Side-by-side distribution
Azure
$142,011
median · per year, annualized USD
- Disclosing
- 20.3%
- Live roles
- 315
Platform Engineer
$185,000
median · per year, annualized USD
- Disclosing
- 41.6%
- Live roles
- 6,294
Highest-paying jobs
Senior AVD (Azure Virtual Desktop) Engineer
Lead Azure Cloud & DevOps Platform Engineer
Principal Cloud Engineer Azure
Senior Software Engineer - (C#/Microservices/Azure)
Lead Software Engineer - .Net/Azure
Senior Cloud Engineer (AWS / Azure / GCP) - VP
AVD (Azure Virtual Desktop) Engineer
Azure IaaS Engineer
Azure IaaS Engineer
Staff Partner Engineer, Azure
Highest-paying jobs
AWS Cloud Engineer (Infrastructure and Application)
Staff+ Research Engineer, RL Data Platform
Platform Engineer
Pre-training Data Infrastructure Engineer
Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Cluster Infrastructure
Staff Software Engineer, Kubernetes Platform
Staff Software Engineer, Environments Infrastructure
Staff+ Software Engineer, Safeguards Infrastructure
Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Distributed Systems)
Principal Software Engineer, Infrastructure Security
Top companies hiring
| Company | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
|
CACI
|
$152,650 | 5 |
Applied Information Sciences
|
$143,000 | 3 |
|
BMO
|
$135,250 | 3 |
SMX
|
$112,500 | 3 |
Accenture
|
$57,950 | 3 |
MetroStar
|
$175,000 | 2 |
| EE Eversource Energy | $160,998 | 2 |
LIGHTFEATHER IO LLC
|
$150,000 | 2 |
Top companies hiring
| Company | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
Anduril Industries
|
$193,000 | 50 |
SpaceX
|
$145,000 | 41 |
Booz Allen Hamilton
|
$126,750 | 40 |
|
OpenAI
|
$357,750 | 38 |
Palantir
|
$167,500 | 38 |
Nuro
|
$200,450 | 32 |
|
Anthropic
|
$445,000 | 30 |
Elastic
|
$105,820 | 29 |
Platform Engineer salary by location
| Location | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | $234,500 | 485 |
| New York | $210,000 | 427 |
| Seattle | $207,500 | 200 |
| Los Angeles | $195,000 | 51 |
| Boston | $190,000 | 75 |
| London | $185,000 | 43 |
| Austin | $182,300 | 91 |
| Singapore | $166,616 | 4 |
| Chicago | $160,000 | 88 |
| Toronto | $158,166 | 96 |
Azure vs Platform Engineer: which pays more?
The median for Azure is $142,011 per year (typically $123,025–$156,693), versus $185,000 for Platform Engineer ($145,000–$225,000). That puts Platform Engineer about 30% ahead at the median.
Both figures are computed live from active listings on JobsRadar and normalized to annualized USD, so Azure and Platform Engineer are compared on equal terms regardless of the currency each role was originally posted in. Only roles that publish a salary range feed the medians; numbers refresh every few hours as new roles post and older ones close, so this comparison reflects the market right now rather than a fixed survey. Use it as a directional benchmark when weighing one path against the other.