Platform Engineering Jobs in England

Platform Engineering
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 302 292 376
Rank change year-on-year -10 +84 -105
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 833 988 1,452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.90% 1.18% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 1.24% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 403 683 835
10th Percentile £51,500 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,650 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% +16.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £117,000 £138,750 £106,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +16.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 77,271 79,617 137,422
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 83.26% 95.47% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 55,529 48,527 74,112
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,324 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in England

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in England

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in England

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering 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 -27 299 £90,000 - 88
North of England +35 190 £60,000 -11.11% 31
South East +40 134 £67,500 -9.70% 12
South West +7 90 £67,500 +3.85% 12
North West -23 84 £65,000 -7.14% 24
Yorkshire +81 81 £55,000 -15.38% 7
Midlands +14 80 £60,000 -14.29% 11
West Midlands -17 41 £65,000 -7.14% 7
East Midlands -4 39 £60,000 +9.09% 4
North East +5 27 £80,000 +67.81%
East of England +1 22 - - 4
Platform Engineering
UK

Platform Engineering
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 17 (2.04%) Apache Spark
2 16 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (1.32%) Apache
3 11 (1.32%) Confluence
4 3 (0.36%) nginx
5 1 (0.12%) IIS
5 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.12%) SAS
5 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 454 (54.50%) Azure
2 410 (49.22%) GCP
3 370 (44.42%) AWS
4 143 (17.17%) Azure DevOps
5 70 (8.40%) Power Platform
6 60 (7.20%) PaaS
7 46 (5.52%) SaaS
8 45 (5.40%) GitHub
9 42 (5.04%) Azure Data Factory
10 37 (4.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 36 (4.32%) IaaS
12 34 (4.08%) Serverless
13 30 (3.60%) Azure AKS
14 25 (3.00%) Cloud Computing
15 22 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
16 21 (2.52%) Entra ID
17 20 (2.40%) PowerApps
18 19 (2.28%) Power Automate
19 18 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
20 15 (1.80%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.96%) Firewall
2 31 (3.72%) Network Security
3 26 (3.12%) DNS
4 15 (1.80%) TCP/IP
5 13 (1.56%) VPN
6 11 (1.32%) LAN
6 11 (1.32%) WAN
7 10 (1.20%) DHCP
8 8 (0.96%) Internet
9 6 (0.72%) SSL
9 6 (0.72%) VLAN
9 6 (0.72%) Wireless
10 5 (0.60%) BGP
10 5 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.60%) IPsec
10 5 (0.60%) NGFW
10 5 (0.60%) OSPF
11 3 (0.36%) tcpdump
11 3 (0.36%) Wireshark
12 2 (0.24%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 346 (41.54%) BigQuery
2 327 (39.26%) Looker
3 218 (26.17%) Data Warehouse
4 61 (7.32%) Power BI
5 40 (4.80%) Azure SQL Database
6 31 (3.72%) Data Lake
7 28 (3.36%) MySQL
7 28 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
8 26 (3.12%) NoSQL
9 18 (2.16%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 17 (2.04%) MongoDB
11 16 (1.92%) Redis
12 11 (1.32%) Big Data
12 11 (1.32%) MariaDB
12 11 (1.32%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 11 (1.32%) RDBMS
12 11 (1.32%) Relational Database
13 10 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
14 9 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
15 8 (0.96%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 62 (7.44%) Jenkins
2 56 (6.72%) Git
3 24 (2.88%) GitLab
4 22 (2.64%) JIRA
5 15 (1.80%) Octopus Deploy
6 14 (1.68%) TeamCity
7 9 (1.08%) Artifactory
7 9 (1.08%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.84%) Snyk
9 6 (0.72%) RStudio
9 6 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.60%) DTrace
10 5 (0.60%) GDB
10 5 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.60%) Subversion
11 4 (0.48%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.48%) Spinnaker
11 4 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.24%) JMeter
12 2 (0.24%) NUnit
General
1 375 (45.02%) Analytical Skills
2 121 (14.53%) Social Skills
3 99 (11.88%) Finance
4 65 (7.80%) Billing
5 40 (4.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (3.96%) Retail
7 28 (3.36%) Banking
8 25 (3.00%) Law
9 22 (2.64%) Legal
10 11 (1.32%) Retail Banking
11 10 (1.20%) Health Technology
12 9 (1.08%) Games
13 5 (0.60%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.48%) Advertising
15 3 (0.36%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.36%) Public Sector
15 3 (0.36%) Tech for Good
16 2 (0.24%) Documentation Skills
16 2 (0.24%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.24%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 406 (48.74%) Platform Engineer
2 212 (25.45%) Data Engineer
3 156 (18.73%) Principal Engineer
4 151 (18.13%) Principal Data Engineer
5 144 (17.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 128 (15.37%) Architect
7 115 (13.81%) Data Architect
8 96 (11.52%) Senior
9 94 (11.28%) Cloud Engineer
10 88 (10.56%) Engineering Manager
11 84 (10.08%) Data Manager
12 81 (9.72%) Azure Engineer
