Platform Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Platform Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Platform Engineer salary in Work from Home is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 439 432 555
Rank change year-on-year -7 +123 -236
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 142 236 334
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.42% 0.59% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.62% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 123 165 245
10th Percentile £48,000 £47,500 £37,150
25th Percentile £56,500 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,447 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +11.12% +4.17%
75th Percentile £96,125 £90,000 £84,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 32,724 38,299 70,013
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.14% 95.94% 97.34%
Number of salaries quoted 25,047 27,230 42,182
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +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%

Platform Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Platform Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

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 Platform Engineer.

Platform Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Platform Engineer over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Platform Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 24 May 2024, 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 Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 130 (91.55%) Platform Engineering
2 87 (61.27%) Terraform
3 81 (57.04%) Python
4 78 (54.93%) Kubernetes
5 73 (51.41%) Infrastructure as Code
6 71 (50.00%) Azure
7 64 (45.07%) Docker
8 62 (43.66%) DevOps
9 56 (39.44%) AWS
10 55 (38.73%) CI/CD
11 51 (35.92%) Linux
12 45 (31.69%) Ansible
13 38 (26.76%) PowerShell
13 38 (26.76%) Agile
14 37 (26.06%) Bash
15 36 (25.35%) Finance
16 34 (23.94%) SQL
17 32 (22.54%) Jenkins
17 32 (22.54%) Containerisation
18 27 (19.01%) Java
18 27 (19.01%) Configuration Management
18 27 (19.01%) Git
19 25 (17.61%) Azure DevOps
19 25 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
20 23 (16.20%) Serverless
20 23 (16.20%) GCP
20 23 (16.20%) GitHub
21 22 (15.49%) Azure AKS
22 21 (14.79%) Social Skills
22 21 (14.79%) C#

