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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 306 295 375
Rank change year-on-year -11 +80 -111
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 821 992 1,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.90% 1.18% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 1.23% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 398 682 833
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,825 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,013 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% +16.00%
75th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £138,750 £106,250
UK median annual salary £74,402 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -0.80% +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 76,066 80,344 135,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 83.60% 95.49% 95.97%
Number of salaries quoted 55,107 48,707 73,448
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,294
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 £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,250 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -6 292 £89,500 -0.56% 109
North of England +46 187 £60,000 -11.11% 36
South East +36 136 £67,500 -10.00% 11
South West +7 89 £67,500 +3.85% 13
North West -18 83 £65,000 -7.14% 24
Yorkshire +76 80 £55,000 -15.38% 10
Midlands +12 80 £60,000 -14.29% 13
West Midlands -8 41 £65,000 -7.14% 9
East Midlands +1 39 £60,000 +9.09% 4
North East +10 26 £80,000 +67.81% 2
East of England +14 21 - - 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 (2.07%) Apache Spark
2 16 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (1.58%) Confluence
4 11 (1.34%) Apache
5 2 (0.24%) nginx
6 1 (0.12%) IIS
6 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.12%) SAS
6 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
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
1 452 (55.05%) Azure
2 410 (49.94%) GCP
3 370 (45.07%) AWS
4 142 (17.30%) Azure DevOps
5 69 (8.40%) Power Platform
6 61 (7.43%) PaaS
7 46 (5.60%) GitHub
7 46 (5.60%) SaaS
8 42 (5.12%) Azure Data Factory
9 37 (4.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 36 (4.38%) IaaS
10 36 (4.38%) Serverless
11 31 (3.78%) Azure AKS
12 25 (3.05%) Cloud Computing
13 23 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
14 22 (2.68%) Entra ID
15 20 (2.44%) PowerApps
16 19 (2.31%) Power Automate
17 18 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
18 15 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 34 (4.14%) Firewall
2 31 (3.78%) Network Security
3 26 (3.17%) DNS
4 15 (1.83%) TCP/IP
5 14 (1.71%) VPN
6 11 (1.34%) LAN
6 11 (1.34%) WAN
7 10 (1.22%) DHCP
8 7 (0.85%) Internet
9 6 (0.73%) SSL
9 6 (0.73%) VLAN
9 6 (0.73%) Wireless
10 5 (0.61%) BGP
10 5 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.61%) IPsec
10 5 (0.61%) NGFW
10 5 (0.61%) OSPF
11 3 (0.37%) IPv4
11 3 (0.37%) tcpdump
11 3 (0.37%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 346 (42.14%) BigQuery
2 327 (39.83%) Looker
3 218 (26.55%) Data Warehouse
4 60 (7.31%) Power BI
5 40 (4.87%) Azure SQL Database
6 31 (3.78%) Data Lake
7 28 (3.41%) MySQL
7 28 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
8 26 (3.17%) NoSQL
9 18 (2.19%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 17 (2.07%) MongoDB
11 16 (1.95%) Redis
12 11 (1.34%) Big Data
12 11 (1.34%) MariaDB
12 11 (1.34%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 11 (1.34%) RDBMS
12 11 (1.34%) Relational Database
13 10 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
14 9 (1.10%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 64 (7.80%) Jenkins
2 56 (6.82%) Git
3 23 (2.80%) GitLab
3 23 (2.80%) JIRA
4 15 (1.83%) Octopus Deploy
5 14 (1.71%) TeamCity
6 10 (1.22%) Bitbucket
7 9 (1.10%) Artifactory
8 7 (0.85%) Snyk
9 6 (0.73%) RStudio
9 6 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (0.73%) Subversion
9 6 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.61%) DTrace
10 5 (0.61%) GDB
10 5 (0.61%) Spinnaker
11 4 (0.49%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.24%) NUnit
General
1 374 (45.55%) Analytical Skills
2 121 (14.74%) Social Skills
3 98 (11.94%) Finance
4 65 (7.92%) Billing
5 38 (4.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (4.02%) Retail
7 28 (3.41%) Banking
8 25 (3.05%) Law
9 20 (2.44%) Legal
10 10 (1.22%) Health Technology
10 10 (1.22%) Retail Banking
11 9 (1.10%) Games
12 4 (0.49%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.37%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.37%) Public Sector
13 3 (0.37%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.24%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.24%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.24%) Marketing
15 1 (0.12%) Military
Job Titles
1 401 (48.84%) Platform Engineer
2 213 (25.94%) Data Engineer
3 156 (19.00%) Principal Engineer
4 151 (18.39%) Principal Data Engineer
5 145 (17.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 128 (15.59%) Architect
7 115 (14.01%) Data Architect
8 96 (11.69%) Cloud Engineer
9 91 (11.08%) Senior
10 88 (10.72%) Engineering Manager
11 84 (10.23%) Data Manager
12 81 (9.87%) Azure Engineer
13 64 (7.80%) DevOps Engineer
13 64 (7.80%) Lead
