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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 281 403
Rank change year-on-year -54 +122 -197
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 269 445 635
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.76% 1.18% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.23% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 218 343 476
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,813 £58,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% +20.83%
75th Percentile £102,500 £106,250 £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% +16.00%

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 31,654 36,235 73,335
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.73% 96.01% 97.14%
Number of salaries quoted 23,643 25,788 42,106
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
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 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 9 June 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 8 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (2.97%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.60%) Confluence
3 3 (1.12%) Apache
4 2 (0.74%) nginx
5 1 (0.37%) IIS
5 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 128 (47.58%) Azure
2 103 (38.29%) AWS
3 42 (15.61%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (14.87%) Power Platform
5 37 (13.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 37 (13.75%) GCP
6 36 (13.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 31 (11.52%) Serverless
8 21 (7.81%) Azure AKS
8 21 (7.81%) GitHub
9 17 (6.32%) AWS CloudFormation
9 17 (6.32%) PaaS
10 16 (5.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 15 (5.58%) SaaS
12 12 (4.46%) Cloud Computing
13 11 (4.09%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (4.09%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
13 11 (4.09%) Pulumi
14 10 (3.72%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (3.72%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.81%) Firewall
2 16 (5.95%) Network Security
3 9 (3.35%) VPN
4 6 (2.23%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.86%) BGP
5 5 (1.86%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (1.86%) IPsec
5 5 (1.86%) LAN
5 5 (1.86%) NGFW
5 5 (1.86%) OSPF
5 5 (1.86%) SSL
5 5 (1.86%) VLAN
5 5 (1.86%) WAN
5 5 (1.86%) Wireless
6 4 (1.49%) DNS
6 4 (1.49%) IPv4
7 2 (0.74%) Internet
8 1 (0.37%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (14.50%) Power BI
2 34 (12.64%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (10.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 24 (8.92%) MySQL
4 24 (8.92%) NoSQL
5 18 (6.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 15 (5.58%) Data Lake
7 14 (5.20%) BigQuery
7 14 (5.20%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (4.09%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 11 (4.09%) MongoDB
8 11 (4.09%) Redis
9 9 (3.35%) DynamoDB
9 9 (3.35%) MariaDB
10 7 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (2.60%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.86%) SQL Server
12 4 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.49%) InfluxDB
12 4 (1.49%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 34 (12.64%) Jenkins
2 29 (10.78%) Git
3 10 (3.72%) GitLab
3 10 (3.72%) TeamCity
4 8 (2.97%) JIRA
5 6 (2.23%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.23%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (2.23%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (1.86%) DTrace
6 5 (1.86%) GDB
7 4 (1.49%) CircleCI
7 4 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (1.49%) Subversion
8 2 (0.74%) GoCD
8 2 (0.74%) NUnit
8 2 (0.74%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.37%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 47 (17.47%) Finance
2 36 (13.38%) Social Skills
3 22 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (8.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (6.32%) Retail
5 15 (5.58%) Banking
6 11 (4.09%) Legal
7 9 (3.35%) Health Technology
7 9 (3.35%) Law
8 6 (2.23%) Games
9 3 (1.12%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.74%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.37%) Advertising
11 1 (0.37%) Back Office
11 1 (0.37%) Front Office
11 1 (0.37%) Marketing
11 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 130 (48.33%) Platform Engineer
2 74 (27.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 70 (26.02%) Senior
4 52 (19.33%) Azure Engineer
5 51 (18.96%) DevOps Engineer
6 47 (17.47%) Cloud Engineer
7 44 (16.36%) Data Engineer
8 37 (13.75%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 35 (13.01%) Lead
10 28 (10.41%) Senior DevOps
10 28 (10.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 25 (9.29%) AWS Engineer
12 22 (8.18%) Senior Data Engineer
13 20 (7.43%) Developer
14 19 (7.06%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 18 (6.69%) Business Intelligence Manager
15 18 (6.69%) Data Manager
15 18 (6.69%) Engineering Manager
16 17 (6.32%) AWS Platform Engineer
