The first table below looks at the demand for the Platform Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the 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 21 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Platform Engineer
Rank 569 615 617
Rank change year-on-year
+46 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 38 23 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.086% 0.043% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.093% 0.045% 0.013%
Number of salaries quoted 27 12 6
Average salary £65,000 £48,750 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+33.33% +21.87%
90% offered a salary of more than £49,000 £42,500 £28,750
10% offered a salary of more than £76,000 £70,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £72,500 £35,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year
+107.14% -33.33%
All Job Titles
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
41069 50577 53212
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 93.41% 93.89% 93.56%
Number of salaries quoted 34568 43927 44773
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £31,500 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Platform Engineer
England

Platform Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 London region.

London Platform Engineer Salary Trend

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Platform Engineer across the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

London Platform Engineer Salary Histogram

Platform Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +14 11 £56,250 +18.42%
Hammersmith - 8 £49,000 -
Bromley - 8 £73,750 -
Croydon - 1 £75,000 -
Platform Engineer
England

Platform Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the 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 44 (72.13%) Windows
2 31 (50.82%) NetApp
3 30 (49.18%) Active Directory
4 29 (47.54%) DNS
5 24 (39.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 21 (34.43%) VMware Infrastructure
6 21 (34.43%) Microsoft
6 21 (34.43%) VMware
7 20 (32.79%) Linux
8 19 (31.15%) LDAP
8 19 (31.15%) SAN
8 19 (31.15%) SCCM
9 17 (27.87%) SQL
10 16 (26.23%) MS Excel
10 16 (26.23%) MS Exchange
10 16 (26.23%) SCOM
11 15 (24.59%) NFS
11 15 (24.59%) Migration
12 13 (21.31%) Hyper-V
12 13 (21.31%) Puppet
13 12 (19.67%) Windows Server 2008
13 12 (19.67%) CentOS
13 12 (19.67%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 12 (19.67%) Nagios
13 12 (19.67%) SharePoint
14 11 (18.03%) HP
14 11 (18.03%) Windows Server 2003
14 11 (18.03%) Finance
14 11 (18.03%) Scrum
15 10 (16.39%) Project Management

