Platform Engineering Jobs in England

Platform Engineering
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 26 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 300 282 370
Rank change year-on-year -18 +88 -112
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 817 1,053 1,400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.93% 1.21% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.26% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 401 711 852
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £59,875 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% +18.85%
75th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £138,750 £106,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 74,345 83,353 132,402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.31% 95.57% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 54,380 49,710 73,171
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,452 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,095 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in England

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in England

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in England over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in England

Platform Engineering
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineering within the England region over the 6 months to 26 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
London -20 291 £85,000 -5.56% 160
North of England +40 185 £60,000 -11.11% 50
South East +40 137 £67,500 -9.40% 73
South West +17 89 £67,500 +3.29% 17
North West -7 83 £65,000 -7.14% 31
Yorkshire +74 78 £55,000 -15.38% 14
Midlands +11 78 £60,000 -14.29% 11
West Midlands +16 39 £65,000 -7.14% 6
East Midlands 0 39 £60,000 +9.09% 5
North East +18 26 £80,000 +67.81% 5
East of England +26 20 - - 13
Platform Engineering
UK

Platform Engineering
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 17 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
1 17 (2.08%) Apache Spark
2 15 (1.84%) Confluence
3 9 (1.10%) Apache
4 2 (0.24%) nginx
5 1 (0.12%) IIS
5 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.12%) SAS
5 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 449 (54.96%) Azure
2 409 (50.06%) GCP
3 367 (44.92%) AWS
4 140 (17.14%) Azure DevOps
5 67 (8.20%) Power Platform
6 62 (7.59%) PaaS
7 49 (6.00%) GitHub
7 49 (6.00%) SaaS
8 42 (5.14%) Azure Data Factory
9 38 (4.65%) IaaS
9 38 (4.65%) Serverless
10 37 (4.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 34 (4.16%) Azure AKS
12 25 (3.06%) Cloud Computing
13 24 (2.94%) Entra ID
14 22 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
15 19 (2.33%) PowerApps
16 18 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
16 18 (2.20%) Power Automate
17 16 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.79%) Firewall
1 31 (3.79%) Network Security
2 25 (3.06%) DNS
3 14 (1.71%) TCP/IP
4 12 (1.47%) VPN
5 11 (1.35%) LAN
5 11 (1.35%) WAN
6 9 (1.10%) DHCP
7 7 (0.86%) Internet
8 6 (0.73%) SSL
8 6 (0.73%) VLAN
8 6 (0.73%) Wireless
9 5 (0.61%) BGP
9 5 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (0.61%) IPsec
9 5 (0.61%) NGFW
9 5 (0.61%) OSPF
10 3 (0.37%) IPv4
11 2 (0.24%) tcpdump
11 2 (0.24%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 346 (42.35%) BigQuery
2 326 (39.90%) Looker
3 218 (26.68%) Data Warehouse
4 58 (7.10%) Power BI
5 43 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
6 32 (3.92%) Data Lake
7 30 (3.67%) MySQL
8 29 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
9 27 (3.30%) NoSQL
10 18 (2.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 17 (2.08%) MongoDB
11 17 (2.08%) Redis
12 12 (1.47%) MariaDB
13 11 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (1.35%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 11 (1.35%) RDBMS
13 11 (1.35%) Relational Database
14 10 (1.22%) Hadoop
14 10 (1.22%) Metadata
15 9 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 65 (7.96%) Jenkins
2 55 (6.73%) Git
3 25 (3.06%) JIRA
4 23 (2.82%) GitLab
5 16 (1.96%) Octopus Deploy
5 16 (1.96%) TeamCity
6 11 (1.35%) Bitbucket
7 9 (1.10%) Artifactory
8 7 (0.86%) Snyk
8 7 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (0.86%) Subversion
9 6 (0.73%) RStudio
9 6 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.61%) DTrace
10 5 (0.61%) GDB
10 5 (0.61%) Spinnaker
11 4 (0.49%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.24%) NUnit
12 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 373 (45.65%) Analytical Skills
2 115 (14.08%) Social Skills
3 95 (11.63%) Finance
4 65 (7.96%) Billing
5 35 (4.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (3.92%) Retail
7 28 (3.43%) Banking
8 24 (2.94%) Law
9 19 (2.33%) Legal
10 11 (1.35%) Games
10 11 (1.35%) Health Technology
11 9 (1.10%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.37%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.37%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.37%) Tech for Good
12 3 (0.37%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.24%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.24%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.24%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.24%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 401 (49.08%) Platform Engineer
2 216 (26.44%) Data Engineer
3 155 (18.97%) Principal Engineer
4 151 (18.48%) Principal Data Engineer
5 146 (17.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 126 (15.42%) Architect
