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 18 August 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 282 322
Rank change year-on-year +20 +40 +86
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 180 117 147
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.75% 0.96% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 1.05% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 118 76 111
10th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £61,250
25th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £73,750 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.03% -18.06% +12.50%
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £110,375 £105,625 £117,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.34% -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 22,271 11,121 18,498
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 91.68% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 15,238 7,224 12,690
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £71,217
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +1.80% -2.44%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
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 18 August 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 18 August 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 +21 51 £93,740 +24.99% 11
East London - 1 - - 1
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 August 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.

1 162 (90.00%) Platform Engineering
2 97 (53.89%) Terraform
3 90 (50.00%) Python
4 87 (48.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 86 (47.78%) Azure
6 82 (45.56%) CI/CD
7 62 (34.44%) DevOps
8 55 (30.56%) AWS
8 55 (30.56%) Kubernetes
9 54 (30.00%) Microsoft
10 45 (25.00%) PowerShell
11 41 (22.78%) AI
12 36 (20.00%) Bash
12 36 (20.00%) Observability
13 35 (19.44%) Linux
14 32 (17.78%) Azure DevOps
15 31 (17.22%) Ansible
16 29 (16.11%) GitHub
16 29 (16.11%) SQL
17 27 (15.00%) Containerisation
18 25 (13.89%) Cloud Security
18 25 (13.89%) Docker
18 25 (13.89%) Serverless
18 25 (13.89%) Software Engineering
19 24 (13.33%) Mentoring
20 22 (12.22%) Continuous Improvement
20 22 (12.22%) Grafana
20 22 (12.22%) Infrastructure Automation
20 22 (12.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
21 21 (11.67%) Amazon S3

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 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.11%) Apache
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.56%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 86 (47.78%) Azure
2 55 (30.56%) AWS
3 32 (17.78%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (16.11%) GitHub
5 25 (13.89%) Serverless
6 21 (11.67%) Amazon S3
7 18 (10.00%) Azure AKS
8 17 (9.44%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (8.89%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (8.89%) Power Platform
10 13 (7.22%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (5.00%) GCP
13 8 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (4.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 8 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (4.44%) Entra ID
13 8 (4.44%) SaaS
14 7 (3.89%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.67%) Firewall
2 5 (2.78%) DNS
3 4 (2.22%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.22%) VPN
4 2 (1.11%) Broadband
4 2 (1.11%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.11%) LAN
4 2 (1.11%) VoIP
4 2 (1.11%) WAN
4 2 (1.11%) WLAN
5 1 (0.56%) BGP
5 1 (0.56%) DHCP
5 1 (0.56%) SSL
5 1 (0.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (4.44%) Power BI
4 4 (2.22%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.67%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.11%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.11%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.11%) MySQL
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
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%) Redis
7 1 (0.56%) Scylla
7 1 (0.56%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.56%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 11 (6.11%) Git
2 10 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.44%) Visual Studio Code
4 7 (3.89%) GitLab
5 6 (3.33%) MLflow
6 5 (2.78%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.78%) TeamCity
7 4 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (2.22%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.56%) JIRA
General
1 38 (21.11%) Finance
2 28 (15.56%) Social Skills
3 13 (7.22%) Law
4 12 (6.67%) Legal
5 10 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.00%) Banking
7 6 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.78%) Retail
9 4 (2.22%) Health Technology
10 3 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.11%) Games
12 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.33%) NestJS
1 6 (3.33%) Node.js
2 5 (2.78%) Kafka
2 5 (2.78%) SAML
3 4 (2.22%) .NET
3 4 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (2.22%) ONNX
3 4 (2.22%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (1.67%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.67%) FastAPI
4 3 (1.67%) RESTful
5 1 (0.56%) Jinja
5 1 (0.56%) JWT
5 1 (0.56%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.56%) OAuth
5 1 (0.56%) PySpark
5 1 (0.56%) Spring
5 1 (0.56%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.56%) Web Services
5 1 (0.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (18.89%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.89%) Public Cloud
3 14 (7.78%) Private Cloud
4 10 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.33%) CMDB
5 6 (3.33%) Hedge funds
5 6 (3.33%) Low-Code
6 4 (2.22%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.22%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.11%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.11%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.11%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.11%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (1.11%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.56%) Blog
8 1 (0.56%) Clustering
8 1 (0.56%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 35 (19.44%) Linux
2 13 (7.22%) Windows
3 11 (6.11%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (90.00%) Platform Engineering
2 87 (48.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 82 (45.56%) CI/CD
4 62 (34.44%) DevOps
5 41 (22.78%) AI
6 36 (20.00%) Observability
7 27 (15.00%) Containerisation
8 25 (13.89%) Cloud Security
8 25 (13.89%) Software Engineering
9 24 (13.33%) Mentoring
10 22 (12.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (12.22%) Infrastructure Automation
10 22 (12.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 20 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
11 20 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
11 20 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (10.00%) Agile
13 16 (8.89%) Fintech
13 16 (8.89%) Microservices
13 16 (8.89%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 90 (50.00%) Python
2 45 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 36 (20.00%) Bash
4 29 (16.11%) SQL
5 16 (8.89%) Java
6 8 (4.44%) Bicep
6 8 (4.44%) Go
7 6 (3.33%) C#
7 6 (3.33%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.22%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.22%) Rust
8 4 (2.22%) VBA
9 1 (0.56%) C
9 1 (0.56%) Groovy
9 1 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 15 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.67%) Degree
4 11 (6.11%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.33%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.11%) CISM
7 2 (1.11%) CISSP
7 2 (1.11%) GSEC
7 2 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.11%) OSCP
8 1 (0.56%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.11%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.56%) NIST
3 1 (0.56%) RMADS
System Software
1 25 (13.89%) Docker
2 15 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.78%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 97 (53.89%) Terraform
2 55 (30.56%) Kubernetes
3 31 (17.22%) Ansible
4 22 (12.22%) Grafana
5 18 (10.00%) Prometheus
6 14 (7.78%) Argo
7 11 (6.11%) Packer
8 6 (3.33%) Istio
9 4 (2.22%) Kubeflow
10 3 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.11%) Cilium
11 2 (1.11%) linkerd
12 1 (0.56%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.56%) Puppet
12 1 (0.56%) Rancher
12 1 (0.56%) SCOM
Vendors
1 54 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.11%) ServiceNow
3 9 (5.00%) VMware
4 8 (4.44%) Splunk
5 6 (3.33%) Cisco
5 6 (3.33%) EMC
5 6 (3.33%) F5
5 6 (3.33%) Foundry
5 6 (3.33%) OpenAI
5 6 (3.33%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.22%) Databricks
6 4 (2.22%) Google
7 2 (1.11%) Informatica
7 2 (1.11%) Oracle
7 2 (1.11%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.11%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.56%) Rackspace