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 9 (6.34%) Confluence
2 5 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.52%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.70%) IIS
3 1 (0.70%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 71 (50.00%) Azure
2 56 (39.44%) AWS
3 25 (17.61%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (16.20%) GCP
4 23 (16.20%) GitHub
4 23 (16.20%) Serverless
5 22 (15.49%) Azure AKS
6 18 (12.68%) PaaS
7 17 (11.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 10 (7.04%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (7.04%) Amazon S3
8 10 (7.04%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (7.04%) IaaS
8 10 (7.04%) Pulumi
8 10 (7.04%) Route 53
8 10 (7.04%) SaaS
9 9 (6.34%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (6.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 8 (5.63%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (5.63%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.86%) Firewall
2 6 (4.23%) DNS
3 5 (3.52%) IPv4
3 5 (3.52%) VPN
4 4 (2.82%) Network Security
5 2 (1.41%) Internet
6 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.68%) Azure SQL Database
2 15 (10.56%) MySQL
3 10 (7.04%) BigQuery
4 9 (6.34%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (6.34%) MariaDB
4 9 (6.34%) MongoDB
4 9 (6.34%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (6.34%) Redis
5 6 (4.23%) Power BI
6 5 (3.52%) Hadoop
7 4 (2.82%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.82%) InfluxDB
7 4 (2.82%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.11%) Ingres
8 3 (2.11%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.70%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 32 (22.54%) Jenkins
2 27 (19.01%) Git
3 10 (7.04%) JIRA
4 9 (6.34%) Bitbucket
4 9 (6.34%) TeamCity
5 7 (4.93%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (4.93%) Subversion
6 6 (4.23%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (4.23%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (3.52%) DTrace
7 5 (3.52%) GDB
8 4 (2.82%) CircleCI
9 3 (2.11%) GitLab
10 2 (1.41%) GoCD
10 2 (1.41%) NUnit
11 1 (0.70%) Vagrant
General
1 36 (25.35%) Finance
2 21 (14.79%) Social Skills
3 19 (13.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (9.86%) Retail
5 10 (7.04%) Banking
6 6 (4.23%) Law
7 4 (2.82%) Games
8 2 (1.41%) Legal
8 2 (1.41%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.41%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.75%) Kafka
2 7 (4.93%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (4.23%) ARM Templates
3 6 (4.23%) SAML
4 3 (2.11%) PySpark
5 1 (0.70%) ADO
5 1 (0.70%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.70%) Middleware
5 1 (0.70%) Node.js
5 1 (0.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.68%) Linux Command Line
2 14 (9.86%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (8.45%) Data Centre
4 9 (6.34%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (6.34%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (5.63%) Clustering
5 8 (5.63%) Replication
6 7 (4.93%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.52%) Blog
7 5 (3.52%) Client/Server
7 5 (3.52%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.11%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (2.11%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.70%) Digital Currency
10 1 (0.70%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.70%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (35.92%) Linux
2 20 (14.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (10.56%) Windows
4 9 (6.34%) Windows Server
5 8 (5.63%) Oracle Linux
5 8 (5.63%) Solaris
5 8 (5.63%) Unix
6 1 (0.70%) CentOS
6 1 (0.70%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (91.55%) Platform Engineering
2 73 (51.41%) Infrastructure as Code
3 62 (43.66%) DevOps
4 55 (38.73%) CI/CD
5 38 (26.76%) Agile
6 32 (22.54%) Containerisation
7 27 (19.01%) Configuration Management
8 25 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (14.08%) Deployment Automation
10 19 (13.38%) Analytics
11 17 (11.97%) Machine Learning
12 15 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (10.56%) Infrastructure Automation
12 15 (10.56%) Software Engineering
13 13 (9.15%) Disaster Recovery
14 12 (8.45%) Artificial Intelligence
14 12 (8.45%) Infrastructure Management
14 12 (8.45%) Innovative Thinking
14 12 (8.45%) Migration
15 11 (7.75%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 81 (57.04%) Python
2 38 (26.76%) PowerShell
3 37 (26.06%) Bash
4 34 (23.94%) SQL
5 27 (19.01%) Java
6 21 (14.79%) C#
7 18 (12.68%) Go
8 8 (5.63%) C
8 8 (5.63%) Groovy
8 8 (5.63%) JavaScript
9 7 (4.93%) Perl
9 7 (4.93%) Shell Script
9 7 (4.93%) TypeScript
10 6 (4.23%) PHP
10 6 (4.23%) Ruby
11 5 (3.52%) OCaml
11 5 (3.52%) SystemTap
12 3 (2.11%) Bicep
12 3 (2.11%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.41%) C++
Qualifications
1 12 (8.45%) Degree
2 9 (6.34%) Azure Certification
3 8 (5.63%) Security Cleared
4 7 (4.93%) AWS Certification
4 7 (4.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (4.93%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (2.11%) HND
7 2 (1.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.63%) PCI DSS
2 5 (3.52%) QA
3 2 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.70%) NIST
4 1 (0.70%) SEPA
System Software
1 64 (45.07%) Docker
2 9 (6.34%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 87 (61.27%) Terraform
2 78 (54.93%) Kubernetes
3 45 (31.69%) Ansible
4 19 (13.38%) Grafana
5 17 (11.97%) Progress Chef
5 17 (11.97%) Prometheus
5 17 (11.97%) Puppet
6 10 (7.04%) Salt
7 8 (5.63%) Packer
8 5 (3.52%) Karpenter
9 4 (2.82%) Istio
10 3 (2.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (2.11%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (1.41%) Rundeck
12 1 (0.70%) Consul
12 1 (0.70%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.70%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 21 (14.79%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.56%) Google
3 9 (6.34%) Atlassian
3 9 (6.34%) Databricks
4 8 (5.63%) New Relic
4 8 (5.63%) Oracle
4 8 (5.63%) Red Hat
4 8 (5.63%) Serena
4 8 (5.63%) VMware
5 6 (4.23%) SaltStack
6 4 (2.82%) YouTube
7 2 (1.41%) Citrix
7 2 (1.41%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (1.41%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.41%) Splunk
8 1 (0.70%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.70%) Wallstreet Suite