Senior Platform Engineer Jobs

Senior Platform Engineer
UK

The median Senior Platform Engineer salary in the UK is £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 865 857 1168
Rank change year-on-year -8 +311 -289
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 42 90 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.040% 0.095% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.10% 0.057%
Number of salaries quoted 39 54 72
10th Percentile £62,000 £60,000 £65,125
25th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £83,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -3.61% +14.48%
75th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £116,500 £107,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% +40.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Platform Engineer in the UK

Senior Platform Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Platform Engineer in the UK

Senior Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Platform Engineer in the UK

Senior Platform Engineer
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Platform Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 -13 35 £81,250 -4.41% 15
London +97 26 £100,000 - 11
Work from Home +12 19 £82,500 -8.33% 11
UK excluding London -63 7 £70,000 -3.45% 6
North of England +21 5 £70,000 -3.45% 2
North West -17 3 £65,000 -10.34% 2
Yorkshire +64 2 £80,000 +6.67%
North East - 2 £80,000 -
South West -33 1 £75,000 +3.45% 1
Scotland -65 1 £46,000 - 2

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Senior 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 job ads featuring Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 40 (95.24%) Platform Engineering
2 30 (71.43%) Terraform
3 28 (66.67%) Azure
4 23 (54.76%) DevOps
5 22 (52.38%) Python
6 21 (50.00%) Kubernetes
7 20 (47.62%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (47.62%) AWS
8 14 (33.33%) PaaS
9 12 (28.57%) Docker
10 10 (23.81%) Containerisation
10 10 (23.81%) GCP
10 10 (23.81%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (23.81%) Jenkins
10 10 (23.81%) Bash
10 10 (23.81%) SQL
11 9 (21.43%) Microsoft
11 9 (21.43%) Agile
11 9 (21.43%) VMware
11 9 (21.43%) IaaS
11 9 (21.43%) Ansible
11 9 (21.43%) CI/CD
12 8 (19.05%) Grafana
12 8 (19.05%) Social Skills
12 8 (19.05%) SaaS
12 8 (19.05%) Java
12 8 (19.05%) Linux
13 7 (16.67%) Active Directory
13 7 (16.67%) Configuration Management
13 7 (16.67%) Fintech

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
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 3 (7.14%) Apache
1 3 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 28 (66.67%) Azure
2 20 (47.62%) AWS
3 14 (33.33%) PaaS
4 10 (23.81%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (23.81%) GCP
5 9 (21.43%) IaaS
6 8 (19.05%) SaaS
7 7 (16.67%) Azure AKS
8 6 (14.29%) Entra ID
9 5 (11.90%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (11.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (11.90%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (11.90%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (11.90%) Serverless
10 4 (9.52%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (9.52%) Pulumi
11 3 (7.14%) OpenShift
12 2 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
13 1 (2.38%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.90%) Firewall
1 5 (11.90%) IPv4
1 5 (11.90%) VPN
2 3 (7.14%) DHCP
2 3 (7.14%) DNS
2 3 (7.14%) TCP/IP
2 3 (7.14%) tcpdump
2 3 (7.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) BigQuery
1 3 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.76%) MySQL
2 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.76%) Power BI
3 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.38%) Big Data
3 1 (2.38%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 10 (23.81%) Jenkins
2 5 (11.90%) Git
3 2 (4.76%) GoCD
3 2 (4.76%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (4.76%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.38%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.38%) GitLab
4 1 (2.38%) JIRA
4 1 (2.38%) NUnit
4 1 (2.38%) Vagrant
General
1 8 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.76%) Games
3 1 (2.38%) Advertising
3 1 (2.38%) Finance
3 1 (2.38%) Health Technology
3 1 (2.38%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (7.14%) Keycloak
1 3 (7.14%) Middleware
1 3 (7.14%) PySpark
2 2 (4.76%) .NET
2 2 (4.76%) Node.js
2 2 (4.76%) React
3 1 (2.38%) ADO
3 1 (2.38%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.38%) JSON
3 1 (2.38%) RESTful
3 1 (2.38%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Public Cloud
2 3 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.38%) Bitcoin
4 1 (2.38%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.05%) Linux
2 6 (14.29%) Windows
3 4 (9.52%) Windows Server
4 3 (7.14%) CentOS
4 3 (7.14%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (95.24%) Platform Engineering
2 23 (54.76%) DevOps
3 20 (47.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (23.81%) Containerisation
5 9 (21.43%) Agile
5 9 (21.43%) CI/CD
6 7 (16.67%) Configuration Management
6 7 (16.67%) Fintech
7 6 (14.29%) API Management
7 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
7 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (11.90%) Business Continuity
8 5 (11.90%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (11.90%) Software Engineering
9 4 (9.52%) High Availability
9 4 (9.52%) Task Automation
10 3 (7.14%) Data Science
10 3 (7.14%) Decarbonisation
10 3 (7.14%) Roadmaps
10 3 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (52.38%) Python
2 10 (23.81%) Bash
2 10 (23.81%) SQL
3 8 (19.05%) Java
4 5 (11.90%) Shell Script
5 4 (9.52%) C#
5 4 (9.52%) Go
6 3 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 3 (7.14%) Perl
6 3 (7.14%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.38%) Ruby
7 1 (2.38%) Scala
7 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (11.90%) Degree
2 3 (7.14%) Linux+ Certification
2 3 (7.14%) RHCE
3 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 12 (28.57%) Docker
2 7 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 6 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (7.14%) KVM
4 3 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (71.43%) Terraform
2 21 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 9 (21.43%) Ansible
4 8 (19.05%) Grafana
5 6 (14.29%) Prometheus
6 5 (11.90%) Progress Chef
6 5 (11.90%) Puppet
7 2 (4.76%) Kibana
7 2 (4.76%) logstash
8 1 (2.38%) Consul
8 1 (2.38%) Karpenter
8 1 (2.38%) Packer
8 1 (2.38%) Salt
Vendors
1 9 (21.43%) Microsoft
1 9 (21.43%) VMware
2 5 (11.90%) Splunk
3 3 (7.14%) Red Hat
3 3 (7.14%) SaltStack
4 2 (4.76%) Citrix
5 1 (2.38%) Google