Platform Engineer
'The new DevOps'; internal platforms, including AI tooling
- Salary 30% × 5.11.54
- AI resistance 35% × 9.03.15
- Demand 20% × 8.01.60
- Remote work 10% × 8.00.80
- Low stress 5% × 4.00.20
Salary, k PLN per month
Mixedestimate MID → SENIORmarket (SOLID.Jobs): middle half of offersmidpoint, medianjunior (derived)
- Range MID → SENIOR
- ≈20–34
- Range midpoint
- ≈27.0
- Junior Derived
- ≈13.5
- Take-home, employment (UoP) Derived
- ≈18.4
- Take-home, B2B flat-rate tax Derived
- ≈22.1
NOTE: this is NOT a junior salary! The bottom of the range = MID level (or just promoted from junior). The top of the range = an experienced SENIOR. Staff/principal/architect levels can earn above it.
Easiest transitions
Estimate2-3 roles with the shortest path from this one (overlapping skills)
Key certifications
EstimateScores 1–10
Estimate- AI resistance9/1010 = rides the AI wave, 1 = highly automatable
- Demand8/1010 = acute shortage of specialists, 1 = shrinking market
- Remote work8/1010 = fully remote is the norm, 1 = mostly on-site
- Stress6/1010 = heavy on-call / shifts / pressure, 1 = calm
- Entry barrier7/1010 = years of prerequisites, 1 = open to beginners
- Prestige8/1010 = elite reputation in the industry, 1 = underrated role; a subjective view of the title among engineers - informational, not part of the Score formula
The market in job ads
From job ads SOLID.Jobs · 13/11/2026Most common stack
requirednice to have% of this role's offers
Experience level
Junior 0%Regular 25%Senior 75%
Matching: 12 by title, 0 by category. Pay is the midpoint of each offer's range in PLN per month (B2B net, employment gross); the median and the band holding the middle half of offers are shown.
Salaries in job-board reports
From reportsNo Fluff Jobs: „Kariera w IT 2026”data for H1 2026
These are the report's figures for the whole DevOps category, not for this role alone.
| Level | B2B net | Employment, gross |
|---|---|---|
| Junior | – | – |
| Mid | 20.2–25.2 | 15.4–20 |
| Senior | 25.2–30.1 | 19.5–25 |
Thousands of PLN a month: the median lower and upper bounds of the ranges in job ads. A dash means the report gives no amount because there were too few ads. Source: page 15 of the report.
No Fluff Jobs: „Rynek pracy IT w Polsce 2025/2026”data for 2025
These are the report's figures for the whole DevOps category, not for this role alone.
| Level | B2B net | Employment, gross |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | 23.1–28.6 | 16–22.4 |
| Junior | 7–12 | 6–11 |
| Mid | 19.3–24.4 | 13–18 |
| Senior | 25–30 | 18.5–25 |
Thousands of PLN a month: the median lower and upper bounds of the ranges in job ads. Year-on-year change of the overall upper median: B2B +9.8%, employment +12.0%. Source: pages 27 and 31 of the report.
Reports are shown on their own, with a link and page number. They are not averaged with SOLID.Jobs data because they measure something else: the report gives the median lower and upper bounds, SOLID.Jobs the median of the range midpoints.