Platform Engineer Jobs in London

Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Platform Engineer salary in London is £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 425 612
Rank change year-on-year +91 +187 -251
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 173 204 277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.73% 0.59% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 0.63% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 147 146 199
10th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% +10.00%
75th Percentile £108,125 £101,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £107,500 £107,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 22,236 32,601 64,987
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 95.01% 96.33%
Number of salaries quoted 16,671 24,034 34,497
10th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in London

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in London

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in London

Platform Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Central London +46 31 £90,000 - 3
South London - 6 £110,000 -
West London - 3 - -
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 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 London region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 163 (94.22%) Platform Engineering
2 119 (68.79%) Terraform
3 97 (56.07%) Kubernetes
4 91 (52.60%) Azure
5 84 (48.55%) Python
6 78 (45.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 76 (43.93%) AWS
8 72 (41.62%) DevOps
9 65 (37.57%) Docker
10 63 (36.42%) CI/CD
11 45 (26.01%) Ansible
11 45 (26.01%) Linux
12 42 (24.28%) Finance
13 38 (21.97%) Agile
14 36 (20.81%) SQL
15 34 (19.65%) Jenkins
16 33 (19.08%) Configuration Management
17 32 (18.50%) GitHub
18 31 (17.92%) PowerShell
19 30 (17.34%) Java
19 30 (17.34%) GCP
20 29 (16.76%) Serverless
21 28 (16.18%) Social Skills
21 28 (16.18%) Bash
22 27 (15.61%) Problem-Solving
23 25 (14.45%) PaaS
24 24 (13.87%) Containerisation
25 23 (13.29%) Puppet
26 22 (12.72%) Progress Chef
26 22 (12.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 10 (5.78%) Confluence
2 8 (4.62%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.16%) Apache
5 1 (0.58%) nginx
5 1 (0.58%) SAS
5 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 91 (52.60%) Azure
2 76 (43.93%) AWS
3 32 (18.50%) GitHub
4 30 (17.34%) GCP
5 29 (16.76%) Serverless
6 25 (14.45%) PaaS
7 18 (10.40%) Azure AKS
8 15 (8.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (8.09%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (8.09%) Amazon S3
9 14 (8.09%) Route 53
10 13 (7.51%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (7.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 11 (6.36%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (6.36%) IaaS
12 10 (5.78%) SaaS
13 9 (5.20%) Entra ID
13 9 (5.20%) OpenShift
14 7 (4.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 6 (3.47%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.20%) DNS
2 8 (4.62%) Firewall
3 3 (1.73%) Internet
3 3 (1.73%) IPv4
3 3 (1.73%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.73%) VPN
4 2 (1.16%) DHCP
4 2 (1.16%) tcpdump
4 2 (1.16%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.58%) Broadband
5 1 (0.58%) FTP
5 1 (0.58%) SSL
5 1 (0.58%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.98%) BigQuery
2 13 (7.51%) MongoDB
3 12 (6.94%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (6.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (5.20%) Looker
4 9 (5.20%) MySQL
5 6 (3.47%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.89%) Hadoop
6 5 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.31%) Big Data
7 4 (2.31%) InfluxDB
7 4 (2.31%) MariaDB
7 4 (2.31%) Power BI
7 4 (2.31%) Redis
8 3 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.58%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.58%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 34 (19.65%) Jenkins
2 21 (12.14%) Git
3 18 (10.40%) JIRA
4 14 (8.09%) TeamCity
5 12 (6.94%) Octopus Deploy
6 11 (6.36%) Bitbucket
7 9 (5.20%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (5.20%) Subversion
8 8 (4.62%) Artifactory
9 7 (4.05%) GitLab
9 7 (4.05%) Snyk
10 5 (2.89%) DTrace
10 5 (2.89%) GDB
11 3 (1.73%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.58%) GoCD
12 1 (0.58%) Zephyr
General
1 42 (24.28%) Finance
2 28 (16.18%) Social Skills
3 19 (10.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (7.51%) Banking
