Platform Engineering Jobs with Work from Home Options

Platform Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 351 288 383
Rank change year-on-year -63 +95 -179
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 264 457 652
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.77% 1.14% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.19% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 221 349 501
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £58,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% +20.83%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £138,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,975 38,432 70,849
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.61% 96.05% 97.11%
Number of salaries quoted 23,429 26,704 41,843
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Platform Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Platform Engineering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering.

Platform Engineering salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Platform Engineering salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Platform Engineering
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 12 (4.55%) Confluence
2 8 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (3.03%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.14%) Apache
4 2 (0.76%) nginx
5 1 (0.38%) IIS
5 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 130 (49.24%) Azure
2 106 (40.15%) AWS
3 41 (15.53%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (15.15%) GCP
5 38 (14.39%) Power Platform
6 36 (13.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 35 (13.26%) Azure Data Factory
7 35 (13.26%) Serverless
8 26 (9.85%) GitHub
9 22 (8.33%) Azure AKS
10 19 (7.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 19 (7.20%) PaaS
11 17 (6.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 15 (5.68%) SaaS
13 13 (4.92%) Amazon S3
13 13 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
15 11 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (4.17%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
15 11 (4.17%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (7.58%) Firewall
2 16 (6.06%) Network Security
3 10 (3.79%) VPN
4 7 (2.65%) DNS
5 6 (2.27%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.89%) BGP
6 5 (1.89%) Intrusion Detection
6 5 (1.89%) IPsec
6 5 (1.89%) IPv4
6 5 (1.89%) LAN
6 5 (1.89%) NGFW
6 5 (1.89%) OSPF
6 5 (1.89%) SSL
6 5 (1.89%) VLAN
6 5 (1.89%) WAN
6 5 (1.89%) Wireless
7 2 (0.76%) Internet
8 1 (0.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (14.02%) Power BI
2 34 (12.88%) Data Warehouse
3 30 (11.36%) Azure SQL Database
4 24 (9.09%) MySQL
4 24 (9.09%) NoSQL
5 18 (6.82%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 16 (6.06%) Data Lake
7 14 (5.30%) BigQuery
7 14 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (4.17%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 11 (4.17%) MongoDB
8 11 (4.17%) Redis
9 10 (3.79%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (3.79%) MariaDB
10 9 (3.41%) DynamoDB
11 7 (2.65%) Hadoop
12 6 (2.27%) Metadata
12 6 (2.27%) SQL Server
13 5 (1.89%) InfluxDB
14 4 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 40 (15.15%) Jenkins
2 30 (11.36%) Git
3 13 (4.92%) JIRA
4 11 (4.17%) TeamCity
5 9 (3.41%) Bitbucket
6 8 (3.03%) GitLab
7 7 (2.65%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (2.65%) Subversion
8 6 (2.27%) Octopus Deploy
8 6 (2.27%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (1.89%) DTrace
9 5 (1.89%) GDB
10 4 (1.52%) CircleCI
10 4 (1.52%) Spinnaker
11 2 (0.76%) GoCD
11 2 (0.76%) NUnit
12 1 (0.38%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 49 (18.56%) Finance
2 36 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 22 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (6.44%) Retail
5 16 (6.06%) Banking
6 11 (4.17%) Legal
7 9 (3.41%) Health Technology
7 9 (3.41%) Law
8 6 (2.27%) Games
9 3 (1.14%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.76%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.38%) Back Office
11 1 (0.38%) Front Office
11 1 (0.38%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.38%) Marketing
11 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 128 (48.48%) Platform Engineer
2 76 (28.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 64 (24.24%) Senior
4 53 (20.08%) Azure Engineer
5 51 (19.32%) Cloud Engineer
6 47 (17.80%) DevOps Engineer
7 44 (16.67%) Data Engineer
8 36 (13.64%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 36 (13.64%) Lead
9 29 (10.98%) AWS Engineer
10 26 (9.85%) Senior DevOps
10 26 (9.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 22 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
12 20 (7.58%) Developer
13 19 (7.20%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 19 (7.20%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 18 (6.82%) Business Intelligence Manager
14 18 (6.82%) Data Manager
14 18 (6.82%) Engineering Manager
15 17 (6.44%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.30%) Kafka
