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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 349 281 405
Rank change year-on-year -68 +124 -202
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 266 440 635
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.77% 1.14% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.19% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 220 342 484
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £63,438 £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 £102,500 £105,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £138,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £74,402 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -0.80% +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 31,322 36,922 72,167
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.16% 96.00% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,561 26,118 41,820
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
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 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 1 June 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 10 (3.76%) Confluence
2 8 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (3.01%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.13%) Apache
4 2 (0.75%) nginx
5 1 (0.38%) IIS
5 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 129 (48.50%) Azure
2 107 (40.23%) AWS
3 42 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (14.66%) GCP
4 39 (14.66%) Power Platform
5 37 (13.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 36 (13.53%) Azure Data Factory
7 34 (12.78%) Serverless
8 24 (9.02%) GitHub
9 22 (8.27%) Azure AKS
10 19 (7.14%) PaaS
11 18 (6.77%) AWS CloudFormation
12 17 (6.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 15 (5.64%) SaaS
14 12 (4.51%) Amazon S3
14 12 (4.51%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (4.51%) Cloud Computing
15 11 (4.14%) Amazon ECS
15 11 (4.14%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
15 11 (4.14%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.89%) Firewall
2 16 (6.02%) Network Security
3 10 (3.76%) VPN
4 6 (2.26%) DNS
4 6 (2.26%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.88%) BGP
5 5 (1.88%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (1.88%) IPsec
5 5 (1.88%) IPv4
5 5 (1.88%) LAN
5 5 (1.88%) NGFW
5 5 (1.88%) OSPF
5 5 (1.88%) SSL
5 5 (1.88%) VLAN
5 5 (1.88%) WAN
5 5 (1.88%) Wireless
6 2 (0.75%) Internet
7 1 (0.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (14.29%) Power BI
2 34 (12.78%) Data Warehouse
3 30 (11.28%) Azure SQL Database
4 24 (9.02%) MySQL
4 24 (9.02%) NoSQL
5 18 (6.77%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 16 (6.02%) Data Lake
7 14 (5.26%) BigQuery
7 14 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (4.14%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 11 (4.14%) MongoDB
8 11 (4.14%) Redis
9 9 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (3.38%) DynamoDB
9 9 (3.38%) MariaDB
10 7 (2.63%) Hadoop
11 6 (2.26%) SQL Server
12 5 (1.88%) Metadata
13 4 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (1.50%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 38 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 29 (10.90%) Git
3 11 (4.14%) JIRA
4 10 (3.76%) TeamCity
5 9 (3.38%) GitLab
6 8 (3.01%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.26%) Octopus Deploy
7 6 (2.26%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (2.26%) Subversion
7 6 (2.26%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (1.88%) DTrace
8 5 (1.88%) GDB
9 4 (1.50%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.13%) Spinnaker
11 2 (0.75%) GoCD
11 2 (0.75%) NUnit
12 1 (0.38%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 48 (18.05%) Finance
2 36 (13.53%) Social Skills
3 22 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (8.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (6.39%) Retail
5 15 (5.64%) Banking
6 11 (4.14%) Legal
7 9 (3.38%) Health Technology
7 9 (3.38%) Law
8 6 (2.26%) Games
9 3 (1.13%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.75%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.38%) Back Office
11 1 (0.38%) Front Office
11 1 (0.38%) Marketing
11 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 129 (48.50%) Platform Engineer
2 76 (28.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 66 (24.81%) Senior
4 53 (19.92%) Azure Engineer
5 50 (18.80%) DevOps Engineer
6 49 (18.42%) Cloud Engineer
7 44 (16.54%) Data Engineer
8 37 (13.91%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 35 (13.16%) Lead
10 28 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
11 27 (10.15%) Senior DevOps
11 27 (10.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 22 (8.27%) Senior Data Engineer
13 20 (7.52%) Developer
14 19 (7.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 19 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 18 (6.77%) Business Intelligence Manager
15 18 (6.77%) Data Manager
15 18 (6.77%) Engineering Manager
