Platform Engineer Jobs in Central London

Platform Engineer
London > Central London

The median Platform Engineer salary in Central London is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 157 214
Rank change year-on-year +27 +57 +59
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 30 31 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 1.18% 0.82% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.30% 0.86% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 17 31 27
10th Percentile £70,500 £67,500 -
25th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +4.35%
75th Percentile £100,000 £109,375 £105,000
90th Percentile £102,250 £122,500 -
London median annual salary £90,000 £81,250 £80,000
% change year-on-year +10.77% +1.56% -3.03%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 2,305 3,595 5,095
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.03% 95.16% 96.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,638 2,829 4,254
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £111,250
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +31 29 £90,000 - 10
City of Westminster - 8 - -
Southwark -3 3 £55,000 -
Platform Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 25 (83.33%) Azure
3 21 (70.00%) Terraform
4 17 (56.67%) Python
5 16 (53.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (46.67%) Kubernetes
6 14 (46.67%) AWS
7 12 (40.00%) Docker
7 12 (40.00%) GCP
7 12 (40.00%) Network Virtualisation
7 12 (40.00%) Containerisation
7 12 (40.00%) CI/CD
8 11 (36.67%) DevOps
8 11 (36.67%) Java
8 11 (36.67%) Law
9 10 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (30.00%) Google
10 9 (30.00%) ARM Templates
10 9 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (26.67%) Data Science
11 8 (26.67%) Strategic Roadmap
11 8 (26.67%) Cost Management
11 8 (26.67%) Cost Reduction
11 8 (26.67%) Roadmaps
11 8 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
11 8 (26.67%) Degree
11 8 (26.67%) Computer Science
11 8 (26.67%) Scala
11 8 (26.67%) PaaS
11 8 (26.67%) Analytics

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 3 (10.00%) Apache
1 3 (10.00%) Apache Spark
1 3 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 25 (83.33%) Azure
2 14 (46.67%) AWS
3 12 (40.00%) GCP
4 8 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (26.67%) PaaS
5 7 (23.33%) GitHub
5 7 (23.33%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (16.67%) Pulumi
7 4 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (13.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (10.00%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (6.67%) IaaS
10 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (3.33%) Datadog
10 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
10 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (3.33%) ClickHouse
2 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.33%) CircleCI
2 1 (3.33%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) GitLab
2 1 (3.33%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (3.33%) Vagrant
General
1 11 (36.67%) Law
2 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.00%) Finance
4 5 (16.67%) Banking
5 3 (10.00%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Front Office
6 1 (3.33%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (30.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (6.67%) Loki
3 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.33%) JSON
3 1 (3.33%) Node.js
3 1 (3.33%) React
3 1 (3.33%) REST
3 1 (3.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (3.33%) Blog
2 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Linux
2 4 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 16 (53.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 12 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 12 (40.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 11 (36.67%) DevOps
5 10 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (26.67%) Analytics
7 8 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
7 8 (26.67%) Computer Science
7 8 (26.67%) Cost Management
7 8 (26.67%) Cost Reduction
7 8 (26.67%) Data Science
7 8 (26.67%) Roadmaps
7 8 (26.67%) Strategic Roadmap
8 6 (20.00%) Agile
8 6 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
9 4 (13.33%) Decision-Making
9 4 (13.33%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 17 (56.67%) Python
2 11 (36.67%) Java
3 8 (26.67%) Scala
4 6 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 5 (16.67%) Bash
5 5 (16.67%) Go
6 4 (13.33%) SQL
7 3 (10.00%) T-SQL
8 2 (6.67%) C#
9 1 (3.33%) C++
9 1 (3.33%) Groovy
9 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
9 1 (3.33%) PHP
9 1 (3.33%) Ruby
9 1 (3.33%) Rust
9 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (26.67%) Degree
1 8 (26.67%) Master's Degree
2 3 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (40.00%) Docker
2 6 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 6 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (70.00%) Terraform
2 14 (46.67%) Kubernetes
3 4 (13.33%) Ansible
4 3 (10.00%) Grafana
4 3 (10.00%) Progress Chef
4 3 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 3 (10.00%) Puppet
5 2 (6.67%) Consul
5 2 (6.67%) Packer
6 1 (3.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) Google
2 6 (20.00%) Citrix
2 6 (20.00%) VMware
3 4 (13.33%) Red Hat
4 3 (10.00%) Databricks
4 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (6.67%) Hitachi
6 1 (3.33%) Dynatrace