Platform Engineering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 315 309 376
Rank change year-on-year -6 +67 -120
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 904 1,112 1,610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.90% 1.13% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 1.18% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 450 752 972
10th Percentile £47,725 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% +20.83%
75th Percentile £96,539 £102,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £136,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,549 94,155 156,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 95.59% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 60,063 55,401 82,663
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the UK

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in the UK

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in the UK

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 -2 820 £75,000 - 177
UK excluding London +90 563 £65,000 -3.70% 96
London -19 293 £85,000 -5.56% 90
Work from Home -57 271 £75,000 -6.25% 109
North of England +39 186 £60,000 -11.11% 40
South East +44 137 £67,500 -9.40% 11
South West +20 89 £67,500 +3.29% 13
North West -18 84 £65,000 -7.14% 26
Yorkshire +80 78 £55,000 -14.75% 12
Midlands +11 78 £60,000 -14.29% 12
Scotland -25 42 £72,500 +18.85% 12
East Midlands +13 39 £60,000 +9.09% 5
West Midlands +9 39 £65,000 -8.77% 7
North East +13 26 £80,000 +67.81% 2
East of England +21 20 - - 4
Wales +8 11 £55,000 +19.02% 2

Platform Engineering
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 18 (1.99%) Confluence
2 17 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (1.88%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.00%) Apache
4 3 (0.33%) SAS
5 2 (0.22%) nginx
6 1 (0.11%) IIS
6 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 493 (54.54%) Azure
2 439 (48.56%) GCP
3 406 (44.91%) AWS
4 160 (17.70%) Azure DevOps
5 73 (8.08%) Power Platform
6 70 (7.74%) PaaS
7 58 (6.42%) GitHub
8 55 (6.08%) Serverless
9 49 (5.42%) SaaS
10 45 (4.98%) IaaS
11 42 (4.65%) Azure Data Factory
12 39 (4.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 38 (4.20%) Azure AKS
14 31 (3.43%) Cloud Computing
15 28 (3.10%) AWS CloudFormation
15 28 (3.10%) Entra ID
16 22 (2.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 22 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
17 20 (2.21%) PowerApps
18 19 (2.10%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.98%) Firewall
2 31 (3.43%) Network Security
3 28 (3.10%) DNS
4 16 (1.77%) VPN
5 14 (1.55%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.22%) LAN
6 11 (1.22%) WAN
7 9 (1.00%) DHCP
8 7 (0.77%) Internet
8 7 (0.77%) IPv4
9 6 (0.66%) SSL
9 6 (0.66%) VLAN
9 6 (0.66%) Wireless
10 5 (0.55%) BGP
10 5 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.55%) IPsec
10 5 (0.55%) NGFW
10 5 (0.55%) OSPF
11 2 (0.22%) tcpdump
11 2 (0.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 372 (41.15%) BigQuery
2 352 (38.94%) Looker
3 228 (25.22%) Data Warehouse
4 64 (7.08%) Power BI
5 46 (5.09%) Azure SQL Database
6 33 (3.65%) Data Lake
6 33 (3.65%) NoSQL
7 30 (3.32%) MySQL
8 29 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (1.99%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 17 (1.88%) MongoDB
10 17 (1.88%) Redis
11 14 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (1.33%) MariaDB
12 12 (1.33%) SQL Server
13 11 (1.22%) Metadata
13 11 (1.22%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 11 (1.22%) RDBMS
13 11 (1.22%) Relational Database
14 10 (1.11%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 74 (8.19%) Jenkins
2 62 (6.86%) Git
3 34 (3.76%) JIRA
4 23 (2.54%) GitLab
5 16 (1.77%) Octopus Deploy
5 16 (1.77%) TeamCity
6 13 (1.44%) Artifactory
6 13 (1.44%) Bitbucket
7 11 (1.22%) Snyk
7 11 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (1.00%) Subversion
9 8 (0.88%) Spinnaker
10 6 (0.66%) RStudio
10 6 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.55%) DTrace
11 5 (0.55%) GDB
12 4 (0.44%) CircleCI
13 2 (0.22%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.22%) GoCD
13 2 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 400 (44.25%) Analytical Skills
2 124 (13.72%) Social Skills
3 112 (12.39%) Finance
4 72 (7.96%) Billing
5 48 (5.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 43 (4.76%) Banking
7 34 (3.76%) Retail
8 29 (3.21%) Law
9 19 (2.10%) Legal
10 18 (1.99%) Health Technology
10 18 (1.99%) Retail Banking
11 12 (1.33%) Games
12 6 (0.66%) Marketing
13 5 (0.55%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.33%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.33%) Public Sector
14 3 (0.33%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.33%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.22%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 446 (49.34%) Platform Engineer
2 238 (26.33%) Data Engineer
3 175 (19.36%) Principal Engineer
4 171 (18.92%) Principal Data Engineer
5 161 (17.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 131 (14.49%) Architect
7 115 (12.72%) Data Architect
8 110 (12.17%) Cloud Engineer
9 108 (11.95%) Senior
10 95 (10.51%) Engineering Manager
11 91 (10.07%) Data Manager
12 90 (9.96%) Azure Engineer
13 75 (8.30%) Lead
14 71 (7.85%) DevOps Engineer
15 67 (7.41%) Azure Platform Engineer
16 45 (4.98%) AWS Engineer
17 38 (4.20%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 32 (3.54%) Senior DevOps
18 32 (3.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 31 (3.43%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.65%) Kafka
2 21 (2.32%) ARM Templates
3 17 (1.88%) Node.js
4 16 (1.77%) JSON
5 15 (1.66%) .NET
5 15 (1.66%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (1.22%) SAML
7 9 (1.00%) .NET Framework
8 7 (0.77%) HTML
8 7 (0.77%) JSON Schema
8 7 (0.77%) OpenAPI
8 7 (0.77%) React
8 7 (0.77%) Swagger
8 7 (0.77%) Web Services
9 6 (0.66%) Lambda Expressions
9 6 (0.66%) REST
9 6 (0.66%) YAML
10 4 (0.44%) ADO
10 4 (0.44%) CSS
10 4 (0.44%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 280 (30.97%) Self-Motivation
2 90 (9.96%) Product Ownership
3 37 (4.09%) Cloud Native
4 30 (3.32%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (2.99%) Data Centre
6 22 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
7 21 (2.32%) Linux Command Line
8 18 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
9 17 (1.88%) Public Cloud
10 12 (1.33%) Cyberattack
11 11 (1.22%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.11%) Management Information System
13 9 (1.00%) Clustering
13 9 (1.00%) Video\Live Streaming
14 8 (0.88%) Algorithms
14 8 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (0.88%) Onboarding
14 8 (0.88%) Replication
15 7 (0.77%) Low-Code
15 7 (0.77%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 99 (10.95%) Linux
2 45 (4.98%) Windows
3 25 (2.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (2.43%) Unix
4 22 (2.43%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.88%) Oracle Linux
5 8 (0.88%) Solaris
6 7 (0.77%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.66%) Android
8 4 (0.44%) CentOS
8 4 (0.44%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.44%) VMS
9 3 (0.33%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 489 (54.09%) DevOps
2 424 (46.90%) Problem-Solving
3 399 (44.14%) Data Engineering
4 387 (42.81%) Agile
5 324 (35.84%) Mentoring
6 268 (29.65%) CI/CD
7 247 (27.32%) ETL
8 219 (24.23%) Data Pipeline
9 217 (24.00%) Data Modelling
10 214 (23.67%) Infrastructure as Code
11 195 (21.57%) Data Science
12 171 (18.92%) DataOps
13 165 (18.25%) Change Management
14 137 (15.15%) Data Governance
15 124 (13.72%) Innovative Thinking
16 122 (13.50%) Scrum
17 121 (13.38%) Data Integration
18 119 (13.16%) Data Architecture
19 116 (12.83%) Data Security
20 111 (12.28%) ERD
Programming Languages
1 235 (26.00%) Python
2 133 (14.71%) SQL
3 111 (12.28%) PowerShell
4 86 (9.51%) Bash
5 71 (7.85%) Java
6 43 (4.76%) Go
7 41 (4.54%) C#
8 32 (3.54%) Bicep
9 25 (2.77%) JavaScript
10 23 (2.54%) TypeScript
11 22 (2.43%) Ruby
12 19 (2.10%) Scala
12 19 (2.10%) Shell Script
13 11 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 11 (1.22%) Perl
13 11 (1.22%) U-SQL
14 10 (1.11%) Groovy
15 9 (1.00%) C++
16 8 (0.88%) C
17 7 (0.77%) R
Qualifications
1 48 (5.31%) Degree
2 25 (2.77%) AWS Certification
3 24 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (2.54%) Security Cleared
5 20 (2.21%) Azure Certification
5 20 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (1.99%) DBS Check
6 18 (1.99%) SC Cleared
7 14 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (0.77%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.55%) CCIE
10 5 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (0.55%) JNCIE
10 5 (0.55%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.55%) PhD
11 3 (0.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.33%) CISSP
11 3 (0.33%) HND
11 3 (0.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (30.53%) GDPR
2 138 (15.27%) Data Quality
3 84 (9.29%) QA
4 17 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.11%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.33%) NIST
7 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 143 (15.82%) Docker
2 37 (4.09%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.55%) KVM
7 3 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.33%) Xen
8 2 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.22%) Firmware
9 1 (0.11%) Ceph
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 255 (28.21%) Terraform
2 215 (23.78%) Kubernetes
3 102 (11.28%) Ansible
4 37 (4.09%) Grafana
5 34 (3.76%) Prometheus
5 34 (3.76%) Puppet
6 32 (3.54%) Progress Chef
7 15 (1.66%) Istio
7 15 (1.66%) Salt
8 12 (1.33%) Packer
9 10 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.66%) Argo
10 6 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.55%) Karpenter
12 4 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.44%) Kibana
13 3 (0.33%) logstash
14 2 (0.22%) Kubeflow
14 2 (0.22%) Podman
14 2 (0.22%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 398 (44.03%) Google
2 132 (14.60%) Microsoft
3 35 (3.87%) Databricks
4 13 (1.44%) Red Hat
5 12 (1.33%) Atlassian
6 11 (1.22%) New Relic
6 11 (1.22%) Splunk
6 11 (1.22%) VMware
7 9 (1.00%) SaltStack
8 8 (0.88%) Oracle
8 8 (0.88%) Serena
8 8 (0.88%) YouTube
9 6 (0.66%) Alteryx
10 5 (0.55%) LogicMonitor
10 5 (0.55%) PagerDuty
11 3 (0.33%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.33%) Facebook
12 2 (0.22%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.22%) Hortonworks
12 2 (0.22%) Nintex