Platform Engineer Jobs in London

Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Platform Engineer salary in London is £81,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 342 421 607
Rank change year-on-year +79 +186 -248
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 168 221 274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.71% 0.61% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 0.65% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 144 154 198
10th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -3.03% +10.00%
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,938 £97,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £107,500 £107,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +7.69%

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 22,169 34,255 62,848
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 95.07% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,697 25,036 34,819
10th Percentile £38,500 £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 £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +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 25 April 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 25 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 +50 30 £85,000 -5.56% 4
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 25 April 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.

1 159 (94.64%) Platform Engineering
2 115 (68.45%) Terraform
3 92 (54.76%) Kubernetes
4 85 (50.60%) Azure
5 84 (50.00%) Python
6 79 (47.02%) AWS
6 79 (47.02%) Infrastructure as Code
7 73 (43.45%) DevOps
8 65 (38.69%) CI/CD
9 62 (36.90%) Docker
10 43 (25.60%) Linux
11 41 (24.40%) Finance
12 40 (23.81%) Ansible
13 33 (19.64%) Agile
13 33 (19.64%) Configuration Management
14 32 (19.05%) SQL
14 32 (19.05%) Jenkins
15 30 (17.86%) Java
16 29 (17.26%) PowerShell
16 29 (17.26%) GCP
16 29 (17.26%) Serverless
17 28 (16.67%) GitHub
18 27 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
18 27 (16.07%) Social Skills
18 27 (16.07%) Containerisation
19 24 (14.29%) Puppet
20 23 (13.69%) Software Engineering
21 22 (13.10%) Bash
21 22 (13.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
22 21 (12.50%) 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 (5.95%) Confluence
2 8 (4.76%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.60%) nginx
4 1 (0.60%) SAS
4 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 85 (50.60%) Azure
2 79 (47.02%) AWS
3 29 (17.26%) GCP
3 29 (17.26%) Serverless
4 28 (16.67%) GitHub
5 20 (11.90%) PaaS
6 15 (8.93%) Amazon S3
6 15 (8.93%) AWS CloudFormation
6 15 (8.93%) Route 53
6 15 (8.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 14 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (8.33%) Azure AKS
8 11 (6.55%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (6.55%) IaaS
9 10 (5.95%) SaaS
10 8 (4.76%) OpenShift
11 7 (4.17%) Entra ID
12 6 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (2.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.76%) Firewall
2 7 (4.17%) DNS
3 3 (1.79%) Internet
3 3 (1.79%) IPv4
3 3 (1.79%) VPN
4 1 (0.60%) Broadband
4 1 (0.60%) FTP
4 1 (0.60%) SSL
4 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.60%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.31%) BigQuery
2 12 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (6.55%) MongoDB
4 9 (5.36%) Looker
5 8 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (4.17%) MySQL
7 6 (3.57%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.98%) Hadoop
9 4 (2.38%) Big Data
10 3 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.79%) InfluxDB
10 3 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.79%) Power BI
11 2 (1.19%) MariaDB
11 2 (1.19%) Redis
12 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.60%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.60%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 32 (19.05%) Jenkins
2 19 (11.31%) Git
3 17 (10.12%) JIRA
4 13 (7.74%) TeamCity
5 11 (6.55%) Bitbucket
6 9 (5.36%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (5.36%) Subversion
7 8 (4.76%) Artifactory
7 8 (4.76%) Octopus Deploy
8 7 (4.17%) GitLab
8 7 (4.17%) Snyk
9 5 (2.98%) DTrace
9 5 (2.98%) GDB
10 3 (1.79%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.60%) Zephyr
General
1 41 (24.40%) Finance
2 27 (16.07%) Social Skills
3 21 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (8.93%) Banking
5 9 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.17%) Law
6 7 (4.17%) Retail Banking
7 6 (3.57%) Retail
8 5 (2.98%) Games
9 4 (2.38%) Front Office
9 4 (2.38%) Health Technology
10 3 (1.79%) Legal
11 2 (1.19%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.93%) Kafka
2 7 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (3.57%) .NET
3 6 (3.57%) SAML
4 3 (1.79%) Node.js
4 3 (1.79%) PySpark
4 3 (1.79%) React
5 2 (1.19%) REST
6 1 (0.60%) Anaconda
6 1 (0.60%) JSON
6 1 (0.60%) Loki
6 1 (0.60%) RESTful
6 1 (0.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.12%) Linux Command Line
2 15 (8.93%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (5.95%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (5.36%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (4.17%) Clustering
6 7 (4.17%) Replication
7 6 (3.57%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.98%) Blog
8 5 (2.98%) Client/Server
9 4 (2.38%) Cloud Native
9 4 (2.38%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.79%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.19%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.60%) Blockchain
12 1 (0.60%) Cyberattack
12 1 (0.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 1 (0.60%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.60%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 43 (25.60%) Linux
2 22 (13.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (4.17%) Oracle Linux
3 7 (4.17%) Solaris
3 7 (4.17%) Windows
4 5 (2.98%) Unix
5 3 (1.79%) VMS
6 2 (1.19%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.60%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (94.64%) Platform Engineering
2 79 (47.02%) Infrastructure as Code
3 73 (43.45%) DevOps
4 65 (38.69%) CI/CD
5 33 (19.64%) Agile
5 33 (19.64%) Configuration Management
6 27 (16.07%) Containerisation
6 27 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (13.69%) Software Engineering
8 16 (9.52%) Data Pipeline
8 16 (9.52%) Deployment Automation
8 16 (9.52%) Innovative Thinking
9 15 (8.93%) Fintech
9 15 (8.93%) Infrastructure Automation
10 14 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (8.33%) Data Engineering
10 14 (8.33%) Migration
11 13 (7.74%) Software Testing
12 12 (7.14%) Analytics
12 12 (7.14%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 84 (50.00%) Python
2 32 (19.05%) SQL
3 30 (17.86%) Java
4 29 (17.26%) PowerShell
5 22 (13.10%) Bash
6 15 (8.93%) C#
7 12 (7.14%) Go
7 12 (7.14%) Perl
8 6 (3.57%) C
9 5 (2.98%) OCaml
9 5 (2.98%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.98%) SystemTap
10 3 (1.79%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.79%) Ruby
10 3 (1.79%) Scala
11 2 (1.19%) Bicep
12 1 (0.60%) C++
12 1 (0.60%) Groovy
12 1 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (7.14%) Degree
2 7 (4.17%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.57%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.98%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 4 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.19%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.19%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.19%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.19%) PhD
8 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.36%) GDPR
2 7 (4.17%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 62 (36.90%) Docker
2 8 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 115 (68.45%) Terraform
2 92 (54.76%) Kubernetes
3 40 (23.81%) Ansible
4 24 (14.29%) Puppet
5 21 (12.50%) Progress Chef
6 18 (10.71%) Salt
7 11 (6.55%) Grafana
8 10 (5.95%) Istio
8 10 (5.95%) Packer
8 10 (5.95%) Prometheus
9 4 (2.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.19%) Argo
10 2 (1.19%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.60%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.60%) Kibana
11 1 (0.60%) logstash
11 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.60%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 18 (10.71%) Google
2 14 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.95%) Atlassian
4 8 (4.76%) Red Hat
5 7 (4.17%) Oracle
5 7 (4.17%) Serena
6 4 (2.38%) Databricks
6 4 (2.38%) YouTube
7 2 (1.19%) Confluent
7 2 (1.19%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.19%) Splunk
7 2 (1.19%) VMware
8 1 (0.60%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.60%) BT
8 1 (0.60%) Citrix
8 1 (0.60%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.60%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.60%) Wallstreet Suite