Platform Engineering Jobs

Platform Engineering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with 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 323 321 393
Rank change year-on-year -2 +72 -133
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 916 1,017 1,642
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.84% 1.09% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.14% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 445 702 919
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £47,101
25th Percentile £60,000 £59,063 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% +16.00%
75th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £138,750 £105,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 89,994 88,841 164,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.43% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,089 53,798 83,455
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,848 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the UK

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering.

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in the UK

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in the UK

Platform Engineering
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineering within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -9 832 £75,000 - 162
UK excluding London +63 572 £65,000 -3.70% 83
London -35 296 £90,000 - 82
Work from Home -54 269 £75,000 -6.25% 115
North of England +39 191 £60,000 -11.11% 32
South East +34 135 £67,500 -10.00% 13
South West +10 90 £67,500 +3.85% 10
North West -20 85 £65,000 -7.14% 25
Yorkshire +82 81 £55,000 -15.38% 7
Midlands -7 81 £60,000 -14.29% 12
West Midlands -4 42 £65,000 -7.14% 8
Scotland -29 42 £72,500 +18.85% 8
East Midlands -15 39 £60,000 +9.09% 4
North East +7 27 £80,000 +67.81%
East of England +5 22 - - 4
Wales +13 11 £53,750 +16.32% 2

