Senior Platform Engineer Jobs in the City of London

Senior Platform Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Senior Platform Engineer salary in the City of London is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 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
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 168 226
Rank change year-on-year +33 +58 +56
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 13 9 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.63% 0.27% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.28% 0.022%
Number of salaries quoted 10 9 1
10th Percentile £76,250 - -
25th Percentile £80,000 £97,500 £95,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £105,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +6.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £103,750 - -
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £105,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +6.67%

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 1,923 3,208 4,455
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 95.85% 96.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,468 2,545 3,737
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -1.67% +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 £73,480
% change year-on-year - -1.33% +1.35%

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

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

Senior Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

Salary trend for Senior Platform Engineer in the City of London

Senior Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Platform Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Platform Engineer in the City of London

Senior 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 Senior Platform Engineer within the City of London region over the 6 months to 10 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 - -
Senior Platform Engineer
Central London

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 12 (92.31%) Azure
3 10 (76.92%) Terraform
4 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
5 8 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (53.85%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (53.85%) DevOps
7 6 (46.15%) GitHub
7 6 (46.15%) PaaS
7 6 (46.15%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (46.15%) Regulatory Compliance
7 6 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
7 6 (46.15%) VMware
7 6 (46.15%) Citrix
7 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (46.15%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (38.46%) VPN
9 4 (30.77%) Linux
9 4 (30.77%) Python
9 4 (30.77%) Red Hat
9 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
9 4 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (30.77%) AWS
9 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
9 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
9 4 (30.77%) Pulumi
9 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (30.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (30.77%) Network Virtualisation
10 3 (23.08%) Proactive Monitoring

Senior 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 3 (23.08%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (46.15%) GitHub
3 6 (46.15%) GitHub Actions
3 6 (46.15%) PaaS
4 4 (30.77%) AWS
4 4 (30.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (30.77%) Pulumi
5 3 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (23.08%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (23.08%) Copilot Studio
5 3 (23.08%) GCP
5 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (7.69%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (23.08%) Banking
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
1 3 (23.08%) Financial Institution
1 3 (23.08%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Loki
2 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
2 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
1 4 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
3 8 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (53.85%) DevOps
5 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (46.15%) Regulatory Compliance
6 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (30.77%) Network Virtualisation
6 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
7 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (23.08%) Data Protection
7 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (23.08%) Identity Management
7 3 (23.08%) Observability
7 3 (23.08%) Proactive Monitoring
7 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
7 3 (23.08%) Security Operations
8 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
8 2 (15.38%) Digital Engineering
8 2 (15.38%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) Bash
2 3 (23.08%) Go
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) Groovy
3 1 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Azure Certification
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Virtual Desktop
1 6 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (76.92%) Terraform
2 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 2 (15.38%) Grafana
3 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
4 1 (7.69%) Ansible
4 1 (7.69%) Consul
4 1 (7.69%) Packer
4 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
4 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Citrix
1 6 (46.15%) VMware
2 4 (30.77%) Red Hat
3 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
4 2 (15.38%) Hitachi
5 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace