Platform Engineer Jobs in London

Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Platform Engineer salary in London is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 319 429 624
Rank change year-on-year +110 +195 -210
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 163 130 311
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.79% 0.48% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 0.50% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 124 99 238
10th Percentile £61,625 £56,250 £58,750
25th Percentile £72,500 £57,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £83,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -3.61% +10.67%
75th Percentile £102,500 £97,500 £99,688
90th Percentile £122,500 £107,500 £105,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +20.00%

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 19,628 25,813 71,873
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 95.17% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 13,829 20,517 35,752
10th Percentile £38,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £117,500 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in London

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in London

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in London

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 Platform Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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 +37 26 £77,500 +29.17% 4
South London - 3 - -
West London - 3 - - 1
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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 London region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 158 (96.93%) Platform Engineering
2 102 (62.58%) Azure
2 102 (62.58%) Terraform
3 84 (51.53%) Kubernetes
4 67 (41.10%) DevOps
5 65 (39.88%) Python
6 64 (39.26%) Infrastructure as Code
7 58 (35.58%) CI/CD
8 54 (33.13%) PowerShell
8 54 (33.13%) Ansible
8 54 (33.13%) AWS
9 53 (32.52%) Docker
9 53 (32.52%) Finance
10 47 (28.83%) Linux
11 38 (23.31%) SQL
11 38 (23.31%) Bash
12 33 (20.25%) Containerisation
13 32 (19.63%) Agile
14 31 (19.02%) PaaS
14 31 (19.02%) GitHub
15 30 (18.40%) GCP
16 29 (17.79%) Microsoft
16 29 (17.79%) Social Skills
17 26 (15.95%) Google
18 24 (14.72%) Configuration Management
18 24 (14.72%) Jenkins
19 23 (14.11%) Cloud Security
20 22 (13.50%) Git
21 21 (12.88%) Azure SQL Database
21 21 (12.88%) Azure 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.45%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.84%) Apache
2 3 (1.84%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.61%) Appian
3 1 (0.61%) nginx
3 1 (0.61%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.61%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 102 (62.58%) Azure
2 54 (33.13%) AWS
3 31 (19.02%) GitHub
3 31 (19.02%) PaaS
4 30 (18.40%) GCP
5 21 (12.88%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (11.04%) Azure AKS
7 11 (6.75%) IaaS
7 11 (6.75%) Serverless
8 10 (6.13%) Entra ID
9 9 (5.52%) OpenShift
10 7 (4.29%) Power Platform
11 6 (3.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (3.68%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (3.07%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (2.45%) Datadog
13 4 (2.45%) OCI
13 4 (2.45%) Power Automate
13 4 (2.45%) PowerApps
14 3 (1.84%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.29%) DNS
2 6 (3.68%) Network Security
3 3 (1.84%) DHCP
3 3 (1.84%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.84%) tcpdump
3 3 (1.84%) Wireshark
4 2 (1.23%) Firewall
4 2 (1.23%) Internet
5 1 (0.61%) Broadband
5 1 (0.61%) IPv4
5 1 (0.61%) VLAN
5 1 (0.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.88%) Azure SQL Database
2 20 (12.27%) BigQuery
3 10 (6.13%) MongoDB
3 10 (6.13%) NoSQL
4 9 (5.52%) Looker
5 8 (4.91%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (4.29%) Power BI
7 6 (3.68%) MySQL
8 5 (3.07%) MariaDB
8 5 (3.07%) Redis
9 4 (2.45%) Big Data
9 4 (2.45%) InfluxDB
10 3 (1.84%) SQL Server
11 2 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.61%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.61%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (14.72%) Jenkins
2 22 (13.50%) Git
3 15 (9.20%) Octopus Deploy
4 9 (5.52%) JIRA
5 8 (4.91%) Artifactory
5 8 (4.91%) Snyk
5 8 (4.91%) TeamCity
6 4 (2.45%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.23%) DTrace
7 2 (1.23%) GDB
8 1 (0.61%) GitLab
8 1 (0.61%) GoCD
8 1 (0.61%) PVCS
General
1 53 (32.52%) Finance
2 29 (17.79%) Social Skills
3 16 (9.82%) Banking
3 16 (9.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (6.75%) Law
5 10 (6.13%) Retail
6 9 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (4.91%) Retail Banking
8 7 (4.29%) Games
9 4 (2.45%) Advertising
10 3 (1.84%) Legal
