Platform Engineering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 312 375
Rank change year-on-year -12 +63 -127
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 872 1,152 1,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.89% 1.11% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.16% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 432 771 1,003
10th Percentile £48,875 £51,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £59,875 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% +20.83%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £128,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,620 99,018 149,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,724 58,165 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the UK

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in the UK

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in the UK

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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 -11 790 £75,000 - 190
UK excluding London +88 556 £65,000 -3.70% 102
London -40 269 £85,000 -5.56% 95
Work from Home -35 259 £75,000 -6.25% 104
North of England +27 179 £60,000 -11.11% 26
South East +52 138 £67,500 -3.57% 19
South West +13 89 £67,500 +3.29% 19
North West -4 79 £66,250 -5.36% 12
Midlands +37 77 £60,000 -14.29% 14
Yorkshire +79 75 £55,000 -14.10% 10
Scotland -37 41 £72,500 +4.40% 12
West Midlands +16 39 £65,000 -10.34% 9
East Midlands +8 38 £60,000 +9.09% 5
North East +17 27 £77,500 +62.57% 4
East of England +34 20 - - 7
Wales +17 12 £55,000 -12.00% 2

Platform Engineering
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 17 (1.95%) Confluence
2 16 (1.83%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.46%) Apache
5 3 (0.34%) SAS
6 2 (0.23%) IIS
7 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.11%) nginx
7 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 475 (54.47%) Azure
2 429 (49.20%) GCP
3 394 (45.18%) AWS
4 153 (17.55%) Azure DevOps
5 69 (7.91%) Power Platform
6 60 (6.88%) PaaS
7 55 (6.31%) Serverless
8 51 (5.85%) GitHub
9 47 (5.39%) SaaS
10 44 (5.05%) IaaS
11 40 (4.59%) Azure Data Factory
12 37 (4.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 34 (3.90%) Azure AKS
14 30 (3.44%) Cloud Computing
15 27 (3.10%) AWS CloudFormation
16 24 (2.75%) Entra ID
17 23 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
18 19 (2.18%) Amazon S3
18 19 (2.18%) AWS Lambda
18 19 (2.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.01%) Firewall
2 29 (3.33%) Network Security
3 27 (3.10%) DNS
4 16 (1.83%) VPN
5 13 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.26%) LAN
6 11 (1.26%) WAN
7 9 (1.03%) Internet
8 8 (0.92%) DHCP
9 7 (0.80%) IPv4
10 6 (0.69%) SSL
10 6 (0.69%) VLAN
10 6 (0.69%) Wireless
11 5 (0.57%) BGP
11 5 (0.57%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (0.57%) IPsec
11 5 (0.57%) NGFW
11 5 (0.57%) OSPF
12 1 (0.11%) 3G
12 1 (0.11%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 371 (42.55%) BigQuery
2 351 (40.25%) Looker
3 225 (25.80%) Data Warehouse
4 60 (6.88%) Power BI
5 39 (4.47%) Azure SQL Database
6 32 (3.67%) Data Lake
7 31 (3.56%) NoSQL
8 27 (3.10%) MySQL
9 22 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
10 18 (2.06%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 15 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (1.72%) SQL Server
12 14 (1.61%) MongoDB
12 14 (1.61%) Redis
13 10 (1.15%) Hadoop
14 9 (1.03%) DynamoDB
14 9 (1.03%) MariaDB
14 9 (1.03%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 8 (0.92%) Big Data
15 8 (0.92%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 73 (8.37%) Jenkins
2 56 (6.42%) Git
3 32 (3.67%) JIRA
4 16 (1.83%) GitLab
4 16 (1.83%) TeamCity
5 13 (1.49%) Artifactory
6 11 (1.26%) Bitbucket
6 11 (1.26%) Octopus Deploy
6 11 (1.26%) Snyk
6 11 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (1.03%) Subversion
8 8 (0.92%) Spinnaker
9 6 (0.69%) RStudio
9 6 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.57%) DTrace
10 5 (0.57%) GDB
11 4 (0.46%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.23%) GoCD
12 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 393 (45.07%) Analytical Skills
2 121 (13.88%) Social Skills
3 100 (11.47%) Finance
4 72 (8.26%) Billing
5 43 (4.93%) Banking
6 42 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 35 (4.01%) Retail
8 20 (2.29%) Law
9 19 (2.18%) Health Technology
10 18 (2.06%) Retail Banking
11 17 (1.95%) Legal
12 12 (1.38%) Games
13 6 (0.69%) Marketing
14 5 (0.57%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.46%) Tech for Good
16 3 (0.34%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.34%) Public Sector
17 2 (0.23%) Manufacturing
17 2 (0.23%) Telecoms
18 1 (0.11%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 441 (50.57%) Platform Engineer
2 235 (26.95%) Data Engineer
3 175 (20.07%) Principal Engineer
4 171 (19.61%) Principal Data Engineer
5 157 (18.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 130 (14.91%) Architect
7 115 (13.19%) Data Architect
8 110 (12.61%) Cloud Engineer
9 98 (11.24%) Senior
10 95 (10.89%) Engineering Manager
11 91 (10.44%) Data Manager
12 83 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
