Platform Engineer Job Trends in London

Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Platform Engineer salary in London is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 278 297 368
Rank change year-on-year +19 +71 +58
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 101 155 87
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.77% 0.89% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 0.94% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 73 114 74
10th Percentile £52,000 £56,775 £56,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £66,250 £64,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £87,500 £75,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +15.89% -11.18%
75th Percentile £85,000 £102,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £119,500 £116,750 £100,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -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 11,942 16,474 17,704
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.75% 94.56% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 7,747 10,025 14,453
10th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,560 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.45% -4.07% -

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Platform Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Platform Engineer job vacancies in London

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in London over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 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 +5 6 £70,500 +4.44% 8
South London - 1 £50,000 -
Platform Engineer
England

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 29 November 2025, Platform Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 90 (89.11%) Platform Engineering
2 61 (60.40%) CI/CD
3 56 (55.45%) Kubernetes
4 51 (50.50%) Ansible
4 51 (50.50%) Linux
5 50 (49.50%) DevOps
5 50 (49.50%) Python
6 49 (48.51%) Azure
7 47 (46.53%) Terraform
8 43 (42.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 33 (32.67%) Bash
10 32 (31.68%) Docker
10 32 (31.68%) PowerShell
11 31 (30.69%) AWS
12 28 (27.72%) VMware
13 23 (22.77%) Agile
13 23 (22.77%) Infrastructure Automation
14 22 (21.78%) Jenkins
15 21 (20.79%) GitLab
15 21 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
16 20 (19.80%) Windows
17 19 (18.81%) Containerisation
17 19 (18.81%) GitHub
17 19 (18.81%) Red Hat
18 18 (17.82%) Continuous Integration
18 18 (17.82%) GCP
18 18 (17.82%) GitHub Actions
18 18 (17.82%) Security Hardening
18 18 (17.82%) VMware Infrastructure
19 17 (16.83%) Root Cause Analysis

