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 21 July 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 277 329
Rank change year-on-year +36 +52 +96
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 180 123 162
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.80% 0.99% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 1.09% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 126 81 124
10th Percentile £67,500 £59,250 £62,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £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 £97,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £116,250 £110,000 £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 20,901 11,317 20,478
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.93% 91.52% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 14,431 7,346 14,756
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £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 £116,250
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 21 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 21 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 +9 48 £90,000 +9.09% 36
East London - 1 - - 1
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 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 (88.89%) Platform Engineering
2 102 (56.67%) Terraform
3 92 (51.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 88 (48.89%) Python
5 87 (48.33%) CI/CD
6 84 (46.67%) Azure
7 65 (36.11%) AWS
8 64 (35.56%) DevOps
9 57 (31.67%) Kubernetes
10 46 (25.56%) Microsoft
10 46 (25.56%) PowerShell
11 36 (20.00%) Ansible
11 36 (20.00%) Linux
12 34 (18.89%) AI
12 34 (18.89%) Bash
12 34 (18.89%) Observability
13 29 (16.11%) Azure DevOps
13 29 (16.11%) GitHub
14 26 (14.44%) Mentoring
15 25 (13.89%) Amazon S3
15 25 (13.89%) Containerisation
16 24 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
16 24 (13.33%) SQL
17 23 (12.78%) Continuous Improvement
17 23 (12.78%) Docker
17 23 (12.78%) Serverless
18 22 (12.22%) Grafana
18 22 (12.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 21 (11.67%) Cloud Security
19 21 (11.67%) 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 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.11%) Apache
3 2 (1.11%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.56%) IIS
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.11%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 84 (46.67%) Azure
2 65 (36.11%) AWS
3 29 (16.11%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (16.11%) GitHub
4 25 (13.89%) Amazon S3
5 23 (12.78%) Serverless
6 20 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
7 18 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (9.44%) Azure AKS
8 17 (9.44%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (7.22%) Power Platform
11 11 (6.11%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
13 9 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (5.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 9 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (5.00%) GCP
14 8 (4.44%) Amazon ECR
15 7 (3.89%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.78%) Firewall
2 8 (4.44%) VPN
3 7 (3.89%) DNS
4 4 (2.22%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.11%) Broadband
5 2 (1.11%) LAN
5 2 (1.11%) VoIP
5 2 (1.11%) WAN
5 2 (1.11%) WLAN
6 1 (0.56%) DHCP
6 1 (0.56%) Network Security
6 1 (0.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (4.44%) Power BI
3 4 (2.22%) BigQuery
3 4 (2.22%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.67%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.11%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.11%) MySQL
5 2 (1.11%) Redis
6 1 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.56%) Big Data
6 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.56%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.56%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.56%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (7.22%) Git
2 9 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.44%) GitLab
3 8 (4.44%) Visual Studio Code
4 5 (2.78%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.78%) TeamCity
5 4 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (1.67%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.11%) MLflow
8 1 (0.56%) JIRA
General
1 34 (18.89%) Finance
2 28 (15.56%) Social Skills
3 12 (6.67%) Law
4 11 (6.11%) Legal
5 9 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.78%) Banking
9 4 (2.22%) Health Technology
9 4 (2.22%) Retail
10 2 (1.11%) Games
10 2 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.33%) Node.js
2 5 (2.78%) SAML
3 4 (2.22%) .NET
3 4 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (2.22%) Kafka
4 3 (1.67%) FastAPI
4 3 (1.67%) NestJS
4 3 (1.67%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (1.67%) RESTful
5 2 (1.11%) ARM Templates
5 2 (1.11%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.11%) PySpark
6 1 (0.56%) Celery
6 1 (0.56%) CrewAI
6 1 (0.56%) JWT
6 1 (0.56%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.56%) LangChain
6 1 (0.56%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.56%) Ray
6 1 (0.56%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.56%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 11 (6.11%) Private Cloud
4 9 (5.00%) 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%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.11%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.11%) Replication
8 2 (1.11%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.56%) Clustering
9 1 (0.56%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.56%) Mobile Banking
9 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 36 (20.00%) Linux
2 13 (7.22%) Windows
3 11 (6.11%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.11%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (88.89%) Platform Engineering
2 92 (51.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 87 (48.33%) CI/CD
4 64 (35.56%) DevOps
5 34 (18.89%) AI
5 34 (18.89%) Observability
6 26 (14.44%) Mentoring
7 25 (13.89%) Containerisation
8 24 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
9 23 (12.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (12.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 21 (11.67%) Cloud Security
11 21 (11.67%) Disaster Recovery
12 20 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (10.56%) Data Pipeline
13 19 (10.56%) Fintech
14 18 (10.00%) Agile
14 18 (10.00%) High Availability
14 18 (10.00%) Incident Response
15 17 (9.44%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 88 (48.89%) Python
2 46 (25.56%) PowerShell
3 34 (18.89%) Bash
4 24 (13.33%) SQL
5 13 (7.22%) Java
6 7 (3.89%) Go
7 6 (3.33%) Bicep
8 4 (2.22%) C#
8 4 (2.22%) Rust
8 4 (2.22%) VBA
9 3 (1.67%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.11%) Scala
11 1 (0.56%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 19 (10.56%) Azure Certification
1 19 (10.56%) Security Cleared
2 11 (6.11%) Degree
3 10 (5.56%) DV Cleared
3 10 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.56%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.56%) NIST
2 1 (0.56%) RMADS
System Software
1 23 (12.78%) Docker
2 14 (7.78%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.22%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (1.67%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 102 (56.67%) Terraform
2 57 (31.67%) Kubernetes
3 36 (20.00%) Ansible
4 22 (12.22%) Grafana
5 17 (9.44%) Prometheus
6 11 (6.11%) Argo
6 11 (6.11%) Packer
7 4 (2.22%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.67%) Istio
8 3 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.11%) Puppet
9 2 (1.11%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.56%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.56%) Cilium
10 1 (0.56%) Rancher
10 1 (0.56%) SCOM
Vendors
1 46 (25.56%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.67%) VMware
3 11 (6.11%) ServiceNow
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
7 3 (1.67%) Google
8 2 (1.11%) Cribl.io
8 2 (1.11%) Informatica
8 2 (1.11%) Oracle
8 2 (1.11%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.11%) Zscaler