Platform Engineer Job Trends in London

Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Platform Engineer salary in London is £74,401 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 November 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 290 382
Rank change year-on-year +6 +92 +73
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 97 152 83
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.76% 0.87% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 0.92% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 70 109 69
10th Percentile £55,000 £57,650 £56,250
25th Percentile £66,563 £66,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,401 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.33% +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £85,000 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £117,750 £101,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year -3.33% +13.21% -14.52%

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 11,650 16,489 18,329
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.89% 94.85% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 7,483 10,094 14,956
10th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,613 £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 £120,000 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £53,455 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.04% -4.17% -

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 16 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 16 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 +19 9 £65,000 -3.70% 45
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 16 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 88 (90.72%) Platform Engineering
2 58 (59.79%) CI/CD
3 53 (54.64%) Kubernetes
4 49 (50.52%) Python
5 47 (48.45%) Ansible
5 47 (48.45%) DevOps
5 47 (48.45%) Linux
6 46 (47.42%) Azure
7 44 (45.36%) Terraform
8 38 (39.18%) Infrastructure as Code
9 32 (32.99%) PowerShell
10 29 (29.90%) Bash
11 28 (28.87%) AWS
12 27 (27.84%) Docker
12 27 (27.84%) VMware
13 24 (24.74%) Problem-Solving
14 20 (20.62%) Agile
14 20 (20.62%) Infrastructure Automation
15 18 (18.56%) GitLab
15 18 (18.56%) Jenkins
15 18 (18.56%) Windows
16 17 (17.53%) GCP
16 17 (17.53%) VMware Infrastructure
17 16 (16.49%) Continuous Integration
17 16 (16.49%) Data Security
17 16 (16.49%) Red Hat
17 16 (16.49%) Root Cause Analysis
17 16 (16.49%) Security Hardening
18 15 (15.46%) Containerisation
18 15 (15.46%) GitHub

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 4 (4.12%) Apache Pulsar
1 4 (4.12%) Apache Spark
1 4 (4.12%) Confluence
1 4 (4.12%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.09%) IIS
2 3 (3.09%) Mule
2 3 (3.09%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.06%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 46 (47.42%) Azure
2 28 (28.87%) AWS
3 17 (17.53%) GCP
4 15 (15.46%) GitHub
5 14 (14.43%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (11.34%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (10.31%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (9.28%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (8.25%) OpenShift
10 7 (7.22%) PaaS
11 6 (6.19%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (5.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (5.15%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (5.15%) Datadog
12 5 (5.15%) Power Automate
12 5 (5.15%) Power Platform
12 5 (5.15%) PowerApps
13 4 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.31%) DNS
2 6 (6.19%) Firewall
2 6 (6.19%) TCP/IP
3 5 (5.15%) DHCP
4 4 (4.12%) VPN
5 3 (3.09%) WAN
6 2 (2.06%) BGP
6 2 (2.06%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (2.06%) MQTT
6 2 (2.06%) Network Security
6 2 (2.06%) OSPF
6 2 (2.06%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (2.06%) RTMP
6 2 (2.06%) VLAN
6 2 (2.06%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (2.06%) Wireless
7 1 (1.03%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.22%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.15%) Power BI
3 4 (4.12%) BigQuery
3 4 (4.12%) Flink
3 4 (4.12%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.09%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.06%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.06%) Metadata
5 2 (2.06%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.06%) MySQL
5 2 (2.06%) Redis
6 1 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.03%) ClickHouse
6 1 (1.03%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 18 (18.56%) GitLab
1 18 (18.56%) Jenkins
2 11 (11.34%) Git
3 4 (4.12%) JIRA
4 3 (3.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (3.09%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.06%) Jaeger
5 2 (2.06%) MLflow
5 2 (2.06%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.06%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (32.99%) Finance
2 20 (20.62%) Law
3 17 (17.53%) Social Skills
4 13 (13.40%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (13.40%) Public Sector
5 10 (10.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (6.19%) Banking
7 4 (4.12%) Games
7 4 (4.12%) Legal
7 4 (4.12%) Marketing
7 4 (4.12%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.06%) Advertising
8 2 (2.06%) Agriculture
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.37%) Kafka
2 8 (8.25%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (6.19%) GraphQL
3 6 (6.19%) REST
4 4 (4.12%) .NET
4 4 (4.12%) AWS CDK
4 4 (4.12%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (4.12%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (4.12%) YAML
5 3 (3.09%) Middleware
5 3 (3.09%) SAML
6 2 (2.06%) Django
6 2 (2.06%) FastAPI
6 2 (2.06%) Keycloak
6 2 (2.06%) WebRTC
7 1 (1.03%) ADO
7 1 (1.03%) LDAP
7 1 (1.03%) OAuth
7 1 (1.03%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.46%) Private Cloud
2 8 (8.25%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.25%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.19%) CMDB
3 6 (6.19%) Public Cloud
4 5 (5.15%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (4.12%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.12%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.12%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.12%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.09%) Clustering
7 2 (2.06%) IoT
7 2 (2.06%) MPEG
7 2 (2.06%) Robotics
8 1 (1.03%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.03%) Life Science
8 1 (1.03%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 47 (48.45%) Linux
2 18 (18.56%) Windows
3 13 (13.40%) Windows Server
4 8 (8.25%) Unix
5 7 (7.22%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (5.15%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (3.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (3.09%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.06%) Windows 10
9 1 (1.03%) Debian
9 1 (1.03%) Solaris
9 1 (1.03%) SUSE
9 1 (1.03%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.03%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (90.72%) Platform Engineering
2 58 (59.79%) CI/CD
3 47 (48.45%) DevOps
4 38 (39.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (24.74%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (20.62%) Agile
6 20 (20.62%) Infrastructure Automation
7 16 (16.49%) Continuous Integration
7 16 (16.49%) Data Security
7 16 (16.49%) Root Cause Analysis
7 16 (16.49%) Security Hardening
8 15 (15.46%) Containerisation
9 13 (13.40%) Task Automation
10 12 (12.37%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (12.37%) Observability
10 12 (12.37%) Software Engineering
11 11 (11.34%) Analytics
11 11 (11.34%) Computer Science
11 11 (11.34%) Open Source
11 11 (11.34%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 49 (50.52%) Python
2 32 (32.99%) PowerShell
3 29 (29.90%) Bash
4 12 (12.37%) Go
4 12 (12.37%) Perl
5 10 (10.31%) JavaScript
6 8 (8.25%) Java
7 7 (7.22%) SQL
8 5 (5.15%) Shell Script
9 4 (4.12%) C#
9 4 (4.12%) Kotlin
10 3 (3.09%) Bicep
11 1 (1.03%) Bourne shell
11 1 (1.03%) C++
11 1 (1.03%) C-shell
11 1 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 13 (13.40%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.22%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.19%) Degree
4 5 (5.15%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (4.12%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.06%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.03%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.40%) GDPR
2 11 (11.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (4.12%) QA
4 3 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.03%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.03%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.03%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.03%) NIST
5 1 (1.03%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.03%) SLA
5 1 (1.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (27.84%) Docker
2 17 (17.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (11.34%) Active Directory
4 6 (6.19%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.06%) NFS
5 2 (2.06%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.06%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 53 (54.64%) Kubernetes
2 47 (48.45%) Ansible
3 44 (45.36%) Terraform
4 13 (13.40%) Grafana
4 13 (13.40%) Prometheus
5 11 (11.34%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (5.15%) Rancher
7 4 (4.12%) vRealize
8 3 (3.09%) Argo
8 3 (3.09%) Progress Chef
8 3 (3.09%) Puppet
9 2 (2.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (2.06%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (1.03%) Oracle ZFS
10 1 (1.03%) VxRail
Vendors
1 27 (27.84%) VMware
2 16 (16.49%) Red Hat
3 15 (15.46%) ServiceNow
4 14 (14.43%) Microsoft
5 12 (12.37%) Cisco
6 6 (6.19%) Google
6 6 (6.19%) Oracle
6 6 (6.19%) Zscaler
7 5 (5.15%) Okta
7 5 (5.15%) Splunk
8 4 (4.12%) Atlassian
8 4 (4.12%) Foundry
8 4 (4.12%) Palantir
9 2 (2.06%) MikroTik
9 2 (2.06%) NETGEAR
9 2 (2.06%) Sonatype
9 2 (2.06%) Starlink
9 2 (2.06%) Ubiquiti
10 1 (1.03%) Databricks
10 1 (1.03%) VocaLink