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 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 480 519 664
Rank change year-on-year +39 +145 -252
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 484 562 669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.54% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.59% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 272 387 468
10th Percentile £55,000 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £66,425 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.15% +20.77% +15.79%

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 93,314 94,990 150,394
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.53% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,914 59,752 85,367
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 3 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 3 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 +28 410 £75,000 +7.14% 102
UK excluding London +41 292 £65,000 -2.15% 51
London +84 170 £82,500 +3.13% 53
Work from Home +8 146 £75,000 +7.14% 50
North of England +34 114 £60,000 -13.95% 13
North West -13 57 £65,000 -7.14% 7
Scotland -23 47 £62,500 -10.00% 4
Yorkshire +71 46 £60,000 -12.37% 5
South West -25 38 £67,500 -2.80% 9
Midlands +19 37 £65,000 -7.14% 6
South East -7 32 £60,000 +14.29% 7
West Midlands +8 20 £70,000 - 3
East Midlands +9 17 £60,000 -18.64% 2
East of England +17 13 £80,000 +72.04% 8
North East +7 13 £80,000 +14.29% 1
Wales +15 11 £55,000 +37.50% 2

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

For the 6 months to 3 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.

1 441 (91.12%) Platform Engineering
2 299 (61.78%) DevOps
3 236 (48.76%) Agile
4 217 (44.83%) Problem-Solving
5 198 (40.91%) GCP
6 182 (37.60%) Azure
7 180 (37.19%) Google
7 180 (37.19%) Data Pipeline
8 177 (36.57%) Analytical Skills
9 175 (36.16%) BigQuery
9 175 (36.16%) Data Engineering
10 171 (35.33%) Terraform
11 170 (35.12%) Data Science
11 170 (35.12%) DataOps
11 170 (35.12%) Mentoring
12 164 (33.88%) Python
13 162 (33.47%) Change Management
14 161 (33.26%) GDPR
15 160 (33.06%) Self-Motivation
16 159 (32.85%) Looker
17 147 (30.37%) CI/CD
18 146 (30.17%) Kubernetes
19 145 (29.96%) Infrastructure as Code
20 134 (27.69%) AWS
21 101 (20.87%) Docker
22 84 (17.36%) Linux
23 79 (16.32%) Finance
24 74 (15.29%) Jenkins
25 73 (15.08%) PowerShell
26 70 (14.46%) Bash

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 (4.13%) Camunda
2 11 (2.27%) Confluence
3 10 (2.07%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.62%) SAS
6 2 (0.41%) IIS
7 1 (0.21%) Apache
7 1 (0.21%) CMS
7 1 (0.21%) nginx
7 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.21%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 198 (40.91%) GCP
2 182 (37.60%) Azure
3 134 (27.69%) AWS
4 49 (10.12%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (7.85%) GitHub
5 38 (7.85%) Serverless
6 37 (7.64%) PaaS
7 28 (5.79%) Azure AKS
8 26 (5.37%) IaaS
9 22 (4.55%) Power Platform
9 22 (4.55%) SaaS
10 19 (3.93%) Cloud Computing
11 18 (3.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 17 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
12 17 (3.51%) OpenShift
13 16 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (3.31%) Amazon S3
13 16 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (3.31%) Route 53
13 16 (3.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.55%) Firewall
2 19 (3.93%) Network Security
3 13 (2.69%) DNS
4 7 (1.45%) IPv4
4 7 (1.45%) VPN
5 4 (0.83%) Internet
6 2 (0.41%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.21%) Broadband
7 1 (0.21%) DHCP
7 1 (0.21%) FTP
7 1 (0.21%) SSL
7 1 (0.21%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.21%) VLAN
7 1 (0.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (36.16%) BigQuery
2 159 (32.85%) Looker
3 20 (4.13%) MongoDB
3 20 (4.13%) Power BI
4 18 (3.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (3.31%) MySQL
6 14 (2.89%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (2.07%) Data Lake
9 9 (1.86%) NoSQL
10 8 (1.65%) MariaDB
10 8 (1.65%) Redis
11 7 (1.45%) Big Data
11 7 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.45%) SQL Server
12 6 (1.24%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.83%) InfluxDB
14 3 (0.62%) Ingres
15 2 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 74 (15.29%) Jenkins
2 42 (8.68%) Git
3 24 (4.96%) CircleCI
4 23 (4.75%) JIRA
5 20 (4.13%) Gradle
5 20 (4.13%) Maven
5 20 (4.13%) Travis CI
6 14 (2.89%) Artifactory
6 14 (2.89%) TeamCity
7 11 (2.27%) Bitbucket
7 11 (2.27%) Octopus Deploy
7 11 (2.27%) Snyk
8 9 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (1.86%) Subversion
9 8 (1.65%) GitLab
10 6 (1.24%) RStudio
10 6 (1.24%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (1.03%) DTrace
11 5 (1.03%) GDB
12 2 (0.41%) GoCD
General
1 177 (36.57%) Analytical Skills
2 79 (16.32%) Finance
3 66 (13.64%) Social Skills
4 45 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (5.79%) Law
6 24 (4.96%) Legal
6 24 (4.96%) Retail
7 23 (4.75%) Banking
8 11 (2.27%) Retail Banking
9 7 (1.45%) Games
10 5 (1.03%) Health Technology
11 4 (0.83%) Front Office
12 3 (0.62%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.41%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.21%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.21%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.21%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.21%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.21%) Military
14 1 (0.21%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.13%) Spring
1 20 (4.13%) Spring Boot
2 16 (3.31%) Kafka
3 14 (2.89%) ARM Templates
4 10 (2.07%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (1.45%) .NET
6 6 (1.24%) SAML
7 4 (0.83%) Node.js
7 4 (0.83%) REST
8 3 (0.62%) PySpark
8 3 (0.62%) React
9 2 (0.41%) AWS CDK
9 2 (0.41%) Loki
9 2 (0.41%) Middleware
10 1 (0.21%) ADO
10 1 (0.21%) Anaconda
10 1 (0.21%) JSON
10 1 (0.21%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.21%) RESTful
10 1 (0.21%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 160 (33.06%) Self-Motivation
2 27 (5.58%) Hybrid Cloud
3 23 (4.75%) Linux Command Line
4 18 (3.72%) Data Centre
5 16 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.07%) Cloud Native
6 10 (2.07%) Product Ownership
7 9 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.65%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.45%) Clustering
9 7 (1.45%) Replication
10 6 (1.24%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.03%) Blog
11 5 (1.03%) Client/Server
12 4 (0.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 2 (0.41%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.41%) Private Cloud
14 1 (0.21%) Fixed Income
14 1 (0.21%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 84 (17.36%) Linux
2 28 (5.79%) Windows
3 27 (5.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (2.89%) Unix
5 12 (2.48%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.45%) Oracle Linux
6 7 (1.45%) Solaris
7 4 (0.83%) VMS
8 3 (0.62%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.41%) CentOS
9 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (91.12%) Platform Engineering
2 299 (61.78%) DevOps
3 236 (48.76%) Agile
4 217 (44.83%) Problem-Solving
5 180 (37.19%) Data Pipeline
6 175 (36.16%) Data Engineering
7 170 (35.12%) Data Science
7 170 (35.12%) DataOps
7 170 (35.12%) Mentoring
8 162 (33.47%) Change Management
9 147 (30.37%) CI/CD
10 145 (29.96%) Infrastructure as Code
11 64 (13.22%) Containerisation
12 55 (11.36%) Software Engineering
13 46 (9.50%) Configuration Management
14 45 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
15 38 (7.85%) Analytics
16 35 (7.23%) Infrastructure Automation
17 28 (5.79%) Cloud Security
18 25 (5.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 164 (33.88%) Python
2 73 (15.08%) PowerShell
3 70 (14.46%) Bash
4 62 (12.81%) Java
4 62 (12.81%) SQL
5 33 (6.82%) Ruby
6 29 (5.99%) Go
7 26 (5.37%) C#
8 25 (5.17%) Bicep
9 13 (2.69%) Perl
10 12 (2.48%) JavaScript
11 11 (2.27%) Groovy
12 8 (1.65%) C
12 8 (1.65%) Shell Script
13 7 (1.45%) PHP
13 7 (1.45%) R
13 7 (1.45%) TypeScript
14 5 (1.03%) OCaml
14 5 (1.03%) SystemTap
15 4 (0.83%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (3.51%) Degree
2 15 (3.10%) Security Cleared
3 13 (2.69%) SC Cleared
4 10 (2.07%) Azure Certification
5 8 (1.65%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (1.24%) 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%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.41%) PhD
10 1 (0.21%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.21%) RHCE
10 1 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (33.26%) GDPR
2 14 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.65%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.24%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.03%) QA
6 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 101 (20.87%) Docker
2 14 (2.89%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (2.69%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.21%) KVM
Systems Management
1 171 (35.33%) Terraform
2 146 (30.17%) Kubernetes
3 64 (13.22%) Ansible
4 34 (7.02%) Puppet
5 29 (5.99%) Progress Chef
6 26 (5.37%) Grafana
7 22 (4.55%) Prometheus
8 19 (3.93%) Salt
9 14 (2.89%) Istio
10 12 (2.48%) Packer
11 4 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.83%) Kibana
12 3 (0.62%) logstash
13 2 (0.41%) Argo
13 2 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
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
1 180 (37.19%) Google
2 49 (10.12%) Microsoft
3 20 (4.13%) Pega
4 15 (3.10%) Databricks
5 11 (2.27%) Red Hat
6 10 (2.07%) Atlassian
7 9 (1.86%) SaltStack
7 9 (1.86%) VMware
8 8 (1.65%) New Relic
9 7 (1.45%) Oracle
9 7 (1.45%) Serena
9 7 (1.45%) Splunk
10 6 (1.24%) Alteryx
11 5 (1.03%) LogicMonitor
11 5 (1.03%) PagerDuty
12 4 (0.83%) YouTube
13 2 (0.41%) Confluent
13 2 (0.41%) Dataiku
14 1 (0.21%) Palo Alto
14 1 (0.21%) Wallstreet Suite