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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 135 165
Rank change year-on-year +42 +30 +17
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 65 53 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 2.61% 1.41% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 1.53% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47 52 73
10th Percentile £67,500 £70,250 £57,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £80,625 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% +18.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,188 £105,000
90th Percentile £102,250 £121,625 £106,250
London median annual salary £82,500 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -2.94% -5.56% +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 2,407 3,465 4,890
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 96.55% 92.06% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,650 2,658 4,042
10th Percentile £41,975 £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 £97,500 £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 20 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 20 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 +44 64 £82,500 -13.16% 33
City of Westminster - 8 - -
Southwark +1 6 £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 (9.23%) Apache
1 6 (9.23%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.62%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.54%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 46 (70.77%) Azure
2 26 (40.00%) AWS
3 23 (35.38%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (33.85%) GitHub
5 21 (32.31%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (26.15%) GCP
7 11 (16.92%) PaaS
8 9 (13.85%) Pulumi
9 7 (10.77%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (10.77%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (10.77%) Datadog
10 6 (9.23%) npm
11 5 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (4.62%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (4.62%) Copilot Studio
13 3 (4.62%) IaaS
13 3 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Copilot
13 3 (4.62%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.69%) VPN
2 4 (6.15%) DNS
3 3 (4.62%) DHCP
3 3 (4.62%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.54%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (4.62%) SQL Server
1 3 (4.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (3.08%) ClickHouse
3 1 (1.54%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.54%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (9.23%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.15%) Git
2 4 (6.15%) JIRA
2 4 (6.15%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.54%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.54%) GitLab
3 1 (1.54%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.54%) Vagrant
General
1 14 (21.54%) Finance
2 11 (16.92%) Banking
2 11 (16.92%) Law
3 10 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.62%) Financial Institution
4 3 (4.62%) Front Office
5 2 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.08%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.54%) Electronics
6 1 (1.54%) Games
6 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (50.77%) Platform Engineer
2 19 (29.23%) Senior
3 17 (26.15%) Lead
4 14 (21.54%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 13 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 13 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (18.46%) Data Engineer
7 10 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (12.31%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 8 (12.31%) Lead Data Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Data Scientist
9 3 (4.62%) Help Desk Team Lead
9 3 (4.62%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Senior Data Scientist
9 3 (4.62%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Systems Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Team Leader
10 2 (3.08%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (18.46%) React
2 9 (13.85%) ARM Templates
3 5 (7.69%) Loki
4 3 (4.62%) PyTorch
4 3 (4.62%) REST
4 3 (4.62%) scikit-learn
4 3 (4.62%) TensorFlow
5 2 (3.08%) GraphQL
5 2 (3.08%) Middleware
6 1 (1.54%) .NET
6 1 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.54%) JSON
6 1 (1.54%) Node.js
6 1 (1.54%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.54%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.62%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.08%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.54%) Blog
4 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.85%) Linux
2 7 (10.77%) Windows
3 6 (9.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (4.62%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.08%) Unix
6 1 (1.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (50.77%) CI/CD
2 30 (46.15%) DevOps
3 26 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (38.46%) Containerisation
5 21 (32.31%) Agile
5 21 (32.31%) Observability
6 14 (21.54%) Migration
6 14 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (21.54%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (20.00%) Data Science
7 13 (20.00%) DevSecOps
8 12 (18.46%) Build Automation
8 12 (18.46%) Network Virtualisation
9 11 (16.92%) Analytics
9 11 (16.92%) Intelligent Automation
9 11 (16.92%) Release Automation
9 11 (16.92%) Release Management
9 11 (16.92%) Roadmaps
9 11 (16.92%) Software Delivery
10 9 (13.85%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 40 (61.54%) Python
2 24 (36.92%) Java
3 17 (26.15%) Bash
3 17 (26.15%) PowerShell
4 10 (15.38%) Go
5 9 (13.85%) SQL
6 8 (12.31%) Scala
7 7 (10.77%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.62%) JavaScript
8 3 (4.62%) Rust
8 3 (4.62%) T-SQL
9 2 (3.08%) C#
9 2 (3.08%) C++
9 2 (3.08%) PHP
10 1 (1.54%) Groovy
10 1 (1.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (16.92%) Degree
2 9 (13.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (12.31%) Master's Degree
4 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.62%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.54%) MCSE
6 1 (1.54%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.54%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.54%) VCAP
6 1 (1.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.15%) GDPR
2 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (20.00%) Docker
2 10 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (12.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (3.08%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.08%) Firmware
4 2 (3.08%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (43.08%) Terraform
2 21 (32.31%) Kubernetes
3 10 (15.38%) Prometheus
4 8 (12.31%) Ansible
5 7 (10.77%) Grafana
6 4 (6.15%) Progress Chef
7 3 (4.62%) Puppet
8 2 (3.08%) Consul
8 2 (3.08%) Packer
9 1 (1.54%) Salt
Vendors
1 12 (18.46%) VMware
2 9 (13.85%) Google
3 8 (12.31%) Citrix
4 6 (9.23%) Microsoft
5 5 (7.69%) Hitachi
6 4 (6.15%) Databricks
6 4 (6.15%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.54%) Dynatrace