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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 319 310 377
Rank change year-on-year -9 +67 -123
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 890 1,135 1,522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.90% 1.12% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.17% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 441 763 994
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,350 £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 £95,000 £101,375 £87,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £130,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% +4.35%

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 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
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 9 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 9 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 -4 806 £75,000 - 202
UK excluding London +92 561 £65,000 -3.70% 103
London -30 281 £85,000 -5.56% 102
Work from Home -52 263 £75,000 -6.25% 117
North of England +50 181 £60,000 -11.11% 31
South East +37 138 £67,500 -3.57% 19
South West +12 89 £67,500 +3.29% 17
Midlands +10 79 £60,000 -14.29% 15
North West -4 79 £66,250 -5.36% 15
Yorkshire +87 77 £55,000 -14.10% 13
Scotland -37 42 £72,500 +11.16% 12
East Midlands +5 40 £60,000 +9.09% 5
West Midlands +11 39 £65,000 -10.34% 10
North East +16 27 £77,500 +62.57% 3
East of England +33 20 - - 5
Wales +8 12 £55,000 -12.00% 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 17 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
1 17 (1.91%) Confluence
2 16 (1.80%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.01%) Apache
4 3 (0.34%) SAS
5 2 (0.22%) IIS
6 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.11%) nginx
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
1 483 (54.27%) Azure
2 433 (48.65%) GCP
3 402 (45.17%) AWS
4 155 (17.42%) Azure DevOps
5 71 (7.98%) Power Platform
6 64 (7.19%) PaaS
7 55 (6.18%) Serverless
8 54 (6.07%) GitHub
9 49 (5.51%) SaaS
10 44 (4.94%) IaaS
11 41 (4.61%) Azure Data Factory
12 38 (4.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 36 (4.04%) Azure AKS
14 30 (3.37%) Cloud Computing
15 27 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
16 26 (2.92%) Entra ID
17 23 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
18 21 (2.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 20 (2.25%) PowerApps
20 19 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 36 (4.04%) Firewall
2 30 (3.37%) Network Security
3 28 (3.15%) DNS
4 16 (1.80%) VPN
5 14 (1.57%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.24%) LAN
6 11 (1.24%) WAN
7 9 (1.01%) DHCP
7 9 (1.01%) Internet
8 7 (0.79%) 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
1 371 (41.69%) BigQuery
2 351 (39.44%) Looker
3 226 (25.39%) Data Warehouse
4 62 (6.97%) Power BI
5 43 (4.83%) Azure SQL Database
6 33 (3.71%) Data Lake
7 31 (3.48%) NoSQL
8 29 (3.26%) MySQL
9 28 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
10 18 (2.02%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 16 (1.80%) MongoDB
11 16 (1.80%) Redis
12 15 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
12 15 (1.69%) SQL Server
13 12 (1.35%) Metadata
14 11 (1.24%) MariaDB
14 11 (1.24%) RDBMS
14 11 (1.24%) Relational Database
15 10 (1.12%) Hadoop
15 10 (1.12%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 75 (8.43%) Jenkins
2 58 (6.52%) Git
3 33 (3.71%) JIRA
4 17 (1.91%) GitLab
4 17 (1.91%) TeamCity
5 14 (1.57%) Octopus Deploy
6 13 (1.46%) Artifactory
7 11 (1.24%) Bitbucket
7 11 (1.24%) Snyk
7 11 (1.24%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (1.01%) Subversion
9 8 (0.90%) Spinnaker
10 6 (0.67%) RStudio
10 6 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.56%) DTrace
11 5 (0.56%) GDB
12 4 (0.45%) CircleCI
13 2 (0.22%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.22%) GoCD
13 2 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 399 (44.83%) Analytical Skills
2 123 (13.82%) Social Skills
3 107 (12.02%) Finance
4 72 (8.09%) Billing
5 46 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 42 (4.72%) Banking
7 35 (3.93%) Retail
8 27 (3.03%) Law
9 19 (2.13%) Health Technology
10 18 (2.02%) Legal
10 18 (2.02%) Retail Banking
11 12 (1.35%) Games
12 6 (0.67%) Marketing
13 5 (0.56%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.45%) Tech for Good
15 3 (0.34%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.34%) Public Sector
16 2 (0.22%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.22%) Telecoms
17 1 (0.11%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 446 (50.11%) Platform Engineer
2 238 (26.74%) Data Engineer
3 175 (19.66%) Principal Engineer
4 171 (19.21%) Principal Data Engineer
5 160 (17.98%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 130 (14.61%) Architect
7 115 (12.92%) Data Architect
8 111 (12.47%) Cloud Engineer
9 102 (11.46%) Senior
10 95 (10.67%) Engineering Manager
11 91 (10.22%) Data Manager
12 87 (9.78%) Azure Engineer
13 74 (8.31%) Lead
14 65 (7.30%) DevOps Engineer
15 62 (6.97%) Azure Platform Engineer
16 50 (5.62%) AWS Engineer
