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 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 309 386
Rank change year-on-year -18 +77 -130
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 893 1,098 1,614
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.87% 1.12% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 1.17% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 443 735 958
10th Percentile £47,550 £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 £97,500 £102,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% +2.13%

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 86,141 93,563 159,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.33% 95.54% 95.88%
Number of salaries quoted 60,433 55,405 83,263
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% +9.38%

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 27 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 27 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 -10 809 £75,000 - 271
UK excluding London +80 561 £65,000 -3.70% 180
London -31 285 £89,000 -1.11% 160
Work from Home -63 264 £75,000 -6.25% 159
North of England +41 185 £60,000 -11.11% 49
South East +34 136 £67,500 -9.40% 73
South West +9 89 £67,500 +3.29% 17
North West -7 83 £65,000 -7.14% 30
Yorkshire +72 78 £55,000 -15.38% 14
Midlands +13 78 £60,000 -14.29% 11
Scotland -32 42 £72,500 +18.85% 17
West Midlands +6 39 £65,000 -7.14% 6
East Midlands 0 39 £60,000 +9.09% 5
North East +17 26 £80,000 +67.81% 5
East of England +13 20 - - 13
Wales +6 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 16 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
1 16 (1.79%) Apache Spark
2 15 (1.68%) Confluence
3 9 (1.01%) Apache
4 3 (0.34%) 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
1 488 (54.65%) Azure
2 437 (48.94%) GCP
3 401 (44.90%) AWS
4 157 (17.58%) Azure DevOps
5 73 (8.17%) Power Platform
6 66 (7.39%) PaaS
7 54 (6.05%) GitHub
8 52 (5.82%) Serverless
9 45 (5.04%) SaaS
10 41 (4.59%) Azure Data Factory
10 41 (4.59%) IaaS
11 38 (4.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 35 (3.92%) Azure AKS
13 31 (3.47%) Cloud Computing
14 26 (2.91%) AWS CloudFormation
15 25 (2.80%) Entra ID
16 22 (2.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 22 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
17 20 (2.24%) PowerApps
18 18 (2.02%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 36 (4.03%) Firewall
2 31 (3.47%) Network Security
3 25 (2.80%) DNS
4 16 (1.79%) VPN
5 14 (1.57%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.23%) LAN
6 11 (1.23%) WAN
7 9 (1.01%) DHCP
8 7 (0.78%) Internet
8 7 (0.78%) IPv4
9 6 (0.67%) SSL
9 6 (0.67%) VLAN
9 6 (0.67%) Wireless
10 5 (0.56%) BGP
10 5 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.56%) IPsec
10 5 (0.56%) NGFW
10 5 (0.56%) OSPF
11 2 (0.22%) tcpdump
11 2 (0.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 372 (41.66%) BigQuery
2 353 (39.53%) Looker
3 228 (25.53%) Data Warehouse
4 64 (7.17%) Power BI
5 42 (4.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 32 (3.58%) Data Lake
6 32 (3.58%) NoSQL
7 29 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
8 28 (3.14%) MySQL
9 18 (2.02%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 17 (1.90%) MongoDB
10 17 (1.90%) Redis
11 12 (1.34%) MariaDB
12 11 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (1.23%) DynamoDB
12 11 (1.23%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 11 (1.23%) RDBMS
12 11 (1.23%) Relational Database
12 11 (1.23%) SQL Server
13 10 (1.12%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 71 (7.95%) Jenkins
2 62 (6.94%) Git
3 31 (3.47%) JIRA
4 22 (2.46%) GitLab
5 16 (1.79%) Octopus Deploy
5 16 (1.79%) TeamCity
6 13 (1.46%) Artifactory
7 11 (1.23%) Bitbucket
7 11 (1.23%) Snyk
8 9 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (0.90%) Spinnaker
10 7 (0.78%) Subversion
11 6 (0.67%) RStudio
11 6 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.56%) DTrace
12 5 (0.56%) GDB
13 4 (0.45%) CircleCI
14 2 (0.22%) Cypress.io
14 2 (0.22%) GoCD
14 2 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 400 (44.79%) Analytical Skills
2 125 (14.00%) Social Skills
3 111 (12.43%) Finance
4 72 (8.06%) Billing
5 48 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 42 (4.70%) Banking
7 34 (3.81%) Retail
8 29 (3.25%) Law
9 19 (2.13%) Legal
10 18 (2.02%) Retail Banking
11 17 (1.90%) Health Technology
12 10 (1.12%) Games
13 6 (0.67%) Marketing
14 5 (0.56%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.34%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.34%) Public Sector
15 3 (0.34%) Tech for Good
15 3 (0.34%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
16 2 (0.22%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 439 (49.16%) Platform Engineer
2 234 (26.20%) Data Engineer
3 175 (19.60%) Principal Engineer
4 171 (19.15%) Principal Data Engineer
5 156 (17.47%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 131 (14.67%) Architect
7 115 (12.88%) Data Architect
8 107 (11.98%) Cloud Engineer
8 107 (11.98%) Senior
9 95 (10.64%) Engineering Manager
10 91 (10.19%) Data Manager
11 87 (9.74%) Azure Engineer
12 74 (8.29%) Lead
13 69 (7.73%) DevOps Engineer
