Platform Engineer Job Trends in London

Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Platform Engineer salary in London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 January 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 321 328
Rank change year-on-year +64 +7 +78
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 131 118 123
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.90% 0.76% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 0.82% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 104 85 112
10th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £63,875
25th Percentile £68,797 £70,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +14.29% -10.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £96,063
90th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 13,364 14,309 18,996
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.31% 92.06% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 8,828 8,223 15,327
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -2.03%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,173
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.75% -11.72%

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 24 January 2026.

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 24 January 2026. 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 +35 26 £80,000 +20.75% 14
South London - 1 £50,000 - 2
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 January 2026, 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.

1 111 (84.73%) Platform Engineering
2 66 (50.38%) Azure
2 66 (50.38%) CI/CD
3 58 (44.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 58 (44.27%) Terraform
4 57 (43.51%) DevOps
5 56 (42.75%) Kubernetes
6 54 (41.22%) Linux
7 49 (37.40%) Ansible
7 49 (37.40%) Python
8 37 (28.24%) AWS
9 32 (24.43%) PowerShell
10 29 (22.14%) VMware
11 28 (21.37%) Analytics
11 28 (21.37%) Bash
12 27 (20.61%) Infrastructure Automation
13 26 (19.85%) Docker
14 24 (18.32%) GitHub
15 23 (17.56%) Azure DevOps
15 23 (17.56%) Jenkins
16 22 (16.79%) Root Cause Analysis
17 21 (16.03%) Containerisation
17 21 (16.03%) Firewall
17 21 (16.03%) Observability
18 20 (15.27%) Grafana
18 20 (15.27%) Prometheus
18 20 (15.27%) Windows
19 19 (14.50%) GitLab
19 19 (14.50%) High Availability
20 18 (13.74%) Active Directory