13 68 (7.80%) Lead
14 62 (7.11%) DevOps Engineer
15 58 (6.65%) Azure Platform Engineer
16 52 (5.96%) AWS Engineer
17 37 (4.24%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 34 (3.90%) AWS Platform Engineer
19 26 (2.98%) Senior Data Engineer
19 26 (2.98%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.64%) Kafka
2 20 (2.29%) ARM Templates
3 17 (1.95%) .NET
3 17 (1.95%) Node.js
4 16 (1.83%) JSON
5 10 (1.15%) .NET Framework
5 10 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (0.92%) React
6 8 (0.92%) SAML
7 7 (0.80%) JSON Schema
7 7 (0.80%) OpenAPI
7 7 (0.80%) Swagger
7 7 (0.80%) Web Services
8 6 (0.69%) HTML
8 6 (0.69%) REST
8 6 (0.69%) YAML
9 5 (0.57%) CSS
10 4 (0.46%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.46%) FastAPI
10 4 (0.46%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 280 (32.11%) Self-Motivation
2 93 (10.67%) Product Ownership
3 37 (4.24%) Cloud Native
4 34 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (3.10%) Data Centre
6 23 (2.64%) Linux Command Line
7 18 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.95%) Public Cloud
9 16 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.38%) Cyberattack
11 11 (1.26%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.03%) Video\Live Streaming
13 8 (0.92%) Algorithms
13 8 (0.92%) Management Information System
14 7 (0.80%) Clustering
14 7 (0.80%) IoT
14 7 (0.80%) Onboarding
14 7 (0.80%) Replication
15 5 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
15 5 (0.57%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 98 (11.24%) Linux
2 45 (5.16%) Windows
3 28 (3.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (2.52%) Windows Server
5 20 (2.29%) Unix
6 7 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.80%) Oracle Linux
6 7 (0.80%) Solaris
7 6 (0.69%) Android
8 4 (0.46%) VMS
9 3 (0.34%) CentOS
9 3 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.34%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 477 (54.70%) DevOps
2 422 (48.39%) Problem-Solving
3 399 (45.76%) Data Engineering
4 375 (43.00%) Agile
5 321 (36.81%) Mentoring
6 261 (29.93%) CI/CD
7 246 (28.21%) ETL
8 217 (24.89%) Data Modelling
9 215 (24.66%) Data Pipeline
10 212 (24.31%) Infrastructure as Code
11 190 (21.79%) Data Science
12 170 (19.50%) DataOps
13 165 (18.92%) Change Management
14 137 (15.71%) Data Governance
15 128 (14.68%) Innovative Thinking
16 121 (13.88%) Data Integration
16 121 (13.88%) Scrum
17 117 (13.42%) Data Architecture
18 115 (13.19%) Data Security
19 111 (12.73%) ERD
Programming Languages
1 220 (25.23%) Python
2 128 (14.68%) SQL
3 102 (11.70%) PowerShell
4 77 (8.83%) Bash
5 65 (7.45%) Java
6 39 (4.47%) C#
7 38 (4.36%) Go
8 33 (3.78%) Bicep
9 25 (2.87%) JavaScript
10 24 (2.75%) TypeScript
11 21 (2.41%) Ruby
12 18 (2.06%) Scala
12 18 (2.06%) Shell Script
13 14 (1.61%) Perl
14 11 (1.26%) Groovy
15 9 (1.03%) C++
15 9 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 9 (1.03%) U-SQL
16 8 (0.92%) C
16 8 (0.92%) PHP
Qualifications
1 48 (5.50%) Degree
2 24 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
2 24 (2.75%) Security Cleared
3 21 (2.41%) AWS Certification
4 19 (2.18%) Azure Certification
5 18 (2.06%) DBS Check
5 18 (2.06%) SC Cleared
6 17 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (0.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (0.92%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.57%) CCIE
9 5 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.57%) JNCIE
9 5 (0.57%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.57%) PhD
10 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.34%) CISSP
11 3 (0.34%) HND
11 3 (0.34%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (31.65%) GDPR
2 135 (15.48%) Data Quality
3 81 (9.29%) QA
4 17 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (0.92%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.23%) NIST
7 1 (0.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 138 (15.83%) Docker
2 33 (3.78%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.46%) KVM
7 3 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.34%) Xen
8 2 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.23%) Firmware
9 1 (0.11%) Ceph
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 237 (27.18%) Terraform
2 199 (22.82%) Kubernetes
3 91 (10.44%) Ansible
4 38 (4.36%) Puppet
5 35 (4.01%) Grafana
6 33 (3.78%) Progress Chef
7 31 (3.56%) Prometheus
8 20 (2.29%) Salt
9 14 (1.61%) Istio
10 12 (1.38%) Packer
11 7 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.57%) Argo
13 4 (0.46%) Kibana
14 3 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.34%) logstash
15 2 (0.23%) Kubeflow
15 2 (0.23%) Podman
15 2 (0.23%) Rundeck
16 1 (0.11%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 394 (45.18%) Google
2 121 (13.88%) Microsoft
3 33 (3.78%) Databricks
4 12 (1.38%) Red Hat
5 11 (1.26%) New Relic
5 11 (1.26%) Splunk
6 10 (1.15%) Atlassian
6 10 (1.15%) SaltStack
7 9 (1.03%) VMware
8 8 (0.92%) YouTube
9 7 (0.80%) Oracle
9 7 (0.80%) Serena
10 6 (0.69%) Alteryx
11 5 (0.57%) LogicMonitor
11 5 (0.57%) PagerDuty
12 3 (0.34%) AppDynamics
12 3 (0.34%) Facebook
13 2 (0.23%) Confluent
13 2 (0.23%) Dataiku
14 1 (0.11%) Sparx