Platform Engineering Jobs in the City of London

Platform Engineering
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Platform Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 152 173
Rank change year-on-year +18 +21 -25
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 45 88 110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.34% 1.86% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 1.95% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 44 76 104
10th Percentile £70,375 £57,500 £59,125
25th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £72,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £81,250 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% -9.72% +2.86%
75th Percentile £107,188 £105,000 £106,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £110,000 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Platform Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,103 4,512 6,733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 92.38% 95.13% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,472 3,784 5,617
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £45,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the City of London

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in the City of London

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in the City of London

Platform Engineering
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 (2.22%) Confluence
1 1 (2.22%) Jupyter
1 1 (2.22%) SAS
1 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 27 (60.00%) AWS
2 25 (55.56%) Azure
3 11 (24.44%) PaaS
4 8 (17.78%) GCP
4 8 (17.78%) SaaS
4 8 (17.78%) Serverless
5 6 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (11.11%) IaaS
7 4 (8.89%) GitHub
7 4 (8.89%) OpenShift
7 4 (8.89%) Power Platform
8 3 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (4.44%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (4.44%) Amazon S3
9 2 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (4.44%) Azure Functions
9 2 (4.44%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (4.44%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (4.44%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) DNS
1 1 (2.22%) Firewall
1 1 (2.22%) FTP
1 1 (2.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.44%) Power BI
3 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.22%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.22%) Redis
3 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (17.78%) Jenkins
2 6 (13.33%) GitLab
3 5 (11.11%) Octopus Deploy
3 5 (11.11%) TeamCity
4 4 (8.89%) Artifactory
4 4 (8.89%) JIRA
5 3 (6.67%) Git
5 3 (6.67%) Snyk
6 1 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.22%) Terragrunt
6 1 (2.22%) Zephyr
General
1 10 (22.22%) Finance
2 5 (11.11%) Banking
3 4 (8.89%) Health Technology
3 4 (8.89%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (62.22%) Platform Engineer
2 20 (44.44%) Senior
3 9 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (20.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 7 (15.56%) Senior DevOps
4 7 (15.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Data Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 3 (6.67%) Test Specialist
8 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Software Engineer
9 1 (2.22%) AWS Engineer
9 1 (2.22%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 1 (2.22%) Developer
9 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365 Manager
9 1 (2.22%) Power Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.33%) .NET
2 4 (8.89%) Node.js
3 3 (6.67%) React
4 1 (2.22%) ADO
4 1 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.22%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.22%) JSON
4 1 (2.22%) Kafka
4 1 (2.22%) Redux
4 1 (2.22%) REST
4 1 (2.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.22%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.22%) PMI
2 1 (2.22%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.33%) Windows
2 4 (8.89%) Linux
3 3 (6.67%) VMS
4 1 (2.22%) CentOS
4 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.22%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.22%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (53.33%) DevOps
2 20 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (35.56%) CI/CD
4 11 (24.44%) Agile
5 10 (22.22%) Containerisation
5 10 (22.22%) Fintech
6 9 (20.00%) Configuration Management
6 9 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 7 (15.56%) Observability
8 6 (13.33%) DevSecOps
9 4 (8.89%) Computer Science
9 4 (8.89%) OO
9 4 (8.89%) SDLC
10 3 (6.67%) Information Security
10 3 (6.67%) Integration Testing
10 3 (6.67%) Process Management
10 3 (6.67%) Risk Assessment
10 3 (6.67%) TDD
10 3 (6.67%) Time Management
10 3 (6.67%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.67%) Python
2 7 (15.56%) C#
2 7 (15.56%) Go
3 6 (13.33%) Ruby
4 5 (11.11%) Java
5 4 (8.89%) Bash
5 4 (8.89%) SQL
6 3 (6.67%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.44%) C++
7 2 (4.44%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.44%) Perl
7 2 (4.44%) Scala
8 1 (2.22%) Bicep
8 1 (2.22%) R
8 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (8.89%) Degree
2 3 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.22%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 14 (31.11%) Docker
2 2 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (68.89%) Terraform
2 27 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (11.11%) Ansible
4 3 (6.67%) Istio
4 3 (6.67%) Progress Chef
4 3 (6.67%) Puppet
5 2 (4.44%) Grafana
5 2 (4.44%) Salt
6 1 (2.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (2.22%) Kibana
6 1 (2.22%) logstash
6 1 (2.22%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.44%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.22%) Alteryx
3 1 (2.22%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.22%) SaltStack
3 1 (2.22%) Splunk
3 1 (2.22%) TOWER Software
3 1 (2.22%) VMware