Platform Engineer
UK

The median Platform Engineer salary in the UK is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 May 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 465 516 669
Rank change year-on-year +51 +153 -253
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 487 551 674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.54% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.59% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 272 382 464
10th Percentile £55,000 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,950
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +6.14% +5.52%
75th Percentile £92,813 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +22.73% +10.00%

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 93,699 92,665 152,640
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.54% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,079 58,510 84,912
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,719 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
% change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in the UK

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in the UK

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in the UK

Platform Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 13 May 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 +30 412 £75,000 +7.14% 97
UK excluding London +19 292 £62,500 -7.41% 46
London +80 172 £82,500 +3.13% 54
Work from Home -6 142 £75,000 +7.14% 52
North of England +34 113 £60,000 -14.29% 14
North West -21 56 £65,000 -7.14% 9
Yorkshire +80 47 £60,000 -13.60% 5
Scotland -15 47 £62,500 -10.00% 3
Midlands +4 38 £65,000 -7.14% 3
South West -19 38 £67,500 -2.80% 10
South East -2 32 £60,000 +14.29% 7
West Midlands +6 20 £70,000 - 2
East Midlands +10 18 £60,000 -18.64% 1
East of England +17 13 £80,000 +72.04% 6
North East +6 12 £80,000 +14.29%
Wales +22 11 £55,000 +37.50% 2

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 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 featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 443 (90.97%) Platform Engineering
2 297 (60.99%) DevOps
3 240 (49.28%) Agile
4 216 (44.35%) Problem-Solving
5 200 (41.07%) GCP
6 188 (38.60%) Azure
7 181 (37.17%) Google
8 179 (36.76%) Data Pipeline
9 177 (36.34%) Analytical Skills
10 175 (35.93%) BigQuery
10 175 (35.93%) Data Engineering
11 174 (35.73%) Terraform
12 170 (34.91%) Data Science
12 170 (34.91%) DataOps
12 170 (34.91%) Mentoring
13 162 (33.26%) Python
13 162 (33.26%) Change Management
14 161 (33.06%) GDPR
15 160 (32.85%) Self-Motivation
16 159 (32.65%) Looker
17 149 (30.60%) Kubernetes
18 144 (29.57%) CI/CD
19 142 (29.16%) Infrastructure as Code
20 130 (26.69%) AWS
21 104 (21.36%) Docker
22 83 (17.04%) Linux
23 80 (16.43%) Finance
24 75 (15.40%) Jenkins
24 75 (15.40%) Bash
24 75 (15.40%) PowerShell

