Platform Engineering Jobs in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 323 403 364
Rank change year-on-year +80 -39 -129
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 562 408 678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.77% 0.70% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.73% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 188 318 460
10th Percentile £39,667 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60,636 55,896 68,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.65% 95.56% 94.25%
Number of salaries quoted 41,817 28,997 41,145
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in the UK excluding London

Platform Engineering
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
North of England +40 185 £60,000 -11.11% 50
South East +40 137 £67,500 -9.40% 74
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
Scotland -27 42 £72,500 +18.85% 16
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
Wales +10 11 £55,000 +19.02% 2
Platform Engineering
UK

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (0.89%) Confluence
2 2 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.36%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.18%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.18%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 364 (64.77%) GCP
2 327 (58.19%) Azure
3 245 (43.59%) AWS
4 121 (21.53%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (8.36%) Power Platform
6 24 (4.27%) Azure Data Factory
7 20 (3.56%) Cloud Computing
8 19 (3.38%) PaaS
9 18 (3.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 17 (3.02%) SaaS
11 16 (2.85%) GitHub
12 15 (2.67%) IaaS
13 14 (2.49%) PowerApps
14 12 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
15 11 (1.96%) Azure Key Vault
15 11 (1.96%) Datadog
15 11 (1.96%) Power Automate
16 10 (1.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 10 (1.78%) Azure Monitor
16 10 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.91%) Firewall
2 20 (3.56%) Network Security
3 15 (2.67%) DNS
4 11 (1.96%) LAN
4 11 (1.96%) TCP/IP
4 11 (1.96%) WAN
5 9 (1.60%) VPN
6 6 (1.07%) DHCP
6 6 (1.07%) Wireless
7 5 (0.89%) BGP
7 5 (0.89%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (0.89%) IPsec
7 5 (0.89%) NGFW
7 5 (0.89%) OSPF
7 5 (0.89%) SSL
7 5 (0.89%) VLAN
8 1 (0.18%) 2G
8 1 (0.18%) 3G
8 1 (0.18%) 4G
8 1 (0.18%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 334 (59.43%) BigQuery
2 324 (57.65%) Looker
3 189 (33.63%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (7.47%) Power BI
5 19 (3.38%) Data Lake
6 17 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
7 16 (2.85%) MySQL
8 15 (2.67%) NoSQL
9 13 (2.31%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 11 (1.96%) MongoDB
10 11 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (1.42%) Redis
12 6 (1.07%) MariaDB
13 5 (0.89%) SQL Server
14 3 (0.53%) Ingres
14 3 (0.53%) Metadata
14 3 (0.53%) RDBMS
14 3 (0.53%) Relational Database
14 3 (0.53%) Tableau
15 2 (0.36%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 34 (6.05%) Git
2 26 (4.63%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.14%) JIRA
4 9 (1.60%) GitLab
5 6 (1.07%) RStudio
5 6 (1.07%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (0.89%) Artifactory
6 5 (0.89%) Spinnaker
7 4 (0.71%) Snyk
8 3 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.36%) NUnit
9 2 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.36%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.18%) GoCD
10 1 (0.18%) Maven
10 1 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.18%) Spock
10 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 353 (62.81%) Analytical Skills
2 73 (12.99%) Social Skills
3 72 (12.81%) Billing
4 43 (7.65%) Finance
5 26 (4.63%) Retail
6 22 (3.91%) Banking
7 9 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (1.60%) Law
7 9 (1.60%) Retail Banking
8 8 (1.42%) Legal
9 4 (0.71%) Marketing
10 3 (0.53%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.53%) Games
10 3 (0.53%) Health Technology
10 3 (0.53%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.36%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.36%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.18%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.18%) Military
12 1 (0.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 266 (47.33%) Platform Engineer
2 179 (31.85%) Data Engineer
3 158 (28.11%) Principal Data Engineer
3 158 (28.11%) Principal Engineer
4 110 (19.57%) Architect
5 97 (17.26%) Data Architect
6 87 (15.48%) Engineering Manager
7 85 (15.12%) Data Manager
8 72 (12.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 52 (9.25%) Cloud Engineer
10 37 (6.58%) Lead
11 28 (4.98%) Azure Engineer
12 25 (4.45%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 17 (3.02%) Lead Data Engineer
