Platform Specialist Jobs

Platform Specialist
UK

The median Platform Specialist salary in the UK is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 878 935 1238
Rank change year-on-year +57 +303 -311
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Specialist 27 11 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.026% 0.012% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.013% 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 27 8 23
10th Percentile £40,000 £68,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £45,625 £73,438 £47,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £77,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.03% +29.17% +41.18%
75th Percentile £100,000 £81,250 £65,000
90th Percentile - £95,125 £65,310
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £77,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -48.39% +47.62% +12.84%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 99,838 86,540 162,414
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 91.29% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,991 55,953 84,888
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,676
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%

Platform Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Platform Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Specialist in the UK

Platform Specialist
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Specialist.

Salary trend for Platform Specialist in the UK

Platform Specialist
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Specialist over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Specialist in the UK

Platform Specialist
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 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 +79 24 £58,250 -24.84% 7
London +118 18 £85,000 +9.68% 5
Work from Home +54 10 £100,000 +33.33% 5
UK excluding London -31 9 £40,000 -48.39% 2
North of England - 6 £40,000 -
North West - 4 £40,000 -
Wales - 2 £40,000 -
North East - 2 £55,000 -
Scotland - 1 £120,000 -

Platform Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Platform Specialist 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 job ads featuring Platform Specialist in the job title.

1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (22.22%) Law
2 6 (22.22%) Azure
3 5 (18.52%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (14.81%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (14.81%) Migration
4 4 (14.81%) Python
4 4 (14.81%) Task Automation
4 4 (14.81%) Power Platform
5 3 (11.11%) Delta Lake
5 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (11.11%) Databricks
5 3 (11.11%) PySpark
5 3 (11.11%) SQL
5 3 (11.11%) T-SQL
5 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
5 3 (11.11%) ETL
5 3 (11.11%) Finance
5 3 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (11.11%) Power BI
5 3 (11.11%) ServiceNow
5 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 3 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (11.11%) R
5 3 (11.11%) Data Integration
6 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
6 2 (7.41%) Analytics
6 2 (7.41%) DevOps
6 2 (7.41%) Data Privacy

Platform Specialist Skill Set
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 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (7.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (22.22%) Azure
2 5 (18.52%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (14.81%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.70%) AWS
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (11.11%) Delta Lake
1 3 (11.11%) Power BI
1 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
1 3 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) JIRA
2 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (22.22%) Law
2 3 (11.11%) Finance
2 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Back Office
4 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Social Science
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
1 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (3.70%) Hedge funds
1 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
1 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
1 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Windows
2 1 (3.70%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (14.81%) Migration
1 4 (14.81%) Performance Optimisation
1 4 (14.81%) Task Automation
2 3 (11.11%) Data Integration
2 3 (11.11%) ETL
2 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (7.41%) Analytics
3 2 (7.41%) Data Privacy
3 2 (7.41%) Data Transformation
3 2 (7.41%) DevOps
3 2 (7.41%) ITSM
3 2 (7.41%) Service Management
3 2 (7.41%) Wealth Management
4 1 (3.70%) Client Onboarding
4 1 (3.70%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (3.70%) Contract Management
4 1 (3.70%) Data Protection
4 1 (3.70%) Data Science
4 1 (3.70%) Fintech
4 1 (3.70%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.81%) Python
2 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 3 (11.11%) R
2 3 (11.11%) SQL
2 3 (11.11%) T-SQL
3 1 (3.70%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Ansible
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) Databricks
2 3 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.70%) VMware