AWS Platform Engineer Jobs in London

Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services
England > London

The median Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in London is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 475 603
Rank change year-on-year +88 +128 +256
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Platform Engineer 6 24 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.047% 0.10% 0.056%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.11% 0.059%
Number of salaries quoted 4 24 19
10th Percentile £74,750 - £59,500
25th Percentile £78,125 £72,500 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £99,063 £101,875 £97,500
90th Percentile £101,875 £115,000 £99,500
England median annual salary £82,500 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.45% +6.90% +11.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 11,624 22,265 32,087
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.18% 94.22% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 7,221 16,628 23,661
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

AWS Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Platform Engineer in London

AWS Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Platform Engineer in London.

Salary trend for AWS Platform Engineer in London

AWS Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Platform Engineer in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Platform Engineer in London

AWS Platform Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Platform Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Central London +28 2 £86,250 -9.21% 7
AWS Platform Engineer
England

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, AWS 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 London region featuring AWS Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Python
3 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Ansible
3 4 (66.67%) Docker
3 4 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
5 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (33.33%) Bash
5 2 (33.33%) Agile
5 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
5 2 (33.33%) Go
5 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
5 2 (33.33%) GitLab
5 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (33.33%) Fintech
5 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (33.33%) Observability
5 2 (33.33%) Pulumi
6 1 (16.67%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (16.67%) AWS KMS
6 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
6 1 (16.67%) Technology Transformation

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (16.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (33.33%) Pulumi
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (16.67%) AWS KMS
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (16.67%) Route 53
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
2 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
1 1 (16.67%) AWS SAM
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
1 1 (16.67%) VMS
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) DevOps
4 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
5 2 (33.33%) Agile
5 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (33.33%) Fintech
5 2 (33.33%) Observability
5 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
6 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
6 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 1 (16.67%) Service-Level Objective
6 1 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
6 1 (16.67%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) Go
3 1 (16.67%) Groovy
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) PHP
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Ruby
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (66.67%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Consul
3 1 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (16.67%) Packer
3 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
1 1 (16.67%) IBM