Senior Platform Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Platform Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Platform Engineer salary in England is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 828 812 1112
Rank change year-on-year -16 +300 -251
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 35 82 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.037% 0.100% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.039% 0.11% 0.053%
Number of salaries quoted 33 48 68
10th Percentile £62,500 £59,250 £65,875
25th Percentile £63,750 £68,125 £69,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £84,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +1.19% +15.86%
75th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,000 £107,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £83,000
% change year-on-year - -3.61% +14.48%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £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%

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Platform Engineer in England

Senior Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Platform Engineer in England

Senior Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Platform Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Platform Engineer in England

Senior 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 Senior Platform Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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 +76 25 £82,500 -17.50% 7
North of England +1 5 £70,000 -3.45% 1
North West -34 3 £65,000 -10.34% 1
Yorkshire +67 2 £80,000 +6.67%
North East - 2 £80,000 -
South West -45 1 £75,000 +3.45%
Senior Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, 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 job ads across the England region featuring Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 33 (94.29%) Platform Engineering
2 24 (68.57%) Terraform
3 22 (62.86%) Python
4 21 (60.00%) Azure
5 19 (54.29%) Kubernetes
5 19 (54.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (51.43%) AWS
7 16 (45.71%) DevOps
8 11 (31.43%) Ansible
8 11 (31.43%) Docker
9 10 (28.57%) CI/CD
10 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
10 9 (25.71%) GCP
10 9 (25.71%) Bash
11 8 (22.86%) PaaS
11 8 (22.86%) Configuration Management
11 8 (22.86%) VMware
11 8 (22.86%) Grafana
12 7 (20.00%) Prometheus
12 7 (20.00%) Linux
12 7 (20.00%) Java
12 7 (20.00%) SaaS
12 7 (20.00%) Jenkins
13 6 (17.14%) VMware Infrastructure
13 6 (17.14%) SQL
13 6 (17.14%) Agile
13 6 (17.14%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure Automation
13 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (17.14%) Containerisation

Senior 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 3 (8.57%) Apache
1 3 (8.57%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 21 (60.00%) Azure
2 18 (51.43%) AWS
3 9 (25.71%) GCP
4 8 (22.86%) PaaS
5 7 (20.00%) SaaS
6 6 (17.14%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (11.43%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (11.43%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (11.43%) IaaS
8 4 (11.43%) Pulumi
9 3 (8.57%) Azure AKS
10 2 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (5.71%) OpenShift
10 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
11 1 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (2.86%) GitHub
11 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (2.86%) Power Automate
11 1 (2.86%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) DHCP
1 3 (8.57%) DNS
1 3 (8.57%) TCP/IP
1 3 (8.57%) tcpdump
1 3 (8.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) NoSQL
2 3 (8.57%) BigQuery
2 3 (8.57%) MongoDB
2 3 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.71%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (5.71%) MySQL
3 2 (5.71%) Power BI
4 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.86%) Big Data
4 1 (2.86%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.43%) Git
3 1 (2.86%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.86%) GitLab
3 1 (2.86%) GoCD
3 1 (2.86%) JIRA
3 1 (2.86%) NUnit
3 1 (2.86%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (2.86%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.86%) Vagrant
General
1 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.71%) Games
3 1 (2.86%) Advertising
3 1 (2.86%) Finance
3 1 (2.86%) Health Technology
3 1 (2.86%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (8.57%) Keycloak
1 3 (8.57%) Middleware
1 3 (8.57%) PySpark
2 2 (5.71%) Node.js
2 2 (5.71%) React
3 1 (2.86%) .NET
3 1 (2.86%) ADO
3 1 (2.86%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.86%) AWS CDK
3 1 (2.86%) JSON
3 1 (2.86%) Loki
3 1 (2.86%) RESTful
3 1 (2.86%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Public Cloud
2 3 (8.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.86%) Bitcoin
4 1 (2.86%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.00%) Linux
2 5 (14.29%) Windows
3 3 (8.57%) CentOS
3 3 (8.57%) Ubuntu
3 3 (8.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.86%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (94.29%) Platform Engineering
2 19 (54.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (45.71%) DevOps
4 10 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 8 (22.86%) Configuration Management
6 6 (17.14%) Agile
6 6 (17.14%) Containerisation
6 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure Automation
6 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (14.29%) Business Continuity
7 5 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (14.29%) Fintech
7 5 (14.29%) High Availability
8 4 (11.43%) Software Engineering
8 4 (11.43%) Task Automation
9 3 (8.57%) Cost Control
9 3 (8.57%) Data Governance
9 3 (8.57%) Data Management
9 3 (8.57%) Decarbonisation
9 3 (8.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (62.86%) Python
2 9 (25.71%) Bash
3 7 (20.00%) Java
4 6 (17.14%) SQL
5 5 (14.29%) Go
6 4 (11.43%) PowerShell
6 4 (11.43%) Shell Script
7 3 (8.57%) C#
7 3 (8.57%) Perl
8 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
9 1 (2.86%) Ruby
9 1 (2.86%) Scala
9 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) Linux+ Certification
1 3 (8.57%) RHCE
2 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (31.43%) Docker
2 6 (17.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (8.57%) KVM
3 3 (8.57%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (68.57%) Terraform
2 19 (54.29%) Kubernetes
3 11 (31.43%) Ansible
4 8 (22.86%) Grafana
5 7 (20.00%) Prometheus
6 5 (14.29%) Progress Chef
6 5 (14.29%) Puppet
7 2 (5.71%) Kibana
7 2 (5.71%) logstash
7 2 (5.71%) Packer
8 1 (2.86%) Consul
8 1 (2.86%) Karpenter
8 1 (2.86%) Salt
Vendors
1 8 (22.86%) VMware
2 5 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.29%) Splunk
3 3 (8.57%) Red Hat
3 3 (8.57%) SaltStack
4 2 (5.71%) Citrix
5 1 (2.86%) Google