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.95%) Confluence
1 5 (4.95%) IIS
1 5 (4.95%) Tomcat
2 3 (2.97%) Apache Pulsar
2 3 (2.97%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.97%) Mule
2 3 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.98%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 49 (48.51%) Azure
2 31 (30.69%) AWS
3 19 (18.81%) GitHub
4 18 (17.82%) GCP
4 18 (17.82%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (10.89%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (10.89%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (10.89%) OpenShift
6 9 (8.91%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (7.92%) Datadog
8 7 (6.93%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (5.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (5.94%) Azure AKS
9 6 (5.94%) PaaS
10 5 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (3.96%) Serverless
12 3 (2.97%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (2.97%) Azure Pipelines
12 3 (2.97%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.90%) DNS
2 9 (8.91%) Firewall
3 6 (5.94%) TCP/IP
3 6 (5.94%) VPN
4 5 (4.95%) WAN
5 4 (3.96%) DHCP
5 4 (3.96%) Network Security
6 2 (1.98%) BGP
6 2 (1.98%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (1.98%) MQTT
6 2 (1.98%) OSPF
6 2 (1.98%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.98%) RTMP
6 2 (1.98%) VLAN
6 2 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.98%) Wireless
7 1 (0.99%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.92%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.95%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.96%) Oracle Database
3 4 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.97%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (2.97%) BigQuery
4 3 (2.97%) Flink
4 3 (2.97%) Power BI
5 2 (1.98%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.98%) Metadata
5 2 (1.98%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.98%) MySQL
5 2 (1.98%) Redis
6 1 (0.99%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 22 (21.78%) Jenkins
2 21 (20.79%) GitLab
3 10 (9.90%) Git
4 5 (4.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (4.95%) Bitbucket
4 5 (4.95%) JIRA
5 2 (1.98%) Jaeger
5 2 (1.98%) MLflow
5 2 (1.98%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.98%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 34 (33.66%) Finance
2 16 (15.84%) Law
2 16 (15.84%) Social Skills
3 13 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.89%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.95%) Banking
6 5 (4.95%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.96%) Games
8 3 (2.97%) Legal
8 3 (2.97%) Marketing
9 2 (1.98%) Advertising
9 2 (1.98%) Agriculture
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.87%) Kafka
2 9 (8.91%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (5.94%) GraphQL
3 6 (5.94%) REST
3 6 (5.94%) YAML
4 4 (3.96%) Middleware
4 4 (3.96%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (2.97%) .NET
5 3 (2.97%) ADO
5 3 (2.97%) AWS CDK
5 3 (2.97%) OAuth
5 3 (2.97%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (2.97%) SAML
6 2 (1.98%) Django
6 2 (1.98%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.98%) Keycloak
6 2 (1.98%) WebRTC
7 1 (0.99%) LDAP
7 1 (0.99%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.87%) Private Cloud
2 10 (9.90%) Cloud Native
3 8 (7.92%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.94%) CMDB
4 6 (5.94%) Public Cloud
5 5 (4.95%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.96%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.97%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.98%) IoT
8 2 (1.98%) MPEG
8 2 (1.98%) Robotics
9 1 (0.99%) Clustering
9 1 (0.99%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.99%) Life Science
9 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.99%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 51 (50.50%) Linux
2 20 (19.80%) Windows
3 14 (13.86%) Windows Server
4 8 (7.92%) Unix
4 8 (7.92%) Windows Server 2016
4 8 (7.92%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (4.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (4.95%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (2.97%) SUSE
6 3 (2.97%) VMS
6 3 (2.97%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.99%) Debian
7 1 (0.99%) Solaris
7 1 (0.99%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (89.11%) Platform Engineering
2 61 (60.40%) CI/CD
3 50 (49.50%) DevOps
4 43 (42.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (22.77%) Agile
5 23 (22.77%) Infrastructure Automation
6 21 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (18.81%) Containerisation
8 18 (17.82%) Continuous Integration
8 18 (17.82%) Security Hardening
9 17 (16.83%) Root Cause Analysis
10 15 (14.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (14.85%) Observability
11 14 (13.86%) Data Security
11 14 (13.86%) Task Automation
12 13 (12.87%) Analytics
13 12 (11.88%) Computer Science
13 12 (11.88%) Configuration Management
14 11 (10.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 11 (10.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 50 (49.50%) Python
2 33 (32.67%) Bash
3 32 (31.68%) PowerShell
4 13 (12.87%) Perl
5 11 (10.89%) SQL
6 10 (9.90%) Go
7 9 (8.91%) JavaScript
8 7 (6.93%) Java
9 4 (3.96%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.97%) Bicep
10 3 (2.97%) C#
10 3 (2.97%) Kotlin
10 3 (2.97%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.99%) Bourne shell
11 1 (0.99%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 12 (11.88%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.93%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (6.93%) Degree
2 7 (6.93%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.95%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.96%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.98%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.99%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.99%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.85%) GDPR
2 11 (10.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (4.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.96%) QA
5 3 (2.97%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.99%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.99%) NIST
6 1 (0.99%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.99%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (31.68%) Docker
2 18 (17.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (13.86%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.96%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.96%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.97%) vSphere
6 2 (1.98%) NFS
Systems Management
1 56 (55.45%) Kubernetes
2 51 (50.50%) Ansible
3 47 (46.53%) Terraform
4 15 (14.85%) Grafana
4 15 (14.85%) Prometheus
5 11 (10.89%) Red Hat Satellite
6 7 (6.93%) Rancher
7 5 (4.95%) Argo
8 4 (3.96%) Progress Chef
8 4 (3.96%) Puppet
8 4 (3.96%) vRealize
9 2 (1.98%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.99%) Oracle ZFS
10 1 (0.99%) VxRail
Vendors
1 28 (27.72%) VMware
2 19 (18.81%) Red Hat
3 13 (12.87%) Microsoft
3 13 (12.87%) ServiceNow
4 10 (9.90%) Cisco
5 8 (7.92%) Oracle
6 7 (6.93%) Splunk
6 7 (6.93%) Zscaler
7 5 (4.95%) Atlassian
7 5 (4.95%) Google
8 4 (3.96%) Foundry
8 4 (3.96%) Okta
8 4 (3.96%) Palantir
9 3 (2.97%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.98%) MikroTik
10 2 (1.98%) NETGEAR
10 2 (1.98%) Sonatype
10 2 (1.98%) Starlink
10 2 (1.98%) Ubiquiti
11 1 (0.99%) Databricks