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 28 July 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 275 316
Rank change year-on-year +9 +41 +109
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 177 123 163
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.77% 1.00% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 1.09% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 120 82 124
10th Percentile £67,500 £58,800 £61,625
25th Percentile £77,500 £67,813 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,563 £102,500
90th Percentile £113,250 £109,375 £122,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - +11.11%

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 21,291 11,236 19,431
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 91.72% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 14,610 7,337 13,796
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,622
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £117,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 +8 48 £90,000 +9.09% 39
East London - 1 - - 1
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 July 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.

1 160 (90.40%) Platform Engineering
2 98 (55.37%) Terraform
3 88 (49.72%) Python
4 86 (48.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 84 (47.46%) CI/CD
6 80 (45.20%) Azure
7 64 (36.16%) AWS
8 62 (35.03%) DevOps
9 54 (30.51%) Kubernetes
10 46 (25.99%) Microsoft
11 44 (24.86%) PowerShell
12 37 (20.90%) AI
13 36 (20.34%) Linux
14 35 (19.77%) Observability
15 34 (19.21%) Bash
16 33 (18.64%) Ansible
17 29 (16.38%) GitHub
18 27 (15.25%) Azure DevOps
19 26 (14.69%) SQL
20 25 (14.12%) Amazon S3
20 25 (14.12%) Mentoring
21 24 (13.56%) Containerisation
22 23 (12.99%) Docker
22 23 (12.99%) Serverless
22 23 (12.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
23 22 (12.43%) Continuous Improvement
23 22 (12.43%) Infrastructure Automation
24 21 (11.86%) Cloud Security
24 21 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
25 20 (11.30%) Disaster Recovery

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 10 (5.65%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.13%) Apache
3 2 (1.13%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.56%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 80 (45.20%) Azure
2 64 (36.16%) AWS
3 29 (16.38%) GitHub
4 27 (15.25%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (14.12%) Amazon S3
6 23 (12.99%) Serverless
7 18 (10.17%) Amazon EKS
7 18 (10.17%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (9.60%) Azure AKS
8 17 (9.60%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (8.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (7.34%) Power Platform
11 10 (5.65%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (5.08%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (5.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 9 (5.08%) GCP
13 8 (4.52%) Amazon ECR
13 8 (4.52%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (3.95%) dbt
14 7 (3.95%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.78%) Firewall
2 6 (3.39%) DNS
2 6 (3.39%) VPN
3 5 (2.82%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.13%) Broadband
4 2 (1.13%) LAN
4 2 (1.13%) VoIP
4 2 (1.13%) WAN
4 2 (1.13%) WLAN
5 1 (0.56%) DHCP
5 1 (0.56%) Network Security
5 1 (0.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.65%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.52%) Power BI
3 7 (3.95%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (2.26%) BigQuery
4 4 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.69%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.13%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.13%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.13%) MySQL
6 2 (1.13%) Redis
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.56%) Big Data
7 1 (0.56%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.56%) Scylla
7 1 (0.56%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (6.78%) Git
2 9 (5.08%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.52%) GitLab
3 8 (4.52%) Visual Studio Code
4 5 (2.82%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.82%) TeamCity
5 4 (2.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (2.26%) MLflow
6 3 (1.69%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.56%) JIRA
General
1 34 (19.21%) Finance
2 26 (14.69%) Social Skills
3 12 (6.78%) Law
4 11 (6.21%) Legal
5 8 (4.52%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.52%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.95%) Banking
7 6 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.82%) Retail
9 4 (2.26%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.13%) Games
10 2 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.39%) Node.js
2 5 (2.82%) Kafka
2 5 (2.82%) SAML
3 4 (2.26%) .NET
3 4 (2.26%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (2.26%) NestJS
4 3 (1.69%) FastAPI
4 3 (1.69%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (1.69%) RESTful
5 2 (1.13%) ARM Templates
5 2 (1.13%) ONNX
6 1 (0.56%) CrewAI
6 1 (0.56%) JWT
6 1 (0.56%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.56%) LangChain
6 1 (0.56%) PySpark
6 1 (0.56%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.56%) Ray
6 1 (0.56%) Snowpark
6 1 (0.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.82%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.34%) Public Cloud
3 12 (6.78%) Private Cloud
4 10 (5.65%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.39%) CMDB
5 6 (3.39%) Hedge funds
5 6 (3.39%) Low-Code
6 4 (2.26%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.26%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.13%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.13%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.13%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (1.13%) Replication
7 2 (1.13%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.56%) Blog
8 1 (0.56%) Clustering
8 1 (0.56%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 36 (20.34%) Linux
2 12 (6.78%) Windows
3 10 (5.65%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.13%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (90.40%) Platform Engineering
2 86 (48.59%) Infrastructure as Code
3 84 (47.46%) CI/CD
4 62 (35.03%) DevOps
5 37 (20.90%) AI
6 35 (19.77%) Observability
7 25 (14.12%) Mentoring
8 24 (13.56%) Containerisation
9 23 (12.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 22 (12.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (12.43%) Infrastructure Automation
11 21 (11.86%) Cloud Security
11 21 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (11.30%) Disaster Recovery
13 19 (10.73%) Data Pipeline
14 18 (10.17%) Agile
14 18 (10.17%) Fintech
14 18 (10.17%) Software Engineering
14 18 (10.17%) Test Automation
15 17 (9.60%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 88 (49.72%) Python
2 44 (24.86%) PowerShell
3 34 (19.21%) Bash
4 26 (14.69%) SQL
5 15 (8.47%) Java
6 6 (3.39%) Bicep
6 6 (3.39%) Go
7 4 (2.26%) C#
7 4 (2.26%) Rust
7 4 (2.26%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.26%) VBA
8 2 (1.13%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.56%) C
9 1 (0.56%) Groovy
9 1 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (10.73%) Azure Certification
2 17 (9.60%) Security Cleared
3 11 (6.21%) Degree
4 10 (5.65%) DV Cleared
5 9 (5.08%) SC Cleared
6 7 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.13%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.56%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.65%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.56%) NIST
3 1 (0.56%) RMADS
System Software
1 23 (12.99%) Docker
2 13 (7.34%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.82%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 98 (55.37%) Terraform
2 54 (30.51%) Kubernetes
3 33 (18.64%) Ansible
4 20 (11.30%) Grafana
5 15 (8.47%) Prometheus
6 11 (6.21%) Argo
6 11 (6.21%) Packer
7 3 (1.69%) Istio
7 3 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.13%) Kubeflow
8 2 (1.13%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.56%) Cilium
9 1 (0.56%) Rancher
9 1 (0.56%) SCOM
Vendors
1 46 (25.99%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.21%) ServiceNow
3 9 (5.08%) VMware
4 8 (4.52%) Splunk
5 6 (3.39%) Cisco
5 6 (3.39%) EMC
5 6 (3.39%) F5
5 6 (3.39%) Foundry
5 6 (3.39%) OpenAI
5 6 (3.39%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.69%) Databricks
6 3 (1.69%) Google
7 2 (1.13%) Informatica
7 2 (1.13%) Oracle
7 2 (1.13%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.13%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.56%) Rackspace