Platform Engineer Job Trends in London

Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Platform Engineer salary in London is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 310 388
Rank change year-on-year +19 +78 +177
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 107 153 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.90% 0.79% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 0.83% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 73 107 84
10th Percentile £58,550 £60,770 £56,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £65,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £116,000 £115,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -9.68%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 10,896 18,397 20,897
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.17% 95.40% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 7,112 11,621 17,265
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £54,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year - -0.68% +4.29%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer 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 September 2025.

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 September 2025. 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 +27 20 £75,000 -3.23% 8
South London - 1 £50,000 - 2
Platform Engineer
England

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Platform Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 99 (92.52%) Platform Engineering
2 55 (51.40%) Python
3 54 (50.47%) Kubernetes
3 54 (50.47%) CI/CD
4 52 (48.60%) Azure
5 48 (44.86%) Ansible
6 46 (42.99%) DevOps
7 42 (39.25%) Terraform
8 41 (38.32%) Linux
9 40 (37.38%) Finance
10 36 (33.64%) Infrastructure as Code
11 34 (31.78%) AWS
12 31 (28.97%) PowerShell
13 30 (28.04%) Bash
14 26 (24.30%) GCP
14 26 (24.30%) Law
14 26 (24.30%) VMware
15 25 (23.36%) Docker
16 22 (20.56%) Security Hardening
17 21 (19.63%) Microsoft
17 21 (19.63%) Problem-Solving
18 20 (18.69%) Data Security
18 20 (18.69%) VMware Infrastructure
19 19 (17.76%) Agile
19 19 (17.76%) Social Skills
20 18 (16.82%) Containerisation
21 17 (15.89%) Go
21 17 (15.89%) Analytics
22 16 (14.95%) Red Hat
22 16 (14.95%) Windows

