Platform Engineering Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Platform Engineering
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 34 40
Rank change year-on-year +17 +6 -22
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 2 8 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of Westminster 4.35% 5.88% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% 6.72% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - -
75th Percentile £82,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £82,500 £95,000
% change year-on-year +21.21% -13.16% +31.03%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45 119 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 97.83% 87.50% 93.82%
Number of salaries quoted 19 28 91
10th Percentile £64,682 £32,125 £34,375
25th Percentile £71,121 £44,590 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% +25.00% -40.30%
75th Percentile £89,375 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £87,500 £86,250
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Platform Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in the City of Westminster

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Platform Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering
Job Locations in the City of Westminster

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 Westminster region over the 6 months to 27 July 2026. 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
Westminster - 1 £80,000 -
Platform Engineering
Central London

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Broadband
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Programmer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Programmer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Programmer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Python Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Low-Code
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (50.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) AIOps
1 1 (50.00%) API Design
1 1 (50.00%) API Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Application Performance Management
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Runbook
1 1 (50.00%) Sequence Diagram
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) RMADS
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) VMware