Azure Platform Engineer Jobs in the City of London

Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure
Central London > City of London

The median Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure salary in the City of London is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 177 -
Rank change year-on-year +41 - -
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Platform Engineer 8 4 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.39% 0.12% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.12% -
Number of salaries quoted 8 4 0
10th Percentile £75,125 £83,250 -
25th Percentile £76,250 £84,375 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 -
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,563 -
90th Percentile £101,125 £99,375 -
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,891 3,202 4,453
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.11% 96.01% 96.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,442 2,539 3,732
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,200 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,441 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% -2.08% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £74,000
% change year-on-year - -2.03% +2.07%

Azure Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Azure Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Platform Engineer in the City of London

Azure Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Platform Engineer in the City of London.

Salary trend for Azure Platform Engineer in the City of London

Azure Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Platform Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Platform Engineer in the City of London

Azure Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 15 May 2025, Azure 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 City of London region featuring Azure Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Azure
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
1 8 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 7 (87.50%) GitHub Actions
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 7 (87.50%) GitHub
2 7 (87.50%) PaaS
3 6 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (75.00%) Citrix
3 6 (75.00%) VMware
3 6 (75.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (75.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (50.00%) Red Hat
4 4 (50.00%) Linux
4 4 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (50.00%) VPN
4 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 4 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (25.00%) AWS
5 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (25.00%) Bash
5 2 (25.00%) Puppet
5 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
5 2 (25.00%) Python

Azure Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
1 8 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (87.50%) GitHub
2 7 (87.50%) GitHub Actions
2 7 (87.50%) PaaS
3 4 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (25.00%) AWS
4 2 (25.00%) GCP
4 2 (25.00%) Pulumi
5 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (12.50%) Datadog
5 1 (12.50%) IaaS
5 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
5 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) CircleCI
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (12.50%) Vagrant
General
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
1 4 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
3 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (75.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (25.00%) Agile
5 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
6 1 (12.50%) Agile Project Management
6 1 (12.50%) Business Development
6 1 (12.50%) Coaching
6 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 1 (12.50%) Observability
6 1 (12.50%) Project Management
6 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Bash
1 2 (25.00%) C#
1 2 (25.00%) Go
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 6 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Progress Chef
2 2 (25.00%) Puppet
3 1 (12.50%) Consul
3 1 (12.50%) Packer
3 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 1 (12.50%) Salt
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Citrix
1 6 (75.00%) VMware
2 4 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (12.50%) Google