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 17 (1.86%) Apache Spark
2 16 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (1.20%) Apache
4 10 (1.09%) Confluence
5 3 (0.33%) nginx
5 3 (0.33%) SAS
6 1 (0.11%) IIS
6 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 496 (54.15%) Azure
2 437 (47.71%) GCP
3 402 (43.89%) AWS
4 165 (18.01%) Azure DevOps
5 77 (8.41%) Power Platform
6 67 (7.31%) PaaS
7 50 (5.46%) GitHub
8 47 (5.13%) Serverless
9 44 (4.80%) SaaS
10 43 (4.69%) IaaS
11 42 (4.59%) Azure Data Factory
12 39 (4.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 34 (3.71%) Azure AKS
14 31 (3.38%) Cloud Computing
15 25 (2.73%) Entra ID
16 23 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
17 22 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
18 21 (2.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 21 (2.29%) PowerApps
19 19 (2.07%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 40 (4.37%) Firewall
2 31 (3.38%) Network Security
3 26 (2.84%) DNS
4 18 (1.97%) VPN
5 15 (1.64%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.20%) LAN
6 11 (1.20%) WAN
7 10 (1.09%) DHCP
8 8 (0.87%) Internet
9 6 (0.66%) IPv4
9 6 (0.66%) SSL
9 6 (0.66%) VLAN
9 6 (0.66%) Wireless
10 5 (0.55%) BGP
10 5 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.55%) IPsec
10 5 (0.55%) NGFW
10 5 (0.55%) OSPF
11 3 (0.33%) tcpdump
11 3 (0.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 372 (40.61%) BigQuery
2 353 (38.54%) Looker
3 228 (24.89%) Data Warehouse
4 68 (7.42%) Power BI
5 42 (4.59%) Azure SQL Database
6 32 (3.49%) NoSQL
7 31 (3.38%) Data Lake
8 28 (3.06%) MySQL
8 28 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (1.97%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 17 (1.86%) MongoDB
11 16 (1.75%) Redis
12 11 (1.20%) Big Data
12 11 (1.20%) DynamoDB
12 11 (1.20%) MariaDB
12 11 (1.20%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 11 (1.20%) RDBMS
12 11 (1.20%) Relational Database
13 10 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (1.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 66 (7.21%) Jenkins
2 64 (6.99%) Git
3 27 (2.95%) JIRA
4 24 (2.62%) GitLab
5 14 (1.53%) Octopus Deploy
6 13 (1.42%) Artifactory
6 13 (1.42%) TeamCity
7 11 (1.20%) Snyk
8 8 (0.87%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.66%) RStudio
9 6 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (0.66%) Spinnaker
9 6 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.55%) DTrace
10 5 (0.55%) GDB
10 5 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
11 4 (0.44%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.44%) Subversion
12 2 (0.22%) GoCD
12 2 (0.22%) NUnit
General
1 403 (44.00%) Analytical Skills
2 132 (14.41%) Social Skills
3 115 (12.55%) Finance
4 72 (7.86%) Billing
5 54 (5.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 42 (4.59%) Banking
7 35 (3.82%) Retail
8 30 (3.28%) Law
9 22 (2.40%) Legal
10 20 (2.18%) Retail Banking
11 17 (1.86%) Health Technology
12 10 (1.09%) Games
13 6 (0.66%) Marketing
14 5 (0.55%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.44%) Advertising
15 4 (0.44%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.33%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.33%) Public Sector
16 3 (0.33%) Tech for Good
17 2 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 446 (48.69%) Platform Engineer
2 234 (25.55%) Data Engineer
3 176 (19.21%) Principal Engineer
4 171 (18.67%) Principal Data Engineer
5 156 (17.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 133 (14.52%) Architect
7 114 (12.45%) Data Architect
8 113 (12.34%) Senior
9 104 (11.35%) Cloud Engineer
10 95 (10.37%) Engineering Manager
11 91 (9.93%) Data Manager
12 89 (9.72%) Azure Engineer
13 77 (8.41%) Lead
14 73 (7.97%) DevOps Engineer
15 69 (7.53%) Azure Platform Engineer
16 39 (4.26%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 37 (4.04%) AWS Engineer
18 34 (3.71%) Senior DevOps
18 34 (3.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 27 (2.95%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.51%) Kafka
2 22 (2.40%) ARM Templates
3 19 (2.07%) JSON
4 17 (1.86%) Node.js
5 15 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
6 14 (1.53%) .NET
7 10 (1.09%) HTML
8 9 (0.98%) .NET Framework
8 9 (0.98%) YAML
9 7 (0.76%) JSON Schema
9 7 (0.76%) OpenAPI
9 7 (0.76%) React
9 7 (0.76%) Swagger
9 7 (0.76%) Web Services
10 6 (0.66%) Lambda Expressions
10 6 (0.66%) REST
11 5 (0.55%) ADO
12 4 (0.44%) CSS
12 4 (0.44%) Middleware
12 4 (0.44%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 280 (30.57%) Self-Motivation
2 86 (9.39%) Product Ownership
3 38 (4.15%) Cloud Native
4 31 (3.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 29 (3.17%) Data Centre
6 20 (2.18%) Linux Command Line
6 20 (2.18%) Public Cloud
7 17 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.53%) Cyberattack
9 13 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.20%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.09%) Management Information System
12 9 (0.98%) Clustering
13 8 (0.87%) Algorithms
13 8 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (0.87%) IoT
13 8 (0.87%) Onboarding
13 8 (0.87%) Replication
13 8 (0.87%) Video\Live Streaming
14 7 (0.76%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 99 (10.81%) Linux
2 49 (5.35%) Windows
3 24 (2.62%) Windows Server
4 22 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (2.40%) Unix
5 8 (0.87%) Oracle Linux
5 8 (0.87%) Solaris
6 7 (0.76%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.66%) Android
8 5 (0.55%) VMS
9 4 (0.44%) CentOS
9 4 (0.44%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.33%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 490 (53.49%) DevOps
2 430 (46.94%) Problem-Solving
3 401 (43.78%) Data Engineering
4 396 (43.23%) Agile
5 329 (35.92%) Mentoring
6 273 (29.80%) CI/CD
7 250 (27.29%) ETL
8 219 (23.91%) Data Modelling
9 218 (23.80%) Data Pipeline
10 209 (22.82%) Infrastructure as Code
11 195 (21.29%) Data Science
12 172 (18.78%) DataOps
13 165 (18.01%) Change Management
14 138 (15.07%) Data Governance
15 122 (13.32%) Data Integration
16 121 (13.21%) Scrum
17 120 (13.10%) Innovative Thinking
18 118 (12.88%) Data Architecture
19 117 (12.77%) Data Security
20 111 (12.12%) ERD
Programming Languages
1 231 (25.22%) Python
2 128 (13.97%) SQL
3 119 (12.99%) PowerShell
4 88 (9.61%) Bash
5 66 (7.21%) Java
6 47 (5.13%) Go
7 40 (4.37%) C#
8 32 (3.49%) Bicep
9 27 (2.95%) JavaScript
10 24 (2.62%) Ruby
11 23 (2.51%) TypeScript
12 20 (2.18%) Scala
12 20 (2.18%) Shell Script
13 11 (1.20%) C++
13 11 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 11 (1.20%) U-SQL
14 9 (0.98%) Groovy
15 8 (0.87%) C
15 8 (0.87%) Perl
16 7 (0.76%) PHP
Qualifications
1 47 (5.13%) Degree
2 27 (2.95%) AWS Certification
3 23 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (2.40%) Security Cleared
5 21 (2.29%) Azure Certification
5 21 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (1.97%) DBS Check
7 17 (1.86%) SC Cleared
8 16 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (0.66%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.55%) CCIE
11 5 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.55%) JNCIE
12 4 (0.44%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.44%) PhD
13 3 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (0.33%) CISSP
13 3 (0.33%) HND
13 3 (0.33%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (30.13%) GDPR
2 135 (14.74%) Data Quality
3 85 (9.28%) QA
4 18 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.09%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.33%) NIST
7 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 125 (13.65%) Docker
2 37 (4.04%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.76%) KVM
5 7 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (0.44%) Xen
7 3 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.33%) vSphere
8 2 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.22%) Firmware
8 2 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 250 (27.29%) Terraform
2 207 (22.60%) Kubernetes
3 100 (10.92%) Ansible
4 36 (3.93%) Grafana
5 34 (3.71%) Prometheus
6 26 (2.84%) Puppet
7 25 (2.73%) Progress Chef
8 16 (1.75%) Istio
9 7 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (0.76%) Packer
9 7 (0.76%) Salt
10 5 (0.55%) Argo
10 5 (0.55%) Karpenter
10 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.33%) Kibana
12 3 (0.33%) logstash
13 2 (0.22%) Podman
13 2 (0.22%) Rundeck
13 2 (0.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 396 (43.23%) Google
2 134 (14.63%) Microsoft
3 33 (3.60%) Databricks
4 15 (1.64%) VMware
5 13 (1.42%) Red Hat
5 13 (1.42%) Splunk
6 11 (1.20%) New Relic
7 9 (0.98%) SaltStack
8 8 (0.87%) Oracle
8 8 (0.87%) Serena
9 7 (0.76%) Atlassian
10 6 (0.66%) Alteryx
10 6 (0.66%) YouTube
11 5 (0.55%) LogicMonitor
11 5 (0.55%) PagerDuty
12 4 (0.44%) Salesforce
13 3 (0.33%) AppDynamics
13 3 (0.33%) Cloudera
13 3 (0.33%) Facebook
13 3 (0.33%) Hortonworks