17 38 (4.27%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 33 (3.71%) AWS Platform Engineer
19 28 (3.15%) Senior DevOps
19 28 (3.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.58%) Kafka
2 20 (2.25%) ARM Templates
3 18 (2.02%) .NET
4 17 (1.91%) Node.js
5 16 (1.80%) JSON
6 12 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
7 10 (1.12%) .NET Framework
8 9 (1.01%) SAML
9 8 (0.90%) React
10 7 (0.79%) JSON Schema
10 7 (0.79%) OpenAPI
10 7 (0.79%) Swagger
10 7 (0.79%) Web Services
11 6 (0.67%) HTML
11 6 (0.67%) Lambda Expressions
11 6 (0.67%) REST
11 6 (0.67%) YAML
12 5 (0.56%) CSS
13 4 (0.45%) AngularJS
13 4 (0.45%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 280 (31.46%) Self-Motivation
2 94 (10.56%) Product Ownership
3 37 (4.16%) Cloud Native
4 33 (3.71%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (3.03%) Data Centre
6 22 (2.47%) Linux Command Line
7 19 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.91%) Public Cloud
9 16 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.35%) Cyberattack
11 11 (1.24%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.12%) Management Information System
13 9 (1.01%) Video\Live Streaming
14 8 (0.90%) Algorithms
14 8 (0.90%) Clustering
14 8 (0.90%) Onboarding
14 8 (0.90%) Replication
15 7 (0.79%) IoT
15 7 (0.79%) Low-Code
16 6 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 99 (11.12%) Linux
2 45 (5.06%) Windows
3 28 (3.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (2.47%) Windows Server
5 21 (2.36%) Unix
6 8 (0.90%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (0.90%) Solaris
7 7 (0.79%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.67%) Android
9 4 (0.45%) CentOS
9 4 (0.45%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.45%) VMS
10 3 (0.34%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 481 (54.04%) DevOps
2 422 (47.42%) Problem-Solving
3 399 (44.83%) Data Engineering
4 386 (43.37%) Agile
5 323 (36.29%) Mentoring
6 261 (29.33%) CI/CD
7 246 (27.64%) ETL
8 219 (24.61%) Data Pipeline
9 217 (24.38%) Data Modelling
10 214 (24.04%) Infrastructure as Code
11 191 (21.46%) Data Science
12 170 (19.10%) DataOps
13 165 (18.54%) Change Management
14 137 (15.39%) Data Governance
15 127 (14.27%) Innovative Thinking
16 124 (13.93%) Scrum
17 121 (13.60%) Data Integration
18 117 (13.15%) Data Architecture
19 115 (12.92%) Data Security
20 111 (12.47%) ERD
Programming Languages
1 226 (25.39%) Python
2 132 (14.83%) SQL
3 103 (11.57%) PowerShell
4 82 (9.21%) Bash
5 69 (7.75%) Java
6 41 (4.61%) C#
7 39 (4.38%) Go
8 33 (3.71%) Bicep
9 26 (2.92%) JavaScript
10 24 (2.70%) TypeScript
11 21 (2.36%) Ruby
12 19 (2.13%) Shell Script
13 18 (2.02%) Scala
14 14 (1.57%) Perl
15 11 (1.24%) Groovy
16 10 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 10 (1.12%) U-SQL
17 9 (1.01%) C++
18 8 (0.90%) C
18 8 (0.90%) PHP
Qualifications
1 48 (5.39%) Degree
2 24 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 24 (2.70%) Security Cleared
3 22 (2.47%) AWS Certification
4 19 (2.13%) Azure Certification
5 18 (2.02%) DBS Check
5 18 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (2.02%) SC Cleared
6 12 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (0.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 8 (0.90%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.56%) CCIE
8 5 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.56%) JNCIE
8 5 (0.56%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.56%) PhD
9 4 (0.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (0.34%) CISSP
10 3 (0.34%) HND
10 3 (0.34%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (31.01%) GDPR
2 139 (15.62%) Data Quality
3 83 (9.33%) QA
4 17 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (0.90%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.22%) NIST
7 1 (0.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 141 (15.84%) Docker
2 35 (3.93%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
4 7 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.56%) KVM
6 3 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.34%) Xen
7 2 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.22%) Firmware
8 1 (0.11%) Ceph
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 246 (27.64%) Terraform
2 205 (23.03%) Kubernetes
3 95 (10.67%) Ansible
4 37 (4.16%) Grafana
4 37 (4.16%) Puppet
5 34 (3.82%) Progress Chef
5 34 (3.82%) Prometheus
6 19 (2.13%) Salt
7 15 (1.69%) Istio
8 12 (1.35%) Packer
9 9 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.67%) Argo
12 4 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.45%) Kibana
13 3 (0.34%) logstash
14 2 (0.22%) Kubeflow
14 2 (0.22%) Podman
14 2 (0.22%) Rundeck
15 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 396 (44.49%) Google
2 126 (14.16%) Microsoft
3 34 (3.82%) Databricks
4 13 (1.46%) Red Hat
5 12 (1.35%) Splunk
6 11 (1.24%) New Relic
7 10 (1.12%) Atlassian
7 10 (1.12%) VMware
8 9 (1.01%) SaltStack
9 8 (0.90%) Oracle
9 8 (0.90%) Serena
9 8 (0.90%) YouTube
10 6 (0.67%) Alteryx
11 5 (0.56%) LogicMonitor
11 5 (0.56%) PagerDuty
12 3 (0.34%) AppDynamics
12 3 (0.34%) Facebook
13 2 (0.22%) Confluent
13 2 (0.22%) Dataiku
13 2 (0.22%) Nintex