5 9 (5.20%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.05%) Law
6 7 (4.05%) Retail Banking
7 5 (2.89%) Games
7 5 (2.89%) Retail
8 4 (2.31%) Front Office
8 4 (2.31%) Health Technology
9 3 (1.73%) Legal
10 2 (1.16%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.67%) Kafka
2 10 (5.78%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (4.05%) .NET
3 7 (4.05%) SAML
4 3 (1.73%) Node.js
4 3 (1.73%) PySpark
4 3 (1.73%) React
5 2 (1.16%) Keycloak
5 2 (1.16%) Middleware
5 2 (1.16%) REST
6 1 (0.58%) Anaconda
6 1 (0.58%) JSON
6 1 (0.58%) Loki
6 1 (0.58%) RESTful
6 1 (0.58%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.25%) Linux Command Line
2 15 (8.67%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (5.78%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (5.20%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.62%) Clustering
5 8 (4.62%) Replication
6 7 (4.05%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.89%) Blog
7 5 (2.89%) Client/Server
8 4 (2.31%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.31%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.31%) Private Cloud
8 4 (2.31%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.58%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.58%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.58%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 45 (26.01%) Linux
2 22 (12.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (4.62%) Oracle Linux
3 8 (4.62%) Solaris
3 8 (4.62%) Windows
4 5 (2.89%) Unix
5 4 (2.31%) VMS
5 4 (2.31%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.16%) CentOS
6 2 (1.16%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.58%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (94.22%) Platform Engineering
2 78 (45.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 72 (41.62%) DevOps
4 63 (36.42%) CI/CD
5 38 (21.97%) Agile
6 33 (19.08%) Configuration Management
7 27 (15.61%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (13.87%) Containerisation
9 22 (12.72%) Software Engineering
10 17 (9.83%) Deployment Automation
11 16 (9.25%) Infrastructure Automation
12 15 (8.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (8.67%) Data Pipeline
12 15 (8.67%) Innovative Thinking
12 15 (8.67%) Migration
13 14 (8.09%) Identity Access Management
14 13 (7.51%) Data Engineering
14 13 (7.51%) Fintech
15 12 (6.94%) Infrastructure Management
15 12 (6.94%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 84 (48.55%) Python
2 36 (20.81%) SQL
3 31 (17.92%) PowerShell
4 30 (17.34%) Java
5 28 (16.18%) Bash
6 17 (9.83%) C#
7 13 (7.51%) Perl
8 11 (6.36%) Go
9 8 (4.62%) Shell Script
10 6 (3.47%) C
11 5 (2.89%) JavaScript
11 5 (2.89%) OCaml
11 5 (2.89%) SystemTap
12 3 (1.73%) Ruby
12 3 (1.73%) Scala
13 2 (1.16%) Bicep
14 1 (0.58%) C++
14 1 (0.58%) Groovy
14 1 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (6.94%) Degree
2 7 (4.05%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.47%) AWS Certification
3 6 (3.47%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 5 (2.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.73%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.16%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.16%) Linux+ Certification
6 2 (1.16%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.16%) PhD
6 2 (1.16%) RHCE
7 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.20%) GDPR
2 7 (4.05%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.73%) QA
System Software
1 65 (37.57%) Docker
2 10 (5.78%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.16%) KVM
Systems Management
1 119 (68.79%) Terraform
2 97 (56.07%) Kubernetes
3 45 (26.01%) Ansible
4 23 (13.29%) Puppet
5 22 (12.72%) Progress Chef
6 17 (9.83%) Salt
7 14 (8.09%) Grafana
8 13 (7.51%) Prometheus
9 11 (6.36%) Istio
10 10 (5.78%) Packer
11 6 (3.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (1.73%) Argo
13 2 (1.16%) Kubeflow
14 1 (0.58%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.58%) Kibana
14 1 (0.58%) logstash
14 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 19 (10.98%) Google
1 19 (10.98%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.78%) Atlassian
2 10 (5.78%) Red Hat
3 8 (4.62%) Oracle
3 8 (4.62%) Serena
4 6 (3.47%) VMware
5 4 (2.31%) Databricks
5 4 (2.31%) Splunk
5 4 (2.31%) YouTube
6 2 (1.16%) Citrix
6 2 (1.16%) Confluent
6 2 (1.16%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.58%) BT
7 1 (0.58%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.58%) Wallstreet Suite