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 22 June 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 270 354
Rank change year-on-year +27 +84 +71
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 183 124 162
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.84% 1.02% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 1.12% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 129 82 130
10th Percentile £69,500 £59,250 £63,750
25th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £81,250 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% -4.41% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £114,750 £122,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - +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 20,068 11,055 23,360
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.64% 90.82% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 13,815 7,015 17,361
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £93,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.86%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 49 £95,000 +15.15% 5
East London - 1 - - 1
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 June 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.

1 161 (87.98%) Platform Engineering
2 103 (56.28%) Terraform
3 97 (53.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 92 (50.27%) CI/CD
5 91 (49.73%) Azure
6 90 (49.18%) Python
7 67 (36.61%) DevOps
8 63 (34.43%) AWS
9 57 (31.15%) Kubernetes
10 47 (25.68%) Microsoft
10 47 (25.68%) PowerShell
11 36 (19.67%) Ansible
12 35 (19.13%) Linux
13 34 (18.58%) AI
13 34 (18.58%) Azure DevOps
14 33 (18.03%) GitHub
15 32 (17.49%) Bash
15 32 (17.49%) Observability
16 27 (14.75%) Infrastructure Automation
17 26 (14.21%) Amazon S3
17 26 (14.21%) Mentoring
18 24 (13.11%) Disaster Recovery
19 23 (12.57%) Serverless
19 23 (12.57%) SQL
20 22 (12.02%) Amazon EKS
20 22 (12.02%) Cloud Security
20 22 (12.02%) Continuous Improvement
20 22 (12.02%) Fintech
20 22 (12.02%) Grafana
21 21 (11.48%) Containerisation

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 11 (6.01%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.09%) Apache
3 2 (1.09%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.55%) Confluence
4 1 (0.55%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (2.19%) Weka
2 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 91 (49.73%) Azure
2 63 (34.43%) AWS
3 34 (18.58%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (18.03%) GitHub
5 26 (14.21%) Amazon S3
6 23 (12.57%) Serverless
7 22 (12.02%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (9.84%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (9.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 17 (9.29%) Azure AKS
9 17 (9.29%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (8.20%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (7.10%) Power Platform
12 11 (6.01%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (5.46%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (5.46%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 9 (4.92%) Amazon ECR
15 8 (4.37%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (4.37%) Microsoft 365
16 7 (3.83%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.29%) Firewall
2 11 (6.01%) VPN
3 7 (3.83%) DNS
4 2 (1.09%) Broadband
4 2 (1.09%) LAN
4 2 (1.09%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.09%) WAN
4 2 (1.09%) WLAN
5 1 (0.55%) Network Security
5 1 (0.55%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.01%) Data Lake
2 10 (5.46%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (4.92%) Power BI
4 8 (4.37%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.73%) Delta Lake
6 4 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.64%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.64%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.09%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.09%) Redis
9 1 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.55%) Big Data
9 1 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.55%) MySQL
9 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.55%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.55%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (9.29%) Git
2 9 (4.92%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.37%) GitLab
3 8 (4.37%) Visual Studio Code
4 5 (2.73%) TeamCity
5 4 (2.19%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (1.64%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.09%) MLflow
8 1 (0.55%) JIRA
General
1 44 (24.04%) Finance
2 29 (15.85%) Social Skills
3 9 (4.92%) Law
3 9 (4.92%) Public Sector
4 8 (4.37%) Legal
5 7 (3.83%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.19%) Banking
7 4 (2.19%) Health Technology
8 3 (1.64%) Retail
9 2 (1.09%) Games
9 2 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.28%) Node.js
1 6 (3.28%) PySpark
2 5 (2.73%) SAML
3 4 (2.19%) Kafka
4 3 (1.64%) .NET
4 3 (1.64%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (1.64%) RESTful
5 2 (1.09%) ARM Templates
5 2 (1.09%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.09%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.55%) Celery
6 1 (0.55%) Django
6 1 (0.55%) Loki
6 1 (0.55%) OAuth
6 1 (0.55%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.55%) Spring
6 1 (0.55%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.55%) Web Services
6 1 (0.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.21%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.56%) Public Cloud
3 11 (6.01%) Private Cloud
4 8 (4.37%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.28%) CMDB
5 6 (3.28%) Hedge funds
6 5 (2.73%) Low-Code
7 4 (2.19%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.09%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.09%) Replication
8 2 (1.09%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.55%) Blog
9 1 (0.55%) Clustering
9 1 (0.55%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 35 (19.13%) Linux
2 13 (7.10%) Windows
3 11 (6.01%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.09%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (87.98%) Platform Engineering
2 97 (53.01%) Infrastructure as Code
3 92 (50.27%) CI/CD
4 67 (36.61%) DevOps
5 34 (18.58%) AI
6 32 (17.49%) Observability
7 27 (14.75%) Infrastructure Automation
8 26 (14.21%) Mentoring
9 24 (13.11%) Disaster Recovery
10 22 (12.02%) Cloud Security
10 22 (12.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (12.02%) Fintech
11 21 (11.48%) Containerisation
11 21 (11.48%) High Availability
11 21 (11.48%) Incident Response
11 21 (11.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 19 (10.38%) Data Pipeline
13 18 (9.84%) Agile
13 18 (9.84%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (9.29%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 90 (49.18%) Python
2 47 (25.68%) PowerShell
3 32 (17.49%) Bash
4 23 (12.57%) SQL
5 10 (5.46%) Java
6 7 (3.83%) Go
7 6 (3.28%) Bicep
7 6 (3.28%) Scala
8 2 (1.09%) C#
8 2 (1.09%) Rust
8 2 (1.09%) VBA
9 1 (0.55%) Groovy
9 1 (0.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (10.38%) Azure Certification
2 18 (9.84%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.46%) Degree
3 10 (5.46%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.37%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.20%) Data Quality
System Software
1 21 (11.48%) Docker
2 16 (8.74%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.19%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.09%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 103 (56.28%) Terraform
2 57 (31.15%) Kubernetes
3 36 (19.67%) Ansible
4 22 (12.02%) Grafana
5 17 (9.29%) Prometheus
6 11 (6.01%) Argo
6 11 (6.01%) Packer
7 6 (3.28%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.19%) Puppet
8 4 (2.19%) ZABBIX
9 3 (1.64%) Istio
9 3 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.55%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.55%) Cilium
10 1 (0.55%) Rancher
Vendors
1 47 (25.68%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.65%) VMware
3 10 (5.46%) ServiceNow
4 8 (4.37%) Databricks
5 6 (3.28%) Cisco
5 6 (3.28%) EMC
5 6 (3.28%) F5
5 6 (3.28%) Foundry
5 6 (3.28%) OpenAI
5 6 (3.28%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.73%) Splunk
7 4 (2.19%) Cribl.io
8 3 (1.64%) Google
9 2 (1.09%) Informatica
9 2 (1.09%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.09%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.55%) Oracle