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 3 March 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 300 326
Rank change year-on-year +38 +26 +83
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 132 118 155
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.81% 0.84% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 0.92% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 109 88 137
10th Percentile £63,500 £63,880 £65,000
25th Percentile £72,375 £73,750 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +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 14,818 12,861 20,309
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.47% 91.12% 94.34%
Number of salaries quoted 9,859 7,652 16,273
10th Percentile £36,750 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.84%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 28 £80,000 -8.57% 12
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 March 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%) CI/CD
3 64 (48.48%) Terraform
4 63 (47.73%) Azure
4 63 (47.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 56 (42.42%) Kubernetes
6 52 (39.39%) DevOps
7 48 (36.36%) Python
8 47 (35.61%) AWS
9 45 (34.09%) Linux
10 41 (31.06%) Ansible
11 29 (21.97%) PowerShell
12 27 (20.45%) Observability
13 26 (19.70%) Docker
13 26 (19.70%) GitHub
13 26 (19.70%) Infrastructure Automation
14 24 (18.18%) Firewall
14 24 (18.18%) VMware
15 23 (17.42%) Analytics
15 23 (17.42%) Incident Response
16 22 (16.67%) VPN
17 21 (15.91%) Grafana
17 21 (15.91%) High Availability
18 20 (15.15%) Bash
18 20 (15.15%) SQL
19 19 (14.39%) Containerisation
19 19 (14.39%) Jenkins
19 19 (14.39%) Windows
20 18 (13.64%) Active Directory
20 18 (13.64%) Azure DevOps

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%) Confluence
1 5 (3.79%) IIS
1 5 (3.79%) SharePoint
1 5 (3.79%) Tomcat
2 4 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.27%) Mule
4 2 (1.52%) nginx
4 2 (1.52%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.76%) Apache
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (3.03%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 63 (47.73%) Azure
2 47 (35.61%) AWS
3 26 (19.70%) GitHub
4 18 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (12.88%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (12.12%) Amazon EKS
7 15 (11.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (10.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (10.61%) Azure Monitor
8 14 (10.61%) GCP
9 11 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (7.58%) Datadog
11 8 (6.06%) Amazon ECR
11 8 (6.06%) Azure Storage
11 8 (6.06%) Entra ID
11 8 (6.06%) OpenShift
11 8 (6.06%) Serverless
12 7 (5.30%) Amazon S3
12 7 (5.30%) Azure AKS
12 7 (5.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 24 (18.18%) Firewall
2 22 (16.67%) VPN
3 12 (9.09%) DNS
4 7 (5.30%) TCP/IP
5 6 (4.55%) Network Security
5 6 (4.55%) WAN
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%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.79%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.03%) Oracle Database
5 4 (3.03%) Power BI
6 3 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.27%) Redis
7 2 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.52%) Metadata
7 2 (1.52%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.52%) MySQL
8 1 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (14.39%) Jenkins
2 18 (13.64%) GitLab
3 12 (9.09%) Git
4 6 (4.55%) Bitbucket
5 5 (3.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (3.79%) 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 38 (28.79%) Finance
2 14 (10.61%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.55%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.79%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.27%) Banking
7 2 (1.52%) Agriculture
7 2 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.76%) Advertising
8 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Games
8 1 (0.76%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.33%) Kafka
2 7 (5.30%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (5.30%) PySpark
3 6 (4.55%) YAML
4 4 (3.03%) ADO
4 4 (3.03%) AWS CDK
4 4 (3.03%) Middleware
4 4 (3.03%) OAuth
4 4 (3.03%) SAML
5 3 (2.27%) Django
6 2 (1.52%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.52%) Keycloak
6 2 (1.52%) Loki
6 2 (1.52%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (1.52%) WebRTC
7 1 (0.76%) Celery
7 1 (0.76%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.76%) Ray
7 1 (0.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.58%) Private Cloud
2 7 (5.30%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.79%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.27%) Hedge funds
4 3 (2.27%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.52%) Equities
5 2 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.52%) IoT
5 2 (1.52%) MPEG
5 2 (1.52%) Replication
5 2 (1.52%) Robotics
6 1 (0.76%) CMDB
6 1 (0.76%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.76%) Life Science
6 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.76%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 45 (34.09%) Linux
2 19 (14.39%) Windows
3 14 (10.61%) Windows Server
4 11 (8.33%) 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 67 (50.76%) CI/CD
3 63 (47.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 52 (39.39%) DevOps
5 27 (20.45%) Observability
6 26 (19.70%) Infrastructure Automation
7 23 (17.42%) Analytics
7 23 (17.42%) Incident Response
8 21 (15.91%) High Availability
9 19 (14.39%) Containerisation
10 17 (12.88%) Configuration Management
11 16 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (11.36%) Root Cause Analysis
12 15 (11.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 14 (10.61%) Disaster Recovery
13 14 (10.61%) Log Analytics
14 13 (9.85%) Agile
14 13 (9.85%) Continuous Integration
14 13 (9.85%) Data Engineering
15 12 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 48 (36.36%) Python
2 29 (21.97%) PowerShell
3 20 (15.15%) Bash
3 20 (15.15%) SQL
4 7 (5.30%) Scala
5 5 (3.79%) Java
6 4 (3.03%) Go
6 4 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (2.27%) Perl
8 1 (0.76%) Bicep
8 1 (0.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (11.36%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.58%) Degree
2 10 (7.58%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.03%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.27%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.76%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.30%) GDPR
3 5 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.03%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.76%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.76%) NIST
6 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 26 (19.70%) Docker
2 18 (13.64%) Active Directory
3 13 (9.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.03%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.27%) vSphere
6 2 (1.52%) NFS
6 2 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 64 (48.48%) Terraform
2 56 (42.42%) Kubernetes
3 41 (31.06%) Ansible
4 21 (15.91%) Grafana
5 18 (13.64%) Prometheus
6 9 (6.82%) Progress Chef
7 8 (6.06%) Argo
7 8 (6.06%) Puppet
8 4 (3.03%) Rancher
8 4 (3.03%) ZABBIX
9 3 (2.27%) AWS Copilot
10 2 (1.52%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.76%) Istio
11 1 (0.76%) vRealize
Vendors
1 24 (18.18%) VMware
2 13 (9.85%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.82%) Red Hat
4 8 (6.06%) Oracle
5 7 (5.30%) Cisco
5 7 (5.30%) Databricks
6 6 (4.55%) Splunk
7 5 (3.79%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.79%) Zscaler
8 4 (3.03%) Atlassian
8 4 (3.03%) Cribl.io
8 4 (3.03%) Google
8 4 (3.03%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.52%) Foundry
9 2 (1.52%) MikroTik
9 2 (1.52%) NETGEAR
9 2 (1.52%) Palantir
9 2 (1.52%) Sonatype
9 2 (1.52%) Starlink
9 2 (1.52%) Ubiquiti