Platform Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Platform Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Platform Engineer salary in Work from Home is £75,000 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 456 424 556
Rank change year-on-year -32 +132 -233
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 141 248 328
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.42% 0.61% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.64% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 122 176 243
10th Percentile £51,375 £47,500 £36,700
25th Percentile £62,813 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,724 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.57% +11.56% +13.64%
75th Percentile £96,188 £90,000 £84,875
90th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,493 38,794 68,341
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.05% 95.92% 97.35%
Number of salaries quoted 24,878 27,614 41,915
10th Percentile £33,009 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Platform Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Platform Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Platform Engineer.

Platform Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Platform Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 17 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 129 (91.49%) Platform Engineering
2 85 (60.28%) Terraform
3 79 (56.03%) Kubernetes
3 79 (56.03%) Python
4 75 (53.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 68 (48.23%) Azure
6 65 (46.10%) Docker
7 58 (41.13%) DevOps
8 57 (40.43%) AWS
9 54 (38.30%) CI/CD
10 52 (36.88%) Linux
11 46 (32.62%) Ansible
12 37 (26.24%) Bash
13 36 (25.53%) Agile
13 36 (25.53%) Finance
14 34 (24.11%) PowerShell
15 33 (23.40%) SQL
16 32 (22.70%) Jenkins
16 32 (22.70%) Containerisation
17 30 (21.28%) Java
18 29 (20.57%) Configuration Management
19 25 (17.73%) Git
19 25 (17.73%) Serverless
19 25 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
20 23 (16.31%) GitHub
20 23 (16.31%) Azure DevOps
21 22 (15.60%) GCP
21 22 (15.60%) Azure AKS
22 21 (14.89%) Social Skills
22 21 (14.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (6.38%) Confluence
2 5 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.55%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.71%) IIS
3 1 (0.71%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 68 (48.23%) Azure
2 57 (40.43%) AWS
3 25 (17.73%) Serverless
4 23 (16.31%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (16.31%) GitHub
5 22 (15.60%) Azure AKS
5 22 (15.60%) GCP
6 17 (12.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 17 (12.06%) PaaS
7 12 (8.51%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (8.51%) Amazon S3
7 12 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (8.51%) Route 53
8 11 (7.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 10 (7.09%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (7.09%) IaaS
9 10 (7.09%) Pulumi
9 10 (7.09%) SaaS
10 8 (5.67%) Datadog
10 8 (5.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.93%) Firewall
2 7 (4.96%) DNS
3 5 (3.55%) IPv4
3 5 (3.55%) VPN
4 4 (2.84%) Network Security
5 2 (1.42%) Internet
6 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.06%) Azure SQL Database
2 15 (10.64%) MySQL
3 11 (7.80%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (7.09%) BigQuery
5 9 (6.38%) MariaDB
5 9 (6.38%) MongoDB
5 9 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (6.38%) Redis
6 6 (4.26%) Power BI
7 5 (3.55%) Hadoop
8 4 (2.84%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.84%) InfluxDB
8 4 (2.84%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.13%) Ingres
9 3 (2.13%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.71%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 32 (22.70%) Jenkins
2 25 (17.73%) Git
3 10 (7.09%) JIRA
4 9 (6.38%) Bitbucket
4 9 (6.38%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (6.38%) Subversion
4 9 (6.38%) TeamCity
5 6 (4.26%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (4.26%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (3.55%) DTrace
6 5 (3.55%) GDB
7 4 (2.84%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.42%) GoCD
