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 to 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 156 211 275
Rank change year-on-year +55 +64 -57
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 31 31 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.82% 0.59% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 0.62% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 31 27 30
10th Percentile £71,250 - £54,625
25th Percentile £74,375 £57,500 £67,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £109,375 £105,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £122,500 - £97,375
London median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% +11.86%

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 3,587 5,001 7,813
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.25% 95.93% 95.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,792 4,155 6,427
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,878
25th Percentile £51,938 £54,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,744 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +3.10% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £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 13 May 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 13 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
City of London +58 29 £90,000 -1.64% 2
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 13 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 Central London region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 24 (77.42%) Terraform
3 22 (70.97%) Azure
4 17 (54.84%) AWS
4 17 (54.84%) DevOps
4 17 (54.84%) Kubernetes
5 14 (45.16%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (41.94%) CI/CD
7 12 (38.71%) PaaS
8 10 (32.26%) Finance
9 9 (29.03%) Docker
9 9 (29.03%) Python
10 8 (25.81%) Serverless
11 7 (22.58%) Jenkins
11 7 (22.58%) C#
11 7 (22.58%) Software Engineering
12 6 (19.35%) Agile
12 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
12 6 (19.35%) Java
12 6 (19.35%) .NET
12 6 (19.35%) SaaS
12 6 (19.35%) GitHub
12 6 (19.35%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (19.35%) GCP
13 5 (16.13%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (16.13%) Ansible
13 5 (16.13%) Bash
13 5 (16.13%) TeamCity
13 5 (16.13%) SQL
13 5 (16.13%) Windows

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 (3.23%) Confluence
1 1 (3.23%) SAS
1 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (70.97%) Azure
2 17 (54.84%) AWS
3 12 (38.71%) PaaS
4 8 (25.81%) Serverless
5 6 (19.35%) GCP
5 6 (19.35%) GitHub
5 6 (19.35%) SaaS
6 5 (16.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (12.90%) IaaS
7 4 (12.90%) OpenShift
8 2 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (6.45%) Amazon S3
8 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (6.45%) Azure Functions
8 2 (6.45%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (6.45%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (6.45%) Power Platform
8 2 (6.45%) Route 53
8 2 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) DNS
1 1 (3.23%) Firewall
1 1 (3.23%) FTP
1 1 (3.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.23%) Power BI
3 1 (3.23%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (22.58%) Jenkins
2 6 (19.35%) Octopus Deploy
3 5 (16.13%) TeamCity
4 4 (12.90%) Artifactory
4 4 (12.90%) GitLab
4 4 (12.90%) JIRA
5 3 (9.68%) Git
5 3 (9.68%) Snyk
6 1 (3.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
6 1 (3.23%) Zephyr
General
1 10 (32.26%) Finance
2 4 (12.90%) Banking
2 4 (12.90%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Retail Banking
4 2 (6.45%) Health Technology
5 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Games
5 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) .NET
2 3 (9.68%) Node.js
2 3 (9.68%) React
3 2 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.23%) JSON
4 1 (3.23%) Kafka
4 1 (3.23%) REST
4 1 (3.23%) RESTful
4 1 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (3.23%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.23%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.13%) Windows
2 4 (12.90%) Linux
3 3 (9.68%) VMS
4 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.23%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 17 (54.84%) DevOps
3 14 (45.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (41.94%) CI/CD
5 7 (22.58%) Software Engineering
6 6 (19.35%) Agile
7 5 (16.13%) Configuration Management
8 4 (12.90%) Fintech
8 4 (12.90%) OO
9 3 (9.68%) Containerisation
9 3 (9.68%) Incident Response
9 3 (9.68%) Information Security
10 2 (6.45%) Data Integration
10 2 (6.45%) ETL
10 2 (6.45%) Identity Access Management
10 2 (6.45%) Migration
10 2 (6.45%) SDLC
11 1 (3.23%) Creative Thinking
11 1 (3.23%) Strategic Thinking
11 1 (3.23%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 9 (29.03%) Python
2 7 (22.58%) C#
3 6 (19.35%) Java
4 5 (16.13%) Bash
4 5 (16.13%) SQL
5 4 (12.90%) Go
5 4 (12.90%) PowerShell
6 3 (9.68%) JavaScript
6 3 (9.68%) Ruby
7 2 (6.45%) Scala
8 1 (3.23%) C
8 1 (3.23%) C++
8 1 (3.23%) Perl
8 1 (3.23%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 9 (29.03%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (77.42%) Terraform
2 17 (54.84%) Kubernetes
3 5 (16.13%) Ansible
4 3 (9.68%) Istio
4 3 (9.68%) Progress Chef
4 3 (9.68%) Puppet
5 2 (6.45%) Salt
6 1 (3.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (3.23%) Grafana
6 1 (3.23%) Kibana
6 1 (3.23%) logstash
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.23%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.23%) Splunk
2 1 (3.23%) VMware