Platform Engineer Jobs in England

Platform Engineer
UK > England

The median Platform Engineer salary in England is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 483 486 710
Rank change year-on-year +3 +224 -282
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 419 463 528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.45% 0.56% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.61% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 237 336 376
10th Percentile £55,000 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £54,875 £53,288
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £96,250 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 87,960 76,100 137,411
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.25% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 64,459 49,772 75,750
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,626 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,255 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.87% +0.43% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,688 £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%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in England

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in England

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in England

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 Platform Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 6 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 +84 167 £85,000 +6.25% 45
North of England +17 123 £60,000 -13.60% 15
North West -21 65 £62,500 -10.36% 13
Yorkshire +68 48 £60,000 -11.11% 2
Midlands -1 38 £65,000 -7.14% 3
South West -26 38 £67,500 +3.29% 6
South East -13 30 £58,750 +11.90% 3
West Midlands -30 20 £70,000 - 3
East Midlands -6 18 £60,000 -18.64%
East of England -13 15 £80,000 +72.04% 1
North East -6 12 £80,000 +14.29%
Platform Engineer
UK

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

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

1 406 (96.90%) Platform Engineering
2 267 (63.72%) DevOps
3 192 (45.82%) Agile
4 191 (45.58%) Problem-Solving
5 180 (42.96%) GCP
6 176 (42.00%) Azure
7 162 (38.66%) Google
8 158 (37.71%) Data Engineering
8 158 (37.71%) Data Pipeline
9 156 (37.23%) BigQuery
9 156 (37.23%) Analytical Skills
10 155 (36.99%) Terraform
11 153 (36.52%) DataOps
12 152 (36.28%) Mentoring
13 151 (36.04%) Data Science
14 144 (34.37%) Change Management
15 143 (34.13%) GDPR
16 142 (33.89%) Self-Motivation
17 141 (33.65%) Looker
18 138 (32.94%) Kubernetes
19 128 (30.55%) Infrastructure as Code
20 126 (30.07%) Python
21 116 (27.68%) CI/CD
22 104 (24.82%) AWS
23 90 (21.48%) Docker
24 78 (18.62%) PowerShell
25 69 (16.47%) Ansible
26 67 (15.99%) Linux
27 66 (15.75%) Bash
28 60 (14.32%) Social Skills