14 16 (2.85%) DevOps Engineer
15 15 (2.67%) Senior
16 13 (2.31%) Business Intelligence Manager
17 10 (1.78%) Developer
18 8 (1.42%) AWS Engineer
19 7 (1.25%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.02%) ARM Templates
2 9 (1.60%) .NET
2 9 (1.60%) .NET Framework
3 7 (1.25%) JSON
3 7 (1.25%) Web Services
4 5 (0.89%) YAML
5 4 (0.71%) CSS
5 4 (0.71%) HTML
6 3 (0.53%) AWS CDK
6 3 (0.53%) Node.js
6 3 (0.53%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (0.36%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.36%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.36%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.36%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.36%) REST
8 1 (0.18%) Middleware
8 1 (0.18%) SAML
8 1 (0.18%) Spring
8 1 (0.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 252 (44.84%) Self-Motivation
2 86 (15.30%) Product Ownership
3 21 (3.74%) Cloud Native
3 21 (3.74%) Data Centre
3 21 (3.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (2.14%) Public Cloud
5 11 (1.96%) Data Structures
6 9 (1.60%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.42%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.25%) Low-Code
8 7 (1.25%) Video\Live Streaming
9 6 (1.07%) Cyberattack
9 6 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.71%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.53%) PMI
12 2 (0.36%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.36%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 38 (6.76%) Linux
2 29 (5.16%) Windows
3 15 (2.67%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.96%) Unix
5 6 (1.07%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.89%) Android
7 4 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.18%) CentOS
8 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (66.01%) Problem-Solving
2 358 (63.70%) Data Engineering
3 341 (60.68%) DevOps
4 311 (55.34%) Agile
5 287 (51.07%) Mentoring
6 210 (37.37%) ETL
7 194 (34.52%) Data Modelling
8 185 (32.92%) Data Pipeline
9 161 (28.65%) Data Science
10 159 (28.29%) DataOps
11 155 (27.58%) CI/CD
12 152 (27.05%) Change Management
13 118 (21.00%) Data Governance
14 110 (19.57%) Scrum
15 99 (17.62%) Data Architecture
15 99 (17.62%) Data Integration
16 98 (17.44%) Data Security
17 96 (17.08%) ERD
17 96 (17.08%) Innovative Thinking
18 86 (15.30%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 89 (15.84%) Python
2 65 (11.57%) SQL
3 61 (10.85%) PowerShell
4 46 (8.19%) Bash
5 26 (4.63%) Bicep
6 23 (4.09%) Java
7 21 (3.74%) C#
8 19 (3.38%) Go
9 14 (2.49%) JavaScript
10 13 (2.31%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.78%) Ruby
12 9 (1.60%) Groovy
12 9 (1.60%) Scala
13 6 (1.07%) PHP
13 6 (1.07%) R
14 4 (0.71%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.53%) AWK
15 3 (0.53%) sed
15 3 (0.53%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.36%) C++
Qualifications
1 24 (4.27%) Degree
2 17 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (2.85%) Azure Certification
4 13 (2.31%) DBS Check
5 10 (1.78%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.07%) Security Cleared
8 5 (0.89%) CCIE
8 5 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.89%) JNCIE
8 5 (0.89%) SC Cleared
9 3 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.53%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 3 (0.53%) HND
9 3 (0.53%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.53%) PhD
9 3 (0.53%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 249 (44.31%) GDPR
2 114 (20.28%) Data Quality
3 79 (14.06%) QA
4 14 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.53%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.18%) NIST
7 1 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 47 (8.36%) Docker
2 15 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.07%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.36%) KVM
6 2 (0.36%) Xen
Systems Management
1 76 (13.52%) Terraform
2 61 (10.85%) Kubernetes
3 43 (7.65%) Ansible
4 18 (3.20%) Prometheus
5 17 (3.02%) Grafana
6 9 (1.60%) Puppet
7 7 (1.25%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (0.71%) Istio
9 2 (0.36%) Kibana
9 2 (0.36%) logstash
9 2 (0.36%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.18%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.18%) Packer
10 1 (0.18%) Podman
10 1 (0.18%) Salt
Vendors
1 345 (61.39%) Google
2 63 (11.21%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.14%) Databricks
4 11 (1.96%) New Relic
5 8 (1.42%) Splunk
6 6 (1.07%) Alteryx
6 6 (1.07%) SaltStack
7 5 (0.89%) LogicMonitor
7 5 (0.89%) PagerDuty
8 4 (0.71%) VMware
9 3 (0.53%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.36%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.36%) Nintex
10 2 (0.36%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.18%) Apple
11 1 (0.18%) Sparx