16 17 (6.32%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.20%) Kafka
2 10 (3.72%) HTML
2 10 (3.72%) Node.js
3 9 (3.35%) .NET
3 9 (3.35%) .NET Framework
4 8 (2.97%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (2.97%) JSON
5 7 (2.60%) ARM Templates
5 7 (2.60%) JSON Schema
5 7 (2.60%) OpenAPI
5 7 (2.60%) Swagger
5 7 (2.60%) Web Services
6 4 (1.49%) AWS CDK
6 4 (1.49%) CSS
6 4 (1.49%) SAML
7 3 (1.12%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.12%) PySpark
8 2 (0.74%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.74%) ADO
8 2 (0.74%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.43%) Data Centre
2 19 (7.06%) Linux Command Line
3 18 (6.69%) Cloud Native
4 17 (6.32%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (5.58%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (4.09%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (4.09%) Product Ownership
7 9 (3.35%) Clustering
8 8 (2.97%) Algorithms
8 8 (2.97%) Data Structures
8 8 (2.97%) IoT
8 8 (2.97%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.97%) Replication
9 7 (2.60%) Video\Live Streaming
10 6 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (2.23%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.23%) Wiki
11 5 (1.86%) Blog
11 5 (1.86%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.49%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 54 (20.07%) Linux
2 25 (9.29%) Windows
3 17 (6.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (5.20%) Unix
5 13 (4.83%) Windows Server
6 8 (2.97%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (2.97%) Solaris
7 6 (2.23%) Apple iOS
8 5 (1.86%) Android
9 2 (0.74%) VMS
10 1 (0.37%) CentOS
10 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (47.58%) DevOps
2 109 (40.52%) Infrastructure as Code
3 84 (31.23%) CI/CD
4 80 (29.74%) Agile
5 68 (25.28%) Analytics
6 41 (15.24%) Containerisation
7 39 (14.50%) ETL
8 38 (14.13%) Visualisation
9 37 (13.75%) Configuration Management
10 36 (13.38%) Business Intelligence
11 34 (12.64%) Coaching
11 34 (12.64%) Data Engineering
12 33 (12.27%) Artificial Intelligence
12 33 (12.27%) Scrum
13 32 (11.90%) Data Visualisation
13 32 (11.90%) Machine Learning
14 30 (11.15%) Data Pipeline
15 29 (10.78%) Mentoring
15 29 (10.78%) Software Engineering
16 28 (10.41%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 127 (47.21%) Python
2 74 (27.51%) SQL
3 45 (16.73%) PowerShell
4 41 (15.24%) Bash
5 32 (11.90%) C#
6 30 (11.15%) Java
7 24 (8.92%) Go
8 21 (7.81%) TypeScript
9 18 (6.69%) JavaScript
10 17 (6.32%) Shell Script
11 13 (4.83%) Ruby
12 11 (4.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 11 (4.09%) U-SQL
13 7 (2.60%) Groovy
13 7 (2.60%) PHP
14 6 (2.23%) C
15 5 (1.86%) OCaml
15 5 (1.86%) SystemTap
16 4 (1.49%) Bicep
16 4 (1.49%) Perl
Qualifications
1 35 (13.01%) Degree
2 18 (6.69%) AWS Certification
2 18 (6.69%) Azure Certification
2 18 (6.69%) DBS Check
3 15 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (4.46%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (3.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (3.72%) Security Cleared
6 9 (3.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (2.60%) SC Cleared
8 5 (1.86%) CCIE
8 5 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.86%) JNCIE
9 3 (1.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (1.12%) HND
9 3 (1.12%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.12%) PhD
9 3 (1.12%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.74%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.97%) PCI DSS
1 8 (2.97%) QA
2 4 (1.49%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.37%) GDPR
4 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.37%) NIST
4 1 (0.37%) SEPA
System Software
1 67 (24.91%) Docker
2 11 (4.09%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.74%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 122 (45.35%) Terraform
2 106 (39.41%) Kubernetes
3 60 (22.30%) Ansible
4 21 (7.81%) Grafana
5 19 (7.06%) Prometheus
6 17 (6.32%) Progress Chef
7 15 (5.58%) Puppet
8 6 (2.23%) Salt
9 5 (1.86%) Karpenter
9 5 (1.86%) Packer
10 4 (1.49%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (1.49%) Istio
11 3 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.74%) Rundeck
12 2 (0.74%) SCCM
13 1 (0.37%) Consul
13 1 (0.37%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.37%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.37%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.37%) Rancher
Vendors
1 62 (23.05%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.29%) Databricks
3 17 (6.32%) Google
4 11 (4.09%) New Relic
5 9 (3.35%) VMware
6 8 (2.97%) Oracle
6 8 (2.97%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.97%) Serena
7 6 (2.23%) Atlassian
7 6 (2.23%) SaltStack
7 6 (2.23%) YouTube
8 4 (1.49%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.49%) Splunk
9 3 (1.12%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.74%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.74%) PagerDuty
11 1 (0.37%) Apple
11 1 (0.37%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.37%) Hortonworks
11 1 (0.37%) Palo Alto