16 17 (6.39%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.26%) Kafka
2 10 (3.76%) Node.js
3 9 (3.38%) .NET
3 9 (3.38%) .NET Framework
3 9 (3.38%) HTML
4 8 (3.01%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (3.01%) JSON
5 7 (2.63%) JSON Schema
5 7 (2.63%) OpenAPI
5 7 (2.63%) Swagger
5 7 (2.63%) Web Services
6 6 (2.26%) ARM Templates
7 5 (1.88%) SAML
8 4 (1.50%) CSS
9 3 (1.13%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.13%) AWS CDK
9 3 (1.13%) PySpark
10 2 (0.75%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.75%) ADO
10 2 (0.75%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.14%) Data Centre
1 19 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
1 19 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
2 18 (6.77%) Cloud Native
3 13 (4.89%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (4.89%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.38%) Clustering
5 8 (3.01%) Algorithms
5 8 (3.01%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.01%) Replication
6 7 (2.63%) IoT
6 7 (2.63%) Video\Live Streaming
7 6 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.26%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.88%) Blog
8 5 (1.88%) Client/Server
8 5 (1.88%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.88%) Wiki
9 4 (1.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 56 (21.05%) Linux
2 22 (8.27%) Windows
3 18 (6.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (5.26%) Unix
5 12 (4.51%) Windows Server
6 8 (3.01%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (3.01%) Solaris
7 6 (2.26%) Apple iOS
8 5 (1.88%) Android
9 1 (0.38%) CentOS
9 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.38%) VMS
9 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (49.25%) DevOps
2 110 (41.35%) Infrastructure as Code
3 85 (31.95%) CI/CD
4 78 (29.32%) Agile
5 67 (25.19%) Analytics
6 41 (15.41%) Containerisation
7 39 (14.66%) Configuration Management
8 38 (14.29%) ETL
8 38 (14.29%) Visualisation
9 36 (13.53%) Business Intelligence
10 35 (13.16%) Artificial Intelligence
10 35 (13.16%) Data Engineering
11 34 (12.78%) Scrum
12 33 (12.41%) Data Visualisation
13 32 (12.03%) Machine Learning
14 31 (11.65%) Coaching
14 31 (11.65%) Data Pipeline
15 30 (11.28%) Software Engineering
16 28 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
17 27 (10.15%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 128 (48.12%) Python
2 76 (28.57%) SQL
3 44 (16.54%) PowerShell
4 40 (15.04%) Bash
5 33 (12.41%) Java
6 32 (12.03%) C#
7 23 (8.65%) Go
8 21 (7.89%) TypeScript
9 18 (6.77%) JavaScript
10 17 (6.39%) Shell Script
11 13 (4.89%) Ruby
12 11 (4.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 11 (4.14%) U-SQL
13 8 (3.01%) Groovy
14 7 (2.63%) PHP
15 6 (2.26%) C
16 5 (1.88%) OCaml
16 5 (1.88%) Perl
16 5 (1.88%) SystemTap
17 4 (1.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 35 (13.16%) Degree
2 18 (6.77%) AWS Certification
2 18 (6.77%) DBS Check
3 17 (6.39%) Azure Certification
4 15 (5.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.51%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (4.51%) Security Cleared
6 10 (3.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (3.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (3.01%) SC Cleared
9 5 (1.88%) CCIE
9 5 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.88%) JNCIE
10 3 (1.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (1.13%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.13%) HND
10 3 (1.13%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.13%) PhD
10 3 (1.13%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.01%) PCI DSS
1 8 (3.01%) QA
2 5 (1.88%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.38%) GDPR
4 1 (0.38%) NIST
4 1 (0.38%) SEPA
System Software
1 72 (27.07%) Docker
2 11 (4.14%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 123 (46.24%) Terraform
2 108 (40.60%) Kubernetes
3 60 (22.56%) Ansible
4 21 (7.89%) Grafana
5 19 (7.14%) Prometheus
6 18 (6.77%) Progress Chef
7 17 (6.39%) Puppet
8 8 (3.01%) Salt
9 7 (2.63%) Packer
10 5 (1.88%) Karpenter
11 4 (1.50%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (1.50%) Istio
12 3 (1.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.75%) Rundeck
14 1 (0.38%) Consul
14 1 (0.38%) Failover Clustering
14 1 (0.38%) FortiGate
14 1 (0.38%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.38%) Rancher
14 1 (0.38%) SCCM
Vendors
1 61 (22.93%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.40%) Databricks
3 18 (6.77%) Google
4 11 (4.14%) New Relic
5 8 (3.01%) Atlassian
5 8 (3.01%) Oracle
5 8 (3.01%) Red Hat
5 8 (3.01%) Serena
5 8 (3.01%) VMware
6 6 (2.26%) SaltStack
6 6 (2.26%) YouTube
7 3 (1.13%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.13%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.13%) Splunk
8 2 (0.75%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (0.75%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.38%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.38%) Hortonworks
9 1 (0.38%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.38%) Wallstreet Suite