Azure Platform Engineer Jobs

Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure salary in the UK is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 817 917 1197
Rank change year-on-year +100 +280 -457
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Platform Engineer 66 42 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.066% 0.042% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.046% 0.023%
Number of salaries quoted 43 35 33
10th Percentile £55,000 £48,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,525 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -7.14% +47.37%
75th Percentile £98,125 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £87,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +21.05%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 94,483 90,798 154,064
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 91.49% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,539 57,358 84,412
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,526
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Azure Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Platform Engineer in the UK

Azure Platform Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Azure Platform Engineer in the UK

Azure Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure Platform Engineer in the UK

Azure Platform Engineer
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Platform Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 17 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
England +120 59 £87,500 +25.00% 15
Work from Home +89 36 £92,500 +42.31% 10
London +142 33 £97,500 +30.00% 6
UK excluding London -19 25 £60,000 -7.69% 11
North of England +42 19 £60,000 -11.11% 4
North West +6 12 £60,000 +14.29% 3
Yorkshire +58 6 £80,000 +14.29% 1
North East - 3 £80,000 -
South West - 3 £65,000 - 2
Midlands -5 2 - - 1
East Midlands - 2 - -
Wales +12 1 £60,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, Azure 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 featuring Azure Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 66 (100.00%) Azure
1 66 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 48 (72.73%) Terraform
3 41 (62.12%) DevOps
4 31 (46.97%) SQL
4 31 (46.97%) Azure AKS
5 30 (45.45%) Microsoft
6 29 (43.94%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
7 24 (36.36%) PaaS
7 24 (36.36%) Kubernetes
8 23 (34.85%) PowerShell
9 21 (31.82%) Ansible
9 21 (31.82%) Docker
10 18 (27.27%) Azure SQL Database
10 18 (27.27%) Bash
10 18 (27.27%) Python
10 18 (27.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 17 (25.76%) Agile
12 16 (24.24%) Analytics
13 15 (22.73%) MongoDB
13 15 (22.73%) PostgreSQL
13 15 (22.73%) Social Skills
14 14 (21.21%) Finance
14 14 (21.21%) Active Directory
14 14 (21.21%) IaaS
14 14 (21.21%) Entra ID
15 13 (19.70%) MySQL
15 13 (19.70%) CI/CD
15 13 (19.70%) Design Patterns

Azure Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (3.03%) SAS
2 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 66 (100.00%) Azure
2 31 (46.97%) Azure AKS
3 29 (43.94%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (36.36%) PaaS
5 18 (27.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 14 (21.21%) Entra ID
6 14 (21.21%) IaaS
7 12 (18.18%) Serverless
8 11 (16.67%) GitHub
9 10 (15.15%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (10.61%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (10.61%) Pulumi
11 6 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (9.09%) Datadog
12 5 (7.58%) Power Platform
13 4 (6.06%) AWS
13 4 (6.06%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (6.06%) SaaS
14 2 (3.03%) Azure Key Vault
15 1 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.67%) Firewall
2 7 (10.61%) IPv4
2 7 (10.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (27.27%) Azure SQL Database
2 15 (22.73%) MongoDB
2 15 (22.73%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (19.70%) MySQL
4 11 (16.67%) MariaDB
4 11 (16.67%) Redis
5 5 (7.58%) Power BI
6 4 (6.06%) NoSQL
7 2 (3.03%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (15.15%) Jenkins
1 10 (15.15%) Octopus Deploy
2 6 (9.09%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.52%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.52%) Git
3 1 (1.52%) GitLab
3 1 (1.52%) JIRA
3 1 (1.52%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.52%) Vagrant
General
1 15 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 14 (21.21%) Finance
3 9 (13.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (9.09%) Retail
5 2 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.61%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (9.09%) ARM Templates
3 4 (6.06%) SAML
4 2 (3.03%) Loki
5 1 (1.52%) .NET
5 1 (1.52%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.61%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.58%) Private Cloud
4 4 (6.06%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.03%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.52%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.52%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.64%) Windows
2 6 (9.09%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.03%) Linux
3 2 (3.03%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 41 (62.12%) DevOps
3 24 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (25.76%) Agile
5 16 (24.24%) Analytics
6 13 (19.70%) CI/CD
6 13 (19.70%) Design Patterns
7 12 (18.18%) Configuration Management
8 11 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (15.15%) Creative Problem-Solving
9 10 (15.15%) Machine Learning
10 9 (13.64%) Containerisation
10 9 (13.64%) DataOps
11 8 (12.12%) API Management
11 8 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (12.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 7 (10.61%) Disaster Recovery
13 6 (9.09%) Business Continuity
13 6 (9.09%) Security Operations
13 6 (9.09%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 31 (46.97%) SQL
2 23 (34.85%) PowerShell
3 18 (27.27%) Bash
3 18 (27.27%) Python
4 10 (15.15%) Go
4 10 (15.15%) Java
5 8 (12.12%) C#
6 7 (10.61%) JavaScript
6 7 (10.61%) Ruby
6 7 (10.61%) TypeScript
7 6 (9.09%) Groovy
7 6 (9.09%) PHP
8 1 (1.52%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 10 (15.15%) Azure Certification
2 7 (10.61%) Degree
3 5 (7.58%) Security Cleared
4 4 (6.06%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 21 (31.82%) Docker
2 14 (21.21%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (72.73%) Terraform
2 24 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 21 (31.82%) Ansible
4 10 (15.15%) Grafana
4 10 (15.15%) Prometheus
5 7 (10.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 7 (10.61%) Progress Chef
5 7 (10.61%) Puppet
6 3 (4.55%) Packer
7 2 (3.03%) Kibana
7 2 (3.03%) logstash
8 1 (1.52%) Consul
8 1 (1.52%) Salt
Vendors
1 30 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.09%) New Relic
2 6 (9.09%) SaltStack
3 4 (6.06%) Databricks
4 2 (3.03%) Dataiku
4 2 (3.03%) Splunk
5 1 (1.52%) Google