Platform Engineering Jobs with Work from Home Options

Platform Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 277 403
Rank change year-on-year -67 +126 -203
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 270 448 650
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.77% 1.18% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.22% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 220 347 491
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% +20.83%
75th Percentile £102,500 £106,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £138,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +16.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,671 36,595 73,127
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.78% 96.04% 97.13%
Number of salaries quoted 23,689 25,972 42,234
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

Platform Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Platform Engineering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Platform Engineering.

Platform Engineering salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Platform Engineering salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (2.96%) Apache Spark
1 8 (2.96%) Confluence
2 3 (1.11%) Apache
3 2 (0.74%) nginx
4 1 (0.37%) IIS
4 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 127 (47.04%) Azure
2 104 (38.52%) AWS
3 41 (15.19%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (14.44%) Power Platform
5 37 (13.70%) GCP
6 36 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 35 (12.96%) Azure Data Factory
8 32 (11.85%) Serverless
9 22 (8.15%) GitHub
10 21 (7.78%) Azure AKS
11 18 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
12 17 (6.30%) PaaS
13 16 (5.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 15 (5.56%) SaaS
15 12 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
16 11 (4.07%) Amazon ECS
16 11 (4.07%) Amazon S3
16 11 (4.07%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (4.07%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
16 11 (4.07%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 20 (7.41%) Firewall
2 16 (5.93%) Network Security
3 9 (3.33%) VPN
4 6 (2.22%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.85%) BGP
5 5 (1.85%) DNS
5 5 (1.85%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (1.85%) IPsec
5 5 (1.85%) LAN
5 5 (1.85%) NGFW
5 5 (1.85%) OSPF
5 5 (1.85%) SSL
5 5 (1.85%) VLAN
5 5 (1.85%) WAN
5 5 (1.85%) Wireless
6 4 (1.48%) IPv4
7 2 (0.74%) Internet
8 1 (0.37%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (14.07%) Power BI
2 34 (12.59%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (10.74%) Azure SQL Database
4 24 (8.89%) MySQL
4 24 (8.89%) NoSQL
5 18 (6.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 15 (5.56%) Data Lake
7 14 (5.19%) BigQuery
7 14 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (4.07%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 11 (4.07%) MongoDB
8 11 (4.07%) Redis
9 9 (3.33%) DynamoDB
9 9 (3.33%) MariaDB
10 8 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (2.59%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.85%) SQL Server
13 4 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (1.48%) InfluxDB
13 4 (1.48%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 35 (12.96%) Jenkins
2 29 (10.74%) Git
3 10 (3.70%) GitLab
3 10 (3.70%) TeamCity
4 9 (3.33%) JIRA
5 7 (2.59%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.22%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (2.22%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (1.85%) DTrace
7 5 (1.85%) GDB
7 5 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (1.85%) Subversion
8 4 (1.48%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.74%) GoCD
9 2 (0.74%) NUnit
9 2 (0.74%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.37%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 47 (17.41%) Finance
2 36 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 22 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (8.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (6.30%) Retail
5 15 (5.56%) Banking
6 11 (4.07%) Legal
7 9 (3.33%) Health Technology
7 9 (3.33%) Law
8 6 (2.22%) Games
9 3 (1.11%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.74%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.37%) Advertising
11 1 (0.37%) Back Office
11 1 (0.37%) Front Office
11 1 (0.37%) Marketing
11 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 130 (48.15%) Platform Engineer
2 74 (27.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 70 (25.93%) Senior
4 51 (18.89%) Azure Engineer
4 51 (18.89%) DevOps Engineer
5 48 (17.78%) Cloud Engineer
6 43 (15.93%) Data Engineer
7 36 (13.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 35 (12.96%) Lead
9 28 (10.37%) Senior DevOps
9 28 (10.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 26 (9.63%) AWS Engineer
11 22 (8.15%) Senior Data Engineer
12 20 (7.41%) Developer
13 19 (7.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 18 (6.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 18 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Manager
14 18 (6.67%) Data Manager
14 18 (6.67%) Engineering Manager
15 17 (6.30%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.19%) Kafka
2 10 (3.70%) HTML
2 10 (3.70%) Node.js
3 9 (3.33%) .NET
3 9 (3.33%) .NET Framework
4 8 (2.96%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (2.96%) JSON
5 7 (2.59%) ARM Templates
5 7 (2.59%) JSON Schema
5 7 (2.59%) OpenAPI
5 7 (2.59%) Swagger
5 7 (2.59%) Web Services
6 5 (1.85%) SAML
7 4 (1.48%) AWS CDK
7 4 (1.48%) CSS
8 3 (1.11%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.11%) PySpark
9 2 (0.74%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.74%) ADO
9 2 (0.74%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.04%) Data Centre
1 19 (7.04%) Linux Command Line
2 18 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (4.07%) Product Ownership
6 9 (3.33%) Clustering
7 8 (2.96%) Algorithms
7 8 (2.96%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.96%) IoT
7 8 (2.96%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.96%) Replication
8 7 (2.59%) Video\Live Streaming
9 6 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (2.22%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.22%) Wiki
10 5 (1.85%) Blog
10 5 (1.85%) Client/Server
11 4 (1.48%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 54 (20.00%) Linux
2 24 (8.89%) Windows
3 17 (6.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (5.19%) Unix
5 12 (4.44%) Windows Server
6 8 (2.96%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (2.96%) Solaris
7 6 (2.22%) Apple iOS
8 5 (1.85%) Android
9 2 (0.74%) VMS
10 1 (0.37%) CentOS
10 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (47.04%) DevOps
2 110 (40.74%) Infrastructure as Code
3 84 (31.11%) CI/CD
4 80 (29.63%) Agile
5 67 (24.81%) Analytics
6 41 (15.19%) Containerisation
7 38 (14.07%) Configuration Management
7 38 (14.07%) ETL
8 37 (13.70%) Visualisation
9 36 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
10 34 (12.59%) Coaching
10 34 (12.59%) Scrum
11 33 (12.22%) Artificial Intelligence
11 33 (12.22%) Data Engineering
12 32 (11.85%) Data Visualisation
13 31 (11.48%) Machine Learning
14 30 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
14 30 (11.11%) Software Engineering
15 29 (10.74%) Mentoring
16 28 (10.37%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 127 (47.04%) Python
2 74 (27.41%) SQL
3 45 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 41 (15.19%) Bash
5 32 (11.85%) C#
6 31 (11.48%) Java
7 24 (8.89%) Go
8 21 (7.78%) TypeScript
9 18 (6.67%) JavaScript
10 17 (6.30%) Shell Script
11 13 (4.81%) Ruby
12 11 (4.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 11 (4.07%) U-SQL
13 7 (2.59%) Groovy
13 7 (2.59%) PHP
14 6 (2.22%) C
15 5 (1.85%) OCaml
15 5 (1.85%) SystemTap
16 4 (1.48%) Bicep
16 4 (1.48%) Perl
Qualifications
1 35 (12.96%) Degree
2 18 (6.67%) AWS Certification
2 18 (6.67%) Azure Certification
2 18 (6.67%) DBS Check
3 15 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (4.07%) Security Cleared
6 10 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (3.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.59%) SC Cleared
9 5 (1.85%) CCIE
9 5 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.85%) JNCIE
10 3 (1.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (1.11%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.11%) HND
10 3 (1.11%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.11%) PhD
10 3 (1.11%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.96%) PCI DSS
1 8 (2.96%) QA
2 4 (1.48%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.37%) GDPR
4 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.37%) NIST
4 1 (0.37%) SEPA
System Software
1 68 (25.19%) Docker
2 11 (4.07%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.74%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 123 (45.56%) Terraform
2 107 (39.63%) Kubernetes
3 61 (22.59%) Ansible
4 21 (7.78%) Grafana
5 19 (7.04%) Prometheus
6 18 (6.67%) Progress Chef
7 16 (5.93%) Puppet
8 7 (2.59%) Salt
9 6 (2.22%) Packer
10 5 (1.85%) Karpenter
11 4 (1.48%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (1.48%) Istio
12 3 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.74%) Rundeck
13 2 (0.74%) SCCM
14 1 (0.37%) Consul
14 1 (0.37%) Failover Clustering
14 1 (0.37%) FortiGate
14 1 (0.37%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.37%) Rancher
Vendors
1 61 (22.59%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.89%) Databricks
3 17 (6.30%) Google
4 11 (4.07%) New Relic
5 9 (3.33%) VMware
6 8 (2.96%) Oracle
6 8 (2.96%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.96%) Serena
7 7 (2.59%) Atlassian
8 6 (2.22%) SaltStack
8 6 (2.22%) YouTube
9 4 (1.48%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.48%) Splunk
10 3 (1.11%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.74%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (0.74%) PagerDuty
12 1 (0.37%) Apple
12 1 (0.37%) Cloudera
12 1 (0.37%) Hortonworks
12 1 (0.37%) Palo Alto