9 1 (0.71%) Vagrant
General
1 36 (25.53%) Finance
2 21 (14.89%) Social Skills
3 19 (13.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (9.93%) Retail
5 10 (7.09%) Banking
6 7 (4.96%) Law
7 4 (2.84%) Games
8 3 (2.13%) Legal
9 2 (1.42%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.71%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.80%) Kafka
2 7 (4.96%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (4.96%) SAML
3 6 (4.26%) ARM Templates
4 3 (2.13%) PySpark
5 1 (0.71%) ADO
5 1 (0.71%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.71%) Middleware
5 1 (0.71%) Node.js
5 1 (0.71%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.48%) Linux Command Line
2 14 (9.93%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (8.51%) Data Centre
4 10 (7.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (6.38%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (5.67%) Clustering
6 8 (5.67%) Replication
7 7 (4.96%) Product Ownership
8 5 (3.55%) Blog
8 5 (3.55%) Client/Server
8 5 (3.55%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.13%) Cloud Native
9 3 (2.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (2.13%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.71%) Digital Currency
11 1 (0.71%) Fixed Income
11 1 (0.71%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 52 (36.88%) Linux
2 21 (14.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (10.64%) Windows
4 9 (6.38%) Windows Server
5 8 (5.67%) Oracle Linux
5 8 (5.67%) Solaris
5 8 (5.67%) Unix
6 1 (0.71%) CentOS
6 1 (0.71%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (91.49%) Platform Engineering
2 75 (53.19%) Infrastructure as Code
3 58 (41.13%) DevOps
4 54 (38.30%) CI/CD
5 36 (25.53%) Agile
6 32 (22.70%) Containerisation
7 29 (20.57%) Configuration Management
8 25 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (14.18%) Deployment Automation
10 19 (13.48%) Analytics
11 17 (12.06%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (12.06%) Machine Learning
12 16 (11.35%) Infrastructure Automation
13 15 (10.64%) Software Engineering
14 13 (9.22%) Disaster Recovery
14 13 (9.22%) Identity Access Management
14 13 (9.22%) Innovative Thinking
15 12 (8.51%) Artificial Intelligence
15 12 (8.51%) Infrastructure Management
15 12 (8.51%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 79 (56.03%) Python
2 37 (26.24%) Bash
3 34 (24.11%) PowerShell
4 33 (23.40%) SQL
5 30 (21.28%) Java
6 20 (14.18%) C#
7 16 (11.35%) Go
8 8 (5.67%) C
8 8 (5.67%) Groovy
8 8 (5.67%) JavaScript
8 8 (5.67%) Perl
9 7 (4.96%) Shell Script
9 7 (4.96%) TypeScript
10 6 (4.26%) PHP
10 6 (4.26%) Ruby
11 5 (3.55%) OCaml
11 5 (3.55%) SystemTap
12 4 (2.84%) Bicep
13 3 (2.13%) T-SQL
14 2 (1.42%) C++
Qualifications
1 12 (8.51%) Degree
2 9 (6.38%) Azure Certification
3 8 (5.67%) Security Cleared
4 7 (4.96%) AWS Certification
4 7 (4.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (4.96%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (2.13%) HND
7 2 (1.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.26%) PCI DSS
2 5 (3.55%) QA
3 1 (0.71%) SEPA
System Software
1 65 (46.10%) Docker
2 9 (6.38%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 85 (60.28%) Terraform
2 79 (56.03%) Kubernetes
3 46 (32.62%) Ansible
4 20 (14.18%) Progress Chef
4 20 (14.18%) Puppet
5 19 (13.48%) Grafana
6 17 (12.06%) Prometheus
7 13 (9.22%) Salt
8 10 (7.09%) Packer
9 4 (2.84%) Istio
10 3 (2.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (2.13%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (1.42%) Rundeck
12 1 (0.71%) Consul
12 1 (0.71%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.71%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 20 (14.18%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.64%) Google
3 9 (6.38%) Atlassian
3 9 (6.38%) Databricks
4 8 (5.67%) New Relic
4 8 (5.67%) Oracle
4 8 (5.67%) Red Hat
4 8 (5.67%) Serena
4 8 (5.67%) VMware
5 6 (4.26%) SaltStack
6 4 (2.84%) YouTube
7 2 (1.42%) Citrix
7 2 (1.42%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (1.42%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.42%) Splunk
8 1 (0.71%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.71%) Wallstreet Suite