Platform Engineer Job Trends in London

Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Platform Engineer salary in London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 January 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 316 354
Rank change year-on-year +62 +38 +64
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 132 113 127
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.89% 0.73% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 0.80% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 105 81 115
10th Percentile £58,000 £62,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -8.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £119,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +3.45%

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 13,568 14,153 19,702
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.33% 91.94% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 8,974 8,119 15,925
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £53,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -2.03%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 +37 27 £80,000 +18.52% 14
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 January 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.

1 110 (83.33%) Platform Engineering
2 67 (50.76%) Azure
3 66 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 61 (46.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 59 (44.70%) Terraform
6 57 (43.18%) DevOps
6 57 (43.18%) Kubernetes
7 52 (39.39%) Linux
8 49 (37.12%) Python
9 48 (36.36%) Ansible
10 39 (29.55%) AWS
11 32 (24.24%) PowerShell
12 29 (21.97%) VMware
13 28 (21.21%) Analytics
14 27 (20.45%) Bash
15 26 (19.70%) Docker
15 26 (19.70%) Infrastructure Automation
16 24 (18.18%) GitHub
17 23 (17.42%) Azure DevOps
17 23 (17.42%) Jenkins
18 22 (16.67%) Containerisation
18 22 (16.67%) Firewall
18 22 (16.67%) Observability
18 22 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
19 21 (15.91%) Windows
20 20 (15.15%) Grafana
20 20 (15.15%) Prometheus
20 20 (15.15%) VPN
21 19 (14.39%) GitLab
21 19 (14.39%) High Availability

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 (3.79%) IIS
1 5 (3.79%) SharePoint
1 5 (3.79%) Tomcat
2 4 (3.03%) Confluence
2 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.03%) Palantir Foundry
3 3 (2.27%) Mule
4 2 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.52%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (3.03%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 67 (50.76%) Azure
2 39 (29.55%) AWS
3 24 (18.18%) GitHub
4 23 (17.42%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (12.88%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (11.36%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (10.61%) Azure Monitor
8 13 (9.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (9.09%) GCP
10 11 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (8.33%) OpenShift
11 10 (7.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (6.82%) Datadog
13 8 (6.06%) Azure Storage
13 8 (6.06%) Entra ID
14 7 (5.30%) Azure AKS
14 7 (5.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 6 (4.55%) PaaS
15 6 (4.55%) Serverless
16 5 (3.79%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (16.67%) Firewall
2 20 (15.15%) VPN
3 11 (8.33%) DNS
4 6 (4.55%) WAN
5 5 (3.79%) Network Security
5 5 (3.79%) TCP/IP
6 4 (3.03%) DHCP
7 2 (1.52%) BGP
7 2 (1.52%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (1.52%) MQTT
7 2 (1.52%) OSPF
7 2 (1.52%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (1.52%) RTMP
7 2 (1.52%) VLAN
7 2 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.61%) Data Lake
2 11 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (5.30%) Delta Lake
4 5 (3.79%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.79%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.79%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.03%) Oracle Database
5 4 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.03%) Power BI
6 2 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.52%) Metadata
6 2 (1.52%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.52%) MySQL
6 2 (1.52%) Redis
7 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 23 (17.42%) Jenkins
2 19 (14.39%) GitLab
3 13 (9.85%) Git
4 5 (3.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (3.79%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.03%) JIRA
6 2 (1.52%) Jaeger
6 2 (1.52%) MLflow
6 2 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 42 (31.82%) Finance
2 18 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 14 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.06%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.55%) Law
6 5 (3.79%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.03%) Banking
7 4 (3.03%) Games
8 2 (1.52%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.76%) Advertising
9 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.58%) Kafka
2 9 (6.82%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (5.30%) PySpark
4 6 (4.55%) GraphQL
4 6 (4.55%) REST
4 6 (4.55%) YAML
5 4 (3.03%) ADO
5 4 (3.03%) AWS CDK
5 4 (3.03%) Middleware
5 4 (3.03%) OAuth
5 4 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (3.03%) SAML
6 2 (1.52%) Django
6 2 (1.52%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.52%) Keycloak
6 2 (1.52%) Loki
6 2 (1.52%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.85%) Private Cloud
2 9 (6.82%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.55%) CMDB
3 6 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.55%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.79%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.03%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.52%) Equities
6 2 (1.52%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.52%) IoT
6 2 (1.52%) MPEG
6 2 (1.52%) Robotics
7 1 (0.76%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.76%) Life Science
7 1 (0.76%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 52 (39.39%) Linux
2 21 (15.91%) Windows
3 16 (12.12%) Windows Server
4 10 (7.58%) Unix
5 8 (6.06%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (6.06%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (3.79%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (3.03%) VMS
8 3 (2.27%) SUSE
8 3 (2.27%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.76%) Debian
9 1 (0.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (83.33%) Platform Engineering
2 66 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 61 (46.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (43.18%) DevOps
5 28 (21.21%) Analytics
6 26 (19.70%) Infrastructure Automation
7 22 (16.67%) Containerisation
7 22 (16.67%) Observability
7 22 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
8 19 (14.39%) High Availability
9 18 (13.64%) Agile
10 17 (12.88%) Configuration Management
10 17 (12.88%) Incident Response
11 16 (12.12%) Continuous Integration
11 16 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (10.61%) Log Analytics
12 14 (10.61%) Security Hardening
13 13 (9.85%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (9.85%) Disaster Recovery
13 13 (9.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 49 (37.12%) Python
2 32 (24.24%) PowerShell
3 27 (20.45%) Bash
4 18 (13.64%) SQL
5 7 (5.30%) Go
5 7 (5.30%) Perl
5 7 (5.30%) Scala
6 6 (4.55%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.03%) Java
7 4 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.52%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 14 (10.61%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.82%) Degree
3 8 (6.06%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.79%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.27%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.52%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.76%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 11 (8.33%) GDPR
3 6 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (3.03%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.76%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.76%) NIST
5 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 26 (19.70%) Docker
2 18 (13.64%) Active Directory
2 18 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (3.03%) VMware NSX
4 3 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (2.27%) vSphere
5 2 (1.52%) NFS
Systems Management
1 59 (44.70%) Terraform
2 57 (43.18%) Kubernetes
3 48 (36.36%) Ansible
4 20 (15.15%) Grafana
4 20 (15.15%) Prometheus
5 8 (6.06%) Progress Chef
5 8 (6.06%) Puppet
6 7 (5.30%) Rancher
7 6 (4.55%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (3.79%) Argo
9 4 (3.03%) vRealize
9 4 (3.03%) ZABBIX
10 2 (1.52%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 29 (21.97%) VMware
2 14 (10.61%) Microsoft
3 13 (9.85%) Red Hat
4 10 (7.58%) ServiceNow
5 8 (6.06%) Oracle
6 7 (5.30%) Cisco
6 7 (5.30%) Databricks
7 6 (4.55%) Splunk
8 5 (3.79%) Zscaler
9 4 (3.03%) Atlassian
9 4 (3.03%) Cribl.io
9 4 (3.03%) Foundry
9 4 (3.03%) Palantir
9 4 (3.03%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.52%) Google
10 2 (1.52%) MikroTik
10 2 (1.52%) NETGEAR
10 2 (1.52%) Sonatype
10 2 (1.52%) Starlink
10 2 (1.52%) Ubiquiti