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 (3.82%) IIS
1 5 (3.82%) SharePoint
1 5 (3.82%) Tomcat
2 4 (3.05%) Confluence
2 4 (3.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.29%) Mule
4 2 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.53%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (3.05%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 66 (50.38%) Azure
2 37 (28.24%) AWS
3 24 (18.32%) GitHub
4 23 (17.56%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (12.98%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (10.69%) Azure Monitor
7 13 (9.92%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (9.16%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (9.16%) GCP
9 11 (8.40%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (8.40%) OpenShift
10 9 (6.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (6.87%) Datadog
11 8 (6.11%) Azure Storage
11 8 (6.11%) Entra ID
12 7 (5.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (4.58%) Azure AKS
13 6 (4.58%) PaaS
14 5 (3.82%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (3.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (16.03%) Firewall
2 18 (13.74%) VPN
3 10 (7.63%) DNS
4 6 (4.58%) WAN
5 5 (3.82%) Network Security
5 5 (3.82%) TCP/IP
6 4 (3.05%) DHCP
7 2 (1.53%) BGP
7 2 (1.53%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (1.53%) MQTT
7 2 (1.53%) OSPF
7 2 (1.53%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (1.53%) RTMP
7 2 (1.53%) VLAN
7 2 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.69%) Data Lake
2 11 (8.40%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (5.34%) Delta Lake
4 5 (3.82%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.82%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.82%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.05%) Oracle Database
5 4 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.05%) Power BI
6 2 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.53%) Metadata
6 2 (1.53%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.53%) MySQL
6 2 (1.53%) Redis
7 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 23 (17.56%) Jenkins
2 19 (14.50%) GitLab
3 13 (9.92%) Git
4 5 (3.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (3.82%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.05%) JIRA
6 2 (1.53%) Jaeger
6 2 (1.53%) MLflow
6 2 (1.53%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 43 (32.82%) Finance
2 18 (13.74%) Social Skills
3 14 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.11%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.34%) Law
6 5 (3.82%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.05%) Banking
7 4 (3.05%) Games
8 2 (1.53%) Advertising
8 2 (1.53%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.63%) Kafka
2 9 (6.87%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (5.34%) PySpark
4 6 (4.58%) GraphQL
4 6 (4.58%) REST
4 6 (4.58%) YAML
5 4 (3.05%) ADO
5 4 (3.05%) AWS CDK
5 4 (3.05%) Middleware
5 4 (3.05%) OAuth
5 4 (3.05%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (3.05%) SAML
6 2 (1.53%) Django
6 2 (1.53%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.53%) Keycloak
6 2 (1.53%) Loki
6 2 (1.53%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.69%) Private Cloud
2 9 (6.87%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.58%) CMDB
3 6 (4.58%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.58%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.82%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.05%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.53%) Equities
6 2 (1.53%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.53%) IoT
6 2 (1.53%) MPEG
6 2 (1.53%) Robotics
7 1 (0.76%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.76%) Life Science
7 1 (0.76%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 54 (41.22%) Linux
2 20 (15.27%) Windows
3 15 (11.45%) Windows Server
4 10 (7.63%) Unix
5 8 (6.11%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (6.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (3.82%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (3.05%) VMS
8 3 (2.29%) SUSE
8 3 (2.29%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.76%) Debian
9 1 (0.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (84.73%) Platform Engineering
2 66 (50.38%) CI/CD
3 58 (44.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (43.51%) DevOps
5 28 (21.37%) Analytics
6 27 (20.61%) Infrastructure Automation
7 22 (16.79%) Root Cause Analysis
8 21 (16.03%) Containerisation
8 21 (16.03%) Observability
9 19 (14.50%) High Availability
10 18 (13.74%) Agile
11 17 (12.98%) Configuration Management
12 16 (12.21%) Continuous Integration
12 16 (12.21%) Incident Response
12 16 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (11.45%) Security Hardening
14 14 (10.69%) Log Analytics
15 13 (9.92%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (9.92%) Disaster Recovery
16 12 (9.16%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 49 (37.40%) Python
2 32 (24.43%) PowerShell
3 28 (21.37%) Bash
4 18 (13.74%) SQL
5 8 (6.11%) Perl
6 7 (5.34%) Go
6 7 (5.34%) Scala
7 6 (4.58%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.05%) Java
8 4 (3.05%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.53%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 13 (9.92%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.87%) Degree
3 7 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.34%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.82%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.29%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.53%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.76%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.16%) Data Quality
1 12 (9.16%) GDPR
2 7 (5.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (4.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.05%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.76%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.76%) NIST
5 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 26 (19.85%) Docker
2 18 (13.74%) Active Directory
3 17 (12.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.05%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (3.05%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.29%) vSphere
6 2 (1.53%) NFS
Systems Management
1 58 (44.27%) Terraform
2 56 (42.75%) Kubernetes
3 49 (37.40%) Ansible
4 20 (15.27%) Grafana
4 20 (15.27%) Prometheus
5 8 (6.11%) Progress Chef
5 8 (6.11%) Puppet
6 7 (5.34%) Rancher
6 7 (5.34%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (3.82%) Argo
8 4 (3.05%) vRealize
8 4 (3.05%) ZABBIX
9 2 (1.53%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 29 (22.14%) VMware
2 14 (10.69%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.69%) Red Hat
3 11 (8.40%) ServiceNow
4 8 (6.11%) Cisco
4 8 (6.11%) Oracle
5 7 (5.34%) Databricks
6 6 (4.58%) Splunk
7 5 (3.82%) Zscaler
8 4 (3.05%) Atlassian
8 4 (3.05%) Cribl.io
8 4 (3.05%) Foundry
8 4 (3.05%) Palantir
8 4 (3.05%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.53%) Google
9 2 (1.53%) MikroTik
9 2 (1.53%) NETGEAR
9 2 (1.53%) Sonatype
9 2 (1.53%) Starlink
9 2 (1.53%) Ubiquiti