DevOps Platform Engineer Jobs in London

Platform Engineer - DevOps
England > London

The median Platform Engineer - DevOps salary in London is £140,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 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
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 494 613
Rank change year-on-year +117 +119 +220
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Platform Engineer 23 11 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.18% 0.047% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.050% 0.060%
Number of salaries quoted 13 10 18
10th Percentile £57,000 £52,000 £62,500
25th Percentile - £84,063 £70,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £140,000 £110,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile - £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £112,500 £92,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +21.62% +27.59% +3.57%

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 11,452 22,183 33,419
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.18% 94.12% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 7,427 16,676 24,569
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,084 £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%

DevOps Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Platform Engineer in London

DevOps Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for DevOps Platform Engineer in London

DevOps Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Platform Engineer in London over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps Platform Engineer in London

DevOps 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 DevOps Platform Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 5 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 +31 1 £55,000 -
DevOps Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, DevOps 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 DevOps Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) DevOps
1 23 (100.00%) Terraform
1 23 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 23 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 22 (95.65%) AWS
3 20 (86.96%) Kubernetes
4 19 (82.61%) Docker
4 19 (82.61%) Python
5 18 (78.26%) Ansible
5 18 (78.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (52.17%) Linux
7 11 (47.83%) Progress Chef
7 11 (47.83%) Puppet
7 11 (47.83%) Fintech
8 10 (43.48%) Public Cloud
8 10 (43.48%) GCP
8 10 (43.48%) Low Latency
8 10 (43.48%) Deployment Automation
8 10 (43.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 10 (43.48%) Bicep
8 10 (43.48%) Podman
8 10 (43.48%) Pulumi
9 8 (34.78%) Containerisation
9 8 (34.78%) GitLab
10 6 (26.09%) SonarQube
10 6 (26.09%) Machine Learning
10 6 (26.09%) REST
10 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
10 6 (26.09%) Event-Driven
10 6 (26.09%) Sonatype Nexus

DevOps 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:

Cloud Services
1 22 (95.65%) AWS
2 10 (43.48%) GCP
2 10 (43.48%) Pulumi
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (8.70%) Azure
3 2 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.35%) Datadog
4 1 (4.35%) IaaS
4 1 (4.35%) PaaS
4 1 (4.35%) Route 53
4 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
1 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) GitLab
2 6 (26.09%) SonarQube
2 6 (26.09%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.35%) Git
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Banking
2 1 (4.35%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) REST
2 1 (4.35%) AWS SAM
2 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.35%) JSON
2 1 (4.35%) Node.js
2 1 (4.35%) React
2 1 (4.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (43.48%) Public Cloud
2 5 (21.74%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (52.17%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 23 (100.00%) DevOps
1 23 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 18 (78.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (47.83%) Fintech
4 10 (43.48%) Deployment Automation
4 10 (43.48%) Low Latency
4 10 (43.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 8 (34.78%) Containerisation
6 6 (26.09%) Event-Driven
6 6 (26.09%) Machine Learning
7 3 (13.04%) Cost Management
8 2 (8.70%) Culture Change
8 2 (8.70%) Customer Experience
8 2 (8.70%) High Availability
9 1 (4.35%) Configuration Management
9 1 (4.35%) Continuous Improvement
9 1 (4.35%) Load Balancing
9 1 (4.35%) Performance Testing
9 1 (4.35%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (82.61%) Python
2 10 (43.48%) Bicep
3 4 (17.39%) Go
4 3 (13.04%) Bash
4 3 (13.04%) Java
5 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.35%) PHP
6 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 19 (82.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (100.00%) Terraform
2 20 (86.96%) Kubernetes
3 18 (78.26%) Ansible
4 11 (47.83%) Progress Chef
4 11 (47.83%) Puppet
5 10 (43.48%) Podman
6 1 (4.35%) Grafana
6 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (4.35%) IBM