Platform Engineering Job Trends in Croydon

Platform Engineering
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - 27
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 3 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Croydon 1.28% - 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% - 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - -
75th Percentile £82,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median annual salary £80,000 £50,000 -
% change year-on-year +60.00% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 164 75 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Croydon 70.09% 87.21% 98.11%
Number of salaries quoted 146 14 49
10th Percentile £33,145 - £25,700
25th Percentile £45,000 £34,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £72,950 £86,000
South London median annual salary £55,000 £64,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.40% +16.82% -

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Croydon

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in Croydon

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Platform Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes