Platform Engineering Jobs in London

Platform Engineering
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 257 231 359
Rank change year-on-year -26 +128 -96
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 264 578 696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.12% 1.61% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.69% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 219 417 437
10th Percentile £62,500 £59,350 £58,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +9.68%
75th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £138,750 £112,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% +20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,516 34,227 63,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 91.41% 95.40% 96.84%
Number of salaries quoted 16,047 24,462 34,372
10th Percentile £38,000 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,487 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,001 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £111,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in London

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in London

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in London

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering within the London region over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +13 48 £90,000 +10.77% 8
South London +11 11 £67,500 -
West London 0 3 - - 1
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
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 13 (4.92%) Apache Spark
2 12 (4.55%) Confluence
3 10 (3.79%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.14%) Apache
5 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.38%) nginx
5 1 (0.38%) SAS
5 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 123 (46.59%) Azure
2 119 (45.08%) AWS
3 46 (17.42%) GCP
4 34 (12.88%) GitHub
4 34 (12.88%) Serverless
5 29 (10.98%) PaaS
6 26 (9.85%) SaaS
7 23 (8.71%) Power Platform
8 22 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (7.58%) Azure AKS
10 18 (6.82%) IaaS
11 17 (6.44%) Amazon S3
11 17 (6.44%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (6.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 15 (5.68%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (5.68%) AWS Lambda
13 15 (5.68%) Azure Data Factory
13 15 (5.68%) Route 53
13 15 (5.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 13 (4.92%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.79%) Firewall
2 9 (3.41%) Network Security
3 8 (3.03%) DNS
3 8 (3.03%) Internet
4 3 (1.14%) IPv4
4 3 (1.14%) VPN
5 1 (0.38%) Broadband
5 1 (0.38%) DHCP
5 1 (0.38%) FTP
5 1 (0.38%) SSL
5 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (11.36%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (10.23%) BigQuery
3 19 (7.20%) Azure SQL Database
3 19 (7.20%) Power BI
4 17 (6.44%) Looker
5 13 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (4.17%) MySQL
6 11 (4.17%) NoSQL
6 11 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (3.79%) Data Lake
8 9 (3.41%) Hadoop
8 9 (3.41%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 6 (2.27%) Redis
10 5 (1.89%) Big Data
10 5 (1.89%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.52%) InfluxDB
11 4 (1.52%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.52%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.14%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 40 (15.15%) Jenkins
2 22 (8.33%) Git
3 19 (7.20%) JIRA
4 14 (5.30%) TeamCity
5 11 (4.17%) Bitbucket
5 11 (4.17%) GitLab
6 9 (3.41%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (3.41%) Subversion
7 8 (3.03%) Artifactory
7 8 (3.03%) Octopus Deploy
8 7 (2.65%) Snyk
9 5 (1.89%) DTrace
9 5 (1.89%) GDB
10 3 (1.14%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.76%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.76%) JMeter
12 1 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.38%) GoCD
12 1 (0.38%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.38%) Zephyr
General
1 51 (19.32%) Finance
2 40 (15.15%) Social Skills
3 28 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (8.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (6.44%) Banking
6 11 (4.17%) Law
7 9 (3.41%) Games
7 9 (3.41%) Retail
8 8 (3.03%) Health Technology
9 7 (2.65%) Retail Banking
10 6 (2.27%) Legal
11 3 (1.14%) Marketing
12 2 (0.76%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.76%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.38%) Back Office
13 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.38%) Front Office
13 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 160 (60.61%) Platform Engineer
2 76 (28.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 66 (25.00%) Senior
4 56 (21.21%) Cloud Engineer
5 51 (19.32%) Data Engineer
6 45 (17.05%) Azure Engineer
7 37 (14.02%) AWS Engineer
8 36 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
9 27 (10.23%) Lead
10 24 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
10 24 (9.09%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 24 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
