Platform Engineer Jobs in the City of London

Platform Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Platform Engineer salary in the City of London is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 156 202
Rank change year-on-year +53 +46 +59
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 34 27 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.75% 0.81% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.88% 0.84% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 21 27 24
10th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 -
25th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £109,375 £105,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £116,500 -
Central London median annual salary £82,500 £90,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.86% +2.94%

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 1,807 3,213 4,331
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.19% 96.17% 96.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,368 2,519 3,610
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,225
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,875 £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 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £74,744
% change year-on-year - -3.00% +3.10%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in the City of London

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in the City of London

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in the City of London

Platform Engineer
Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the City of London region over the 6 months to 30 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
London Bridge - 2 - -
Platform Engineer
Central London

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, 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 Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 34 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 26 (76.47%) Azure
3 21 (61.76%) Terraform
4 17 (50.00%) Python
4 17 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (44.12%) Kubernetes
5 15 (44.12%) AWS
6 13 (38.24%) CI/CD
7 12 (35.29%) Containerisation
7 12 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (35.29%) Network Virtualisation
7 12 (35.29%) GCP
7 12 (35.29%) Docker
7 12 (35.29%) DevOps
8 11 (32.35%) Law
9 10 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (29.41%) Java
10 9 (26.47%) Google
10 9 (26.47%) Strategic Roadmap
10 9 (26.47%) Roadmaps
10 9 (26.47%) ARM Templates
11 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
11 8 (23.53%) Cost Management
11 8 (23.53%) Cost Reduction
11 8 (23.53%) Data Science
11 8 (23.53%) Master's Degree
11 8 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence
11 8 (23.53%) Degree
11 8 (23.53%) Computer Science

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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (11.76%) SharePoint
2 3 (8.82%) Apache
2 3 (8.82%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.94%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 26 (76.47%) Azure
2 15 (44.12%) AWS
3 12 (35.29%) GCP
4 8 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (20.59%) GitHub
5 7 (20.59%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (20.59%) PaaS
6 6 (17.65%) Pulumi
7 4 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (11.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (8.82%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (8.82%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (8.82%) Power Automate
8 3 (8.82%) Power Platform
8 3 (8.82%) PowerApps
9 2 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (2.94%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (8.82%) Power BI
1 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
1 3 (8.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (5.88%) ClickHouse
3 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.94%) CircleCI
2 1 (2.94%) Git
2 1 (2.94%) GitLab
2 1 (2.94%) JIRA
2 1 (2.94%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (2.94%) Vagrant
General
1 11 (32.35%) Law
2 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 7 (20.59%) Finance
4 6 (17.65%) Banking
5 3 (8.82%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.94%) Front Office
7 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (26.47%) ARM Templates
2 2 (5.88%) .NET
2 2 (5.88%) Loki
3 1 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.94%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.94%) Blog
1 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.65%) Linux
2 4 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.88%) Unix
4 1 (2.94%) VMS
4 1 (2.94%) Windows
4 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 17 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (38.24%) CI/CD
4 12 (35.29%) Containerisation
4 12 (35.29%) DevOps
4 12 (35.29%) Network Virtualisation
4 12 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (26.47%) Roadmaps
6 9 (26.47%) Strategic Roadmap
7 8 (23.53%) Analytics
7 8 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence
7 8 (23.53%) Computer Science
7 8 (23.53%) Cost Management
7 8 (23.53%) Cost Reduction
7 8 (23.53%) Data Science
8 7 (20.59%) Agile
9 6 (17.65%) Data Modelling
9 6 (17.65%) Regulatory Compliance
10 5 (14.71%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 17 (50.00%) Python
2 10 (29.41%) Java
3 8 (23.53%) Scala
4 7 (20.59%) PowerShell
5 5 (14.71%) Bash
6 4 (11.76%) Go
6 4 (11.76%) SQL
7 3 (8.82%) C#
7 3 (8.82%) T-SQL
8 2 (5.88%) C++
9 1 (2.94%) Groovy
9 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
9 1 (2.94%) PHP
9 1 (2.94%) Ruby
9 1 (2.94%) Rust
9 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (23.53%) Degree
1 8 (23.53%) Master's Degree
2 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (8.82%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) Accessibility
1 2 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 2 (5.88%) GDPR
2 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 12 (35.29%) Docker
2 6 (17.65%) Virtual Desktop
2 6 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (61.76%) Terraform
2 15 (44.12%) Kubernetes
3 6 (17.65%) Ansible
4 4 (11.76%) Grafana
4 4 (11.76%) Prometheus
5 3 (8.82%) Progress Chef
6 2 (5.88%) Consul
6 2 (5.88%) Packer
6 2 (5.88%) Puppet
7 1 (2.94%) Salt
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) Google
2 6 (17.65%) Citrix
2 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.65%) VMware
3 4 (11.76%) Red Hat
4 3 (8.82%) Databricks
5 2 (5.88%) Hitachi
6 1 (2.94%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.94%) Okta
6 1 (2.94%) Zscaler