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (7.48%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.67%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.74%) Apache Pulsar
4 3 (2.80%) Apache
4 3 (2.80%) Confluence
5 2 (1.87%) Mule
5 2 (1.87%) nginx
6 1 (0.93%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 52 (48.60%) Azure
2 34 (31.78%) AWS
3 26 (24.30%) GCP
4 11 (10.28%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (10.28%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (10.28%) GitHub
5 10 (9.35%) PaaS
6 9 (8.41%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (8.41%) Power Automate
6 9 (8.41%) Power Platform
6 9 (8.41%) PowerApps
7 7 (6.54%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (6.54%) IaaS
8 5 (4.67%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (4.67%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (4.67%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (4.67%) OpenShift
8 5 (4.67%) SaaS
9 4 (3.74%) Nutanix
9 4 (3.74%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.48%) DNS
2 7 (6.54%) TCP/IP
3 6 (5.61%) DHCP
4 3 (2.80%) Firewall
4 3 (2.80%) VPN
5 2 (1.87%) BGP
5 2 (1.87%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (1.87%) MQTT
5 2 (1.87%) OSPF
5 2 (1.87%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (1.87%) RTMP
5 2 (1.87%) VLAN
5 2 (1.87%) WAN
5 2 (1.87%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.87%) Wireless
6 1 (0.93%) Network Security
6 1 (0.93%) SSH
6 1 (0.93%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.41%) Power BI
2 8 (7.48%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.67%) BigQuery
3 5 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.74%) Flink
4 4 (3.74%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.80%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.87%) ClickHouse
6 2 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.87%) Metadata
6 2 (1.87%) MySQL
6 2 (1.87%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.93%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.93%) Power Query
7 1 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (13.08%) GitLab
1 14 (13.08%) Jenkins
2 10 (9.35%) Git
3 4 (3.74%) JIRA
3 4 (3.74%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.87%) Jaeger
4 2 (1.87%) MLflow
5 1 (0.93%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.93%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.93%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.93%) Vagrant
5 1 (0.93%) Zephyr
General
1 40 (37.38%) Finance
2 26 (24.30%) Law
3 19 (17.76%) Social Skills
4 11 (10.28%) Public Sector
5 10 (9.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (7.48%) Banking
8 4 (3.74%) Games
8 4 (3.74%) Legal
8 4 (3.74%) Marketing
9 2 (1.87%) Advertising
9 2 (1.87%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.93%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.35%) Kafka
2 8 (7.48%) REST
3 6 (5.61%) ARM Templates
4 5 (4.67%) .NET
4 5 (4.67%) GraphQL
5 4 (3.74%) AWS CDK
5 4 (3.74%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (3.74%) SAML
6 3 (2.80%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (2.80%) YAML
7 2 (1.87%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (1.87%) FastAPI
7 2 (1.87%) Keycloak
7 2 (1.87%) Loki
7 2 (1.87%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (1.87%) React
7 2 (1.87%) Spring
7 2 (1.87%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.87%) WebRTC
8 1 (0.93%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.28%) Clustering
2 10 (9.35%) Private Cloud
3 7 (6.54%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.61%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.67%) CMDB
5 5 (4.67%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.74%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.74%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.74%) Replication
7 3 (2.80%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.87%) IoT
8 2 (1.87%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.87%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.87%) MPEG
8 2 (1.87%) Robotics
9 1 (0.93%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 41 (38.32%) Linux
2 16 (14.95%) Windows
3 13 (12.15%) Windows Server
4 10 (9.35%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (3.74%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (3.74%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (3.74%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (2.80%) Unix
7 2 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.87%) VMS
8 1 (0.93%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (92.52%) Platform Engineering
2 54 (50.47%) CI/CD
3 46 (42.99%) DevOps
4 36 (33.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (20.56%) Security Hardening
6 21 (19.63%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (18.69%) Data Security
8 19 (17.76%) Agile
9 18 (16.82%) Containerisation
10 17 (15.89%) Analytics
11 13 (12.15%) Continuous Integration
12 12 (11.21%) Artificial Intelligence
12 12 (11.21%) Computer Science
12 12 (11.21%) Root Cause Analysis
12 12 (11.21%) Software Engineering
13 11 (10.28%) High Availability
13 11 (10.28%) Performance Optimisation
13 11 (10.28%) Roadmaps
14 10 (9.35%) Infrastructure Automation
14 10 (9.35%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 55 (51.40%) Python
2 31 (28.97%) PowerShell
3 30 (28.04%) Bash
4 17 (15.89%) Go
5 15 (14.02%) Java
5 15 (14.02%) Perl
6 11 (10.28%) JavaScript
7 7 (6.54%) Scala
8 6 (5.61%) SQL
9 5 (4.67%) C#
9 5 (4.67%) Shell Script
10 4 (3.74%) Bicep
10 4 (3.74%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.80%) T-SQL
11 3 (2.80%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.87%) C++
13 1 (0.93%) Bourne shell
13 1 (0.93%) C-shell
13 1 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.93%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 10 (9.35%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (6.54%) Degree
3 6 (5.61%) Master's Degree
3 6 (5.61%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.87%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.02%) GDPR
2 14 (13.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (3.74%) QA
4 2 (1.87%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.87%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (23.36%) Docker
2 20 (18.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (11.21%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (10.28%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.87%) NFS
5 2 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 54 (50.47%) Kubernetes
2 48 (44.86%) Ansible
3 42 (39.25%) Terraform
4 14 (13.08%) Grafana
4 14 (13.08%) Red Hat Satellite
5 11 (10.28%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (3.74%) Rancher
6 4 (3.74%) vRealize
7 3 (2.80%) Argo
8 2 (1.87%) Packer
8 2 (1.87%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.93%) Consul
9 1 (0.93%) Oracle ZFS
9 1 (0.93%) Puppet
9 1 (0.93%) Salt
9 1 (0.93%) VxRail
Vendors
1 26 (24.30%) VMware
2 21 (19.63%) Microsoft
3 16 (14.95%) Red Hat
4 13 (12.15%) Google
5 11 (10.28%) ServiceNow
6 8 (7.48%) Cisco
7 6 (5.61%) Oracle
8 5 (4.67%) EMC
9 4 (3.74%) Citrix
9 4 (3.74%) Databricks
9 4 (3.74%) Okta
9 4 (3.74%) TOWER Software
9 4 (3.74%) Zscaler
10 2 (1.87%) Foundry
10 2 (1.87%) Hitachi
10 2 (1.87%) MikroTik
10 2 (1.87%) NETGEAR
10 2 (1.87%) Sonatype
10 2 (1.87%) Starlink
10 2 (1.87%) Ubiquiti