Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer should be judged by owned outcomes, not keyword count.

AI-assisted summary of published DOU and Djinni analytics

Salary from $2,947 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Salary to $8,000 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Jobs 325 Last 3 months
Applications per job 30 JobNote category match
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Published signal

Market-wide
38 DOU responses per job · September
16 Djinni applications per job · Q1

Hiring Define the outcome, scope, and seniority before screening tools or titles.

Candidate Show what you owned, what changed, and the evidence.

Data Market-wide context only; neither figure is specific to Platform Engineer. Use the JobNote number above for the role.

Most wanted skills

Counts of active jobs now and salaries.

Kubernetes 59 $3526–$5533 Terraform 46 $3528–$5379 Python 38 $2888–$4574 AWS 32 $3560–$5312 Linux 27 $1981–$3745 Docker 24 $2640–$4411 CI/CD 23 $2827–$4674 Shell Scripting 18 $2345–$4163 Azure 17 $2771–$4827 Github Actions 15 $3253–$5068

Where to hire

Sources

  1. Ukraine tech job market — Q3 2026 Published signal ·
  2. Djinni market analytics — Q1 2026 Published signal ·