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 £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 205 252
Rank change year-on-year +59 +47 -49
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 28 27 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.83% 0.57% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 0.60% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 28 24 29
10th Percentile £72,125 - £52,250
25th Percentile £74,688 £57,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £94,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +7.43% -2.78%
75th Percentile £112,500 £105,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £122,500 - £98,500
Central London median annual salary £87,500 £90,000 £86,250
% change year-on-year -2.78% +4.35% -4.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 3,236 4,526 6,819
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.91% 96.32% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,577 3,799 5,663
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £74,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -2.03% +2.07% +3.57%

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 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, 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 28 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 21 (75.00%) Terraform
3 20 (71.43%) Azure
4 16 (57.14%) AWS
4 16 (57.14%) Kubernetes
5 15 (53.57%) DevOps
6 13 (46.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (39.29%) CI/CD
8 10 (35.71%) PaaS
9 9 (32.14%) Finance
10 8 (28.57%) Docker
11 7 (25.00%) Serverless
11 7 (25.00%) Software Engineering
11 7 (25.00%) C#
11 7 (25.00%) Python
12 6 (21.43%) .NET
12 6 (21.43%) SaaS
12 6 (21.43%) GCP
13 5 (17.86%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (17.86%) Octopus Deploy
13 5 (17.86%) Jenkins
13 5 (17.86%) TeamCity
13 5 (17.86%) Windows
13 5 (17.86%) Configuration Management
13 5 (17.86%) Agile
13 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
14 4 (14.29%) Banking
14 4 (14.29%) Java
14 4 (14.29%) SQL
14 4 (14.29%) OO

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 1 (3.57%) Confluence
1 1 (3.57%) SAS
1 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 20 (71.43%) Azure
2 16 (57.14%) AWS
3 10 (35.71%) PaaS
4 7 (25.00%) Serverless
5 6 (21.43%) GCP
5 6 (21.43%) SaaS
6 5 (17.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (14.29%) GitHub
7 4 (14.29%) OpenShift
8 3 (10.71%) IaaS
9 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (7.14%) Azure Functions
9 2 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
10 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
10 1 (3.57%) Route 53
10 1 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) DNS
1 1 (3.57%) Firewall
1 1 (3.57%) FTP
1 1 (3.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.57%) Power BI
2 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Jenkins
1 5 (17.86%) Octopus Deploy
1 5 (17.86%) TeamCity
2 4 (14.29%) Artifactory
2 4 (14.29%) GitLab
2 4 (14.29%) JIRA
3 3 (10.71%) Snyk
4 2 (7.14%) Git
5 1 (3.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.57%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (32.14%) Finance
2 4 (14.29%) Banking
3 3 (10.71%) Retail Banking
4 2 (7.14%) Health Technology
5 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) .NET
2 2 (7.14%) Node.js
2 2 (7.14%) React
3 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.57%) Kafka
3 1 (3.57%) REST
3 1 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Windows
2 3 (10.71%) Linux
2 3 (10.71%) VMS
3 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.57%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 15 (53.57%) DevOps
3 13 (46.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (39.29%) CI/CD
5 7 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 5 (17.86%) Agile
6 5 (17.86%) Configuration Management
7 4 (14.29%) Fintech
7 4 (14.29%) OO
8 3 (10.71%) Containerisation
8 3 (10.71%) Incident Response
8 3 (10.71%) Information Security
9 2 (7.14%) Data Integration
9 2 (7.14%) ETL
9 2 (7.14%) SDLC
10 1 (3.57%) Creative Thinking
10 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Automation
10 1 (3.57%) Problem-Solving
10 1 (3.57%) Requirements Gathering
10 1 (3.57%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.00%) C#
1 7 (25.00%) Python
2 4 (14.29%) Go
2 4 (14.29%) Java
2 4 (14.29%) SQL
3 3 (10.71%) Bash
3 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
3 3 (10.71%) Ruby
4 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.14%) Scala
5 1 (3.57%) C++
5 1 (3.57%) Perl
5 1 (3.57%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 8 (28.57%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (75.00%) Terraform
2 16 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 4 (14.29%) Ansible
4 3 (10.71%) Istio
5 2 (7.14%) Progress Chef
5 2 (7.14%) Puppet
5 2 (7.14%) Salt
6 1 (3.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (3.57%) Grafana
6 1 (3.57%) Kibana
6 1 (3.57%) logstash
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.57%) Splunk
2 1 (3.57%) VMware