AWS Platform Engineer Jobs in England

Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > England

The median Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in England is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 844 840 1143
Rank change year-on-year -4 +303 -324
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Platform Engineer 19 54 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.020% 0.066% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.072% 0.031%
Number of salaries quoted 18 54 39
10th Percentile £56,225 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £59,063 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £71,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.30% -5.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £110,625 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £118,000 £99,250 £92,600
UK median annual salary £85,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +21.43% +7.69% -7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

AWS Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Platform Engineer in England

AWS Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for AWS Platform Engineer in England

AWS Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Platform Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS Platform Engineer in England

AWS Platform Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Platform Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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 +94 15 £91,250 +7.35% 3
Yorkshire +55 1 £60,000 -12.73%
West Midlands -13 1 £58,500 -16.43% 1
North of England -16 1 £60,000 -14.29%
Midlands -41 1 £58,500 -19.31% 1
South West -52 1 £60,000 -17.24%
AWS Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, AWS 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 across the England region featuring AWS Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) AWS
1 19 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 16 (84.21%) Terraform
3 15 (78.95%) CI/CD
4 14 (73.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (73.68%) Kubernetes
5 12 (63.16%) DevOps
6 11 (57.89%) Docker
7 9 (47.37%) Python
7 9 (47.37%) Containerisation
8 7 (36.84%) Jenkins
9 6 (31.58%) AWS Certification
9 6 (31.58%) Linux
10 5 (26.32%) Serverless
10 5 (26.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (26.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
10 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
10 5 (26.32%) Git
10 5 (26.32%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (21.05%) Ansible
11 4 (21.05%) GitHub
11 4 (21.05%) Bash
11 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Automation
11 4 (21.05%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (15.79%) Karpenter
12 3 (15.79%) Grafana
12 3 (15.79%) Prometheus
12 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
12 3 (15.79%) Deployment Automation

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (10.53%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (26.32%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (26.32%) Serverless
3 4 (21.05%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (21.05%) GitHub
4 3 (15.79%) Amazon S3
4 3 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (15.79%) PaaS
4 3 (15.79%) Route 53
4 3 (15.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (5.26%) CloudFront
6 1 (5.26%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.26%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Jenkins
2 5 (26.32%) Git
3 2 (10.53%) Bitbucket
3 2 (10.53%) CircleCI
3 2 (10.53%) JIRA
3 2 (10.53%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (10.53%) Subversion
4 1 (5.26%) GitLab
4 1 (5.26%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (15.79%) Finance
1 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Games
2 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (10.53%) AWS CDK
3 1 (5.26%) Middleware
3 1 (5.26%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.26%) Blockchain
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.26%) CentOS
3 1 (5.26%) Ubuntu
3 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 15 (78.95%) CI/CD
3 14 (73.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (63.16%) DevOps
5 9 (47.37%) Containerisation
6 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (15.79%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (15.79%) Microservices
7 3 (15.79%) Migration
7 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (10.53%) Agile
8 2 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2 (10.53%) Data Migration
8 2 (10.53%) Identity Access Management
8 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Management
8 2 (10.53%) Innovative Thinking
8 2 (10.53%) Resource Allocation
8 2 (10.53%) Roadmaps
8 2 (10.53%) Runbook
8 2 (10.53%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) Python
2 4 (21.05%) Bash
3 2 (10.53%) Java
4 1 (5.26%) Groovy
4 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.26%) Ruby
4 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) AWS Certification
2 5 (26.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (5.26%) Degree
4 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (57.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (84.21%) Terraform
2 14 (73.68%) Kubernetes
3 4 (21.05%) Ansible
4 3 (15.79%) Grafana
4 3 (15.79%) Karpenter
4 3 (15.79%) Prometheus
5 2 (10.53%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Atlassian