11 2 (1.23%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.61%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.61%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.98%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (7.36%) Kafka
3 7 (4.29%) Node.js
3 7 (4.29%) React
3 7 (4.29%) RESTful
4 6 (3.68%) JSON
5 5 (3.07%) SAML
6 4 (2.45%) REST
7 3 (1.84%) Keycloak
7 3 (1.84%) Loki
7 3 (1.84%) Middleware
7 3 (1.84%) PySpark
8 2 (1.23%) .NET
8 2 (1.23%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.61%) Anaconda
9 1 (0.61%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.27%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.75%) Data Centre
2 11 (6.75%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (6.13%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (5.52%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (4.91%) Blog
5 8 (4.91%) Clustering
5 8 (4.91%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (4.91%) Replication
6 5 (3.07%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.45%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.45%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.45%) Taxonomies
8 3 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.23%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.61%) Hackathon
10 1 (0.61%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.61%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 47 (28.83%) Linux
2 12 (7.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (4.91%) Oracle Linux
3 8 (4.91%) Solaris
4 4 (2.45%) Windows
4 4 (2.45%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.84%) CentOS
5 3 (1.84%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.84%) VMS
6 2 (1.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (96.93%) Platform Engineering
2 67 (41.10%) DevOps
3 64 (39.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 58 (35.58%) CI/CD
5 33 (20.25%) Containerisation
6 32 (19.63%) Agile
7 24 (14.72%) Configuration Management
8 23 (14.11%) Cloud Security
9 20 (12.27%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (11.66%) Disaster Recovery
11 17 (10.43%) Fintech
12 16 (9.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 15 (9.20%) Data Engineering
13 15 (9.20%) High Availability
14 14 (8.59%) Artificial Intelligence
14 14 (8.59%) OO
14 14 (8.59%) OOP
15 13 (7.98%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (7.98%) Data Pipeline
15 13 (7.98%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 65 (39.88%) Python
2 54 (33.13%) PowerShell
3 38 (23.31%) Bash
3 38 (23.31%) SQL
4 13 (7.98%) Go
5 12 (7.36%) Java
6 10 (6.13%) C#
7 8 (4.91%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.68%) Shell Script
9 5 (3.07%) Perl
10 4 (2.45%) Bicep
11 2 (1.23%) C
11 2 (1.23%) OCaml
11 2 (1.23%) Scala
11 2 (1.23%) SystemTap
12 1 (0.61%) Groovy
12 1 (0.61%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.61%) R
12 1 (0.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (4.29%) Degree
2 6 (3.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 6 (3.68%) CCSP
2 6 (3.68%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (3.68%) CISSP
3 4 (2.45%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (1.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (1.84%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.84%) Linux+ Certification
4 3 (1.84%) RHCE
4 3 (1.84%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.23%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.61%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.52%) GDPR
2 8 (4.91%) PCI DSS
3 6 (3.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.68%) NIST
3 6 (3.68%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.23%) QA
System Software
1 53 (32.52%) Docker
2 11 (6.75%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (3.07%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.84%) KVM
Systems Management
1 102 (62.58%) Terraform
2 84 (51.53%) Kubernetes
3 54 (33.13%) Ansible
4 15 (9.20%) Grafana
4 15 (9.20%) Prometheus
4 15 (9.20%) Puppet
5 13 (7.98%) Istio
6 12 (7.36%) Progress Chef
7 8 (4.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.84%) Packer
9 2 (1.23%) Argo
9 2 (1.23%) Salt
10 1 (0.61%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.61%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 29 (17.79%) Microsoft
2 26 (15.95%) Google
3 13 (7.98%) Splunk
4 12 (7.36%) Red Hat
5 8 (4.91%) Oracle
5 8 (4.91%) Serena
5 8 (4.91%) VMware
6 3 (1.84%) Citrix
6 3 (1.84%) Databricks
6 3 (1.84%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.23%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.61%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.61%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.61%) Cisco
8 1 (0.61%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.61%) New Relic
8 1 (0.61%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.61%) Pega
8 1 (0.61%) UiPath
8 1 (0.61%) YouTube