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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 309 391
Rank change year-on-year -18 +82 -136
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 892 1,128 1,542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.89% 1.14% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.19% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 440 759 968
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £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 £96,539 £102,500 £87,813
90th Percentile £115,000 £136,250 £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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
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 £96,250
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 18 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 18 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 -13 809 £75,000 - 244
UK excluding London +64 556 £65,000 -3.70% 140
London -23 289 £85,000 -5.56% 148
Work from Home -62 263 £75,000 -6.25% 142
North of England +45 180 £60,000 -11.11% 45
South East +37 136 £67,500 -6.57% 54
South West +9 89 £67,500 +3.29% 11
North West -16 79 £67,500 -3.57% 27
Midlands +9 78 £60,000 -14.29% 10
Yorkshire +80 77 £55,000 -14.10% 16
Scotland -31 42 £72,500 +18.85% 8
West Midlands +11 39 £65,000 -8.77% 7
East Midlands +11 39 £60,000 +9.09% 3
North East +13 26 £80,000 +67.81% 2
East of England +17 20 - - 7
Wales +8 11 £55,000 +19.02% 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 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.01%) Apache
4 3 (0.34%) SAS
5 1 (0.11%) IIS
5 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.11%) nginx
5 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
1 485 (54.37%) Azure
2 435 (48.77%) GCP
3 398 (44.62%) AWS
4 156 (17.49%) Azure DevOps
5 73 (8.18%) Power Platform
6 68 (7.62%) PaaS
7 57 (6.39%) GitHub
8 54 (6.05%) Serverless
9 49 (5.49%) SaaS
10 44 (4.93%) IaaS
11 42 (4.71%) Azure Data Factory
12 39 (4.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 38 (4.26%) Azure AKS
14 30 (3.36%) Cloud Computing
15 27 (3.03%) Entra ID
16 26 (2.91%) AWS CloudFormation
17 23 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
18 22 (2.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 20 (2.24%) PowerApps
20 18 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 36 (4.04%) Firewall
2 31 (3.48%) Network Security
3 27 (3.03%) DNS
4 16 (1.79%) VPN
5 14 (1.57%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.23%) LAN
6 11 (1.23%) WAN
7 9 (1.01%) DHCP
8 8 (0.90%) Internet
9 7 (0.78%) IPv4
10 6 (0.67%) SSL
10 6 (0.67%) VLAN
10 6 (0.67%) Wireless
11 5 (0.56%) BGP
11 5 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (0.56%) IPsec
11 5 (0.56%) NGFW
11 5 (0.56%) OSPF
12 2 (0.22%) tcpdump
12 2 (0.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 371 (41.59%) BigQuery
2 351 (39.35%) Looker
3 227 (25.45%) Data Warehouse
4 64 (7.17%) Power BI
5 45 (5.04%) Azure SQL Database
6 33 (3.70%) Data Lake
7 31 (3.48%) NoSQL
8 30 (3.36%) MySQL
9 29 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
10 18 (2.02%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 17 (1.91%) MongoDB
11 17 (1.91%) Redis
12 14 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (1.35%) MariaDB
13 12 (1.35%) Metadata
13 12 (1.35%) SQL Server
14 11 (1.23%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 11 (1.23%) RDBMS
14 11 (1.23%) Relational Database
15 10 (1.12%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 72 (8.07%) Jenkins
2 58 (6.50%) Git
3 33 (3.70%) JIRA
4 18 (2.02%) GitLab
5 17 (1.91%) Octopus Deploy
5 17 (1.91%) TeamCity
6 13 (1.46%) Artifactory
7 11 (1.23%) Bitbucket
7 11 (1.23%) Snyk
7 11 (1.23%) 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
1 400 (44.84%) Analytical Skills
2 124 (13.90%) Social Skills
3 110 (12.33%) Finance
4 72 (8.07%) Billing
5 46 (5.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 43 (4.82%) Banking
7 34 (3.81%) Retail
8 29 (3.25%) Law
9 19 (2.13%) Health Technology
9 19 (2.13%) Legal
10 18 (2.02%) Retail Banking
11 12 (1.35%) Games
12 6 (0.67%) Marketing
13 5 (0.56%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.34%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.34%) Public Sector
14 3 (0.34%) Tech for Good
15 2 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.22%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 442 (49.55%) Platform Engineer
2 238 (26.68%) Data Engineer
3 175 (19.62%) Principal Engineer
4 171 (19.17%) Principal Data Engineer
5 161 (18.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 130 (14.57%) Architect
7 114 (12.78%) Data Architect
8 110 (12.33%) Cloud Engineer
9 104 (11.66%) Senior
10 95 (10.65%) Engineering Manager
11 91 (10.20%) Data Manager
12 90 (10.09%) Azure Engineer
13 74 (8.30%) Lead
