DevOps Platform Engineer Job Trends in the City of London

Platform Engineer - DevOps
Central London > City of London

The median Platform Engineer - DevOps salary in the City of London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 November 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Platform Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.18% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £73,500 - -
25th Percentile £75,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - -
75th Percentile £82,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £55,000 -
% change year-on-year +45.45% - -

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 1,536 2,576 2,940
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.52% 93.13% 96.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,213 1,713 2,641
10th Percentile £36,863 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £96,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,000 £115,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.01%

DevOps Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

DevOps Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in the City of London

DevOps Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Platform Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Platform Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

DevOps Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 7 November 2025, DevOps Platform 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 City of London region featuring DevOps Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Fintech
3 1 (33.33%) IIS
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code

DevOps Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio Code
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Private Cloud
1 2 (66.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Fintech
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Service-Level Objective
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft