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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 154 174
Rank change year-on-year +25 +20 -37
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 54 75 119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.62% 1.67% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 1.75% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 52 65 110
10th Percentile £72,500 £57,500 £58,750
25th Percentile £82,500 £67,500 £76,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £80,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £106,250 £105,000 £106,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £106,250 £110,125
Central London median annual salary £92,500 £80,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +15.63% -11.11% +2.86%

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 3,062 4,285 7,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 91.65% 95.22% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,381 3,559 5,621
10th Percentile £41,315 £42,950 £46,250
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 £100,000 £94,435
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £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 29 May 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 (1.85%) Confluence
1 1 (1.85%) Jupyter
1 1 (1.85%) SAS
1 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 35 (64.81%) AWS
2 26 (48.15%) Azure
3 13 (24.07%) PaaS
4 8 (14.81%) GCP
4 8 (14.81%) SaaS
5 7 (12.96%) Serverless
6 5 (9.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (9.26%) GitHub
6 5 (9.26%) IaaS
7 4 (7.41%) OpenShift
7 4 (7.41%) Power Platform
8 3 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.70%) Azure Functions
9 2 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (3.70%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.85%) Azure App Service
10 1 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.85%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) DNS
1 1 (1.85%) Firewall
1 1 (1.85%) FTP
1 1 (1.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (3.70%) Power BI
3 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.85%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.85%) Redis
3 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (16.67%) GitLab
2 7 (12.96%) Jenkins
3 5 (9.26%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (7.41%) Artifactory
4 4 (7.41%) JIRA
4 4 (7.41%) TeamCity
5 3 (5.56%) Git
5 3 (5.56%) Snyk
6 1 (1.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.85%) Terragrunt
6 1 (1.85%) Zephyr
General
1 11 (20.37%) Finance
2 10 (18.52%) Banking
3 6 (11.11%) Retail Banking
4 5 (9.26%) Social Skills
5 4 (7.41%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 23 (42.59%) Senior
3 16 (29.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (20.37%) Senior DevOps
4 11 (20.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 8 (14.81%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 7 (12.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) Architect
9 3 (5.56%) Data Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 3 (5.56%) Technical Architect
9 3 (5.56%) Test Specialist
10 2 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
10 2 (3.70%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Engineer
10 2 (3.70%) Software Engineer
11 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 1 (1.85%) Power Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.26%) .NET
2 4 (7.41%) Node.js
3 3 (5.56%) React
4 2 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.85%) ADO
5 1 (1.85%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.85%) JSON
5 1 (1.85%) Kafka
5 1 (1.85%) Redux
5 1 (1.85%) REST
5 1 (1.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.41%) Public Cloud
2 3 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.85%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.85%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.85%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.85%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.11%) Linux
1 6 (11.11%) Windows
2 3 (5.56%) VMS
3 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.85%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (61.11%) DevOps
2 22 (40.74%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (35.19%) CI/CD
4 16 (29.63%) Containerisation
4 16 (29.63%) Fintech
5 14 (25.93%) DevSecOps
6 13 (24.07%) Agile
7 11 (20.37%) Observability
8 10 (18.52%) Software Engineering
9 9 (16.67%) Configuration Management
10 4 (7.41%) Computer Science
10 4 (7.41%) SDLC
11 3 (5.56%) Acceptance Criteria
11 3 (5.56%) Exploratory Testing
11 3 (5.56%) Functional Testing
11 3 (5.56%) Process Management
11 3 (5.56%) Regression Testing
11 3 (5.56%) Risk Assessment
11 3 (5.56%) Test Automation
11 3 (5.56%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 13 (24.07%) Python
2 6 (11.11%) Bash
2 6 (11.11%) C#
2 6 (11.11%) Go
2 6 (11.11%) Ruby
3 5 (9.26%) Java
4 4 (7.41%) PowerShell
4 4 (7.41%) SQL
5 2 (3.70%) C++
5 2 (3.70%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.70%) Scala
6 1 (1.85%) Bicep
6 1 (1.85%) Perl
6 1 (1.85%) R
6 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (7.41%) Degree
2 3 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.85%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 13 (24.07%) Docker
2 2 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.70%) KVM
2 2 (3.70%) Xen
3 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (62.96%) Terraform
2 29 (53.70%) Kubernetes
3 5 (9.26%) Ansible
4 3 (5.56%) Istio
5 2 (3.70%) Grafana
6 1 (1.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.85%) Kibana
6 1 (1.85%) logstash
6 1 (1.85%) Podman
6 1 (1.85%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.85%) Puppet
6 1 (1.85%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (12.96%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.85%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.85%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.85%) Splunk
3 1 (1.85%) VMware