Platform Engineering Jobs in England

Platform Engineering
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Platform Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 300 287 372
Rank change year-on-year -13 +85 -111
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 809 1,074 1,353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.94% 1.22% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.27% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 395 734 864
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £58,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% +20.83%
75th Percentile £97,019 £102,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £138,000 £105,950
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Platform Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,598 84,339 129,671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.11% 95.60% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 53,968 50,108 73,057
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in England

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in England

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in England

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering 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 -23 289 £85,000 -5.56% 149
North of England +45 180 £60,000 -11.11% 45
South East +37 136 £67,500 -6.57% 53
South West +9 89 £67,500 +3.29% 11
North West -16 79 £67,500 -3.57% 27
Midlands +9 78 £60,000 -14.29% 10
Yorkshire +80 77 £55,000 -14.10% 16
East Midlands +11 39 £60,000 +9.09% 3
West Midlands +11 39 £65,000 -8.77% 7
North East +13 26 £80,000 +67.81% 2
East of England +17 20 - - 7
Platform Engineering
UK

Platform Engineering
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 17 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
1 17 (2.10%) Confluence
2 16 (1.98%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.11%) Apache
4 1 (0.12%) IIS
4 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.12%) nginx
4 1 (0.12%) SAS
4 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 443 (54.76%) Azure
2 406 (50.19%) GCP
3 362 (44.75%) AWS
4 136 (16.81%) Azure DevOps
5 67 (8.28%) Power Platform
6 60 (7.42%) PaaS
7 51 (6.30%) GitHub
8 49 (6.06%) SaaS
9 42 (5.19%) Azure Data Factory
10 40 (4.94%) Serverless
11 37 (4.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 37 (4.57%) IaaS
12 34 (4.20%) Azure AKS
13 25 (3.09%) Cloud Computing
14 23 (2.84%) Entra ID
14 23 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
15 19 (2.35%) AWS CloudFormation
15 19 (2.35%) PowerApps
16 18 (2.22%) Amazon S3
16 18 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.83%) Firewall
1 31 (3.83%) Network Security
2 26 (3.21%) DNS
3 14 (1.73%) TCP/IP
4 12 (1.48%) VPN
5 11 (1.36%) LAN
5 11 (1.36%) WAN
6 9 (1.11%) DHCP
7 8 (0.99%) Internet
8 6 (0.74%) SSL
8 6 (0.74%) VLAN
8 6 (0.74%) Wireless
9 5 (0.62%) BGP
9 5 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (0.62%) IPsec
9 5 (0.62%) NGFW
9 5 (0.62%) OSPF
10 3 (0.37%) IPv4
11 2 (0.25%) tcpdump
11 2 (0.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 345 (42.65%) BigQuery
2 325 (40.17%) Looker
3 217 (26.82%) Data Warehouse
4 58 (7.17%) Power BI
5 42 (5.19%) Azure SQL Database
6 32 (3.96%) Data Lake
7 30 (3.71%) MySQL
8 29 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (3.21%) NoSQL
10 18 (2.22%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 17 (2.10%) MongoDB
11 17 (2.10%) Redis
12 14 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (1.48%) MariaDB
13 12 (1.48%) Metadata
14 11 (1.36%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 11 (1.36%) RDBMS
14 11 (1.36%) Relational Database
15 10 (1.24%) Hadoop
16 8 (0.99%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 66 (8.16%) Jenkins
2 51 (6.30%) Git
3 27 (3.34%) JIRA
4 18 (2.22%) GitLab
5 17 (2.10%) Octopus Deploy
5 17 (2.10%) TeamCity
6 11 (1.36%) Bitbucket
7 9 (1.11%) Artifactory
7 9 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (1.11%) Subversion
8 7 (0.87%) Snyk
9 6 (0.74%) RStudio
9 6 (0.74%) Spinnaker
9 6 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.62%) DTrace
10 5 (0.62%) GDB
11 4 (0.49%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.25%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.25%) JMeter
12 2 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 373 (46.11%) Analytical Skills
2 115 (14.22%) Social Skills
3 94 (11.62%) Finance
4 65 (8.03%) Billing
5 34 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (3.96%) Retail
7 29 (3.58%) Banking
8 24 (2.97%) Law
9 19 (2.35%) Legal
10 12 (1.48%) Health Technology
11 11 (1.36%) Games
12 9 (1.11%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.37%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.37%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.25%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.25%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.25%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.25%) Marketing
14 2 (0.25%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 399 (49.32%) Platform Engineer
2 218 (26.95%) Data Engineer
3 155 (19.16%) Principal Engineer
4 151 (18.67%) Principal Data Engineer
5 148 (18.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 125 (15.45%) Architect
7 114 (14.09%) Data Architect
8 99 (12.24%) Cloud Engineer
