Career Radar IT roles · Poland
#8 by score · #8 editorially · Cloud and Infrastructure

Platform Engineer

Tier 1 · AI-era winnersAI risk: lowMixed14 offers on SOLID.Jobs

'The new DevOps'; internal platforms, including AI tooling

Overall scoreDerived
7.29/ 10
#8 of 63 by score with the default weights. #8 in the editorial ranking.
  • 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

Estimate
0510152025303540Estimate≈20–34Market B2B25–27.6 · 14 offers

estimate MID → SENIORmarket: 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

Estimate
SRECloud ArchitectEng Manager

2-3 roles with the shortest path from this one (overlapping skills)

Key certifications

Estimate
CKA/CKADTerraformGitOps (ArgoCD)

Scores 1–10

Estimate
  • AI resistance9/10
    10 = rides the AI wave, 1 = highly automatable
  • Demand8/10
    10 = acute shortage of specialists, 1 = shrinking market
  • Remote work8/10
    10 = fully remote is the norm, 1 = mostly on-site
  • Stress6/10
    10 = heavy on-call / shifts / pressure, 1 = calm
  • Entry barrier7/10
    10 = years of prerequisites, 1 = open to beginners
  • Prestige8/10
    10 = 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 · 30/10/2026
14offers · 7 employers
26.7kB2B median · 25–27.6k
–employment median
71%remote · 21% hybrid

Most common stack

  • CI/CD
  • Terraform
  • Azure
  • Kubernetes
  • Python
  • IaC
  • Jira
  • PowerShell
  • Ansible
  • AWS
  • Azure DevOps
  • Git

requirednice to have% of this role's offers

Experience level

Junior 0%Regular 29%Senior 71%

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Offers per quarter in DevOps · hollow dot = quarter in progress

Matching: 14 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.