Platform Engineering Jobs in the City of London

Platform Engineering
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Platform Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 129 154
Rank change year-on-year +60 +25 +20
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 69 54 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 3.56% 1.62% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.70% 1.76% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 49 52 65
10th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% +18.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £97,500 £106,250 £105,000
90th Percentile £100,250 £113,750 £106,250
Central London median annual salary £82,500 £92,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -10.81% +15.63% -11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Platform Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,867 3,062 4,285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 96.29% 91.65% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,403 2,381 3,559
10th Percentile £42,100 £41,315 £42,950
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

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 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in the City of London

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering 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 - 7 - -
Platform Engineering
Central 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 6 (8.70%) Apache
1 6 (8.70%) Apache Spark
2 4 (5.80%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.45%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 49 (71.01%) Azure
2 27 (39.13%) AWS
3 24 (34.78%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (34.78%) GitHub
4 23 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
5 18 (26.09%) GCP
6 11 (15.94%) Pulumi
7 9 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (13.04%) PaaS
8 7 (10.14%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (10.14%) Datadog
9 6 (8.70%) npm
10 4 (5.80%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (4.35%) Copilot Studio
11 3 (4.35%) Power Platform
11 3 (4.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.25%) VPN
2 3 (4.35%) DHCP
2 3 (4.35%) DNS
2 3 (4.35%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.45%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (4.35%) Power BI
1 3 (4.35%) SQL Server
1 3 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (2.90%) ClickHouse
3 1 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (8.70%) SonarQube
2 5 (7.25%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.80%) JIRA
4 3 (4.35%) Git
5 1 (1.45%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.45%) GitLab
5 1 (1.45%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.45%) Vagrant
General
1 14 (20.29%) Finance
2 11 (15.94%) Banking
2 11 (15.94%) Law
3 10 (14.49%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.35%) Financial Institution
4 3 (4.35%) Front Office
5 2 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.90%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.45%) Electronics
6 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 34 (49.28%) Platform Engineer
2 19 (27.54%) Lead
3 18 (26.09%) Senior
4 14 (20.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (18.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 13 (18.84%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 12 (17.39%) Data Engineer
7 10 (14.49%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (11.59%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 8 (11.59%) Lead Data Engineer
9 5 (7.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 3 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (4.35%) Data Scientist
10 3 (4.35%) Help Desk Team Lead
10 3 (4.35%) Power Platform Engineer
10 3 (4.35%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 3 (4.35%) Senior Data Scientist
10 3 (4.35%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 3 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
10 3 (4.35%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.84%) React
2 9 (13.04%) ARM Templates
3 7 (10.14%) Loki
4 3 (4.35%) PyTorch
4 3 (4.35%) REST
4 3 (4.35%) scikit-learn
4 3 (4.35%) TensorFlow
5 2 (2.90%) .NET
5 2 (2.90%) GraphQL
5 2 (2.90%) Middleware
6 1 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 16 (23.19%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.35%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.45%) Blog
4 1 (1.45%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.59%) Linux
2 7 (10.14%) Windows
3 6 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (4.35%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.90%) Unix
6 1 (1.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (50.72%) CI/CD
2 30 (43.48%) DevOps
3 29 (42.03%) Containerisation
4 27 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (36.23%) Observability
6 23 (33.33%) Agile
7 17 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (23.19%) Migration
8 16 (23.19%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (21.74%) DevSecOps
10 14 (20.29%) Build Automation
11 13 (18.84%) Data Science
11 13 (18.84%) Intelligent Automation
11 13 (18.84%) Release Automation
11 13 (18.84%) Release Management
11 13 (18.84%) Software Delivery
12 12 (17.39%) Network Virtualisation
13 10 (14.49%) Analytics
13 10 (14.49%) Roadmaps
14 9 (13.04%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 43 (62.32%) Python
2 25 (36.23%) Java
3 18 (26.09%) Bash
4 17 (24.64%) PowerShell
5 11 (15.94%) Go
6 8 (11.59%) Scala
7 7 (10.14%) SQL
7 7 (10.14%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.35%) C#
8 3 (4.35%) JavaScript
8 3 (4.35%) Rust
8 3 (4.35%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.90%) C++
10 1 (1.45%) Groovy
10 1 (1.45%) PHP
10 1 (1.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (15.94%) Degree
2 9 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (11.59%) Master's Degree
4 5 (7.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.35%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.45%) MCSE
6 1 (1.45%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.45%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.45%) VCAP
6 1 (1.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.80%) GDPR
2 2 (2.90%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.90%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.45%) QA
System Software
1 12 (17.39%) Docker
2 10 (14.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (11.59%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (2.90%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.90%) Firmware
4 2 (2.90%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (42.03%) Terraform
2 22 (31.88%) Kubernetes
3 10 (14.49%) Prometheus
4 9 (13.04%) Grafana
5 8 (11.59%) Ansible
6 3 (4.35%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.90%) Consul
7 2 (2.90%) Packer
7 2 (2.90%) Puppet
8 1 (1.45%) Salt
Vendors
1 12 (17.39%) VMware
2 9 (13.04%) Google
3 8 (11.59%) Citrix
4 7 (10.14%) Hitachi
4 7 (10.14%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.80%) Red Hat
6 3 (4.35%) Databricks
7 2 (2.90%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.45%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.45%) Okta
8 1 (1.45%) Zscaler