Platform Engineer
UK

The median Platform Engineer salary in the UK is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 471 518 674
Rank change year-on-year +47 +156 -248
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 484 542 685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.54% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.60% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 268 380 460
10th Percentile £55,000 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £54,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,250 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,351 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.36% +18.82% +8.80%

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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £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%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in the UK

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in the UK

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in the UK

Platform Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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 +21 411 £75,000 +7.14% 124
UK excluding London +8 289 £62,500 -4.36% 75
London +87 172 £85,000 +6.25% 72
Work from Home -14 141 £75,000 +7.14% 67
North of England +15 114 £60,000 -13.95% 27
North West -27 57 £65,000 -7.14% 19
Yorkshire +77 47 £60,000 -13.60% 8
Scotland -26 46 £62,500 -10.00% 1
Midlands -1 38 £65,000 -7.14% 3
South West -25 38 £67,500 -2.80% 7
South East -4 30 £60,000 +14.29% 29
West Midlands +3 20 £70,000 - 3
East Midlands -2 18 £60,000 -18.64%
East of England +6 13 £80,000 +72.04% 6
North East +9 12 £80,000 +14.29%
Wales +14 10 £53,750 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, 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 Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 441 (91.12%) Platform Engineering
2 294 (60.74%) DevOps
3 237 (48.97%) Agile
4 215 (44.42%) Problem-Solving
5 200 (41.32%) GCP
6 189 (39.05%) Azure
7 181 (37.40%) Google
8 179 (36.98%) Data Pipeline
9 176 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
10 175 (36.16%) BigQuery
10 175 (36.16%) Data Engineering
11 171 (35.33%) Terraform
11 171 (35.33%) Data Science
11 171 (35.33%) DataOps
12 169 (34.92%) Mentoring
13 162 (33.47%) Change Management
14 161 (33.26%) GDPR
15 160 (33.06%) Self-Motivation
16 159 (32.85%) Looker
16 159 (32.85%) Python
17 149 (30.79%) Kubernetes
18 141 (29.13%) CI/CD
19 140 (28.93%) Infrastructure as Code
20 125 (25.83%) AWS
21 104 (21.49%) Docker
22 81 (16.74%) Linux
22 81 (16.74%) Finance
23 75 (15.50%) Bash
23 75 (15.50%) PowerShell
24 72 (14.88%) Jenkins

