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 8 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
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 448 429 579
Rank change year-on-year -19 +150 -260
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 142 216 329
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.40% 0.57% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.59% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 117 153 233
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £36,700
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,447 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +6.84% +8.33%
75th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £101,250 £101,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,950
% change year-on-year +7.14% +6.14% +5.52%

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 33,942 36,431 73,676
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.26% 95.95% 97.31%
Number of salaries quoted 25,713 26,497 43,021
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,250 £45,436
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,242 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.61% +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 8 June 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 8 June 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.

1 130 (91.55%) Platform Engineering
2 81 (57.04%) Terraform
3 77 (54.23%) Python
4 73 (51.41%) Kubernetes
5 71 (50.00%) Azure
6 69 (48.59%) Infrastructure as Code
7 60 (42.25%) DevOps
8 57 (40.14%) Docker
9 53 (37.32%) CI/CD
10 50 (35.21%) AWS
11 47 (33.10%) Linux
12 42 (29.58%) Ansible
13 39 (27.46%) PowerShell
14 37 (26.06%) Bash
15 36 (25.35%) Finance
15 36 (25.35%) Agile
16 32 (22.54%) SQL
17 31 (21.83%) Containerisation
18 28 (19.72%) Jenkins
19 27 (19.01%) Azure DevOps
19 27 (19.01%) Git
20 25 (17.61%) Microsoft
20 25 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
21 23 (16.20%) GCP
22 22 (15.49%) Configuration Management
23 21 (14.79%) C#
23 21 (14.79%) Java
23 21 (14.79%) Analytics
23 21 (14.79%) Social Skills
23 21 (14.79%) Azure AKS

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 6 (4.23%) Confluence
2 5 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.82%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.70%) IIS
4 1 (0.70%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 71 (50.00%) Azure
2 50 (35.21%) AWS
3 27 (19.01%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (16.20%) GCP
5 21 (14.79%) Azure AKS
6 20 (14.08%) GitHub
7 19 (13.38%) Serverless
8 17 (11.97%) PaaS
9 16 (11.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 11 (7.75%) Pulumi
10 11 (7.75%) SaaS
11 10 (7.04%) IaaS
12 9 (6.34%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (6.34%) Datadog
12 9 (6.34%) Power Platform
13 8 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (4.93%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (4.93%) Amazon S3
14 7 (4.93%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (4.93%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.56%) Firewall
2 4 (2.82%) DNS
2 4 (2.82%) IPv4
2 4 (2.82%) Network Security
2 4 (2.82%) VPN
3 2 (1.41%) Internet
4 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.68%) Azure SQL Database
2 14 (9.86%) MySQL
3 10 (7.04%) BigQuery
4 9 (6.34%) MariaDB
4 9 (6.34%) MongoDB
4 9 (6.34%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (6.34%) Redis
5 8 (5.63%) Power BI
6 6 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.82%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.82%) Hadoop
7 4 (2.82%) InfluxDB
8 3 (2.11%) Ingres
8 3 (2.11%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.11%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.70%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 28 (19.72%) Jenkins
2 27 (19.01%) Git
3 9 (6.34%) TeamCity
4 7 (4.93%) JIRA
5 6 (4.23%) Bitbucket
5 6 (4.23%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (4.23%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (3.52%) DTrace
6 5 (3.52%) GDB
7 4 (2.82%) CircleCI
7 4 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (2.82%) Subversion
8 3 (2.11%) GitLab
9 2 (1.41%) GoCD
9 2 (1.41%) NUnit
10 1 (0.70%) Vagrant
General
1 36 (25.35%) Finance
2 21 (14.79%) Social Skills
3 19 (13.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (9.86%) Retail
5 10 (7.04%) Banking
6 6 (4.23%) Law
7 3 (2.11%) Games
8 2 (1.41%) Legal
8 2 (1.41%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.41%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.70%) Advertising
9 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.04%) Kafka
2 7 (4.93%) ARM Templates
2 7 (4.93%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (2.82%) SAML
4 3 (2.11%) PySpark
5 2 (1.41%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.70%) ADO
6 1 (0.70%) Middleware
6 1 (0.70%) Node.js
6 1 (0.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.56%) Linux Command Line
2 14 (9.86%) Data Centre
3 11 (7.75%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.63%) Clustering
4 8 (5.63%) Replication
5 6 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (4.23%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.52%) Blog
6 5 (3.52%) Client/Server
6 5 (3.52%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.82%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (2.11%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.70%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.70%) Digital Currency
10 1 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 47 (33.10%) Linux
2 20 (14.08%) Windows
3 17 (11.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (7.75%) Windows Server
5 8 (5.63%) Oracle Linux
5 8 (5.63%) Solaris
5 8 (5.63%) Unix
6 2 (1.41%) VMS
7 1 (0.70%) CentOS
7 1 (0.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (91.55%) Platform Engineering
2 69 (48.59%) Infrastructure as Code
3 60 (42.25%) DevOps
4 53 (37.32%) CI/CD
5 36 (25.35%) Agile
6 31 (21.83%) Containerisation
7 25 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (15.49%) Configuration Management
9 21 (14.79%) Analytics
10 20 (14.08%) Deployment Automation
11 18 (12.68%) Machine Learning
12 15 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (10.56%) Disaster Recovery
12 15 (10.56%) Software Engineering
13 13 (9.15%) Infrastructure Automation
13 13 (9.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 12 (8.45%) Artificial Intelligence
15 11 (7.75%) Data Engineering
15 11 (7.75%) ETL
16 10 (7.04%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 77 (54.23%) Python
2 39 (27.46%) PowerShell
3 37 (26.06%) Bash
4 32 (22.54%) SQL
5 21 (14.79%) C#
5 21 (14.79%) Java
6 19 (13.38%) Go
7 8 (5.63%) C
7 8 (5.63%) JavaScript
8 7 (4.93%) Groovy
8 7 (4.93%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.93%) TypeScript
9 6 (4.23%) PHP
9 6 (4.23%) Ruby
10 5 (3.52%) OCaml
10 5 (3.52%) SystemTap
11 4 (2.82%) Perl
12 3 (2.11%) Bicep
12 3 (2.11%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (9.86%) Degree
2 10 (7.04%) Azure Certification
3 8 (5.63%) AWS Certification
3 8 (5.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (4.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 7 (4.93%) Security Cleared
5 6 (4.23%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (2.11%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.63%) PCI DSS
2 5 (3.52%) QA
3 2 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.70%) NIST
4 1 (0.70%) SEPA
System Software
1 57 (40.14%) Docker
2 10 (7.04%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.41%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 81 (57.04%) Terraform
2 73 (51.41%) Kubernetes
3 42 (29.58%) Ansible
4 19 (13.38%) Grafana
5 17 (11.97%) Prometheus
6 13 (9.15%) Progress Chef
7 12 (8.45%) Puppet
8 5 (3.52%) Karpenter
8 5 (3.52%) Packer
8 5 (3.52%) Salt
9 4 (2.82%) Istio
10 3 (2.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (2.11%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (1.41%) Rundeck
11 2 (1.41%) SCCM
12 1 (0.70%) Consul
12 1 (0.70%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.70%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 25 (17.61%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.56%) Google
3 10 (7.04%) Databricks
3 10 (7.04%) VMware
4 8 (5.63%) New Relic
4 8 (5.63%) Oracle
4 8 (5.63%) Red Hat
4 8 (5.63%) Serena
5 6 (4.23%) Atlassian
5 6 (4.23%) SaltStack
6 3 (2.11%) Splunk
6 3 (2.11%) YouTube
7 2 (1.41%) Citrix
7 2 (1.41%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (1.41%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.70%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.70%) Wallstreet Suite