2 10 (3.79%) Node.js
3 9 (3.41%) .NET
3 9 (3.41%) .NET Framework
4 8 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (3.03%) HTML
4 8 (3.03%) JSON
5 7 (2.65%) JSON Schema
5 7 (2.65%) OpenAPI
5 7 (2.65%) Swagger
5 7 (2.65%) Web Services
6 6 (2.27%) ARM Templates
6 6 (2.27%) SAML
7 4 (1.52%) CSS
8 3 (1.14%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.14%) AWS CDK
8 3 (1.14%) PySpark
9 2 (0.76%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.76%) ADO
9 2 (0.76%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.58%) Enterprise Software
2 19 (7.20%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.20%) Linux Command Line
3 18 (6.82%) Data Centre
4 14 (5.30%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (5.30%) Product Ownership
5 13 (4.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (3.41%) Clustering
7 8 (3.03%) Algorithms
7 8 (3.03%) Data Structures
7 8 (3.03%) Replication
8 7 (2.65%) IoT
8 7 (2.65%) Video\Live Streaming
9 6 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (2.27%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.89%) Blog
10 5 (1.89%) Client/Server
11 4 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.52%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.52%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 58 (21.97%) Linux
2 20 (7.58%) Windows
3 19 (7.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (5.30%) Unix
5 11 (4.17%) Windows Server
6 8 (3.03%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (3.03%) Solaris
7 6 (2.27%) Apple iOS
8 5 (1.89%) Android
9 2 (0.76%) CentOS
9 2 (0.76%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.38%) VMS
10 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (48.86%) DevOps
2 113 (42.80%) Infrastructure as Code
3 85 (32.20%) CI/CD
4 79 (29.92%) Agile
5 66 (25.00%) Analytics
6 42 (15.91%) Configuration Management
7 41 (15.53%) Containerisation
8 37 (14.02%) ETL
8 37 (14.02%) Visualisation
9 36 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
10 35 (13.26%) Data Engineering
11 34 (12.88%) Artificial Intelligence
11 34 (12.88%) Scrum
12 33 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
13 31 (11.74%) Data Pipeline
13 31 (11.74%) Machine Learning
14 30 (11.36%) Coaching
14 30 (11.36%) Software Engineering
15 28 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
16 27 (10.23%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 129 (48.86%) Python
2 76 (28.79%) SQL
3 44 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 40 (15.15%) Bash
5 35 (13.26%) Java
6 32 (12.12%) C#
7 23 (8.71%) Go
8 21 (7.95%) TypeScript
9 18 (6.82%) JavaScript
10 17 (6.44%) Shell Script
11 13 (4.92%) Ruby
12 11 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 11 (4.17%) U-SQL
13 8 (3.03%) Groovy
14 7 (2.65%) Perl
14 7 (2.65%) PHP
15 6 (2.27%) C
16 5 (1.89%) OCaml
16 5 (1.89%) SystemTap
17 4 (1.52%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 34 (12.88%) Degree
2 18 (6.82%) DBS Check
3 17 (6.44%) AWS Certification
3 17 (6.44%) Azure Certification
4 15 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (4.55%) Security Cleared
6 9 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 8 (3.03%) SC Cleared
8 5 (1.89%) CCIE
8 5 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.89%) JNCIE
9 3 (1.14%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.14%) HND
9 3 (1.14%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.14%) PhD
9 3 (1.14%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.03%) PCI DSS
1 8 (3.03%) QA
2 6 (2.27%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.38%) GDPR
4 1 (0.38%) NIST
4 1 (0.38%) SEPA
System Software
1 76 (28.79%) Docker
2 10 (3.79%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.38%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 126 (47.73%) Terraform
2 110 (41.67%) Kubernetes
3 64 (24.24%) Ansible
4 22 (8.33%) Grafana
5 21 (7.95%) Progress Chef
6 20 (7.58%) Prometheus
6 20 (7.58%) Puppet
7 10 (3.79%) Salt
8 8 (3.03%) Packer
9 5 (1.89%) Karpenter
10 4 (1.52%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (1.52%) Istio
11 3 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.76%) Rundeck
13 1 (0.38%) Consul
13 1 (0.38%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.38%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.38%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.38%) Kibana
13 1 (0.38%) Rancher
Vendors
1 59 (22.35%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.09%) Databricks
3 19 (7.20%) Google
4 11 (4.17%) New Relic
5 9 (3.41%) Atlassian
5 9 (3.41%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.03%) Oracle
6 8 (3.03%) Serena
7 7 (2.65%) SaltStack
7 7 (2.65%) VMware
8 6 (2.27%) YouTube
9 3 (1.14%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.14%) Splunk
10 2 (0.76%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.76%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.76%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.38%) Apple
11 1 (0.38%) Hortonworks
11 1 (0.38%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.38%) TOWER Software