9 88 (10.88%) Engineering Manager
10 85 (10.51%) Senior
11 84 (10.38%) Data Manager
12 82 (10.14%) Azure Engineer
13 64 (7.91%) Lead
14 59 (7.29%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 59 (7.29%) DevOps Engineer
15 40 (4.94%) AWS Engineer
16 30 (3.71%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 28 (3.46%) AWS Platform Engineer
17 28 (3.46%) Senior Data Engineer
18 23 (2.84%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.84%) Kafka
2 17 (2.10%) ARM Templates
3 16 (1.98%) .NET
4 13 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (1.24%) Node.js
5 10 (1.24%) SAML
6 9 (1.11%) .NET Framework
6 9 (1.11%) JSON
7 7 (0.87%) HTML
7 7 (0.87%) React
7 7 (0.87%) Web Services
8 6 (0.74%) Lambda Expressions
9 5 (0.62%) YAML
10 4 (0.49%) ADO
10 4 (0.49%) CSS
10 4 (0.49%) FastAPI
10 4 (0.49%) REST
11 3 (0.37%) AngularJS
11 3 (0.37%) AWS CDK
11 3 (0.37%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 261 (32.26%) Self-Motivation
2 84 (10.38%) Product Ownership
3 34 (4.20%) Cloud Native
4 31 (3.83%) Hybrid Cloud
5 25 (3.09%) Data Centre
6 21 (2.60%) Linux Command Line
7 20 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (1.48%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.36%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.11%) Cyberattack
11 9 (1.11%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.11%) Video\Live Streaming
12 8 (0.99%) Algorithms
12 8 (0.99%) Clustering
12 8 (0.99%) Onboarding
12 8 (0.99%) Replication
13 7 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (0.87%) Private Cloud
14 6 (0.74%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 85 (10.51%) Linux
2 38 (4.70%) Windows
3 26 (3.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (2.22%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.61%) Unix
6 8 (0.99%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (0.99%) Solaris
7 7 (0.87%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.74%) Android
9 4 (0.49%) CentOS
9 4 (0.49%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.49%) VMS
10 3 (0.37%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 415 (51.30%) DevOps
2 393 (48.58%) Problem-Solving
3 369 (45.61%) Data Engineering
4 341 (42.15%) Agile
5 300 (37.08%) Mentoring
6 233 (28.80%) ETL
7 221 (27.32%) CI/CD
8 208 (25.71%) Data Modelling
9 197 (24.35%) Data Pipeline
10 194 (23.98%) Infrastructure as Code
11 165 (20.40%) Data Science
12 152 (18.79%) DataOps
13 145 (17.92%) Change Management
14 133 (16.44%) Data Governance
15 125 (15.45%) Innovative Thinking
16 121 (14.96%) Data Integration
17 118 (14.59%) Data Architecture
18 116 (14.34%) Data Security
19 115 (14.22%) Scrum
20 111 (13.72%) ERD
Programming Languages
1 209 (25.83%) Python
2 119 (14.71%) SQL
3 91 (11.25%) PowerShell
4 74 (9.15%) Bash
5 64 (7.91%) Java
6 40 (4.94%) C#
7 39 (4.82%) Go
8 29 (3.58%) Bicep
9 19 (2.35%) JavaScript
10 17 (2.10%) Scala
11 16 (1.98%) Ruby
11 16 (1.98%) TypeScript
12 12 (1.48%) Perl
13 11 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 11 (1.36%) Shell Script
13 11 (1.36%) U-SQL
14 9 (1.11%) C++
14 9 (1.11%) Groovy
15 8 (0.99%) C
15 8 (0.99%) PHP
Qualifications
1 43 (5.32%) Degree
2 24 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (2.84%) AWS Certification
3 23 (2.84%) Security Cleared
4 20 (2.47%) Azure Certification
4 20 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (2.22%) DBS Check
6 17 (2.10%) SC Cleared
7 12 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (0.99%) DV Cleared
9 7 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (0.62%) CCIE
10 5 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (0.62%) JNCIE
10 5 (0.62%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.62%) PhD
11 3 (0.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.37%) CISSP
11 3 (0.37%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 258 (31.89%) GDPR
2 138 (17.06%) Data Quality
3 77 (9.52%) QA
4 17 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (0.99%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.25%) NIST
7 1 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 127 (15.70%) Docker
2 31 (3.83%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.37%) KVM
6 3 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.25%) Firmware
8 1 (0.12%) Ceph
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.12%) vSphere
8 1 (0.12%) Xen
Systems Management
1 224 (27.69%) Terraform
2 190 (23.49%) Kubernetes
3 94 (11.62%) Ansible
4 34 (4.20%) Puppet
5 32 (3.96%) Progress Chef
6 31 (3.83%) Grafana
7 27 (3.34%) Prometheus
8 16 (1.98%) Salt
9 12 (1.48%) Packer
10 11 (1.36%) Istio
11 10 (1.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.74%) Argo
14 4 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.49%) Kibana
15 3 (0.37%) logstash
16 2 (0.25%) Kubeflow
16 2 (0.25%) Podman
16 2 (0.25%) Rundeck
17 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 369 (45.61%) Google
2 120 (14.83%) Microsoft
3 34 (4.20%) Databricks
4 13 (1.61%) Red Hat
5 11 (1.36%) New Relic
6 10 (1.24%) Atlassian
7 9 (1.11%) SaltStack
8 8 (0.99%) Oracle
8 8 (0.99%) Serena
8 8 (0.99%) Splunk
8 8 (0.99%) YouTube
9 6 (0.74%) Alteryx
9 6 (0.74%) VMware
10 5 (0.62%) LogicMonitor
10 5 (0.62%) PagerDuty
11 3 (0.37%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.37%) Facebook
12 2 (0.25%) Confluent
13 1 (0.12%) Palo Alto
13 1 (0.12%) Sparx