14 61 (7.43%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 34 (4.14%) AWS Engineer
16 33 (4.02%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 27 (3.29%) Senior Data Engineer
18 26 (3.17%) Senior DevOps
18 26 (3.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.80%) Kafka
2 18 (2.19%) ARM Templates
3 15 (1.83%) .NET
4 14 (1.71%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (1.34%) JSON
6 10 (1.22%) Node.js
7 9 (1.10%) .NET Framework
7 9 (1.10%) HTML
8 7 (0.85%) React
8 7 (0.85%) Web Services
8 7 (0.85%) YAML
9 6 (0.73%) Lambda Expressions
10 5 (0.61%) ADO
10 5 (0.61%) SAML
11 4 (0.49%) CSS
11 4 (0.49%) Middleware
11 4 (0.49%) PySpark
11 4 (0.49%) REST
12 3 (0.37%) FastAPI
12 3 (0.37%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 261 (31.79%) Self-Motivation
2 81 (9.87%) Product Ownership
3 33 (4.02%) Cloud Native
4 29 (3.53%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (3.17%) Data Centre
6 20 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
7 19 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (1.58%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.34%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.10%) Clustering
11 9 (1.10%) Cyberattack
11 9 (1.10%) Management Information System
12 8 (0.97%) Algorithms
12 8 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (0.97%) Onboarding
12 8 (0.97%) Replication
12 8 (0.97%) Video\Live Streaming
13 6 (0.73%) Low-Code
14 5 (0.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 86 (10.48%) Linux
2 40 (4.87%) Windows
3 23 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (2.44%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.58%) Unix
6 8 (0.97%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (0.97%) Solaris
7 7 (0.85%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.73%) 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%) 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
1 425 (51.77%) DevOps
2 400 (48.72%) Problem-Solving
3 371 (45.19%) Data Engineering
4 347 (42.27%) Agile
5 302 (36.78%) Mentoring
6 236 (28.75%) ETL
7 231 (28.14%) CI/CD
8 209 (25.46%) Data Modelling
9 198 (24.12%) Data Pipeline
10 190 (23.14%) Infrastructure as Code
11 167 (20.34%) Data Science
12 153 (18.64%) DataOps
13 145 (17.66%) Change Management
14 133 (16.20%) Data Governance
15 122 (14.86%) Innovative Thinking
16 121 (14.74%) Data Integration
17 117 (14.25%) Data Architecture
18 116 (14.13%) Data Security
19 114 (13.89%) Scrum
20 111 (13.52%) ERD
Programming Languages
1 211 (25.70%) Python
2 117 (14.25%) SQL
3 101 (12.30%) PowerShell
4 76 (9.26%) Bash
5 64 (7.80%) Java
6 43 (5.24%) Go
7 41 (4.99%) C#
8 28 (3.41%) Bicep
9 19 (2.31%) Scala
10 18 (2.19%) JavaScript
11 16 (1.95%) Ruby
11 16 (1.95%) TypeScript
12 12 (1.46%) Shell Script
13 11 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 11 (1.34%) U-SQL
14 9 (1.10%) C++
14 9 (1.10%) Groovy
14 9 (1.10%) Perl
15 8 (0.97%) C
16 7 (0.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 43 (5.24%) Degree
2 26 (3.17%) AWS Certification
3 23 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (2.68%) Security Cleared
5 21 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (2.44%) Azure Certification
7 18 (2.19%) DBS Check
8 17 (2.07%) SC Cleared
9 15 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (0.85%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.61%) CCIE
12 5 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.61%) JNCIE
13 4 (0.49%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.49%) PhD
14 3 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 3 (0.37%) CISSP
14 3 (0.37%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.37%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 258 (31.43%) GDPR
2 135 (16.44%) Data Quality
3 78 (9.50%) QA
4 17 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.22%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.37%) NIST
7 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 116 (14.13%) Docker
2 32 (3.90%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.61%) KVM
7 3 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.24%) Firmware
8 2 (0.24%) vSphere
8 2 (0.24%) Xen
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 229 (27.89%) Terraform
2 188 (22.90%) Kubernetes
3 96 (11.69%) Ansible
4 31 (3.78%) Grafana
5 28 (3.41%) Prometheus
5 28 (3.41%) Puppet
6 26 (3.17%) Progress Chef
7 11 (1.34%) Istio
8 9 (1.10%) Packer
8 9 (1.10%) Salt
9 7 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.61%) Argo
12 4 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.49%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.37%) Kibana
13 3 (0.37%) logstash
14 2 (0.24%) Podman
14 2 (0.24%) Rundeck
15 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 369 (44.95%) Google
2 124 (15.10%) Microsoft
3 32 (3.90%) Databricks
4 13 (1.58%) Red Hat
5 11 (1.34%) New Relic
6 10 (1.22%) VMware
7 9 (1.10%) Atlassian
7 9 (1.10%) SaltStack
7 9 (1.10%) Splunk
8 8 (0.97%) Oracle
8 8 (0.97%) Serena
9 6 (0.73%) Alteryx
9 6 (0.73%) YouTube
10 5 (0.61%) LogicMonitor
10 5 (0.61%) PagerDuty
11 3 (0.37%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.37%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.37%) Facebook
11 3 (0.37%) Hortonworks
11 3 (0.37%) Salesforce