Platform Engineer Job Trends 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 11 May 2026.

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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 275 337
Rank change year-on-year +29 +62 +84
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 173 122 173
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.85% 0.96% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 1.07% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 128 84 147
10th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £78,500 £70,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +3.13%
75th Percentile £101,250 £110,000 £108,125
90th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.23% +3.33% +7.14%

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 18,669 11,416 22,028
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.05% 90.28% 94.12%
Number of salaries quoted 12,764 7,440 16,672
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% +9.26% -11.18%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 +13 48 £100,000 +11.11% 17
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 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.

1 147 (84.97%) Platform Engineering
2 93 (53.76%) Azure
3 86 (49.71%) Terraform
4 85 (49.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 81 (46.82%) CI/CD
6 71 (41.04%) Python
7 60 (34.68%) DevOps
7 60 (34.68%) Kubernetes
8 49 (28.32%) AWS
9 41 (23.70%) Ansible
10 40 (23.12%) Linux
11 38 (21.97%) GitHub
12 37 (21.39%) PowerShell
13 36 (20.81%) Microsoft
14 34 (19.65%) Azure DevOps
15 33 (19.08%) Observability
16 30 (17.34%) Infrastructure Automation
17 27 (15.61%) Firewall
18 26 (15.03%) Continuous Improvement
19 24 (13.87%) Analytics
19 24 (13.87%) GitHub Actions
20 23 (13.29%) Active Directory
20 23 (13.29%) Disaster Recovery
20 23 (13.29%) High Availability
20 23 (13.29%) Incident Response
20 23 (13.29%) VMware
21 22 (12.72%) VPN
22 21 (12.14%) Bash
22 21 (12.14%) Mentoring
22 21 (12.14%) SQL

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 (2.89%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.73%) Confluence
3 3 (1.73%) IIS
3 3 (1.73%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.58%) Apache
5 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (2.31%) Weka
2 2 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 93 (53.76%) Azure
2 49 (28.32%) AWS
3 38 (21.97%) GitHub
4 34 (19.65%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (13.87%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (9.83%) Serverless
7 16 (9.25%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (9.25%) Azure AKS
8 15 (8.67%) Amazon S3
9 13 (7.51%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (6.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (6.94%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (5.78%) Entra ID
12 9 (5.20%) Amazon ECR
13 8 (4.62%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (4.62%) Azure Storage
13 8 (4.62%) Datadog
13 8 (4.62%) GCP
14 7 (4.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (15.61%) Firewall
2 22 (12.72%) VPN
3 10 (5.78%) DNS
4 6 (3.47%) WAN
5 5 (2.89%) Network Security
6 2 (1.16%) DHCP
6 2 (1.16%) LAN
6 2 (1.16%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.16%) WLAN
7 1 (0.58%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.09%) Data Lake
2 11 (6.36%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (4.05%) Delta Lake
4 5 (2.89%) Power BI
5 3 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.73%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.58%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.58%) Redis
7 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.58%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.58%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 17 (9.83%) Git
2 10 (5.78%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.20%) GitLab
4 8 (4.62%) Visual Studio Code
5 5 (2.89%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.73%) JIRA
8 2 (1.16%) CircleCI
General
1 43 (24.86%) Finance
2 23 (13.29%) Social Skills
3 9 (5.20%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (2.89%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.31%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.16%) Banking
7 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.16%) Retail
8 1 (0.58%) Advertising
8 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.58%) Games
8 1 (0.58%) Law
8 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.62%) PySpark
2 5 (2.89%) OAuth
2 5 (2.89%) YAML
3 4 (2.31%) ADO
3 4 (2.31%) Kafka
3 4 (2.31%) SAML
4 3 (1.73%) Node.js
5 2 (1.16%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.16%) Loki
5 2 (1.16%) Middleware
6 1 (0.58%) .NET
6 1 (0.58%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.58%) Celery
6 1 (0.58%) CrewAI
6 1 (0.58%) Django
6 1 (0.58%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.58%) JWT
6 1 (0.58%) LangChain
6 1 (0.58%) Ray
6 1 (0.58%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.67%) Private Cloud
2 13 (7.51%) Cloud Native
3 11 (6.36%) Public Cloud
4 6 (3.47%) CMDB
4 6 (3.47%) Hedge funds
5 5 (2.89%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.16%) Equities
7 2 (1.16%) Replication
8 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.58%) Life Science
8 1 (0.58%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.58%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.58%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.58%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.58%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 40 (23.12%) Linux
2 16 (9.25%) Windows
3 15 (8.67%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.89%) Unix
4 5 (2.89%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (2.89%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (2.31%) VMS
6 3 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.73%) SUSE
6 3 (1.73%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.16%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.16%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (84.97%) Platform Engineering
2 85 (49.13%) Infrastructure as Code
3 81 (46.82%) CI/CD
4 60 (34.68%) DevOps
5 33 (19.08%) Observability
6 30 (17.34%) Infrastructure Automation
7 26 (15.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (13.87%) Analytics
9 23 (13.29%) Disaster Recovery
9 23 (13.29%) High Availability
9 23 (13.29%) Incident Response
10 21 (12.14%) Mentoring
11 20 (11.56%) AI
11 20 (11.56%) Fintech
12 19 (10.98%) Containerisation
13 18 (10.40%) Cloud Security
14 17 (9.83%) Data Engineering
14 17 (9.83%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (9.25%) Agile
15 16 (9.25%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 71 (41.04%) Python
2 37 (21.39%) PowerShell
3 21 (12.14%) Bash
3 21 (12.14%) SQL
4 7 (4.05%) Scala
5 6 (3.47%) Go
6 4 (2.31%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (1.73%) Bicep
7 3 (1.73%) Java
8 1 (0.58%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (9.25%) Azure Certification
2 11 (6.36%) Degree
2 11 (6.36%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.47%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.73%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.58%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.67%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.89%) GDPR
3 4 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.31%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.58%) QA
System Software
1 23 (13.29%) Active Directory
2 20 (11.56%) Docker
3 13 (7.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.31%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 86 (49.71%) Terraform
2 60 (34.68%) Kubernetes
3 41 (23.70%) Ansible
4 20 (11.56%) Grafana
5 14 (8.09%) Prometheus
6 7 (4.05%) Argo
6 7 (4.05%) Progress Chef
7 6 (3.47%) Packer
7 6 (3.47%) Puppet
8 4 (2.31%) Rancher
8 4 (2.31%) ZABBIX
9 2 (1.16%) Istio
9 2 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.58%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 36 (20.81%) Microsoft
2 23 (13.29%) VMware
3 10 (5.78%) Palo Alto
4 9 (5.20%) ServiceNow
5 8 (4.62%) Databricks
6 7 (4.05%) Cisco
7 6 (3.47%) EMC
7 6 (3.47%) F5
7 6 (3.47%) Red Hat
7 6 (3.47%) Zscaler
8 4 (2.31%) Cribl.io
8 4 (2.31%) Foundry
8 4 (2.31%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.73%) Google
9 3 (1.73%) Oracle
9 3 (1.73%) Splunk
10 2 (1.16%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.16%) Informatica
11 1 (0.58%) CyberArk