Platform Support Engineer Job Trends in Central London

Platform Support Engineer
London > Central London

The median Platform Support Engineer salary in Central London is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 186 -
Rank change year-on-year +48 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Support Engineer 1 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 0.053% 0.032% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.057% 0.033% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71,250 £51,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £52,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +47.62% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £53,750 -
90th Percentile - - -
London median annual salary £76,250 £52,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +45.24% -27.59% +16.94%

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 1,768 2,988 3,306
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 94.32% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,458 1,968 2,970
10th Percentile £36,750 £44,879 £39,085
25th Percentile £53,750 £54,311 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £115,000
London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +5.63%

Platform Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Platform Support Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Platform Support Engineer job vacancy trend in Central London

Platform Support Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for Platform Support Engineer job vacancies in Central London.

Salary distribution trend for Platform Support Engineer job vacancies in Central London

Platform Support 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 Support Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 20 October 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 +43 1 £77,500 +47.62% 2
Platform Support Engineer
London

Platform Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 20 October 2025, Platform Support Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Central London region featuring Platform Support Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving

Platform Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk