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 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 333 417 616
Rank change year-on-year +84 +199 -258
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 170 211 274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.72% 0.60% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 0.63% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 146 149 196
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% +11.86%
75th Percentile £109,063 £101,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £107,750 £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 22,245 33,556 64,351
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 95.05% 96.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,727 24,642 34,900
10th Percentile £38,095 £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 £92,000
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 3 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 3 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 +51 30 £87,500 -2.78% 5
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 3 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.

1 161 (94.71%) Platform Engineering
2 115 (67.65%) Terraform
3 95 (55.88%) Kubernetes
4 85 (50.00%) Python
4 85 (50.00%) Azure
5 80 (47.06%) AWS
5 80 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
6 73 (42.94%) DevOps
7 66 (38.82%) CI/CD
8 63 (37.06%) Docker
9 46 (27.06%) Linux
10 42 (24.71%) Ansible
11 41 (24.12%) Finance
12 35 (20.59%) Configuration Management
13 34 (20.00%) Agile
14 33 (19.41%) SQL
14 33 (19.41%) Jenkins
15 31 (18.24%) Java
16 29 (17.06%) PowerShell
16 29 (17.06%) GCP
16 29 (17.06%) Serverless
17 28 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
17 28 (16.47%) GitHub
18 27 (15.88%) Social Skills
18 27 (15.88%) Containerisation
19 25 (14.71%) Puppet
20 23 (13.53%) Bash
20 23 (13.53%) Software Engineering
21 22 (12.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
21 22 (12.94%) Progress Chef

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 (5.88%) Confluence
2 8 (4.71%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.59%) Apache
4 1 (0.59%) nginx
4 1 (0.59%) SAS
4 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 85 (50.00%) Azure
2 80 (47.06%) AWS
3 29 (17.06%) GCP
3 29 (17.06%) Serverless
4 28 (16.47%) GitHub
5 21 (12.35%) PaaS
6 15 (8.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 15 (8.82%) Azure AKS
7 14 (8.24%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (8.24%) Amazon S3
7 14 (8.24%) Route 53
7 14 (8.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 13 (7.65%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (6.47%) IaaS
10 10 (5.88%) SaaS
11 9 (5.29%) OpenShift
12 7 (4.12%) Entra ID
13 6 (3.53%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.71%) DNS
1 8 (4.71%) Firewall
2 3 (1.76%) Internet
2 3 (1.76%) IPv4
2 3 (1.76%) VPN
3 2 (1.18%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.59%) Broadband
4 1 (0.59%) DHCP
4 1 (0.59%) FTP
4 1 (0.59%) SSL
4 1 (0.59%) tcpdump
4 1 (0.59%) VLAN
4 1 (0.59%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.18%) BigQuery
2 12 (7.06%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (6.47%) MongoDB
4 9 (5.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (5.29%) Looker
5 7 (4.12%) MySQL
6 6 (3.53%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.94%) Hadoop
8 4 (2.35%) Big Data
9 3 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.76%) InfluxDB
9 3 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.76%) Power BI
10 2 (1.18%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.18%) Redis
11 1 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.59%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (19.41%) Jenkins
2 20 (11.76%) Git
3 17 (10.00%) JIRA
4 13 (7.65%) TeamCity
5 11 (6.47%) Bitbucket
6 9 (5.29%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (5.29%) Subversion
7 8 (4.71%) Artifactory
7 8 (4.71%) Octopus Deploy
8 7 (4.12%) GitLab
8 7 (4.12%) Snyk
9 5 (2.94%) DTrace
9 5 (2.94%) GDB
10 3 (1.76%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.59%) GoCD
11 1 (0.59%) Zephyr
General
1 41 (24.12%) Finance
2 27 (15.88%) Social Skills
3 20 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (8.24%) Banking
5 9 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.12%) Law
6 7 (4.12%) Retail Banking
7 6 (3.53%) Retail
8 5 (2.94%) Games
9 4 (2.35%) Front Office
