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Platform Engineer Career Market Report 2026

1,587 active jobs. 826 companies. Median salary $144K. Data from Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, Workable, and 14 additional ATS sources. Last computed: 2026-06-01.

1,587
Active Job Openings
826
Companies Hiring
$144K
Median Salary (US)
81%
With Salary Data

About This Report

The Platform Engineer market data on this page is updated daily from 800,000+ active job postings across 20 ATS platforms.

Greenhouse Lever Workday Ashby SmartRecruiters Workable + 14 more ATS sources

Salary: Extracted via NLP. Only USD $5K-$3M included. Skills: Named entity recognition, noise-filtered (generic soft skills excluded). Experience: Inferred from title + description. Coverage: 81% of positions include salary data.

Key Findings

Median salary: $144K in the US

Middle 50% of salaries range from $100K to $205K.

AI/LLM is the most-demanded skill at 56%

Grafana demand rose +13.0pp — fastest-growing skill

brightvisiontechnologies leads hiring with 30 open positions

Biggest salary jump: Junior → Mid-Level (+$47K, +61%)

Salary increase: +$47K · Sample: Junior → Mid-Level

AI automation risk: low (score 30/100)

Score: 30/100 · AI/LLM demand: 103% of postings

Week-over-week changes reflect dataset expansion, not market surge

Recent growth in tracked postings is from adding new data sources, not a one-week hiring boom. Interpret trend data with this in mind.

Salary by Experience Level

LevelJobsP25MedianP90
Senior110$108K$142K$180K
Staff40$137K$170K$210K
Mid-Level28$92K$125K$239K
Manager17$154K$191K$283K
Junior15$62K$78K$120K
Lead14$100K$125K$154K
Director8$152K$170K$310K

What jumps out

Junior → Mid-Level: +$47K (61%) — the biggest single-step increase. The salary curve is back-loaded: the largest raises come at transitions where scope changes from executing tasks to owning outcomes, or from owning outcomes to shaping architecture across teams.

Salary by Country

CountryJobsMedianCurrency
United States172$145KUSD
Remote23$150KUSD
Canada13$120KUSD
United Kingdom4$76KGBP
Germany4$80KUSD

Work Mode

ModeShare
On-Site4.7%
Remote19.6%
Hybrid6.2%

~80% of postings do not specify work mode. Figures show only positions where it is explicitly stated.

Top Skills in Demand

AI/LLM
56%
CI/CD
51%
AWS
49%
Python
46%
Kubernetes
45%
Terraform
42%
DevOps
30%
Docker
26%
Azure
26%
GCP
23%
Linux
18%
TypeScript
16%

Skills on the Rise

Grafana ↑+13.0ppJava ↑+12.7ppPrometheus ↑+12.0ppSQL ↑+11.6ppPython ↑+6.7pp

Top Companies Hiring

CompanyOpeningsShare
brightvisiontechnologies301.9%
Jobgether201.3%
Mastercard161.0%
Accenturefederalservices140.9%
Bah120.8%
Travelhrportal100.6%
Capgroup90.6%
Aurorainnovation90.6%

Top Countries by Job Volume

CountryJobs
United States511
Remote155
India124
United Kingdom119
Canada37
Germany26
Portugal19
Brazil18

Education Requirements

LevelSharePositions
Associate Degree64.2%821
Master's Degree11.5%147
Bachelor's Degree7.5%96
PhD / Doctorate0.5%7
MBA0.1%1

Certifications

Kubernetes Certified (3%)ITIL (2%)AWS Certified (2%)CCNA (1%)CISSP (1%)

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