Platform Engineer Job Trends in London

Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Platform Engineer salary in London is £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 September 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 286 306
Rank change year-on-year +22 +20 +86
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 196 103 157
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.76% 0.88% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.97% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 124 73 109
10th Percentile £59,125 £57,500 £61,010
25th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £72,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.69% -19.44% +12.50%
75th Percentile £100,000 £88,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £116,000 £115,000
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 23,813 10,663 17,945
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 91.01% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,162 6,902 11,066
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 29 September 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 29 September 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 +29 50 £90,000 +20.00% 59
West London - 4 £47,500 - 14
East London - 1 - - 2
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 September 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.

1 170 (86.73%) Platform Engineering
2 102 (52.04%) Terraform
3 98 (50.00%) Azure
4 94 (47.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 83 (42.35%) CI/CD
6 81 (41.33%) Python
7 78 (39.80%) DevOps
8 57 (29.08%) Microsoft
9 55 (28.06%) Kubernetes
10 53 (27.04%) AI
10 53 (27.04%) PowerShell
11 49 (25.00%) AWS
12 44 (22.45%) Azure DevOps
13 43 (21.94%) Observability
14 37 (18.88%) Bash
14 37 (18.88%) SQL
15 33 (16.84%) Containerisation
15 33 (16.84%) Docker
15 33 (16.84%) Software Engineering
16 30 (15.31%) Cloud Security
16 30 (15.31%) Linux
17 29 (14.80%) Ansible
17 29 (14.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 27 (13.78%) Data Pipeline
18 27 (13.78%) GitHub
19 26 (13.27%) Serverless
20 24 (12.24%) Azure AKS
20 24 (12.24%) Grafana
21 22 (11.22%) Prometheus
22 20 (10.20%) 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 13 (6.63%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.51%) Apache
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.51%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 98 (50.00%) Azure
2 49 (25.00%) AWS
3 44 (22.45%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (13.78%) GitHub
5 26 (13.27%) Serverless
6 24 (12.24%) Azure AKS
7 17 (8.67%) GCP
8 16 (8.16%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (8.16%) Power Platform
9 15 (7.65%) Amazon S3
9 15 (7.65%) Entra ID
10 14 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (6.12%) PaaS
12 11 (5.61%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (5.10%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (4.59%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (4.59%) SaaS
15 8 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (3.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.14%) Firewall
2 6 (3.06%) DNS
3 5 (2.55%) VPN
4 4 (2.04%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.53%) LAN
5 3 (1.53%) WAN
6 2 (1.02%) Broadband
6 2 (1.02%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (1.02%) SSL
6 2 (1.02%) VoIP
6 2 (1.02%) WLAN
7 1 (0.51%) BGP
7 1 (0.51%) DHCP
7 1 (0.51%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.18%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (8.16%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.08%) Power BI
4 5 (2.55%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.53%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.02%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.02%) Couchbase
6 2 (1.02%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.02%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.02%) MySQL
6 2 (1.02%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.02%) Scylla
7 1 (0.51%) Big Data
7 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.51%) Redis
7 1 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (5.61%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.06%) Git
2 6 (3.06%) GitLab
2 6 (3.06%) MLflow
3 5 (2.55%) TeamCity
4 4 (2.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (2.04%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.04%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (1.53%) CircleCI
General
1 37 (18.88%) Social Skills
2 35 (17.86%) Finance
3 16 (8.16%) Public Sector
4 14 (7.14%) Legal
5 13 (6.63%) Law
6 8 (4.08%) Banking
7 7 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.55%) Retail
9 4 (2.04%) Health Technology
9 4 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.02%) Games
10 2 (1.02%) Military
10 2 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (52.04%) Terraform
2 8 (4.08%) SAML
3 6 (3.06%) Kafka
3 6 (3.06%) NestJS
3 6 (3.06%) Node.js
4 5 (2.55%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (2.04%) .NET
5 4 (2.04%) ARM Templates
5 4 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (2.04%) ONNX
5 4 (2.04%) Pulumi
6 3 (1.53%) FastAPI
6 3 (1.53%) RESTful
7 1 (0.51%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (0.51%) Jinja
7 1 (0.51%) JWT
7 1 (0.51%) Keycloak
7 1 (0.51%) Snowpark
7 1 (0.51%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 39 (19.90%) Cloud Native
2 19 (9.69%) Public Cloud
3 13 (6.63%) Private Cloud
4 12 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.06%) Low-Code
6 4 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.04%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.53%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.02%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.02%) CMDB
8 2 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.02%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.02%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.02%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.02%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (1.02%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.02%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.51%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 30 (15.31%) Linux
2 12 (6.12%) Windows
3 10 (5.10%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.02%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (86.73%) Platform Engineering
2 94 (47.96%) Infrastructure as Code
3 83 (42.35%) CI/CD
4 78 (39.80%) DevOps
5 53 (27.04%) AI
6 43 (21.94%) Observability
7 33 (16.84%) Containerisation
7 33 (16.84%) Software Engineering
8 30 (15.31%) Cloud Security
9 29 (14.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 27 (13.78%) Data Pipeline
11 20 (10.20%) Disaster Recovery
11 20 (10.20%) Infrastructure Automation
11 20 (10.20%) Mentoring
12 19 (9.69%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (9.18%) Microservices
14 17 (8.67%) Agile
14 17 (8.67%) Migration
15 16 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
16 15 (7.65%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 81 (41.33%) Python
2 53 (27.04%) PowerShell
3 37 (18.88%) Bash
3 37 (18.88%) SQL
4 15 (7.65%) Java
5 10 (5.10%) Bicep
6 8 (4.08%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.57%) Go
8 6 (3.06%) C#
9 4 (2.04%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.04%) Rust
9 4 (2.04%) VBA
10 1 (0.51%) C
10 1 (0.51%) Groovy
10 1 (0.51%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (9.69%) Azure Certification
2 17 (8.67%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.12%) DV Cleared
4 8 (4.08%) Degree
4 8 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (3.57%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.02%) CISM
7 2 (1.02%) CISSP
7 2 (1.02%) GSEC
7 2 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.02%) OSCP
8 1 (0.51%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.12%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.02%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.51%) NIST
3 1 (0.51%) RMADS
System Software
1 33 (16.84%) Docker
2 14 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.55%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.51%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (28.06%) Kubernetes
2 29 (14.80%) Ansible
3 24 (12.24%) Grafana
4 22 (11.22%) Prometheus
5 13 (6.63%) Argo
6 7 (3.57%) Packer
7 6 (3.06%) Istio
7 6 (3.06%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.04%) Kubeflow
9 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.02%) Cilium
10 2 (1.02%) linkerd
10 2 (1.02%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.51%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.51%) Puppet
11 1 (0.51%) Rancher
11 1 (0.51%) SCOM
11 1 (0.51%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 57 (29.08%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.61%) Google
3 9 (4.59%) Splunk
3 9 (4.59%) VMware
4 6 (3.06%) Databricks
4 6 (3.06%) Foundry
4 6 (3.06%) OpenAI
4 6 (3.06%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.53%) EMC
6 2 (1.02%) Cisco
6 2 (1.02%) F5
6 2 (1.02%) Informatica
6 2 (1.02%) Oracle
6 2 (1.02%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.02%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.02%) Zscaler
7 1 (0.51%) Rackspace