DevOps Platform Engineer Jobs in England

Platform Engineer - DevOps
UK > England

The median Platform Engineer - DevOps salary in England is £92,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 846 818 1123
Rank change year-on-year -28 +305 -325
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Platform Engineer 17 76 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.018% 0.093% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.019% 0.10% 0.045%
Number of salaries quoted 13 55 36
10th Percentile £48,500 £50,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,875 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.59% -3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile - £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £93,750 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +29.31% -3.33% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

DevOps Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Platform Engineer in England

DevOps Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for DevOps Platform Engineer in England

DevOps Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Platform Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps Platform Engineer in England

DevOps Platform Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Platform Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +87 13 £110,000 +15.79% 3
South West -51 2 £75,000 +3.45%
South East -30 1 £50,000 -4.76%
DevOps Platform Engineer
UK

DevOps Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, DevOps 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 across the England region featuring DevOps Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) DevOps
1 17 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 15 (88.24%) Kubernetes
3 13 (76.47%) Terraform
4 11 (64.71%) Docker
5 9 (52.94%) Azure
5 9 (52.94%) Python
5 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
6 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
6 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (47.06%) AWS
7 7 (41.18%) Bash
7 7 (41.18%) Jenkins
8 6 (35.29%) PaaS
8 6 (35.29%) PowerShell
9 5 (29.41%) Ansible
9 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
9 5 (29.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 5 (29.41%) Agile
9 5 (29.41%) GitHub
10 4 (23.53%) Git
10 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
10 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
10 4 (23.53%) SQL
10 4 (23.53%) Java
10 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
10 4 (23.53%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (23.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (23.53%) Azure AKS
10 4 (23.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

DevOps Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) Azure
2 8 (47.06%) AWS
3 6 (35.29%) PaaS
4 5 (29.41%) GitHub
5 4 (23.53%) Azure AKS
6 3 (17.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (17.65%) Entra ID
6 3 (17.65%) IaaS
7 2 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (11.76%) SaaS
8 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (5.88%) GCP
8 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
8 1 (5.88%) Pulumi
8 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (17.65%) MariaDB
1 3 (17.65%) MongoDB
1 3 (17.65%) MySQL
1 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (17.65%) Redis
2 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Jenkins
2 4 (23.53%) Git
3 2 (11.76%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (5.88%) CircleCI
4 1 (5.88%) GitLab
4 1 (5.88%) JIRA
4 1 (5.88%) TeamCity
4 1 (5.88%) Vagrant
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Games
2 1 (5.88%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (17.65%) SAML
3 1 (5.88%) ADO
3 1 (5.88%) JSON
3 1 (5.88%) Node.js
3 1 (5.88%) React
3 1 (5.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Fixed Income
2 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) DevOps
1 17 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
3 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (29.41%) Agile
4 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
4 5 (29.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (23.53%) Microservices
6 3 (17.65%) Design Patterns
6 3 (17.65%) Fintech
6 3 (17.65%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
7 2 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (11.76%) DevSecOps
7 2 (11.76%) Generative AI
7 2 (11.76%) LLM
7 2 (11.76%) Observability
7 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Python
2 7 (41.18%) Bash
3 6 (35.29%) PowerShell
4 4 (23.53%) Java
4 4 (23.53%) SQL
5 3 (17.65%) C#
6 1 (5.88%) Go
6 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.88%) Ruby
6 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) AWS Certification
1 4 (23.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 4 (23.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 11 (64.71%) Docker
2 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (88.24%) Kubernetes
2 13 (76.47%) Terraform
3 5 (29.41%) Ansible
4 3 (17.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (11.76%) Grafana
5 2 (11.76%) Karpenter
5 2 (11.76%) Progress Chef
5 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
5 2 (11.76%) Puppet
6 1 (5.88%) Consul
6 1 (5.88%) Packer
6 1 (5.88%) Salt
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Google