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 20 (4.11%) Camunda
2 11 (2.26%) Confluence
3 10 (2.05%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.62%) SAS
6 2 (0.41%) Apache
7 1 (0.21%) CMS
7 1 (0.21%) IIS
7 1 (0.21%) nginx
7 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.21%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 200 (41.07%) GCP
2 188 (38.60%) Azure
3 130 (26.69%) AWS
4 50 (10.27%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (8.62%) GitHub
6 41 (8.42%) PaaS
7 38 (7.80%) Serverless
8 31 (6.37%) Azure AKS
9 26 (5.34%) IaaS
10 23 (4.72%) Power Platform
11 22 (4.52%) SaaS
12 20 (4.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 19 (3.90%) Cloud Computing
14 17 (3.49%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (3.49%) OpenShift
15 16 (3.29%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (3.29%) Amazon S3
15 16 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
15 16 (3.29%) Route 53
16 15 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.72%) Firewall
2 19 (3.90%) Network Security
3 14 (2.87%) DNS
4 7 (1.44%) IPv4
4 7 (1.44%) VPN
5 3 (0.62%) Internet
5 3 (0.62%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.41%) DHCP
6 2 (0.41%) tcpdump
6 2 (0.41%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.21%) Broadband
7 1 (0.21%) FTP
7 1 (0.21%) SSL
7 1 (0.21%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (35.93%) BigQuery
2 159 (32.65%) Looker
3 22 (4.52%) MongoDB
4 21 (4.31%) Azure SQL Database
4 21 (4.31%) Power BI
5 18 (3.70%) MySQL
6 15 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (2.05%) Data Lake
8 10 (2.05%) MariaDB
8 10 (2.05%) Redis
9 9 (1.85%) NoSQL
10 7 (1.44%) Big Data
10 7 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.23%) Hadoop
11 6 (1.23%) SQL Server
12 5 (1.03%) InfluxDB
13 4 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.62%) Ingres
15 2 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 75 (15.40%) Jenkins
2 44 (9.03%) Git
3 24 (4.93%) CircleCI
3 24 (4.93%) JIRA
4 20 (4.11%) Gradle
4 20 (4.11%) Maven
4 20 (4.11%) Travis CI
5 15 (3.08%) Octopus Deploy
5 15 (3.08%) TeamCity
6 14 (2.87%) Artifactory
7 11 (2.26%) Bitbucket
7 11 (2.26%) Snyk
8 9 (1.85%) GitLab
8 9 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (1.85%) Subversion
9 6 (1.23%) RStudio
9 6 (1.23%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (1.03%) DTrace
10 5 (1.03%) GDB
11 2 (0.41%) GoCD
General
1 177 (36.34%) Analytical Skills
2 80 (16.43%) Finance
3 67 (13.76%) Social Skills
4 44 (9.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (5.75%) Law
6 24 (4.93%) Legal
7 23 (4.72%) Retail
8 22 (4.52%) Banking
9 11 (2.26%) Retail Banking
10 7 (1.44%) Games
11 5 (1.03%) Health Technology
12 4 (0.82%) Front Office
13 3 (0.62%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.41%) Tech for Good
15 1 (0.21%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.21%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.21%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.21%) Military
15 1 (0.21%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.11%) Spring
1 20 (4.11%) Spring Boot
2 16 (3.29%) Kafka
3 14 (2.87%) ARM Templates
4 13 (2.67%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (1.44%) .NET
5 7 (1.44%) SAML
6 4 (0.82%) Node.js
6 4 (0.82%) REST
7 3 (0.62%) Middleware
7 3 (0.62%) PySpark
7 3 (0.62%) React
8 2 (0.41%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.41%) Keycloak
8 2 (0.41%) Loki
9 1 (0.21%) ADO
9 1 (0.21%) Anaconda
9 1 (0.21%) JSON
9 1 (0.21%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.21%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 160 (32.85%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 21 (4.31%) Linux Command Line
4 19 (3.90%) Data Centre
5 16 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.05%) Product Ownership
7 9 (1.85%) Cloud Native
7 9 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.64%) Clustering
8 8 (1.64%) Public Cloud
8 8 (1.64%) Replication
9 7 (1.44%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.03%) Blog
10 5 (1.03%) Client/Server
11 4 (0.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (0.82%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 1 (0.21%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 83 (17.04%) Linux
2 28 (5.75%) Windows
3 26 (5.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (2.87%) Unix
5 12 (2.46%) Windows Server
6 8 (1.64%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (1.64%) Solaris
7 4 (0.82%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.82%) VMS
8 3 (0.62%) CentOS
9 1 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 443 (90.97%) Platform Engineering
2 297 (60.99%) DevOps
3 240 (49.28%) Agile
4 216 (44.35%) Problem-Solving
5 179 (36.76%) Data Pipeline
6 175 (35.93%) Data Engineering
7 170 (34.91%) Data Science
7 170 (34.91%) DataOps
7 170 (34.91%) Mentoring
8 162 (33.26%) Change Management
9 144 (29.57%) CI/CD
10 142 (29.16%) Infrastructure as Code
11 61 (12.53%) Containerisation
12 54 (11.09%) Software Engineering
13 46 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
14 43 (8.83%) Configuration Management
15 39 (8.01%) Analytics
16 35 (7.19%) Infrastructure Automation
17 28 (5.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 26 (5.34%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 162 (33.26%) Python
2 75 (15.40%) Bash
2 75 (15.40%) PowerShell
3 64 (13.14%) SQL
4 60 (12.32%) Java
5 33 (6.78%) Ruby
6 29 (5.95%) Go
7 28 (5.75%) C#
8 25 (5.13%) Bicep
9 13 (2.67%) JavaScript
10 12 (2.46%) Perl
11 11 (2.26%) Groovy
12 9 (1.85%) Shell Script
13 8 (1.64%) C
14 7 (1.44%) PHP
14 7 (1.44%) R
14 7 (1.44%) TypeScript
15 5 (1.03%) OCaml
15 5 (1.03%) SystemTap
16 4 (0.82%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (3.49%) Degree
2 15 (3.08%) Security Cleared
3 13 (2.67%) SC Cleared
4 10 (2.05%) Azure Certification
5 8 (1.64%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.62%) HND
9 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.41%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.41%) Linux+ Certification
9 2 (0.41%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.41%) PhD
9 2 (0.41%) RHCE
10 1 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (33.06%) GDPR
2 14 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.64%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.23%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.23%) QA
5 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 104 (21.36%) Docker
2 15 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.41%) KVM
Systems Management
1 174 (35.73%) Terraform
2 149 (30.60%) Kubernetes
3 67 (13.76%) Ansible
4 31 (6.37%) Puppet
5 28 (5.75%) Grafana
5 28 (5.75%) Progress Chef
6 25 (5.13%) Prometheus
7 17 (3.49%) Salt
8 15 (3.08%) Istio
9 12 (2.46%) Packer
10 6 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.82%) Kibana
12 3 (0.62%) Argo
12 3 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.62%) logstash
13 2 (0.41%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.41%) Rundeck
14 1 (0.21%) Consul
14 1 (0.21%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.21%) Podman
Vendors
1 181 (37.17%) Google
2 53 (10.88%) Microsoft
3 20 (4.11%) Pega
4 15 (3.08%) Databricks
5 12 (2.46%) Red Hat
6 11 (2.26%) VMware
7 10 (2.05%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.64%) New Relic
8 8 (1.64%) Oracle
8 8 (1.64%) SaltStack
8 8 (1.64%) Serena
8 8 (1.64%) Splunk
9 6 (1.23%) Alteryx
10 5 (1.03%) LogicMonitor
10 5 (1.03%) PagerDuty
11 4 (0.82%) YouTube
12 2 (0.41%) Citrix
12 2 (0.41%) Confluent
12 2 (0.41%) Dataiku
13 1 (0.21%) BT