9 4 (2.35%) Health Technology
10 3 (1.76%) Legal
11 2 (1.18%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.59%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.82%) Kafka
2 7 (4.12%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (3.53%) .NET
3 6 (3.53%) SAML
4 3 (1.76%) Node.js
4 3 (1.76%) PySpark
4 3 (1.76%) React
5 2 (1.18%) REST
6 1 (0.59%) Anaconda
6 1 (0.59%) JSON
6 1 (0.59%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.59%) Loki
6 1 (0.59%) Middleware
6 1 (0.59%) RESTful
6 1 (0.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
2 15 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (5.29%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (4.12%) Clustering
6 7 (4.12%) Replication
7 6 (3.53%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.94%) Blog
8 5 (2.94%) Client/Server
8 5 (2.94%) Cloud Native
9 4 (2.35%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.76%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.18%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.59%) Blockchain
12 1 (0.59%) Cyberattack
12 1 (0.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 1 (0.59%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 46 (27.06%) Linux
2 22 (12.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (4.71%) Windows
4 7 (4.12%) Oracle Linux
4 7 (4.12%) Solaris
5 5 (2.94%) Unix
6 4 (2.35%) VMS
7 3 (1.76%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.59%) CentOS
8 1 (0.59%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.59%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (94.71%) Platform Engineering
2 80 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
3 73 (42.94%) DevOps
4 66 (38.82%) CI/CD
5 35 (20.59%) Configuration Management
6 34 (20.00%) Agile
7 28 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (15.88%) Containerisation
9 23 (13.53%) Software Engineering
10 16 (9.41%) Data Pipeline
10 16 (9.41%) Deployment Automation
10 16 (9.41%) Infrastructure Automation
10 16 (9.41%) Innovative Thinking
11 14 (8.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (8.24%) Fintech
11 14 (8.24%) Migration
12 13 (7.65%) Data Engineering
12 13 (7.65%) Software Testing
13 12 (7.06%) Identity Access Management
13 12 (7.06%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 85 (50.00%) Python
2 33 (19.41%) SQL
3 31 (18.24%) Java
4 29 (17.06%) PowerShell
5 23 (13.53%) Bash
6 15 (8.82%) C#
7 13 (7.65%) Perl
8 11 (6.47%) Go
9 7 (4.12%) Shell Script
10 6 (3.53%) C
11 5 (2.94%) OCaml
11 5 (2.94%) SystemTap
12 4 (2.35%) JavaScript
13 3 (1.76%) Ruby
13 3 (1.76%) Scala
14 2 (1.18%) Bicep
15 1 (0.59%) C++
15 1 (0.59%) Groovy
15 1 (0.59%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (7.06%) Degree
2 7 (4.12%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.53%) AWS Certification
3 6 (3.53%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 5 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.76%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.18%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.18%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.18%) PhD
7 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.59%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.59%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.29%) GDPR
2 7 (4.12%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.76%) QA
System Software
1 63 (37.06%) Docker
2 8 (4.71%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.59%) KVM
Systems Management
1 115 (67.65%) Terraform
2 95 (55.88%) Kubernetes
3 42 (24.71%) Ansible
4 25 (14.71%) Puppet
5 22 (12.94%) Progress Chef
6 18 (10.59%) Salt
7 12 (7.06%) Grafana
8 10 (5.88%) Istio
8 10 (5.88%) Packer
8 10 (5.88%) Prometheus
9 4 (2.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.18%) Argo
10 2 (1.18%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.59%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.59%) Kibana
11 1 (0.59%) logstash
11 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.59%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 18 (10.59%) Google
2 15 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.88%) Atlassian
4 9 (5.29%) Red Hat
5 7 (4.12%) Oracle
5 7 (4.12%) Serena
6 4 (2.35%) Databricks
6 4 (2.35%) VMware
6 4 (2.35%) YouTube
7 3 (1.76%) SaltStack
7 3 (1.76%) Splunk
8 2 (1.18%) Confluent
9 1 (0.59%) BT
9 1 (0.59%) Citrix
9 1 (0.59%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.59%) Wallstreet Suite