.73%) Kibana
12 3 (0.73%) logstash
13 2 (0.49%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.49%) Rundeck
14 1 (0.24%) Consul
14 1 (0.24%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.24%) Podman
Vendors
1 163 (39.66%) Google
2 47 (11.44%) Microsoft
3 15 (3.65%) Databricks
4 12 (2.92%) Red Hat
5 10 (2.43%) Atlassian
6 8 (1.95%) New Relic
6 8 (1.95%) Oracle
6 8 (1.95%) SaltStack
6 8 (1.95%) Serena
7 7 (1.70%) Splunk
7 7 (1.70%) VMware
8 6 (1.46%) Alteryx
9 5 (1.22%) LogicMonitor
9 5 (1.22%) PagerDuty
10 4 (0.97%) YouTube
11 2 (0.49%) Citrix
11 2 (0.49%) Confluent
12 1 (0.24%) BT
12 1 (0.24%) Sparx
12 1 (0.24%) Wallstreet Suite