Platform Engineer Jobs in Central London

Platform Engineer
London > Central London

The median Platform Engineer salary in Central London is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 162 216 271
Rank change year-on-year +54 +55 -48
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 30 32 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.79% 0.60% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 0.62% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 30 27 31
10th Percentile £67,500 - £52,500
25th Percentile £73,750 £57,500 £68,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £110,938 £105,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £122,500 - £96,250
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year - -3.03% +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 3,596 5,140 7,636
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.08% 96.20% 95.85%
Number of salaries quoted 2,833 4,299 6,437
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £111,250 £108,750
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Central London

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in Central London

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in Central London

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

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in Central London

Platform Engineer
Job Locations in Central 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 Central 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
City of London +57 28 £87,500 -6.91% 3
Southwark - 1 £55,000 -
Platform Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 Central London region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 22 (73.33%) Azure
2 22 (73.33%) Terraform
3 17 (56.67%) DevOps
3 17 (56.67%) AWS
4 16 (53.33%) Kubernetes
5 14 (46.67%) CI/CD
6 13 (43.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (36.67%) Finance
8 10 (33.33%) PaaS
9 9 (30.00%) Python
10 8 (26.67%) Serverless
10 8 (26.67%) Docker
11 7 (23.33%) Jenkins
11 7 (23.33%) C#
11 7 (23.33%) Software Engineering
12 6 (20.00%) Java
12 6 (20.00%) .NET
12 6 (20.00%) SaaS
12 6 (20.00%) GCP
13 5 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (16.67%) Octopus Deploy
13 5 (16.67%) GitHub
13 5 (16.67%) SQL
13 5 (16.67%) Windows
13 5 (16.67%) Agile
13 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
13 5 (16.67%) Configuration Management
13 5 (16.67%) TeamCity
14 4 (13.33%) Bash

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 1 (3.33%) Confluence
1 1 (3.33%) SAS
1 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (73.33%) Azure
2 17 (56.67%) AWS
3 10 (33.33%) PaaS
4 8 (26.67%) Serverless
5 6 (20.00%) GCP
5 6 (20.00%) SaaS
6 5 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (16.67%) GitHub
7 4 (13.33%) IaaS
7 4 (13.33%) OpenShift
8 2 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (6.67%) Amazon S3
8 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (6.67%) Azure Functions
8 2 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
8 2 (6.67%) Route 53
8 2 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) DNS
1 1 (3.33%) Firewall
1 1 (3.33%) FTP
1 1 (3.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.33%) Power BI
3 1 (3.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (16.67%) Octopus Deploy
2 5 (16.67%) TeamCity
3 4 (13.33%) Artifactory
3 4 (13.33%) GitLab
3 4 (13.33%) JIRA
4 3 (10.00%) Git
4 3 (10.00%) Snyk
5 1 (3.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.33%) Zephyr
General
1 11 (36.67%) Finance
2 4 (13.33%) Banking
3 3 (10.00%) Retail Banking
3 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Health Technology
5 1 (3.33%) Games
5 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) .NET
2 3 (10.00%) Node.js
2 3 (10.00%) React
3 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.33%) JSON
3 1 (3.33%) Kafka
3 1 (3.33%) REST
3 1 (3.33%) RESTful
3 1 (3.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.33%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.67%) Windows
2 3 (10.00%) Linux
2 3 (10.00%) VMS
3 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 17 (56.67%) DevOps
3 14 (46.67%) CI/CD
4 13 (43.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (23.33%) Software Engineering
6 5 (16.67%) Agile
6 5 (16.67%) Configuration Management
7 4 (13.33%) Fintech
7 4 (13.33%) OO
8 3 (10.00%) Containerisation
8 3 (10.00%) Incident Response
8 3 (10.00%) Information Security
9 2 (6.67%) Data Integration
9 2 (6.67%) ETL
9 2 (6.67%) SDLC
10 1 (3.33%) Coaching
10 1 (3.33%) Continuous Delivery
10 1 (3.33%) Data Engineering
10 1 (3.33%) Identity Access Management
10 1 (3.33%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) Python
2 7 (23.33%) C#
3 6 (20.00%) Java
4 5 (16.67%) SQL
5 4 (13.33%) Bash
5 4 (13.33%) Go
6 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
6 3 (10.00%) Ruby
7 2 (6.67%) Scala
8 1 (3.33%) C
8 1 (3.33%) C++
8 1 (3.33%) Perl
8 1 (3.33%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) Degree
1 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 8 (26.67%) Docker
2 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (73.33%) Terraform
2 16 (53.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (10.00%) Ansible
3 3 (10.00%) Istio
3 3 (10.00%) Progress Chef
3 3 (10.00%) Puppet
4 2 (6.67%) Salt
5 1 (3.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (3.33%) Grafana
5 1 (3.33%) Kibana
5 1 (3.33%) logstash
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) Alteryx
2 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.33%) Splunk
2 1 (3.33%) VMware