14 67 (7.51%) DevOps Engineer
15 66 (7.40%) Azure Platform Engineer
16 47 (5.27%) AWS Engineer
17 37 (4.15%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 32 (3.59%) AWS Platform Engineer
19 30 (3.36%) Senior DevOps
19 30 (3.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.58%) Kafka
2 20 (2.24%) ARM Templates
3 17 (1.91%) Node.js
4 16 (1.79%) .NET
4 16 (1.79%) JSON
5 14 (1.57%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (1.12%) SAML
7 9 (1.01%) .NET Framework
8 7 (0.78%) HTML
8 7 (0.78%) JSON Schema
8 7 (0.78%) OpenAPI
8 7 (0.78%) React
8 7 (0.78%) Swagger
8 7 (0.78%) Web Services
9 6 (0.67%) Lambda Expressions
9 6 (0.67%) REST
9 6 (0.67%) YAML
10 4 (0.45%) CSS
10 4 (0.45%) FastAPI
10 4 (0.45%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 280 (31.39%) Self-Motivation
2 92 (10.31%) Product Ownership
3 37 (4.15%) Cloud Native
4 31 (3.48%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (3.03%) Data Centre
6 21 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
7 20 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.91%) Public Cloud
9 16 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.35%) Cyberattack
11 11 (1.23%) 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 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (0.78%) Low-Code
15 7 (0.78%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 97 (10.87%) Linux
2 44 (4.93%) Windows
3 26 (2.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (2.35%) Unix
4 21 (2.35%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.90%) Oracle Linux
5 8 (0.90%) Solaris
6 7 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.67%) Android
8 4 (0.45%) CentOS
8 4 (0.45%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.45%) VMS
9 3 (0.34%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 479 (53.70%) DevOps
2 421 (47.20%) Problem-Solving
3 399 (44.73%) Data Engineering
4 383 (42.94%) Agile
5 323 (36.21%) Mentoring
6 257 (28.81%) CI/CD
7 246 (27.58%) ETL
8 218 (24.44%) Data Pipeline
9 217 (24.33%) Data Modelling
10 212 (23.77%) Infrastructure as Code
11 193 (21.64%) Data Science
12 171 (19.17%) DataOps
13 165 (18.50%) Change Management
14 137 (15.36%) Data Governance
15 125 (14.01%) Innovative Thinking
16 123 (13.79%) Scrum
17 121 (13.57%) Data Integration
18 118 (13.23%) Data Architecture
19 116 (13.00%) Data Security
20 111 (12.44%) ERD
Programming Languages
1 224 (25.11%) Python
2 131 (14.69%) SQL
3 104 (11.66%) PowerShell
4 84 (9.42%) Bash
5 68 (7.62%) Java
6 40 (4.48%) C#
7 39 (4.37%) Go
8 33 (3.70%) Bicep
9 25 (2.80%) JavaScript
10 23 (2.58%) TypeScript
11 21 (2.35%) Ruby
12 19 (2.13%) Shell Script
13 18 (2.02%) Scala
14 12 (1.35%) Perl
15 11 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 11 (1.23%) U-SQL
16 10 (1.12%) Groovy
17 9 (1.01%) C++
18 8 (0.90%) C
18 8 (0.90%) PHP
Qualifications
1 47 (5.27%) Degree
2 24 (2.69%) AWS Certification
2 24 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 24 (2.69%) Security Cleared
3 20 (2.24%) Azure Certification
3 20 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
4 18 (2.02%) DBS Check
4 18 (2.02%) SC Cleared
5 13 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (0.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 8 (0.90%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.56%) CCIE
7 5 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (0.56%) JNCIE
7 5 (0.56%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.56%) PhD
8 3 (0.34%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 3 (0.34%) CISSP
8 3 (0.34%) HND
8 3 (0.34%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (30.94%) GDPR
2 139 (15.58%) Data Quality
3 84 (9.42%) 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
1 140 (15.70%) Docker
2 36 (4.04%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
4 7 (0.78%) 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 (27.58%) Terraform
2 207 (23.21%) Kubernetes
3 96 (10.76%) Ansible
4 36 (4.04%) Grafana
5 34 (3.81%) Puppet
6 33 (3.70%) Prometheus
7 32 (3.59%) Progress Chef
8 16 (1.79%) Salt
9 15 (1.68%) Istio
10 12 (1.35%) Packer
11 10 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.67%) Argo
14 4 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.45%) Kibana
15 3 (0.34%) logstash
16 2 (0.22%) Kubeflow
16 2 (0.22%) Podman
16 2 (0.22%) Rundeck
17 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 397 (44.51%) Google
2 130 (14.57%) Microsoft
3 35 (3.92%) Databricks
4 13 (1.46%) Red Hat
5 11 (1.23%) New Relic
5 11 (1.23%) Splunk
6 10 (1.12%) Atlassian
6 10 (1.12%) VMware
7 9 (1.01%) SaltStack
8 8 (0.90%) Oracle
8 8 (0.90%) Serena
8 8 (0.90%) YouTube
9 6 (0.67%) Alteryx
10 5 (0.56%) LogicMonitor
10 5 (0.56%) PagerDuty
11 3 (0.34%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.34%) Facebook
12 2 (0.22%) Confluent
12 2 (0.22%) Dataiku
12 2 (0.22%) Nintex