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 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 853 906 1252
Rank change year-on-year +53 +346 -462
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Platform Engineer 69 39 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.064% 0.042% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.046% 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 45 33 28
10th Percentile £55,000 £49,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £65,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -11.86% +55.26%
75th Percentile £100,000 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £83,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% +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 102,753 84,908 164,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.21% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 72,538 55,143 85,388
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,524 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

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 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure Platform Engineer in the UK

Azure Platform Engineer
Top 11 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 9 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
England +56 63 £90,000 +38.46% 13
Work from Home +81 37 £92,500 +42.31% 11
London +91 34 £100,000 +33.33% 5
UK excluding London -64 27 £60,000 -4.76% 9
North of England +23 22 £60,000 -7.69% 3
North West +5 15 £60,000 +17.07% 3
Yorkshire +48 6 £80,000 +18.52%
North East - 3 £80,000 -
South West - 3 £65,000 - 2
Midlands -30 2 - - 1
East Midlands - 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 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 69 (100.00%) Azure
1 69 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 49 (71.01%) Terraform
3 44 (63.77%) DevOps
4 33 (47.83%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (44.93%) Microsoft
6 29 (42.03%) SQL
6 29 (42.03%) Azure AKS
7 27 (39.13%) PowerShell
8 26 (37.68%) Kubernetes
9 25 (36.23%) Ansible
10 24 (34.78%) Infrastructure as Code
11 22 (31.88%) PaaS
12 20 (28.99%) Python
12 20 (28.99%) Docker
13 19 (27.54%) Analytics
14 18 (26.09%) Bash
14 18 (26.09%) CI/CD
15 17 (24.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 17 (24.64%) Agile
15 17 (24.64%) Finance
15 17 (24.64%) Azure SQL Database
16 15 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
16 15 (21.74%) Configuration Management
16 15 (21.74%) MongoDB
16 15 (21.74%) Social Skills
17 13 (18.84%) MySQL
17 13 (18.84%) IaaS
18 12 (17.39%) Entra ID
18 12 (17.39%) Active Directory

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 (2.90%) SAS
2 1 (1.45%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 69 (100.00%) Azure
2 33 (47.83%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (42.03%) Azure AKS
4 22 (31.88%) PaaS
5 17 (24.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 13 (18.84%) IaaS
7 12 (17.39%) Entra ID
8 11 (15.94%) GitHub
8 11 (15.94%) Serverless
9 10 (14.49%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (11.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (10.14%) Power Platform
11 7 (10.14%) Pulumi
12 6 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (8.70%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (8.70%) Datadog
13 3 (4.35%) AWS
13 3 (4.35%) SaaS
14 2 (2.90%) Azure Key Vault
15 1 (1.45%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (17.39%) Firewall
2 6 (8.70%) IPv4
2 6 (8.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (24.64%) Azure SQL Database
2 15 (21.74%) MongoDB
2 15 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (18.84%) MySQL
4 11 (15.94%) MariaDB
4 11 (15.94%) Redis
5 7 (10.14%) Power BI
6 4 (5.80%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.90%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.90%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (14.49%) Jenkins
1 10 (14.49%) Octopus Deploy
2 6 (8.70%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.45%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.45%) Git
3 1 (1.45%) GitLab
3 1 (1.45%) JIRA
3 1 (1.45%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.45%) Vagrant
General
1 17 (24.64%) Finance
2 15 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 9 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (8.70%) Retail
5 2 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.45%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.14%) ARM Templates
1 7 (10.14%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (4.35%) SAML
3 2 (2.90%) Loki
4 1 (1.45%) .NET
4 1 (1.45%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.14%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.70%) Data Centre
2 6 (8.70%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.80%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (5.80%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.90%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.45%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.94%) Windows
2 8 (11.59%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.35%) VMS
4 2 (2.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 44 (63.77%) DevOps
3 24 (34.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (27.54%) Analytics
5 18 (26.09%) CI/CD
6 17 (24.64%) Agile
7 15 (21.74%) Configuration Management
8 12 (17.39%) Design Patterns
9 11 (15.94%) Containerisation
9 11 (15.94%) Machine Learning
9 11 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (14.49%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (14.49%) Creative Problem-Solving
10 10 (14.49%) DataOps
11 9 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
12 8 (11.59%) Business Continuity
12 8 (11.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 7 (10.14%) API Management
13 7 (10.14%) Information Security
13 7 (10.14%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 29 (42.03%) SQL
2 27 (39.13%) PowerShell
3 20 (28.99%) Python
4 18 (26.09%) Bash
5 10 (14.49%) Go
5 10 (14.49%) Java
6 8 (11.59%) C#
7 7 (10.14%) JavaScript
7 7 (10.14%) Ruby
7 7 (10.14%) TypeScript
8 6 (8.70%) Groovy
8 6 (8.70%) PHP
9 1 (1.45%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (15.94%) Azure Certification
2 7 (10.14%) Degree
3 5 (7.25%) Security Cleared
4 4 (5.80%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 20 (28.99%) Docker
2 12 (17.39%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (71.01%) Terraform
2 26 (37.68%) Kubernetes
3 25 (36.23%) Ansible
4 10 (14.49%) Grafana
4 10 (14.49%) Prometheus
5 8 (11.59%) Progress Chef
6 7 (10.14%) Puppet
7 6 (8.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (4.35%) Packer
9 2 (2.90%) Kibana
9 2 (2.90%) logstash
10 1 (1.45%) Consul
10 1 (1.45%) Salt
Vendors
1 31 (44.93%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.70%) Databricks
2 6 (8.70%) New Relic
2 6 (8.70%) SaltStack
3 2 (2.90%) Dataiku
3 2 (2.90%) Splunk
4 1 (1.45%) Google