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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (2.15%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (1.91%) Confluence
3 3 (0.72%) Apache
4 2 (0.48%) nginx
5 1 (0.24%) Appian
5 1 (0.24%) IIS
5 1 (0.24%) SAS
5 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 180 (42.96%) GCP
2 176 (42.00%) Azure
3 104 (24.82%) AWS
4 48 (11.46%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (9.31%) PaaS
6 37 (8.83%) GitHub
7 26 (6.21%) Azure AKS
8 25 (5.97%) Serverless
9 23 (5.49%) Power Platform
10 22 (5.25%) IaaS
10 22 (5.25%) SaaS
11 19 (4.53%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (3.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 13 (3.10%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
14 11 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (2.63%) Pulumi
15 10 (2.39%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (2.39%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.53%) Firewall
2 15 (3.58%) Network Security
3 11 (2.63%) DNS
4 4 (0.95%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.72%) DHCP
5 3 (0.72%) tcpdump
5 3 (0.72%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.48%) Internet
6 2 (0.48%) IPv4
6 2 (0.48%) VPN
7 1 (0.24%) Broadband
7 1 (0.24%) FTP
7 1 (0.24%) SSL
7 1 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (37.23%) BigQuery
2 141 (33.65%) Looker
3 23 (5.49%) MongoDB
4 21 (5.01%) Power BI
5 20 (4.77%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (4.30%) MySQL
7 15 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (2.63%) MariaDB
8 11 (2.63%) Redis
9 10 (2.39%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.91%) NoSQL
11 7 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.67%) Big Data
12 6 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (1.19%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.95%) InfluxDB
15 3 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
16 2 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
17 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
17 1 (0.24%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 44 (10.50%) Jenkins
2 41 (9.79%) Git
3 17 (4.06%) JIRA
4 15 (3.58%) Octopus Deploy
5 13 (3.10%) TeamCity
6 11 (2.63%) GitLab
7 9 (2.15%) Artifactory
7 9 (2.15%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.67%) Snyk
9 6 (1.43%) RStudio
9 6 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (1.19%) DTrace
10 5 (1.19%) GDB
10 5 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.19%) Subversion
11 4 (0.95%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.48%) NUnit
13 1 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.24%) GoCD
13 1 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
General
1 156 (37.23%) Analytical Skills
2 60 (14.32%) Finance
2 60 (14.32%) Social Skills
3 24 (5.73%) Retail
4 18 (4.30%) Banking
4 18 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (1.67%) Law
5 7 (1.67%) Retail Banking
6 6 (1.43%) Games
7 4 (0.95%) Advertising
7 4 (0.95%) Front Office
8 3 (0.72%) Health Technology
8 3 (0.72%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.48%) Legal
9 2 (0.48%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.24%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.24%) Military
10 1 (0.24%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.82%) ARM Templates
2 15 (3.58%) Kafka
3 13 (3.10%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (1.43%) .NET
5 5 (1.19%) SAML
6 4 (0.95%) Middleware
6 4 (0.95%) Node.js
7 3 (0.72%) Keycloak
7 3 (0.72%) PySpark
7 3 (0.72%) React
8 2 (0.48%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.48%) Loki
8 2 (0.48%) REST
9 1 (0.24%) ADO
9 1 (0.24%) Anaconda
9 1 (0.24%) JSON
9 1 (0.24%) RESTful
9 1 (0.24%) Spring Cloud
9 1 (0.24%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 142 (33.89%) Self-Motivation
2 20 (4.77%) Hybrid Cloud
3 18 (4.30%) Data Centre
4 16 (3.82%) Linux Command Line
5 14 (3.34%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.15%) Cloud Native
7 8 (1.91%) Clustering
7 8 (1.91%) Public Cloud
7 8 (1.91%) Replication
8 7 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.67%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.67%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.19%) Blog
9 5 (1.19%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (0.95%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 2 (0.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 2 (0.48%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 67 (15.99%) Linux
2 25 (5.97%) Windows
3 20 (4.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (2.63%) Unix
5 10 (2.39%) Windows Server
6 8 (1.91%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (1.91%) Solaris
7 5 (1.19%) VMS
8 4 (0.95%) CentOS
8 4 (0.95%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 406 (96.90%) Platform Engineering
2 267 (63.72%) DevOps
3 192 (45.82%) Agile
4 191 (45.58%) Problem-Solving
5 158 (37.71%) Data Engineering
5 158 (37.71%) Data Pipeline
6 153 (36.52%) DataOps
7 152 (36.28%) Mentoring
8 151 (36.04%) Data Science
9 144 (34.37%) Change Management
10 128 (30.55%) Infrastructure as Code
11 116 (27.68%) CI/CD
12 55 (13.13%) Containerisation
13 42 (10.02%) Continuous Improvement
14 40 (9.55%) Configuration Management
15 39 (9.31%) Analytics
16 32 (7.64%) Infrastructure Automation
17 30 (7.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 25 (5.97%) Continuous Integration
19 24 (5.73%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 126 (30.07%) Python
2 78 (18.62%) PowerShell
3 66 (15.75%) Bash
4 55 (13.13%) SQL
5 31 (7.40%) Go
6 30 (7.16%) Java
7 27 (6.44%) C#
8 24 (5.73%) Bicep
9 13 (3.10%) Ruby
10 11 (2.63%) JavaScript
11 9 (2.15%) Shell Script
12 8 (1.91%) Groovy
12 8 (1.91%) Perl
13 7 (1.67%) R
13 7 (1.67%) TypeScript
14 6 (1.43%) C
14 6 (1.43%) PHP
15 5 (1.19%) OCaml
15 5 (1.19%) SystemTap
16 4 (0.95%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (3.34%) Degree
2 12 (2.86%) Security Cleared
3 11 (2.63%) Azure Certification
4 10 (2.39%) SC Cleared
5 8 (1.91%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (1.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (0.72%) Linux+ Certification
8 3 (0.72%) RHCE
9 2 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.48%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.24%) PhD
10 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (34.13%) GDPR
2 15 (3.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.39%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.43%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.43%) QA
5 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.24%) NIST
6 1 (0.24%) SEPA
System Software
1 90 (21.48%) Docker
2 14 (3.34%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (3.10%) Active Directory
4 9 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.72%) KVM
6 2 (0.48%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 155 (36.99%) Terraform
2 138 (32.94%) Kubernetes
3 69 (16.47%) Ansible
4 25 (5.97%) Grafana
5 24 (5.73%) Prometheus
6 21 (5.01%) Puppet
7 20 (4.77%) Progress Chef
8 12 (2.86%) Istio
9 8 (1.91%) Packer
10 7 (1.67%) Salt
11 6 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.95%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.72%) Kibana
13 3 (0.72%) logstash
14 2 (0.48%) Argo
14 2 (0.48%) Rundeck
14 2 (0.48%) SCCM
15 1 (0.24%) Consul
15 1 (0.24%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 162 (38.66%) Google
2 52 (12.41%) Microsoft
3 15 (3.58%) Databricks
4 13 (3.10%) Red Hat
5 11 (2.63%) VMware
6 9 (2.15%) SaltStack
6 9 (2.15%) Splunk
7 8 (1.91%) Atlassian
7 8 (1.91%) New Relic
7 8 (1.91%) Oracle
7 8 (1.91%) Serena
8 6 (1.43%) Alteryx
9 5 (1.19%) LogicMonitor
9 5 (1.19%) PagerDuty
10 3 (0.72%) YouTube
11 2 (0.48%) Citrix
11 2 (0.48%) Confluent
12 1 (0.24%) Blue Prism
12 1 (0.24%) BT
12 1 (0.24%) Palo Alto