7 115 (14.08%) Data Architect
8 98 (12.00%) Cloud Engineer
9 89 (10.89%) Senior
10 88 (10.77%) Engineering Manager
11 84 (10.28%) Data Manager
12 82 (10.04%) Azure Engineer
13 63 (7.71%) DevOps Engineer
13 63 (7.71%) Lead
14 60 (7.34%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 36 (4.41%) AWS Engineer
16 31 (3.79%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 28 (3.43%) Senior Data Engineer
18 25 (3.06%) AWS Platform Engineer
18 25 (3.06%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.94%) Kafka
2 18 (2.20%) ARM Templates
3 15 (1.84%) .NET
4 14 (1.71%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (1.22%) Node.js
6 9 (1.10%) .NET Framework
6 9 (1.10%) JSON
6 9 (1.10%) SAML
7 8 (0.98%) HTML
8 7 (0.86%) React
8 7 (0.86%) Web Services
9 6 (0.73%) Lambda Expressions
10 5 (0.61%) YAML
11 4 (0.49%) ADO
11 4 (0.49%) CSS
11 4 (0.49%) FastAPI
11 4 (0.49%) REST
12 3 (0.37%) AWS CDK
12 3 (0.37%) Middleware
12 3 (0.37%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 261 (31.95%) Self-Motivation
2 82 (10.04%) Product Ownership
3 33 (4.04%) Cloud Native
4 30 (3.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 25 (3.06%) Data Centre
6 21 (2.57%) Linux Command Line
7 20 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (1.47%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.35%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.10%) Clustering
11 9 (1.10%) Cyberattack
11 9 (1.10%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.10%) Video\Live Streaming
12 8 (0.98%) Algorithms
12 8 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (0.98%) Onboarding
12 8 (0.98%) Replication
13 7 (0.86%) Private Cloud
14 6 (0.73%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 86 (10.53%) Linux
2 39 (4.77%) Windows
3 25 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (2.33%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.59%) Unix
6 8 (0.98%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (0.98%) Solaris
7 7 (0.86%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.73%) Android
9 4 (0.49%) CentOS
9 4 (0.49%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.49%) VMS
10 3 (0.37%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (51.90%) DevOps
2 396 (48.47%) Problem-Solving
3 368 (45.04%) Data Engineering
4 344 (42.11%) Agile
5 300 (36.72%) Mentoring
6 234 (28.64%) ETL
7 228 (27.91%) CI/CD
8 208 (25.46%) Data Modelling
9 198 (24.24%) Data Pipeline
10 194 (23.75%) Infrastructure as Code
11 166 (20.32%) Data Science
12 152 (18.60%) DataOps
13 145 (17.75%) Change Management
14 133 (16.28%) Data Governance
15 124 (15.18%) Innovative Thinking
16 121 (14.81%) Data Integration
17 118 (14.44%) Data Architecture
18 116 (14.20%) Data Security
19 114 (13.95%) Scrum
20 111 (13.59%) ERD
Programming Languages
1 215 (26.32%) Python
2 121 (14.81%) SQL
3 98 (12.00%) PowerShell
4 75 (9.18%) Bash
5 64 (7.83%) Java
6 42 (5.14%) Go
7 41 (5.02%) C#
8 28 (3.43%) Bicep
9 18 (2.20%) JavaScript
9 18 (2.20%) Scala
10 16 (1.96%) Ruby
10 16 (1.96%) TypeScript
11 11 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 11 (1.35%) Perl
11 11 (1.35%) Shell Script
11 11 (1.35%) U-SQL
12 9 (1.10%) C++
12 9 (1.10%) Groovy
13 8 (0.98%) C
14 7 (0.86%) PHP
Qualifications
1 44 (5.39%) Degree
2 24 (2.94%) AWS Certification
2 24 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (2.69%) Security Cleared
4 20 (2.45%) Azure Certification
4 20 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (2.20%) DBS Check
6 17 (2.08%) SC Cleared
7 13 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (0.86%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.61%) CCIE
9 5 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.61%) JNCIE
9 5 (0.61%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.61%) PhD
10 3 (0.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (0.37%) CISSP
10 3 (0.37%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.24%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 258 (31.58%) GDPR
2 136 (16.65%) Data Quality
3 77 (9.42%) QA
4 17 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.22%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.37%) NIST
7 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 126 (15.42%) Docker
2 32 (3.92%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.86%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.37%) KVM
6 3 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.24%) Firmware
8 1 (0.12%) Ceph
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.12%) vSphere
8 1 (0.12%) Xen
Systems Management
1 231 (28.27%) Terraform
2 194 (23.75%) Kubernetes
3 97 (11.87%) Ansible
4 32 (3.92%) Grafana
5 31 (3.79%) Puppet
6 29 (3.55%) Progress Chef
7 28 (3.43%) Prometheus
8 12 (1.47%) Salt
9 11 (1.35%) Istio
10 10 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 10 (1.22%) Packer
11 6 (0.73%) Argo
11 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.49%) Karpenter
12 4 (0.49%) Kibana
13 3 (0.37%) logstash
14 2 (0.24%) Kubeflow
14 2 (0.24%) Podman
14 2 (0.24%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 369 (45.17%) Google
2 122 (14.93%) Microsoft
3 34 (4.16%) Databricks
4 13 (1.59%) Red Hat
5 11 (1.35%) New Relic
6 10 (1.22%) Atlassian
7 9 (1.10%) SaltStack
8 8 (0.98%) Oracle
8 8 (0.98%) Serena
8 8 (0.98%) Splunk
8 8 (0.98%) YouTube
9 7 (0.86%) VMware
10 6 (0.73%) Alteryx
11 5 (0.61%) LogicMonitor
11 5 (0.61%) PagerDuty
12 3 (0.37%) AppDynamics
12 3 (0.37%) Facebook
13 2 (0.24%) Cloudera
13 2 (0.24%) Hortonworks
13 2 (0.24%) Salesforce