Azure Platform Engineer Jobs in London

Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure
England > London

The median Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure salary in London is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 386 473 613
Rank change year-on-year +87 +140 +248
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Platform Engineer 17 28 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.12% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.13% 0.042%
Number of salaries quoted 17 18 8
10th Percentile £67,500 £63,875 £47,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £88,125 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £98,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% +31.67% -11.76%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £87,500
90th Percentile - £111,500 £94,250
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +14.29% -9.68%

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 11,677 22,261 33,396
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.14% 94.13% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 7,473 16,753 24,565
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,150 £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 £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Azure Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Platform Engineer in London

Azure Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Azure Platform Engineer in London

Azure Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Platform Engineer in London over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Platform Engineer in London

Azure 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 Azure Platform Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 7 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 +44 8 £90,000 - 1
Azure Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2025, Azure 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 Azure Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Azure
1 17 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 13 (76.47%) DevOps
3 10 (58.82%) VMware
3 10 (58.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (58.82%) Terraform
4 9 (52.94%) Kubernetes
4 9 (52.94%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
4 9 (52.94%) Citrix
5 8 (47.06%) Linux
5 8 (47.06%) GitHub
5 8 (47.06%) PaaS
5 8 (47.06%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (41.18%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (41.18%) Regulatory Compliance
6 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (35.29%) Docker
7 6 (35.29%) Python
8 5 (29.41%) Red Hat
8 5 (29.41%) VPN
8 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
8 5 (29.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (29.41%) Analytics
8 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (29.41%) Network Virtualisation
8 5 (29.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (23.53%) Data Development
9 4 (23.53%) Databricks

Azure 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 4 (23.53%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (52.94%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (47.06%) GitHub
3 8 (47.06%) GitHub Actions
3 8 (47.06%) PaaS
4 5 (29.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (11.76%) AWS
5 2 (11.76%) Azure AKS
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (11.76%) GCP
5 2 (11.76%) Pulumi
6 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (5.88%) Datadog
6 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.88%) IaaS
6 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
6 1 (5.88%) SaaS
6 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) VPN
2 3 (17.65%) DHCP
2 3 (17.65%) DNS
3 1 (5.88%) Firewall
3 1 (5.88%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) CircleCI
2 1 (5.88%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (5.88%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (5.88%) Vagrant
General
1 1 (5.88%) Finance
1 1 (5.88%) Front Office
1 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.88%) Node.js
2 1 (5.88%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Clustering
2 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (47.06%) Linux
2 5 (29.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (17.65%) Windows
3 3 (17.65%) Windows Server
3 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (5.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 13 (76.47%) DevOps
3 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
4 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (41.18%) Regulatory Compliance
5 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (29.41%) Analytics
6 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (29.41%) Network Virtualisation
7 4 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (23.53%) Data Analytics
7 4 (23.53%) Data Architecture
7 4 (23.53%) Data Development
7 4 (23.53%) Data Security
7 4 (23.53%) Generative AI
7 4 (23.53%) Machine Learning
7 4 (23.53%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
8 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
3 4 (23.53%) SQL
4 3 (17.65%) C#
5 2 (11.76%) Bash
5 2 (11.76%) Go
5 2 (11.76%) Java
5 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
6 1 (5.88%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
1 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (58.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (41.18%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (35.29%) Docker
4 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
5 3 (17.65%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (58.82%) Terraform
2 9 (52.94%) Kubernetes
3 4 (23.53%) Ansible
4 2 (11.76%) Progress Chef
4 2 (11.76%) Puppet
5 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (5.88%) Consul
5 1 (5.88%) Packer
5 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.88%) Salt
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) VMware
2 9 (52.94%) Citrix
3 5 (29.41%) Red Hat
4 4 (23.53%) Databricks
5 1 (5.88%) Google
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto