Platform Engineering Jobs with Work from Home Options

Platform Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 348 286 378
Rank change year-on-year -62 +92 -189
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 263 463 636
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.78% 1.15% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.19% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 220 364 503
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £45,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £58,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% +31.82%
75th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £138,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,883 38,813 68,245
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.21% 96.05% 97.04%
Number of salaries quoted 23,380 26,991 41,246
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Platform Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Platform Engineering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering.

Platform Engineering salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Platform Engineering salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineering
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 14 (5.32%) Confluence
2 10 (3.80%) Apache Spark
3 8 (3.04%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.14%) Apache
5 1 (0.38%) IIS
5 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.38%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 130 (49.43%) Azure
2 105 (39.92%) AWS
3 42 (15.97%) GCP
4 40 (15.21%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (14.45%) Power Platform
6 37 (14.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 36 (13.69%) Azure Data Factory
7 36 (13.69%) Serverless
8 28 (10.65%) GitHub
9 22 (8.37%) Azure AKS
10 20 (7.60%) AWS CloudFormation
11 19 (7.22%) PaaS
12 17 (6.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 16 (6.08%) SaaS
14 14 (5.32%) Amazon S3
14 14 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (4.56%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (4.56%) IaaS
15 12 (4.56%) Route 53
16 11 (4.18%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 20 (7.60%) Firewall
2 16 (6.08%) Network Security
3 10 (3.80%) VPN
4 9 (3.42%) DNS
5 6 (2.28%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.90%) BGP
6 5 (1.90%) Intrusion Detection
6 5 (1.90%) IPsec
6 5 (1.90%) IPv4
6 5 (1.90%) LAN
6 5 (1.90%) NGFW
6 5 (1.90%) OSPF
6 5 (1.90%) SSL
6 5 (1.90%) VLAN
6 5 (1.90%) WAN
6 5 (1.90%) Wireless
7 2 (0.76%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (14.07%) Power BI
2 34 (12.93%) Data Warehouse
3 30 (11.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 26 (9.89%) MySQL
5 25 (9.51%) NoSQL
6 18 (6.84%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 17 (6.46%) Data Lake
8 14 (5.32%) BigQuery
8 14 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (4.18%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (4.18%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 11 (4.18%) MongoDB
9 11 (4.18%) Redis
10 10 (3.80%) MariaDB
11 9 (3.42%) DynamoDB
11 9 (3.42%) Hadoop
12 8 (3.04%) Metadata
13 7 (2.66%) SQL Server
14 5 (1.90%) InfluxDB
15 4 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 41 (15.59%) Jenkins
2 27 (10.27%) Git
3 15 (5.70%) JIRA
4 11 (4.18%) TeamCity
5 9 (3.42%) Bitbucket
5 9 (3.42%) Sonatype Nexus
5 9 (3.42%) Subversion
6 6 (2.28%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (2.28%) Spinnaker
6 6 (2.28%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (1.90%) DTrace
7 5 (1.90%) GDB
8 4 (1.52%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.52%) GitLab
9 2 (0.76%) GoCD
10 1 (0.38%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 50 (19.01%) Finance
2 36 (13.69%) Social Skills
3 22 (8.37%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (6.46%) Banking
5 17 (6.46%) Retail
6 12 (4.56%) Legal
7 10 (3.80%) Law
8 9 (3.42%) Health Technology
9 8 (3.04%) Games
10 3 (1.14%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.38%) Back Office
11 1 (0.38%) Front Office
11 1 (0.38%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.38%) Marketing
11 1 (0.38%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 129 (49.05%) Platform Engineer
2 80 (30.42%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 61 (23.19%) Senior
4 55 (20.91%) Azure Engineer
4 55 (20.91%) Cloud Engineer
5 47 (17.87%) Data Engineer
6 44 (16.73%) DevOps Engineer
7 38 (14.45%) Lead
8 36 (13.69%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 33 (12.55%) AWS Engineer
10 24 (9.13%) Senior DevOps
10 24 (9.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 23 (8.75%) Senior Data Engineer
12 21 (7.98%) Automation Engineer
12 21 (7.98%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 20 (7.60%) Developer
14 19 (7.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 18 (6.84%) Business Intelligence Manager
15 18 (6.84%) Cloud Automation Engineer
15 18 (6.84%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.08%) Kafka
2 10 (3.80%) Node.js
3 9 (3.42%) .NET
3 9 (3.42%) .NET Framework
4 8 (3.04%) JSON
5 7 (2.66%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (2.66%) HTML
5 7 (2.66%) JSON Schema
5 7 (2.66%) OpenAPI
5 7 (2.66%) SAML
5 7 (2.66%) Swagger
5 7 (2.66%) Web Services
6 6 (2.28%) ARM Templates
7 4 (1.52%) CSS
8 3 (1.14%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.14%) AWS CDK
8 3 (1.14%) PySpark
9 2 (0.76%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.76%) ADO
9 2 (0.76%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.98%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.60%) Enterprise Software
2 20 (7.60%) Linux Command Line
3 18 (6.84%) Data Centre
4 16 (6.08%) Product Ownership
5 15 (5.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 14 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (3.04%) Algorithms
7 8 (3.04%) Clustering
7 8 (3.04%) Data Structures
7 8 (3.04%) Replication
8 7 (2.66%) IoT
8 7 (2.66%) Video\Live Streaming
9 6 (2.28%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.90%) Blog
10 5 (1.90%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.52%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 56 (21.29%) Linux
2 21 (7.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 19 (7.22%) Windows
4 13 (4.94%) Unix
5 10 (3.80%) Windows Server
6 8 (3.04%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (3.04%) Solaris
7 6 (2.28%) Apple iOS
8 5 (1.90%) Android
9 2 (0.76%) CentOS
9 2 (0.76%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.38%) VMS
10 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (47.91%) DevOps
2 115 (43.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 83 (31.56%) CI/CD
4 80 (30.42%) Agile
5 69 (26.24%) Analytics
6 44 (16.73%) Configuration Management
7 40 (15.21%) Containerisation
8 38 (14.45%) Visualisation
9 37 (14.07%) Data Engineering
9 37 (14.07%) ETL
10 36 (13.69%) Business Intelligence
11 35 (13.31%) Scrum
12 34 (12.93%) Artificial Intelligence
12 34 (12.93%) Data Visualisation
13 31 (11.79%) Data Pipeline
14 30 (11.41%) Coaching
14 30 (11.41%) Machine Learning
15 28 (10.65%) Continuous Improvement
15 28 (10.65%) Mentoring
15 28 (10.65%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 125 (47.53%) Python
2 78 (29.66%) SQL
3 38 (14.45%) Bash
3 38 (14.45%) PowerShell
4 37 (14.07%) Java
5 30 (11.41%) C#
6 21 (7.98%) TypeScript
7 20 (7.60%) Go
8 17 (6.46%) JavaScript
8 17 (6.46%) Shell Script
9 12 (4.56%) Ruby
10 11 (4.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 11 (4.18%) U-SQL
11 9 (3.42%) Perl
12 8 (3.04%) Groovy
13 7 (2.66%) PHP
14 6 (2.28%) C
15 5 (1.90%) Bicep
15 5 (1.90%) OCaml
15 5 (1.90%) SystemTap
Qualifications
1 34 (12.93%) Degree
2 18 (6.84%) DBS Check
3 17 (6.46%) AWS Certification
3 17 (6.46%) Azure Certification
4 15 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (4.94%) Security Cleared
6 12 (4.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (3.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (3.04%) SC Cleared
9 5 (1.90%) CCIE
9 5 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.90%) JNCIE
10 4 (1.52%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.14%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (1.14%) HND
11 3 (1.14%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.14%) PhD
11 3 (1.14%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.04%) Data Quality
1 8 (3.04%) QA
2 6 (2.28%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.38%) GDPR
3 1 (0.38%) SEPA
System Software
1 78 (29.66%) Docker
2 10 (3.80%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.38%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 124 (47.15%) Terraform
2 111 (42.21%) Kubernetes
3 64 (24.33%) Ansible
4 24 (9.13%) Progress Chef
5 23 (8.75%) Puppet
6 21 (7.98%) Grafana
7 19 (7.22%) Prometheus
8 14 (5.32%) Salt
9 10 (3.80%) Packer
10 4 (1.52%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (1.52%) Istio
11 3 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.76%) Rundeck
13 1 (0.38%) Consul
13 1 (0.38%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.38%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.38%) Kibana
13 1 (0.38%) Podman
Vendors
1 59 (22.43%) Microsoft
2 27 (10.27%) Databricks
3 21 (7.98%) Google
4 11 (4.18%) New Relic
5 9 (3.42%) Atlassian
5 9 (3.42%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.04%) Oracle
6 8 (3.04%) Serena
6 8 (3.04%) YouTube
7 7 (2.66%) SaltStack
8 6 (2.28%) VMware
9 3 (1.14%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.14%) Splunk
10 2 (0.76%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.76%) PagerDuty
11 1 (0.38%) Apple
11 1 (0.38%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.38%) Hortonworks
11 1 (0.38%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.38%) Wallstreet Suite