AWS Platform Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > Work from Home

The median Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary for remote or hybrid work is £86,250 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 589 594 864
Rank change year-on-year +5 +270 -286
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Platform Engineer 13 39 37
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.037% 0.10% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% 0.11% 0.050%
Number of salaries quoted 12 39 35
10th Percentile £72,500 £53,500 -
25th Percentile £76,250 £58,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,250 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.97% +16.00% -
75th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £71,875
90th Percentile - £102,500 £86,500
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
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 34,224 35,954 73,616
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.28% 95.93% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,903 26,270 42,683
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

AWS Platform Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured AWS Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS Platform Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Platform Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS Platform Engineer.

AWS Platform Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing AWS Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

AWS Platform Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with remote work options featuring AWS Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) AWS
1 13 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 11 (84.62%) CI/CD
2 11 (84.62%) Kubernetes
3 10 (76.92%) Terraform
3 10 (76.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (69.23%) Docker
4 9 (69.23%) DevOps
5 8 (61.54%) Python
5 8 (61.54%) Containerisation
6 6 (46.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (46.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (46.15%) AWS Certification
7 5 (38.46%) Serverless
7 5 (38.46%) Git
7 5 (38.46%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (38.46%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (30.77%) Karpenter
8 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
8 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (30.77%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (30.77%) Bash
8 4 (30.77%) GitHub
8 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
8 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
8 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
8 4 (30.77%) Prometheus
8 4 (30.77%) Grafana
8 4 (30.77%) Elastic Stack

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (15.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (38.46%) Amazon EKS
2 5 (38.46%) Serverless
3 4 (30.77%) GitHub
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
4 3 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (23.08%) Route 53
4 3 (23.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (15.38%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (7.69%) CloudFront
6 1 (7.69%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Git
2 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
3 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket
3 2 (15.38%) CircleCI
3 2 (15.38%) JIRA
3 2 (15.38%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (15.38%) Subversion
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (15.38%) AWS CDK
3 1 (7.69%) Middleware
3 1 (7.69%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.69%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) CentOS
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 11 (84.62%) CI/CD
3 10 (76.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (69.23%) DevOps
5 8 (61.54%) Containerisation
6 4 (30.77%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (15.38%) Data Migration
7 2 (15.38%) Generative AI
7 2 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Management
7 2 (15.38%) Innovative Thinking
7 2 (15.38%) LLM
7 2 (15.38%) Microservices
7 2 (15.38%) Migration
7 2 (15.38%) Resource Allocation
7 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
7 2 (15.38%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) Bash
3 2 (15.38%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) AWS Certification
1 6 (46.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 6 (46.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (69.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (84.62%) Kubernetes
2 10 (76.92%) Terraform
3 4 (30.77%) Grafana
3 4 (30.77%) Karpenter
3 4 (30.77%) Prometheus
4 2 (15.38%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Atlassian