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What data platform engineers are paid, what to name in the advert, and who you are up against — from the adverts on Data Engineering Jobs, not a survey. Looking for the roles themselves? See Data Platform Engineer jobs.

What you will pay

£55k to £100k, most around £79k

The range employers advertised for data platform engineers on Data Engineering Jobs over the last 12 months, base salary only, across 33 priced adverts. Adverts that state a salary get more applications than those that hide it, and a figure at or above the midpoint is the single cheapest thing you can do for the response.

  • Remote or anchored

    A fully remote role draws the whole country and can pay a little under the London figure; an anchored one competes locally and cannot.

  • Greenfield or inherited

    Building from nothing is worth more to the right person than running what exists, and they will ask which it is.

  • Someone senior to learn from

    A strong lead in the team is worth thousands on the offer; without one, expect to pay for that experience directly.

Who you are competing with

Hiring data platform engineers on Data Engineering Jobs right now

Three live adverts for the role, as candidates see them. How rivals pitch it is worth a look before you write yours.

ClickHouse

Data Platform Engineer

  • United Kingdom
  • Remote
  • Senior
  • Permanent

Builds and evolves an internal data warehouse on ClickHouse, developing reusable Airflow operators and dbt macros, DataOps tooling and CI pipelines, and optimising high-volume business data marts. Works in a globally distributed, remote-friendly team, mentoring contributors and leading the most technically demanding modelling work.

ClickHouse · Airflow · dbt +4

Today

Tenth Revolution Group

Data Platform Engineer

  • London
  • £75,000 – £90,000 pa
  • Mid-level
  • Permanent

Builds and operates an Azure Databricks platform supporting analytics, customer insight and AI, owning infrastructure, tooling and integrations. Manages Azure resources via Terraform, configures Databricks workspaces, Unity Catalog and networking, and maintains CI/CD with GitHub Actions. Also handles monitoring, incident response, security and cost efficiency while supporting data engineers and AI teams.

Azure Databricks · Terraform · GitHub Actions +7

Yesterday

Pontoon

Senior Data Platform Engineer - Compliance Assurance

  • Chester
  • Hybrid · 3 days in office
  • Senior
  • Contract

Hands-on engineering role building and maintaining scalable data platforms for compliance assurance in a regulated enterprise. You own the full data lifecycle, from ingesting source systems via Kafka and NiFi to streaming, processing and automated reconciliation controls that flag missing records, mismatches and exceptions. Developer-led, with Python, PySpark, Hadoop/Hive and CI/CD, plus production troubleshooting and auditability.

Apache Kafka · Apache NiFi · Hadoop +7

Last month

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