11 23 (8.71%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 22 (8.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 21 (7.95%) Cloud Automation Engineer
14 20 (7.58%) Senior DevOps
14 20 (7.58%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 17 (6.44%) Python Engineer
16 14 (5.30%) Principal Engineer
17 13 (4.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.95%) Kafka
2 8 (3.03%) SAML
3 7 (2.65%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (2.65%) Node.js
3 7 (2.65%) React
4 6 (2.27%) .NET
5 4 (1.52%) FastAPI
5 4 (1.52%) REST
6 3 (1.14%) PySpark
7 2 (0.76%) JSON
7 2 (0.76%) Lambda Expressions
7 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.38%) ADO
8 1 (0.38%) boto
8 1 (0.38%) Loki
8 1 (0.38%) PostGIS
8 1 (0.38%) RESTful
8 1 (0.38%) Spring
8 1 (0.38%) Spring MVC
8 1 (0.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.82%) Enterprise Software
1 18 (6.82%) Self-Motivation
2 17 (6.44%) Linux Command Line
3 15 (5.68%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (3.41%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.65%) Clustering
6 7 (2.65%) Replication
7 6 (2.27%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.89%) Blog
8 5 (1.89%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.52%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.52%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.14%) Cyberattack
10 3 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.14%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.14%) Robotics
11 2 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 51 (19.32%) Linux
2 24 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (4.92%) Windows
4 7 (2.65%) Oracle Linux
4 7 (2.65%) Solaris
5 5 (1.89%) Unix
5 5 (1.89%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.14%) VMS
7 2 (0.76%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.38%) Android
8 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.38%) CentOS
8 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (40.53%) Infrastructure as Code
2 106 (40.15%) DevOps
3 82 (31.06%) CI/CD
4 54 (20.45%) Agile
5 41 (15.53%) Configuration Management
5 41 (15.53%) Containerisation
6 40 (15.15%) Analytics
6 40 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (11.36%) Data Engineering
8 29 (10.98%) Software Engineering
9 27 (10.23%) ETL
10 25 (9.47%) Innovative Thinking
11 24 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
11 24 (9.09%) Data Science
11 24 (9.09%) Fintech
12 21 (7.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (7.95%) Mentoring
13 19 (7.20%) Business Intelligence
14 17 (6.44%) Migration
15 16 (6.06%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 124 (46.97%) Python
2 51 (19.32%) SQL
3 39 (14.77%) PowerShell
4 37 (14.02%) Java
5 26 (9.85%) Bash
6 18 (6.82%) Go
7 17 (6.44%) C#
8 13 (4.92%) Perl
9 9 (3.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 9 (3.41%) U-SQL
10 8 (3.03%) C
11 7 (2.65%) C++
11 7 (2.65%) Scala
12 6 (2.27%) Ruby
12 6 (2.27%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.89%) OCaml
13 5 (1.89%) SystemTap
14 4 (1.52%) JavaScript
15 3 (1.14%) Bicep
16 2 (0.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (7.20%) Degree
2 13 (4.92%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (3.41%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.03%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.65%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (1.89%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.14%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.76%) CISA
10 2 (0.76%) CISM
10 2 (0.76%) CISSP
10 2 (0.76%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.76%) PhD
11 1 (0.38%) MCSA
11 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.44%) GDPR
2 11 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.65%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.14%) QA
5 2 (0.76%) NIST
System Software
1 84 (31.82%) Docker
2 14 (5.30%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.76%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.76%) Firmware
4 2 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.38%) Ceph
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 150 (56.82%) Terraform
2 126 (47.73%) Kubernetes
3 48 (18.18%) Ansible
4 27 (10.23%) Puppet
5 24 (9.09%) Progress Chef
6 18 (6.82%) Salt
7 17 (6.44%) Grafana
8 12 (4.55%) Prometheus
9 10 (3.79%) Istio
9 10 (3.79%) Packer
10 7 (2.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.52%) Argo
12 2 (0.76%) Kibana
12 2 (0.76%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.38%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.38%) logstash
13 1 (0.38%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.38%) Podman
13 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (16.29%) Microsoft
2 32 (12.12%) Google
3 18 (6.82%) Databricks
4 10 (3.79%) Atlassian
5 9 (3.41%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.03%) YouTube
7 7 (2.65%) Oracle
7 7 (2.65%) Serena
8 3 (1.14%) Facebook
8 3 (1.14%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.14%) VMware
9 2 (0.76%) Confluent
9 2 (0.76%) Splunk
10 1 (0.38%) BT
10 1 (0.38%) Dell
10 1 (0.38%) ESRI
10 1 (0.38%) HP
10 1 (0.38%) SAP
10 1 (0.38%) TOWER Software
10 1 (0.38%) Wallstreet Suite