Platform Specialist Jobs with Work from Home Options

Platform Specialist
UK > Work from Home

The median Platform Specialist salary for remote or hybrid work is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 588 621 881
Rank change year-on-year +33 +260 -293
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Specialist 10 6 7
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.028% 0.016% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.017% 0.010%
Number of salaries quoted 10 3 7
10th Percentile £57,683 £60,500 £53,250
25th Percentile £81,250 £65,000 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +15.38% +40.24%
75th Percentile - £78,750 -
90th Percentile £101,500 £79,500 £81,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £77,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -29.03% +29.17% +29.46%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 34,012 36,073 73,380
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.26% 95.94% 97.30%
Number of salaries quoted 25,833 26,365 42,607
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,385 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.38% +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 Specialist
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Platform Specialist trend for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Specialist
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 Specialist.

Platform Specialist salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Specialist
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Platform Specialist over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Platform Specialist salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 10 June 2024, Platform Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 4 (40.00%) Azure
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Migration
2 2 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
3 1 (10.00%) Power BI
3 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (10.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) PySpark
3 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree

Platform Specialist 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 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
1 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Back Office
2 1 (10.00%) Social Science
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (10.00%) Hedge funds
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) DevOps
1 2 (20.00%) Migration
1 2 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (10.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (10.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (10.00%) Data Management
2 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (10.00%) Data Science
2 1 (10.00%) Data Security
2 1 (10.00%) ETL
2 1 (10.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (10.00%) ITIL
2 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (10.00%) Project Management
2 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (10.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) R
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (10.00%) VMware