Platform Engineering Jobs in the City of London

Platform Engineering
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Platform Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 148 182
Rank change year-on-year +19 +34 -42
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 50 82 109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.49% 1.77% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 1.86% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 49 71 102
10th Percentile £71,000 £57,500 £60,075
25th Percentile £82,500 £67,500 £76,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £80,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £106,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £110,000 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £95,000 £80,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +18.75% -11.11% +5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Platform Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,090 4,410 6,848
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 92.07% 95.23% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,446 3,687 5,616
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,515 £45,506
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the City of London

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in the City of London

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in the City of London

Platform Engineering
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 1 (2.00%) Confluence
1 1 (2.00%) Jupyter
1 1 (2.00%) SAS
1 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 29 (58.00%) AWS
2 26 (52.00%) Azure
3 13 (26.00%) PaaS
4 8 (16.00%) GCP
4 8 (16.00%) SaaS
4 8 (16.00%) Serverless
5 6 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (10.00%) GitHub
6 5 (10.00%) IaaS
7 4 (8.00%) OpenShift
7 4 (8.00%) Power Platform
8 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (4.00%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (4.00%) Amazon S3
9 2 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (4.00%) Azure Functions
9 2 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) DNS
1 1 (2.00%) Firewall
1 1 (2.00%) FTP
1 1 (2.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.00%) Power BI
3 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.00%) Redis
3 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (16.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (12.00%) GitLab
2 6 (12.00%) Octopus Deploy
3 5 (10.00%) TeamCity
4 4 (8.00%) Artifactory
4 4 (8.00%) JIRA
5 3 (6.00%) Git
5 3 (6.00%) Snyk
6 1 (2.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.00%) Terragrunt
6 1 (2.00%) Zephyr
General
1 11 (22.00%) Finance
2 7 (14.00%) Banking
3 5 (10.00%) Retail Banking
3 5 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.00%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (58.00%) Platform Engineer
2 21 (42.00%) Senior
3 10 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (18.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 8 (16.00%) Senior DevOps
5 8 (16.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 7 (14.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 5 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (8.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 3 (6.00%) Data Engineer
9 3 (6.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 3 (6.00%) Test Specialist
10 2 (4.00%) Architect
10 2 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Software Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Technical Architect
11 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365 Manager
11 1 (2.00%) Power Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.00%) .NET
2 4 (8.00%) Node.js
3 3 (6.00%) React
4 2 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.00%) ADO
5 1 (2.00%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.00%) JSON
5 1 (2.00%) Kafka
5 1 (2.00%) Redux
5 1 (2.00%) REST
5 1 (2.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.00%) Linux
1 6 (12.00%) Windows
2 3 (6.00%) VMS
3 1 (2.00%) CentOS
3 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (54.00%) DevOps
2 22 (44.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (32.00%) CI/CD
4 13 (26.00%) Agile
5 12 (24.00%) Containerisation
6 11 (22.00%) Fintech
7 10 (20.00%) Configuration Management
7 10 (20.00%) Software Engineering
8 8 (16.00%) DevSecOps
8 8 (16.00%) Observability
9 4 (8.00%) Computer Science
9 4 (8.00%) OO
9 4 (8.00%) SDLC
10 3 (6.00%) Information Security
10 3 (6.00%) Integration Testing
10 3 (6.00%) Process Management
10 3 (6.00%) Regression Testing
10 3 (6.00%) Risk Assessment
10 3 (6.00%) TDD
10 3 (6.00%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (24.00%) Python
2 7 (14.00%) C#
2 7 (14.00%) Go
3 6 (12.00%) Ruby
4 5 (10.00%) Bash
4 5 (10.00%) Java
5 4 (8.00%) PowerShell
5 4 (8.00%) SQL
6 2 (4.00%) C++
6 2 (4.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.00%) Perl
6 2 (4.00%) Scala
7 1 (2.00%) Bicep
7 1 (2.00%) R
7 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (8.00%) Degree
2 3 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 15 (30.00%) Docker
2 2 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.00%) KVM
3 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 34 (68.00%) Terraform
2 29 (58.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (14.00%) Ansible
4 3 (6.00%) Istio
4 3 (6.00%) Progress Chef
4 3 (6.00%) Puppet
5 2 (4.00%) Grafana
5 2 (4.00%) Salt
6 1 (2.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (2.00%) Kibana
6 1 (2.00%) logstash
6 1 (2.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 7 (14.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.00%) SaltStack
3 1 (2.00%) Splunk
3 1 (2.00%) TOWER Software
3 1 (2.00%) VMware