Side-by-side distribution
DevOps
$175,000
median · per year, annualized USD
- Disclosing
- 36.4%
- Live roles
- 5,967
Platform Engineer
$185,400
median · per year, annualized USD
- Disclosing
- 41.8%
- Live roles
- 6,294
Highest-paying jobs
Staff+ Research Engineer, RL Data Platform
Platform Engineer
Platform Engineer
Cloud Platform Engineer
Flutter Engineer - Platform
Staff Software Engineer, Kubernetes Platform
Product Engineer, Studio Platform
Software Engineer, Platform Systems
Web Platform Lead Engineer
Data Platform Engineer
Highest-paying jobs
AWS Cloud Engineer (Infrastructure and Application)
Pre-training Data Infrastructure Engineer
Platform Engineer
Staff+ Research Engineer, RL Data Platform
Flutter Engineer - Platform
Platform Engineer
Cloud Platform Engineer
Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Cluster Infrastructure
Staff Software Engineer, Kubernetes Platform
Staff Software Engineer, Environments Infrastructure
Top companies hiring
| Company | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
Booz Allen Hamilton
|
$126,800 | 81 |
Accenture Federal Services
|
$153,850 | 44 |
Anduril Industries
|
$222,000 | 32 |
CACI
|
$160,325 | 30 |
Leidos
|
$151,475 | 28 |
Elastic
|
$113,946 | 25 |
Coinbase
|
$202,483 | 22 |
Air Apps
|
$62,614 | 22 |
Top companies hiring
| Company | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
|
Anduril Industries
|
$193,000 | 50 |
SpaceX
|
$145,000 | 41 |
|
Booz Allen Hamilton
|
$126,750 | 40 |
Palantir
|
$167,500 | 38 |
|
OpenAI
|
$360,000 | 37 |
Nuro
|
$200,450 | 32 |
|
Anthropic
|
$445,000 | 30 |
|
Elastic
|
$105,820 | 29 |
DevOps salary by location
| Location | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | $228,825 | 302 |
| New York | $210,000 | 281 |
| Seattle | $205,000 | 129 |
| Los Angeles | $185,000 | 35 |
| Boston | $185,000 | 63 |
| Denver | $175,000 | 49 |
| Austin | $164,500 | 61 |
| Chicago | $160,000 | 82 |
| London | $156,744 | 34 |
| Atlanta | $153,300 | 33 |
Platform Engineer salary by location
| Location | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | $234,500 | 487 |
| New York | $210,000 | 427 |
| Seattle | $210,000 | 204 |
| Los Angeles | $196,000 | 53 |
| London | $193,292 | 46 |
| Boston | $190,000 | 76 |
| Austin | $182,300 | 91 |
| Singapore | $166,616 | 4 |
| Chicago | $160,000 | 87 |
| Toronto | $157,500 | 95 |
DevOps vs Platform Engineer: which pays more?
The median for DevOps is $175,000 per year (typically $140,000–$215,000), versus $185,400 for Platform Engineer ($145,000–$225,000). That puts Platform Engineer about 6% ahead at the median.
Both figures are computed live from active listings on JobsRadar and normalized to annualized USD, so DevOps 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.