Senior Platform Engineer Jobs in Central London

Senior Platform Engineer
London > Central London

The median Senior Platform Engineer salary in Central London is £105,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 178 243 297
Rank change year-on-year +65 +54 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 10 2 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.26% 0.038% 0.088%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.039% 0.092%
Number of salaries quoted 10 2 6
10th Percentile £92,500 £96,500 £74,500
25th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £80,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £105,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year - +13.51% -
75th Percentile £122,500 £108,750 £96,250
90th Percentile - £109,500 £103,750
London median annual salary £105,000 £100,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +17.65% +9.68%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Central London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Central London with a recognized job title 3,595 5,095 7,638
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.16% 96.19% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,829 4,254 6,415
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £111,250 £108,750
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings that featured Senior Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Platform Engineer in Central London

Senior Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Platform Engineer in Central London.

Salary trend for Senior Platform Engineer in Central London

Senior Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Platform Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Platform Engineer in Central London

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Platform Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 30 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +66 9 £105,000 -
Southwark - 1 £55,000 -
Senior Platform Engineer
London

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, Senior Platform Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Central London region featuring Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Azure
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 9 (90.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (90.00%) DevOps
3 8 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (60.00%) PaaS
5 5 (50.00%) AWS
5 5 (50.00%) SaaS
5 5 (50.00%) Docker
5 5 (50.00%) C#
5 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
5 5 (50.00%) GCP
6 4 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (40.00%) Public Cloud
6 4 (40.00%) Fintech
6 4 (40.00%) TeamCity
6 4 (40.00%) OO
6 4 (40.00%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (40.00%) .NET
7 3 (30.00%) Python
8 2 (20.00%) Java
8 2 (20.00%) IaaS
8 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
8 2 (20.00%) React
8 2 (20.00%) Node.js
8 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
9 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
9 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) PaaS
3 5 (50.00%) AWS
3 5 (50.00%) GCP
3 5 (50.00%) SaaS
4 4 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (20.00%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Octopus Deploy
1 4 (40.00%) TeamCity
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (10.00%) Git
3 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (10.00%) Games
1 1 (10.00%) Health Technology
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) Node.js
2 2 (20.00%) React
3 1 (10.00%) JSON
3 1 (10.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 9 (90.00%) DevOps
3 8 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
5 4 (40.00%) Fintech
5 4 (40.00%) OO
6 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 1 (10.00%) Agile
7 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
7 1 (10.00%) Microservices
7 1 (10.00%) Performance Testing
7 1 (10.00%) SDLC
7 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) C#
2 3 (30.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) Bash
4 1 (10.00%) Go
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) Ruby
4 1 (10.00%) Scala
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform
2 9 (90.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (10.00%) Puppet