Platform Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the 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 5 (8.197%) Middleware
2 4 (6.557%) Hibernate
2 4 (6.557%) Spring
3 3 (4.918%) JDBC
3 3 (4.918%) RESTful
4 2 (3.279%) Application Packaging
4 2 (3.279%) .NET
5 1 (1.639%) COM
5 1 (1.639%) CSS
5 1 (1.639%) XML
5 1 (1.639%) XSD
5 1 (1.639%) OpenGL
5 1 (1.639%) WCF
5 1 (1.639%) YUI
5 1 (1.639%) CSS3
5 1 (1.639%) Backbone.js
5 1 (1.639%) HTML5
5 1 (1.639%) AngularJS
Application Platforms
1 16 (26.23%) MS Exchange
2 12 (19.67%) SharePoint
3 10 (16.39%) SharePoint 2010
3 10 (16.39%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (6.557%) IIS
5 2 (3.279%) nginx
6 1 (1.639%) Commerce Server
6 1 (1.639%) CMS
6 1 (1.639%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (1.639%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (1.639%) Lync
6 1 (1.639%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 16 (26.23%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.279%) Front Arena
Communications & Networking
1 29 (47.54%) DNS
2 19 (31.15%) LDAP
2 19 (31.15%) SAN
3 6 (9.836%) Fibre Channel
4 5 (8.197%) Firewall
5 4 (6.557%) DHCP
6 3 (4.918%) LAN
6 3 (4.918%) HTTP
6 3 (4.918%) WAN
6 3 (4.918%) TCP/IP
6 3 (4.918%) BGP
6 3 (4.918%) Unified Communications
7 1 (1.639%) PSTN
7 1 (1.639%) DMZ
7 1 (1.639%) CTI
7 1 (1.639%) VPN
7 1 (1.639%) SNMP
7 1 (1.639%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.639%) IP Telephony
7 1 (1.639%) H.323
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.557%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.279%) Big Data
2 2 (3.279%) OLAP
3 1 (1.639%) VLDB
3 1 (1.639%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.639%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (16.39%) Git (software)
2 4 (6.557%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (3.279%) MSBuild
3 2 (3.279%) Subversion
3 2 (3.279%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.639%) Ant
4 1 (1.639%) Maven
4 1 (1.639%) Hudson
General
1 11 (18.03%) Finance
2 4 (6.557%) Telecoms
3 2 (3.279%) Banking
3 2 (3.279%) Retail
4 1 (1.639%) Multimedia
4 1 (1.639%) Games
4 1 (1.639%) Electronics
4 1 (1.639%) Front Office
4 1 (1.639%) Legal
4 1 (1.639%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.639%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.197%) Mainframe
1 5 (8.197%) Blackberry
1 5 (8.197%) AS400
1 5 (8.197%) iSeries
2 3 (4.918%) PKI
3 2 (3.279%) Hedge funds
3 2 (3.279%) Open Source
3 2 (3.279%) Mathematics
3 2 (3.279%) Physics
3 2 (3.279%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.639%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.639%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.639%) Replication
4 1 (1.639%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.639%) Social Gaming
4 1 (1.639%) Social Media
4 1 (1.639%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 44 (72.13%) Windows
2 24 (39.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (32.79%) Linux
4 12 (19.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 12 (19.67%) CentOS
5 11 (18.03%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (8.197%) AIX
6 5 (8.197%) HPUX
6 5 (8.197%) Solaris
6 5 (8.197%) UNIX
6 5 (8.197%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (24.59%) Migration
2 11 (18.03%) Scrum
3 10 (16.39%) Project Management
3 10 (16.39%) Kanban
4 9 (14.75%) Project Planning
4 9 (14.75%) Change Management
5 7 (11.48%) Risk Assessment
5 7 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (9.836%) Release Management
6 6 (9.836%) Configuration Management
7 4 (6.557%) Multithreading
7 4 (6.557%) System Testing
7 4 (6.557%) Workflow
7 4 (6.557%) ITIL
8 3 (4.918%) E-Commerce
8 3 (4.918%) Agile Software Development
9 2 (3.279%) Analytics
9 2 (3.279%) Penetration Testing
9 2 (3.279%) Financial Modelling
9 2 (3.279%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (27.87%) SQL
2 10 (16.39%) Python
3 6 (9.836%) PowerShell
3 6 (9.836%) Java
4 5 (8.197%) Perl
4 5 (8.197%) PHP
5 2 (3.279%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.639%) C
6 1 (1.639%) C#
6 1 (1.639%) C++
6 1 (1.639%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.639%) Objective-C
6 1 (1.639%) Ruby
6 1 (1.639%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 10 (16.39%) Microsoft Certification
1 10 (16.39%) MCSE
2 8 (13.11%) RHCE
3 3 (4.918%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.557%) QA
2 2 (3.279%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.639%) SLA
3 1 (1.639%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 30 (49.18%) Active Directory
2 21 (34.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (24.59%) NFS
4 13 (21.31%) Hyper-V
5 10 (16.39%) Xen
6 9 (14.75%) XenApp
7 7 (11.48%) XenDesktop
8 4 (6.557%) VMware ESX
9 3 (4.918%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (4.918%) Sendmail
10 2 (3.279%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 19 (31.15%) SCCM
2 16 (26.23%) SCOM
3 13 (21.31%) Puppet
4 12 (19.67%) Red Hat Spacewalk
4 12 (19.67%) Nagios
5 10 (16.39%) Cobbler
5 10 (16.39%) Splunk
6 5 (8.197%) Legato
6 5 (8.197%) NetBackup
7 2 (3.279%) OSSEC
Vendors
1 31 (50.82%) NetApp
2 21 (34.43%) Microsoft
2 21 (34.43%) VMware
3 11 (18.03%) HP
4 10 (16.39%) Citrix
4 10 (16.39%) Veritas
4 10 (16.39%) ProCurve
5 7 (11.48%) EMC
6 6 (9.836%) Brocade
6 6 (9.836%) Red Hat
7 4 (6.557%) Infoblox
7 4 (6.557%) Dell
8 3 (4.918%) CheckPoint
8 3 (4.918%) Cisco
9 2 (3.279%) WSO2
9 2 (3.279%) Akamai
9 2 (3.279%) AppSense
9 2 (3.279%) Sophis
9 2 (3.279%) Tripwire
9 2 (3.279%) Murex