Platform Engineer Job Trends in London

Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Platform Engineer salary in London is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 April 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 287 339
Rank change year-on-year +28 +52 +91
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 148 119 163
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.77% 0.92% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 1.02% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 119 80 142
10th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,625 £110,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £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 17,537 11,698 21,696
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.81% 90.65% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 11,755 7,546 16,654
10th Percentile £38,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,322 £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 £98,750 £93,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,296
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.51% -9.51%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 +12 36 £85,000 -5.56% 21
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 April 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.

1 124 (83.78%) Platform Engineering
2 73 (49.32%) CI/CD
2 73 (49.32%) Terraform
3 70 (47.30%) Azure
4 69 (46.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 60 (40.54%) Python
6 59 (39.86%) Kubernetes
7 54 (36.49%) DevOps
8 48 (32.43%) AWS
9 46 (31.08%) Linux
10 41 (27.70%) Ansible
11 34 (22.97%) PowerShell
12 33 (22.30%) GitHub
13 30 (20.27%) Infrastructure Automation
14 27 (18.24%) Firewall
14 27 (18.24%) Observability
15 26 (17.57%) VMware
16 25 (16.89%) Active Directory
17 23 (15.54%) Analytics
17 23 (15.54%) Incident Response
17 23 (15.54%) VPN
18 22 (14.86%) Azure DevOps
18 22 (14.86%) Docker
18 22 (14.86%) GitHub Actions
18 22 (14.86%) High Availability
18 22 (14.86%) Microsoft
19 20 (13.51%) SQL
19 20 (13.51%) Windows
20 19 (12.84%) Bash
20 19 (12.84%) Continuous Improvement

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 (3.38%) Confluence
1 5 (3.38%) IIS
1 5 (3.38%) SharePoint
1 5 (3.38%) Tomcat
2 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.68%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (2.70%) Weka
2 2 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 70 (47.30%) Azure
2 48 (32.43%) AWS
3 33 (22.30%) GitHub
4 22 (14.86%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (14.86%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (10.81%) Amazon EKS
6 15 (10.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (8.78%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (8.11%) Amazon S3
8 12 (8.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (8.11%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (8.11%) Serverless
9 10 (6.76%) Amazon ECR
9 10 (6.76%) Datadog
9 10 (6.76%) Entra ID
9 10 (6.76%) GCP
10 8 (5.41%) Azure AKS
10 8 (5.41%) Azure Storage
10 8 (5.41%) OpenShift
11 7 (4.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (18.24%) Firewall
2 23 (15.54%) VPN
3 14 (9.46%) DNS
4 6 (4.05%) Network Security
4 6 (4.05%) WAN
5 4 (2.70%) DHCP
5 4 (2.70%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.35%) LAN
6 2 (1.35%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.11%) Data Lake
2 11 (7.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (4.73%) Delta Lake
4 5 (3.38%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.70%) Power BI
6 3 (2.03%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.35%) Redis
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.68%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 16 (10.81%) Git
2 15 (10.14%) Jenkins
3 14 (9.46%) GitLab
4 7 (4.73%) Bitbucket
4 7 (4.73%) Visual Studio Code
5 6 (4.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (3.38%) JIRA
7 1 (0.68%) CircleCI
General
1 41 (27.70%) Finance
2 18 (12.16%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (2.70%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.03%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.35%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.35%) Retail
7 1 (0.68%) Advertising
7 1 (0.68%) Banking
7 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.68%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.41%) PySpark
2 6 (4.05%) Kafka
3 5 (3.38%) OAuth
3 5 (3.38%) YAML
4 4 (2.70%) ADO
4 4 (2.70%) Middleware
4 4 (2.70%) SAML
5 3 (2.03%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.35%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.35%) Django
6 2 (1.35%) Loki
7 1 (0.68%) .NET
7 1 (0.68%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.68%) Celery
7 1 (0.68%) CrewAI
7 1 (0.68%) JWT
7 1 (0.68%) LangChain
7 1 (0.68%) Node.js
7 1 (0.68%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.68%) Ray
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.46%) Private Cloud
2 10 (6.76%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.41%) Public Cloud
4 6 (4.05%) Hedge funds
5 4 (2.70%) CMDB
5 4 (2.70%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.03%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.35%) Equities
7 2 (1.35%) Replication
8 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.68%) Life Science
8 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 46 (31.08%) Linux
2 20 (13.51%) Windows
3 17 (11.49%) Windows Server
4 8 (5.41%) Unix
4 8 (5.41%) Windows Server 2016
4 8 (5.41%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (3.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (3.38%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (2.70%) VMS
7 3 (2.03%) SUSE
7 3 (2.03%) Ubuntu
7 3 (2.03%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.68%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (83.78%) Platform Engineering
2 73 (49.32%) CI/CD
3 69 (46.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (36.49%) DevOps
5 30 (20.27%) Infrastructure Automation
6 27 (18.24%) Observability
7 23 (15.54%) Analytics
7 23 (15.54%) Incident Response
8 22 (14.86%) High Availability
9 19 (12.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (12.16%) Disaster Recovery
11 17 (11.49%) Configuration Management
11 17 (11.49%) Containerisation
12 16 (10.81%) Fintech
13 15 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (9.46%) Data Engineering
15 13 (8.78%) Agile
15 13 (8.78%) Cost Optimisation
15 13 (8.78%) Log Analytics
16 12 (8.11%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 60 (40.54%) Python
2 34 (22.97%) PowerShell
3 20 (13.51%) SQL
4 19 (12.84%) Bash
5 7 (4.73%) Scala
6 4 (2.70%) Go
6 4 (2.70%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (2.03%) Java
8 1 (0.68%) Bicep
8 1 (0.68%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (8.11%) Degree
1 12 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.43%) Azure Certification
3 8 (5.41%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.35%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.68%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.11%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.38%) GDPR
2 5 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.70%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.68%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.68%) NIST
4 1 (0.68%) QA
System Software
1 25 (16.89%) Active Directory
2 22 (14.86%) Docker
3 14 (9.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.70%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.03%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.03%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 73 (49.32%) Terraform
2 59 (39.86%) Kubernetes
3 41 (27.70%) Ansible
4 18 (12.16%) Grafana
5 13 (8.78%) Prometheus
6 9 (6.08%) Progress Chef
7 8 (5.41%) Puppet
8 6 (4.05%) Argo
9 4 (2.70%) Packer
9 4 (2.70%) ZABBIX
10 3 (2.03%) Rancher
11 2 (1.35%) AWS Copilot
11 2 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.68%) Istio
Vendors
1 26 (17.57%) VMware
2 22 (14.86%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.08%) Red Hat
3 9 (6.08%) ServiceNow
4 8 (5.41%) Cisco
4 8 (5.41%) Databricks
4 8 (5.41%) Palo Alto
5 7 (4.73%) Zscaler
6 5 (3.38%) Oracle
6 5 (3.38%) Splunk
7 4 (2.70%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.70%) Cribl.io
7 4 (2.70%) EMC
7 4 (2.70%) F5
8 3 (2.03%) Google
9 1 (0.68%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.68%) Foundry
9 1 (0.68%) Okta
9 1 (0.68%) OpenAI