Platform Engineer Jobs in the City of London

Platform Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Platform Engineer salary in the City of London is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 152 202 261
Rank change year-on-year +50 +59 -57
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 25 26 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.75% 0.58% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 0.61% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 25 23 28
10th Percentile £72,500 - £57,375
25th Percentile £75,000 £57,500 £75,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £106,250 £105,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 - £95,375
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £87,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +2.86% +2.94% -5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 3,218 4,285 7,196
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.15% 96.18% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,516 3,573 5,686
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,470 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £108,750
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in the City of London

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in the City of London.

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in the City of London

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in the City of London

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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 City of London region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 19 (76.00%) Terraform
2 19 (76.00%) Azure
3 14 (56.00%) AWS
3 14 (56.00%) Kubernetes
4 13 (52.00%) DevOps
5 11 (44.00%) PaaS
6 10 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (36.00%) CI/CD
8 7 (28.00%) Docker
8 7 (28.00%) Finance
8 7 (28.00%) Software Engineering
9 6 (24.00%) Agile
9 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
9 6 (24.00%) Python
9 6 (24.00%) SaaS
9 6 (24.00%) GCP
10 5 (20.00%) Serverless
10 5 (20.00%) GitHub
10 5 (20.00%) C#
11 4 (16.00%) Java
11 4 (16.00%) SQL
11 4 (16.00%) .NET
11 4 (16.00%) Windows
11 4 (16.00%) Configuration Management
11 4 (16.00%) Banking
11 4 (16.00%) JIRA
11 4 (16.00%) Artifactory
11 4 (16.00%) Jenkins
11 4 (16.00%) PowerShell

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.00%) Confluence
1 1 (4.00%) SAS
1 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (76.00%) Azure
2 14 (56.00%) AWS
3 11 (44.00%) PaaS
4 6 (24.00%) GCP
4 6 (24.00%) SaaS
5 5 (20.00%) GitHub
5 5 (20.00%) Serverless
6 4 (16.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (16.00%) OpenShift
7 3 (12.00%) IaaS
8 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (8.00%) Azure Functions
8 2 (8.00%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (8.00%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
9 1 (4.00%) Azure AKS
9 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) DNS
1 1 (4.00%) Firewall
1 1 (4.00%) FTP
1 1 (4.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.00%) Power BI
2 1 (4.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Artifactory
1 4 (16.00%) GitLab
1 4 (16.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (16.00%) JIRA
1 4 (16.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (12.00%) Snyk
2 3 (12.00%) TeamCity
3 2 (8.00%) Git
4 1 (4.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.00%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (28.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.00%) Banking
3 3 (12.00%) Retail Banking
4 2 (8.00%) Health Technology
4 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) .NET
2 2 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (8.00%) Node.js
2 2 (8.00%) React
3 1 (4.00%) Kafka
3 1 (4.00%) REST
3 1 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Windows
2 3 (12.00%) Linux
2 3 (12.00%) VMS
3 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 13 (52.00%) DevOps
3 10 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (36.00%) CI/CD
5 7 (28.00%) Software Engineering
6 6 (24.00%) Agile
7 4 (16.00%) Configuration Management
8 2 (8.00%) Containerisation
8 2 (8.00%) Data Integration
8 2 (8.00%) ETL
8 2 (8.00%) Fintech
8 2 (8.00%) Incident Response
8 2 (8.00%) Information Security
8 2 (8.00%) OO
8 2 (8.00%) SDLC
9 1 (4.00%) API Management
9 1 (4.00%) Design Patterns
9 1 (4.00%) Identity Access Management
9 1 (4.00%) Knowledge Transfer
9 1 (4.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) Python
2 5 (20.00%) C#
3 4 (16.00%) Java
3 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (16.00%) SQL
4 3 (12.00%) Bash
4 3 (12.00%) Go
4 3 (12.00%) Ruby
5 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.00%) Scala
6 1 (4.00%) C++
6 1 (4.00%) Perl
6 1 (4.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (76.00%) Terraform
2 14 (56.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (16.00%) Ansible
4 3 (12.00%) Istio
5 1 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (4.00%) Grafana
5 1 (4.00%) Kibana
5 1 (4.00%) logstash
5 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.00%) Puppet
5 1 (4.00%) Salt
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.00%) Splunk
2 1 (4.00%) VMware