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 20 (4.13%) Camunda
2 11 (2.27%) Confluence
3 10 (2.07%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.62%) SAS
6 2 (0.41%) Apache
7 1 (0.21%) IIS
7 1 (0.21%) nginx
7 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.21%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 200 (41.32%) GCP
2 189 (39.05%) Azure
3 125 (25.83%) AWS
4 50 (10.33%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (9.09%) GitHub
6 43 (8.88%) PaaS
7 37 (7.64%) Serverless
8 32 (6.61%) Azure AKS
9 26 (5.37%) IaaS
10 23 (4.75%) Power Platform
11 22 (4.55%) SaaS
12 21 (4.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 19 (3.93%) Cloud Computing
14 16 (3.31%) AWS CloudFormation
14 16 (3.31%) OpenShift
15 15 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
15 15 (3.10%) Amazon S3
15 15 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
15 15 (3.10%) Route 53
16 14 (2.89%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.75%) Firewall
2 19 (3.93%) Network Security
3 13 (2.69%) DNS
4 7 (1.45%) IPv4
4 7 (1.45%) VPN
5 3 (0.62%) Internet
5 3 (0.62%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.41%) DHCP
6 2 (0.41%) tcpdump
6 2 (0.41%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.21%) Broadband
7 1 (0.21%) FTP
7 1 (0.21%) SSL
7 1 (0.21%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (36.16%) BigQuery
2 159 (32.85%) Looker
3 23 (4.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 23 (4.75%) MongoDB
4 21 (4.34%) Power BI
5 19 (3.93%) MySQL
6 16 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (2.69%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (2.27%) MariaDB
8 11 (2.27%) Redis
9 10 (2.07%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.86%) NoSQL
11 7 (1.45%) Big Data
11 7 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.24%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.24%) SQL Server
13 5 (1.03%) InfluxDB
14 4 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
15 3 (0.62%) Ingres
16 2 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 72 (14.88%) Jenkins
2 44 (9.09%) Git
3 24 (4.96%) CircleCI
3 24 (4.96%) JIRA
4 20 (4.13%) Gradle
4 20 (4.13%) Maven
4 20 (4.13%) Travis CI
5 17 (3.51%) Octopus Deploy
6 15 (3.10%) TeamCity
7 14 (2.89%) Artifactory
8 11 (2.27%) Bitbucket
8 11 (2.27%) Snyk
9 9 (1.86%) GitLab
9 9 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
9 9 (1.86%) Subversion
10 6 (1.24%) RStudio
10 6 (1.24%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (1.03%) DTrace
11 5 (1.03%) GDB
12 2 (0.41%) GoCD
General
1 176 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 81 (16.74%) Finance
3 65 (13.43%) Social Skills
4 43 (8.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (5.79%) Law
6 23 (4.75%) Legal
6 23 (4.75%) Retail
7 22 (4.55%) Banking
8 11 (2.27%) Retail Banking
9 7 (1.45%) Games
10 5 (1.03%) Health Technology
11 4 (0.83%) Front Office
12 2 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.41%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.41%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.21%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.21%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.21%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.21%) Military
13 1 (0.21%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.13%) Spring
1 20 (4.13%) Spring Boot
2 16 (3.31%) Kafka
3 14 (2.89%) ARM Templates
3 14 (2.89%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (1.65%) SAML
5 7 (1.45%) .NET
6 4 (0.83%) Node.js
6 4 (0.83%) REST
7 3 (0.62%) Middleware
7 3 (0.62%) PySpark
7 3 (0.62%) React
8 2 (0.41%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.41%) Keycloak
8 2 (0.41%) Loki
9 1 (0.21%) ADO
9 1 (0.21%) Anaconda
9 1 (0.21%) JSON
9 1 (0.21%) Vue
9 1 (0.21%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 160 (33.06%) Self-Motivation
2 24 (4.96%) Hybrid Cloud
3 20 (4.13%) Linux Command Line
4 19 (3.93%) Data Centre
5 16 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.65%) Cloud Native
7 8 (1.65%) Clustering
7 8 (1.65%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.65%) Public Cloud
7 8 (1.65%) Replication
8 7 (1.45%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.03%) Blog
9 5 (1.03%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.03%) Private Cloud
10 4 (0.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 1 (0.21%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 81 (16.74%) Linux
2 28 (5.79%) Windows
3 25 (5.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (2.89%) Unix
5 12 (2.48%) Windows Server
6 8 (1.65%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (1.65%) Solaris
7 4 (0.83%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.83%) VMS
8 3 (0.62%) CentOS
9 1 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (91.12%) Platform Engineering
2 294 (60.74%) DevOps
3 237 (48.97%) Agile
4 215 (44.42%) Problem-Solving
5 179 (36.98%) Data Pipeline
6 175 (36.16%) Data Engineering
7 171 (35.33%) Data Science
7 171 (35.33%) DataOps
8 169 (34.92%) Mentoring
9 162 (33.47%) Change Management
10 141 (29.13%) CI/CD
11 140 (28.93%) Infrastructure as Code
12 64 (13.22%) Containerisation
13 52 (10.74%) Software Engineering
14 45 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
15 41 (8.47%) Configuration Management
16 40 (8.26%) Analytics
17 34 (7.02%) Infrastructure Automation
18 29 (5.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 26 (5.37%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 159 (32.85%) Python
2 75 (15.50%) Bash
2 75 (15.50%) PowerShell
3 66 (13.64%) SQL
4 59 (12.19%) Java
5 33 (6.82%) Ruby
6 28 (5.79%) C#
6 28 (5.79%) Go
7 25 (5.17%) Bicep
8 13 (2.69%) JavaScript
9 11 (2.27%) Perl
10 10 (2.07%) Groovy
11 9 (1.86%) Shell Script
12 8 (1.65%) C
13 7 (1.45%) PHP
13 7 (1.45%) R
13 7 (1.45%) TypeScript
14 5 (1.03%) OCaml
14 5 (1.03%) SystemTap
15 4 (0.83%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (3.51%) Degree
2 14 (2.89%) Security Cleared
3 12 (2.48%) SC Cleared
4 10 (2.07%) Azure Certification
5 8 (1.65%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (1.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.62%) HND
9 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.41%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.41%) Linux+ Certification
9 2 (0.41%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.41%) PhD
9 2 (0.41%) RHCE
10 1 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (33.26%) GDPR
2 14 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.65%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.24%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.24%) QA
5 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 104 (21.49%) Docker
2 16 (3.31%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.41%) KVM
Systems Management
1 171 (35.33%) Terraform
2 149 (30.79%) Kubernetes
3 67 (13.84%) Ansible
4 28 (5.79%) Puppet
5 27 (5.58%) Grafana
6 26 (5.37%) Progress Chef
7 24 (4.96%) Prometheus
8 15 (3.10%) Istio
8 15 (3.10%) Salt
9 12 (2.48%) Packer
10 7 (1.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (1.03%) Karpenter
12 4 (0.83%) Kibana
13 3 (0.62%) Argo
13 3 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.62%) logstash
14 2 (0.41%) Kubeflow
14 2 (0.41%) Rundeck
15 1 (0.21%) Consul
15 1 (0.21%) Podman
Vendors
1 181 (37.40%) Google
2 54 (11.16%) Microsoft
3 20 (4.13%) Pega
4 16 (3.31%) Databricks
5 12 (2.48%) Red Hat
6 11 (2.27%) VMware
7 10 (2.07%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.65%) New Relic
8 8 (1.65%) Oracle
8 8 (1.65%) SaltStack
8 8 (1.65%) Serena
9 7 (1.45%) Splunk
10 6 (1.24%) Alteryx
11 5 (1.03%) LogicMonitor
11 5 (1.03%) PagerDuty
12 4 (0.83%) YouTube
13 2 (0.41%) Citrix
13 2 (0.41%) Confluent
13 2 (0.41%) Dataiku
14 1 (0.21%) BT