14 66 (7.39%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 41 (4.59%) AWS Engineer
16 38 (4.26%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 32 (3.58%) Senior DevOps
17 32 (3.58%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 28 (3.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.46%) Kafka
2 21 (2.35%) ARM Templates
3 17 (1.90%) Node.js
4 16 (1.79%) JSON
5 15 (1.68%) .NET
5 15 (1.68%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (1.01%) .NET Framework
7 8 (0.90%) HTML
8 7 (0.78%) JSON Schema
8 7 (0.78%) OpenAPI
8 7 (0.78%) React
8 7 (0.78%) Swagger
8 7 (0.78%) Web Services
9 6 (0.67%) Lambda Expressions
9 6 (0.67%) REST
9 6 (0.67%) SAML
9 6 (0.67%) YAML
10 4 (0.45%) ADO
10 4 (0.45%) CSS
10 4 (0.45%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 280 (31.35%) Self-Motivation
2 89 (9.97%) Product Ownership
3 36 (4.03%) Cloud Native
4 29 (3.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (3.02%) Data Centre
6 20 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (2.24%) Linux Command Line
7 17 (1.90%) Public Cloud
8 16 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (1.34%) Cyberattack
10 11 (1.23%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.12%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.01%) Clustering
12 9 (1.01%) Video\Live Streaming
13 8 (0.90%) Algorithms
13 8 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (0.90%) Onboarding
13 8 (0.90%) Replication
14 7 (0.78%) IoT
14 7 (0.78%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 98 (10.97%) Linux
2 45 (5.04%) Windows
3 24 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (2.46%) Unix
4 22 (2.46%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.90%) Oracle Linux
5 8 (0.90%) Solaris
6 7 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.67%) Android
8 4 (0.45%) CentOS
8 4 (0.45%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.45%) VMS
9 3 (0.34%) 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
1 482 (53.98%) DevOps
2 424 (47.48%) Problem-Solving
3 399 (44.68%) Data Engineering
4 385 (43.11%) Agile
5 323 (36.17%) Mentoring
6 263 (29.45%) CI/CD
7 248 (27.77%) ETL
8 219 (24.52%) Data Pipeline
9 217 (24.30%) Data Modelling
10 208 (23.29%) Infrastructure as Code
11 196 (21.95%) Data Science
12 171 (19.15%) DataOps
13 165 (18.48%) Change Management
14 137 (15.34%) Data Governance
15 123 (13.77%) Innovative Thinking
16 122 (13.66%) Scrum
17 121 (13.55%) Data Integration
18 118 (13.21%) Data Architecture
19 116 (12.99%) Data Security
20 111 (12.43%) ERD
Programming Languages
1 228 (25.53%) Python
2 128 (14.33%) SQL
3 111 (12.43%) PowerShell
4 85 (9.52%) Bash
5 69 (7.73%) Java
6 42 (4.70%) Go
7 41 (4.59%) C#
8 32 (3.58%) Bicep
9 25 (2.80%) JavaScript
10 23 (2.58%) TypeScript
11 22 (2.46%) Ruby
12 20 (2.24%) Scala
13 19 (2.13%) Shell Script
14 11 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 11 (1.23%) U-SQL
15 10 (1.12%) Groovy
15 10 (1.12%) Perl
16 9 (1.01%) C++
17 8 (0.90%) C
18 7 (0.78%) PHP
Qualifications
1 46 (5.15%) Degree
2 25 (2.80%) AWS Certification
3 23 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (2.58%) Security Cleared
4 20 (2.24%) Azure Certification
4 20 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (2.02%) DBS Check
5 18 (2.02%) SC Cleared
6 14 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (0.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (0.78%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.56%) CCIE
9 5 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.56%) JNCIE
10 4 (0.45%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.45%) PhD
11 3 (0.34%) CISSP
11 3 (0.34%) HND
11 3 (0.34%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.22%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (30.91%) GDPR
2 137 (15.34%) Data Quality
3 84 (9.41%) QA
4 17 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.12%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.34%) NIST
7 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 135 (15.12%) Docker
2 34 (3.81%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.56%) KVM
7 3 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.34%) 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
1 246 (27.55%) Terraform
2 205 (22.96%) Kubernetes
3 99 (11.09%) Ansible
4 37 (4.14%) Grafana
5 34 (3.81%) Prometheus
6 30 (3.36%) Puppet
7 28 (3.14%) Progress Chef
8 15 (1.68%) Istio
9 11 (1.23%) Salt
10 10 (1.12%) Packer
11 7 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.56%) Argo
13 5 (0.56%) Karpenter
14 4 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.45%) Kibana
15 3 (0.34%) logstash
16 2 (0.22%) Podman
16 2 (0.22%) Rundeck
17 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 397 (44.46%) Google
2 128 (14.33%) Microsoft
3 32 (3.58%) Databricks
4 13 (1.46%) Red Hat
5 11 (1.23%) New Relic
5 11 (1.23%) Splunk
5 11 (1.23%) VMware
6 10 (1.12%) Atlassian
7 9 (1.01%) SaltStack
8 8 (0.90%) Oracle
8 8 (0.90%) Serena
9 6 (0.67%) Alteryx
9 6 (0.67%) YouTube
10 5 (0.56%) LogicMonitor
10 5 (0.56%) PagerDuty
11 3 (0.34%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.34%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.34%) Facebook
11 3 (0.34%) Hortonworks
12 2 (0.22%) Nintex