Platform Engineering Jobs in Central London

Platform Engineering
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Platform Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 144 157
Rank change year-on-year +52 +13 +17
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 68 54 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 2.89% 1.43% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.99% 1.56% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 49 53 69
10th Percentile £67,500 £70,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £59,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% +18.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £97,500 £106,250 £101,500
90th Percentile £100,250 £113,750 £106,250
London median annual salary £80,000 £89,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -10.11% -1.11% +5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Platform Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,273 3,471 4,830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 96.64% 91.83% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,546 2,651 3,984
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Central London

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in Central London

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in Central London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in Central London

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering within the Central London region over the 6 months to 28 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 +51 67 £82,500 -13.16% 17
City of Westminster - 8 - -
Southwark -1 7 £55,000 -
Platform Engineering
London

Platform Engineering
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 6 (8.82%) Apache
1 6 (8.82%) Apache Spark
2 4 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.41%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.47%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 48 (70.59%) Azure
2 26 (38.24%) AWS
3 23 (33.82%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (33.82%) GitHub
4 22 (32.35%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (25.00%) GCP
6 10 (14.71%) PaaS
6 10 (14.71%) Pulumi
7 8 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (10.29%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (10.29%) Datadog
9 6 (8.82%) npm
10 4 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (4.41%) Copilot Studio
11 3 (4.41%) Power Platform
11 3 (4.41%) PowerApps
11 3 (4.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.35%) VPN
2 3 (4.41%) DHCP
2 3 (4.41%) DNS
2 3 (4.41%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.47%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (4.41%) Power BI
1 3 (4.41%) SQL Server
1 3 (4.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (2.94%) ClickHouse
3 1 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.47%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (8.82%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.35%) SonarQube
3 4 (5.88%) Git
3 4 (5.88%) JIRA
4 1 (1.47%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.47%) GitLab
4 1 (1.47%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.47%) Vagrant
General
1 14 (20.59%) Finance
2 11 (16.18%) Banking
2 11 (16.18%) Law
2 11 (16.18%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.41%) Financial Institution
3 3 (4.41%) Front Office
4 2 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.94%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.47%) Electronics
5 1 (1.47%) Games
5 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.47%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 35 (51.47%) Platform Engineer
2 19 (27.94%) Senior
3 18 (26.47%) Lead
4 14 (20.59%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (20.59%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 13 (19.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 12 (17.65%) Data Engineer
7 10 (14.71%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (11.76%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 8 (11.76%) Lead Data Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 3 (4.41%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (4.41%) Data Scientist
10 3 (4.41%) Help Desk Team Lead
10 3 (4.41%) Power Platform Engineer
10 3 (4.41%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 3 (4.41%) Senior Data Scientist
10 3 (4.41%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 3 (4.41%) Systems Engineer
10 3 (4.41%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.12%) React
2 9 (13.24%) ARM Templates
3 6 (8.82%) Loki
4 3 (4.41%) PyTorch
4 3 (4.41%) REST
4 3 (4.41%) scikit-learn
4 3 (4.41%) TensorFlow
5 2 (2.94%) .NET
5 2 (2.94%) GraphQL
5 2 (2.94%) Middleware
6 1 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.47%) JSON
6 1 (1.47%) Node.js
6 1 (1.47%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (22.06%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.41%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.47%) Blog
4 1 (1.47%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.24%) Linux
2 7 (10.29%) Windows
3 6 (8.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (4.41%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.94%) Unix
6 1 (1.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 30 (44.12%) DevOps
3 27 (39.71%) Containerisation
4 26 (38.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (33.82%) Observability
6 22 (32.35%) Agile
7 16 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (22.06%) Migration
8 15 (22.06%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (20.59%) DevSecOps
10 13 (19.12%) Build Automation
10 13 (19.12%) Data Science
11 12 (17.65%) Intelligent Automation
11 12 (17.65%) Network Virtualisation
11 12 (17.65%) Release Automation
11 12 (17.65%) Release Management
11 12 (17.65%) Software Delivery
12 10 (14.71%) Analytics
12 10 (14.71%) Roadmaps
13 9 (13.24%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 42 (61.76%) Python
2 25 (36.76%) Java
3 18 (26.47%) Bash
4 17 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 11 (16.18%) Go
6 8 (11.76%) Scala
6 8 (11.76%) SQL
7 7 (10.29%) TypeScript
8 4 (5.88%) JavaScript
9 3 (4.41%) C#
9 3 (4.41%) Rust
9 3 (4.41%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.94%) C++
10 2 (2.94%) PHP
11 1 (1.47%) Groovy
11 1 (1.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (16.18%) Degree
2 9 (13.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (11.76%) Master's Degree
4 5 (7.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.41%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.47%) MCSE
6 1 (1.47%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.47%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.47%) VCAP
6 1 (1.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.88%) GDPR
2 2 (2.94%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.94%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.47%) QA
System Software
1 12 (17.65%) Docker
2 10 (14.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (11.76%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (2.94%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.94%) Firmware
4 2 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (42.65%) Terraform
2 21 (30.88%) Kubernetes
3 10 (14.71%) Prometheus
4 8 (11.76%) Ansible
4 8 (11.76%) Grafana
5 4 (5.88%) Progress Chef
6 3 (4.41%) Puppet
7 2 (2.94%) Consul
7 2 (2.94%) Packer
8 1 (1.47%) Salt
Vendors
1 12 (17.65%) VMware
2 9 (13.24%) Google
3 8 (11.76%) Citrix
4 7 (10.29%) Microsoft
5 6 (8.82%) Hitachi
6 4 (5.88%) Red Hat
7 3 (4.41%) Databricks
8 2 (2.94%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.47%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.47%) Okta
9 1 (1.47%) Zscaler