Platform Engineering Jobs in Central London

Platform Engineering
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Platform Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 159 181
Rank change year-on-year +25 +22 -25
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 54 82 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 1.43% 1.60% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.69% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 53 69 125
10th Percentile £70,500 £57,500 £60,300
25th Percentile £82,500 £65,250 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £80,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £106,250 £105,000 £106,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £106,250 £110,000
London median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +9.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Platform Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,468 4,842 7,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 91.96% 94.76% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,655 3,989 6,371
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £56,250
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 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
London median annual salary £71,183 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.09% +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 23 May 2024.

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 23 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 +28 52 £95,000 +18.75% 11
Southwark +20 1 £55,000 +4.76%
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 1 (1.85%) Confluence
1 1 (1.85%) Jupyter
1 1 (1.85%) SAS
1 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 33 (61.11%) AWS
2 26 (48.15%) Azure
3 14 (25.93%) PaaS
4 8 (14.81%) GCP
4 8 (14.81%) SaaS
4 8 (14.81%) Serverless
5 6 (11.11%) GitHub
5 6 (11.11%) IaaS
6 5 (9.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (7.41%) OpenShift
7 4 (7.41%) Power Platform
8 3 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.70%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.70%) Azure Functions
9 2 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (3.70%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) DNS
1 1 (1.85%) Firewall
1 1 (1.85%) FTP
1 1 (1.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.70%) Power BI
3 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.85%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.85%) Redis
3 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 8 (14.81%) GitLab
3 5 (9.26%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (7.41%) Artifactory
4 4 (7.41%) Git
4 4 (7.41%) JIRA
4 4 (7.41%) TeamCity
5 3 (5.56%) Snyk
6 1 (1.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.85%) Terragrunt
6 1 (1.85%) Zephyr
General
1 11 (20.37%) Finance
2 9 (16.67%) Banking
3 7 (12.96%) Social Skills
4 5 (9.26%) Retail Banking
5 4 (7.41%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Games
6 1 (1.85%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (53.70%) Platform Engineer
2 23 (42.59%) Senior
3 15 (27.78%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (20.37%) Senior DevOps
4 11 (20.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 9 (16.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 8 (14.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) Data Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 3 (5.56%) Test Specialist
10 2 (3.70%) Architect
10 2 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
10 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Engineer
10 2 (3.70%) Software Engineer
10 2 (3.70%) Technical Architect
11 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.26%) .NET
1 5 (9.26%) Node.js
2 4 (7.41%) React
3 2 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (3.70%) JSON
4 1 (1.85%) ADO
4 1 (1.85%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.85%) Kafka
4 1 (1.85%) Redux
4 1 (1.85%) REST
4 1 (1.85%) RESTful
4 1 (1.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.41%) Public Cloud
2 3 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.85%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.85%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.85%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.85%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.96%) Linux
2 6 (11.11%) Windows
3 3 (5.56%) VMS
4 1 (1.85%) CentOS
4 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.85%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.85%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (57.41%) DevOps
2 23 (42.59%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (35.19%) CI/CD
4 14 (25.93%) Containerisation
4 14 (25.93%) Fintech
5 13 (24.07%) Agile
6 12 (22.22%) DevSecOps
7 10 (18.52%) Observability
7 10 (18.52%) Software Engineering
8 9 (16.67%) Configuration Management
9 4 (7.41%) Computer Science
9 4 (7.41%) SDLC
10 3 (5.56%) Acceptance Criteria
10 3 (5.56%) Exploratory Testing
10 3 (5.56%) Functional Testing
10 3 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 3 (5.56%) Test Automation
10 3 (5.56%) Time Management
10 3 (5.56%) Usability Testing
10 3 (5.56%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 15 (27.78%) Python
2 7 (12.96%) Bash
2 7 (12.96%) Java
3 6 (11.11%) C#
3 6 (11.11%) Go
3 6 (11.11%) Ruby
4 5 (9.26%) SQL
5 4 (7.41%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.56%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.70%) C++
7 2 (3.70%) Perl
7 2 (3.70%) Scala
8 1 (1.85%) Bicep
8 1 (1.85%) C
8 1 (1.85%) R
8 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (7.41%) Degree
2 3 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.85%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 14 (25.93%) Docker
2 2 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.85%) KVM
3 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.85%) Xen
Systems Management
1 36 (66.67%) Terraform
2 29 (53.70%) Kubernetes
3 6 (11.11%) Ansible
4 3 (5.56%) Istio
4 3 (5.56%) Progress Chef
4 3 (5.56%) Puppet
5 2 (3.70%) Grafana
6 1 (1.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.85%) Kibana
6 1 (1.85%) logstash
6 1 (1.85%) Podman
6 1 (1.85%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (12.96%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.70%) Red Hat
2 2 (3.70%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.85%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.85%) SaltStack
3 1 (1.85%) Splunk
3 1 (1.85%) TOWER Software
3 1 (1.85%) VMware