The first table below looks at the demand for the Platform Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Platform Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Platform Engineer
Rank 310 320 329
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 11 3 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.094% 0.023% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.102% 0.025% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 2
Average salary £56,250 £47,500 £71,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.42% -33.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £38,850 £32,900 £66,250
10% offered a salary of more than £79,250 £49,500 £76,250
UK excluding London average salary £72,500 £35,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year
+107.14% -26.31%
All Job Titles
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
10837 12171 14447
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 92.90% 93.16% 93.65%
Number of salaries quoted 9335 11069 13022
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Platform Engineer
London

Platform Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Platform Engineer across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Platform Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Platform Engineer across the City of London region.

City of London Platform Engineer Salary Trend

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Platform Engineer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Platform Engineer Salary Histogram

Platform Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Platform Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Platform Engineer in their job title.

1 10 (62.50%) Windows
2 9 (56.25%) Active Directory
3 8 (50.00%) NetApp
3 8 (50.00%) MS Exchange
3 8 (50.00%) SCCM
4 7 (43.75%) LDAP
4 7 (43.75%) DNS
5 6 (37.50%) SharePoint
5 6 (37.50%) Veritas
5 6 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (37.50%) Nagios
5 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (37.50%) RHCE
5 6 (37.50%) MCSE
5 6 (37.50%) Python
5 6 (37.50%) Scrum
5 6 (37.50%) NFS
5 6 (37.50%) Xen
5 6 (37.50%) SCOM
5 6 (37.50%) Kanban
5 6 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (37.50%) CentOS
5 6 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (37.50%) Hyper-V
5 6 (37.50%) Git (software)
5 6 (37.50%) SharePoint 2010
5 6 (37.50%) Splunk
5 6 (37.50%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 6 (37.50%) Cobbler
5 6 (37.50%) Puppet

Platform Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Platform Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Platform Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (18.75%) Spring
1 3 (18.75%) Middleware
1 3 (18.75%) JDBC
1 3 (18.75%) RESTful
1 3 (18.75%) Hibernate
2 1 (6.250%) YUI
2 1 (6.250%) .NET
2 1 (6.250%) COM
2 1 (6.250%) CSS
2 1 (6.250%) HTML5
2 1 (6.250%) AngularJS
2 1 (6.250%) Backbone.js
2 1 (6.250%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 8 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 6 (37.50%) SharePoint
2 6 (37.50%) SharePoint 2010
2 6 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (6.250%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (6.250%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Front Arena
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) LDAP
1 7 (43.75%) DNS
2 1 (6.250%) DHCP
2 1 (6.250%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Git (software)
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (6.250%) Front Office
2 1 (6.250%) Electronics
2 1 (6.250%) Legal
2 1 (6.250%) Manufacturing
2 1 (6.250%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.250%) Mainframe
1 1 (6.250%) PKI
1 1 (6.250%) Blackberry
1 1 (6.250%) Hedge funds
1 1 (6.250%) Open Source
1 1 (6.250%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 10 (62.50%) Windows
2 6 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
2 6 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
2 6 (37.50%) CentOS
2 6 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Scrum
1 6 (37.50%) Kanban
2 3 (18.75%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (18.75%) Multithreading
3 2 (12.50%) Financial Modelling
3 2 (12.50%) Migration
3 2 (12.50%) Project Management
4 1 (6.250%) Quality Management
4 1 (6.250%) Service Delivery
4 1 (6.250%) Risk Management
4 1 (6.250%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (6.250%) Information Security
4 1 (6.250%) Project Planning
4 1 (6.250%) Release Management
4 1 (6.250%) OO
4 1 (6.250%) Analytics
4 1 (6.250%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (6.250%) Performance Improvement
4 1 (6.250%) Lean Manufacturing
4 1 (6.250%) QMS
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) Java
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 1 (6.250%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.250%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (37.50%) RHCE
1 6 (37.50%) MCSE
2 1 (6.250%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.250%) SLA
1 1 (6.250%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 9 (56.25%) Active Directory
2 6 (37.50%) NFS
2 6 (37.50%) Xen
2 6 (37.50%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.250%) XenApp
3 1 (6.250%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) SCCM
2 6 (37.50%) Nagios
2 6 (37.50%) SCOM
2 6 (37.50%) Splunk
2 6 (37.50%) Red Hat Spacewalk
2 6 (37.50%) Cobbler
2 6 (37.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) NetApp
2 6 (37.50%) Veritas
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
4 2 (12.50%) Calypso
4 2 (12.50%) SunGard
4 2 (12.50%) Murex
4 2 (12.50%) Sophis
5 1 (6.250%) Citrix