13 65 (7.80%) DevOps Engineer
13 65 (7.80%) Lead
14 62 (7.44%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 34 (4.08%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 32 (3.84%) AWS Engineer
17 27 (3.24%) Senior Data Engineer
17 27 (3.24%) Senior DevOps
17 27 (3.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.76%) Kafka
2 19 (2.28%) ARM Templates
3 15 (1.80%) .NET
4 14 (1.68%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (1.32%) JSON
6 10 (1.20%) Node.js
7 9 (1.08%) .NET Framework
7 9 (1.08%) HTML
8 7 (0.84%) React
8 7 (0.84%) Web Services
8 7 (0.84%) YAML
9 6 (0.72%) Lambda Expressions
10 5 (0.60%) ADO
10 5 (0.60%) SAML
11 4 (0.48%) AWS CDK
11 4 (0.48%) CSS
11 4 (0.48%) Middleware
11 4 (0.48%) PySpark
11 4 (0.48%) REST
12 3 (0.36%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 261 (31.33%) Self-Motivation
2 79 (9.48%) Product Ownership
3 35 (4.20%) Cloud Native
4 31 (3.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (3.12%) Data Centre
6 20 (2.40%) Linux Command Line
7 18 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (1.92%) Public Cloud
9 14 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.32%) Cyberattack
10 11 (1.32%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.08%) Clustering
11 9 (1.08%) Management Information System
12 8 (0.96%) Algorithms
12 8 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (0.96%) Onboarding
12 8 (0.96%) Replication
12 8 (0.96%) Video\Live Streaming
13 6 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
13 6 (0.72%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 86 (10.32%) Linux
2 42 (5.04%) Windows
3 22 (2.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (2.40%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.56%) Unix
6 8 (0.96%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (0.96%) Solaris
7 7 (0.84%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.72%) Android
9 5 (0.60%) VMS
10 4 (0.48%) CentOS
10 4 (0.48%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.36%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (51.26%) DevOps
2 402 (48.26%) Problem-Solving
3 371 (44.54%) Data Engineering
4 352 (42.26%) Agile
5 306 (36.73%) Mentoring
6 237 (28.45%) CI/CD
7 236 (28.33%) ETL
8 210 (25.21%) Data Modelling
9 198 (23.77%) Data Pipeline
10 194 (23.29%) Infrastructure as Code
11 167 (20.05%) Data Science
12 153 (18.37%) DataOps
13 145 (17.41%) Change Management
14 133 (15.97%) Data Governance
15 122 (14.65%) Data Integration
16 120 (14.41%) Innovative Thinking
17 117 (14.05%) Data Architecture
18 116 (13.93%) Data Security
19 114 (13.69%) Scrum
20 111 (13.33%) ERD
Programming Languages
1 215 (25.81%) Python
2 117 (14.05%) SQL
3 105 (12.61%) PowerShell
4 78 (9.36%) Bash
5 62 (7.44%) Java
6 47 (5.64%) Go
7 41 (4.92%) C#
8 28 (3.36%) Bicep
9 20 (2.40%) JavaScript
10 19 (2.28%) Scala
11 18 (2.16%) Ruby
12 16 (1.92%) TypeScript
13 12 (1.44%) Shell Script
14 11 (1.32%) C++
14 11 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 11 (1.32%) U-SQL
15 8 (0.96%) C
15 8 (0.96%) Groovy
15 8 (0.96%) Perl
16 7 (0.84%) PHP
Qualifications
1 43 (5.16%) Degree
2 26 (3.12%) AWS Certification
3 23 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (2.52%) Azure Certification
4 21 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 21 (2.52%) Security Cleared
5 18 (2.16%) DBS Check
6 16 (1.92%) SC Cleared
7 15 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (0.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (0.84%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.60%) CCIE
10 5 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (0.60%) JNCIE
11 4 (0.48%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.48%) PhD
12 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.36%) CISSP
12 3 (0.36%) Linux+ Certification
12 3 (0.36%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 258 (30.97%) GDPR
2 134 (16.09%) Data Quality
3 78 (9.36%) QA
4 18 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.20%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.36%) NIST
7 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 114 (13.69%) Docker
2 32 (3.84%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.60%) KVM
7 3 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.36%) vSphere
8 2 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.24%) Firmware
8 2 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.24%) Xen
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 231 (27.73%) Terraform
2 193 (23.17%) Kubernetes
3 99 (11.88%) Ansible
4 31 (3.72%) Grafana
5 28 (3.36%) Prometheus
6 27 (3.24%) Puppet
7 26 (3.12%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.44%) Istio
9 8 (0.96%) Packer
9 8 (0.96%) Salt
10 7 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.60%) Argo
11 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.48%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.36%) Kibana
13 3 (0.36%) logstash
14 2 (0.24%) Podman
14 2 (0.24%) Rundeck
14 2 (0.24%) SCCM
Vendors
1 368 (44.18%) Google
2 124 (14.89%) Microsoft
3 32 (3.84%) Databricks
4 13 (1.56%) Red Hat
5 11 (1.32%) New Relic
5 11 (1.32%) VMware
6 10 (1.20%) Splunk
7 9 (1.08%) SaltStack
8 8 (0.96%) Atlassian
8 8 (0.96%) Oracle
8 8 (0.96%) Serena
9 6 (0.72%) Alteryx
9 6 (0.72%) YouTube
10 5 (0.60%) LogicMonitor
10 5 (0.60%) PagerDuty
11 4 (0.48%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.36%) AppDynamics
12 3 (0.36%) Cloudera
12 3 (0.36%) Facebook
12 3 (0.36%) Hortonworks