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 February 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 314 356
Rank change year-on-year +63 +42 +62
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 132 111 128
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.89% 0.73% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 0.79% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 106 79 116
10th Percentile £58,750 £64,077 £65,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £72,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +14.29% -10.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £118,750
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 13,611 13,983 20,181
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.31% 91.73% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 9,012 7,969 16,317
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £39,545
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £52,500
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 £111,250 £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 3 February 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 February 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 +48 27 £80,000 +18.52% 16
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 February 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 66 (50.00%) Azure
4 60 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 59 (44.70%) Terraform
6 57 (43.18%) DevOps
7 56 (42.42%) Kubernetes
8 52 (39.39%) Linux
9 49 (37.12%) Python
10 47 (35.61%) Ansible
11 40 (30.30%) AWS
12 31 (23.48%) PowerShell
13 28 (21.21%) VMware
14 27 (20.45%) Analytics
14 27 (20.45%) Docker
15 26 (19.70%) Bash
15 26 (19.70%) Infrastructure Automation
16 24 (18.18%) GitHub
17 22 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
17 22 (16.67%) Firewall
17 22 (16.67%) Jenkins
17 22 (16.67%) Observability
18 21 (15.91%) Containerisation
18 21 (15.91%) Root Cause Analysis
18 21 (15.91%) Windows
19 20 (15.15%) Grafana
19 20 (15.15%) High Availability
19 20 (15.15%) Prometheus
19 20 (15.15%) VPN
20 19 (14.39%) SQL

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%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.27%) Mule
4 2 (1.52%) nginx
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (3.03%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 66 (50.00%) Azure
2 40 (30.30%) AWS
3 24 (18.18%) GitHub
4 22 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (12.88%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (10.61%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (10.61%) Azure Monitor
7 13 (9.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (9.09%) GCP
9 11 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (7.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (7.58%) OpenShift
11 9 (6.82%) Datadog
12 8 (6.06%) Azure Storage
12 8 (6.06%) Entra ID
13 7 (5.30%) Azure AKS
13 7 (5.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (4.55%) PaaS
14 6 (4.55%) Serverless
15 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
7 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 18 (13.64%) GitLab
3 12 (9.09%) 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 17 (12.88%) Social Skills
3 13 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.06%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.79%) Law
5 5 (3.79%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.03%) Banking
7 3 (2.27%) Games
8 2 (1.52%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.76%) Advertising
9 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.33%) Kafka
2 9 (6.82%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (5.30%) PySpark
4 6 (4.55%) YAML
5 5 (3.79%) GraphQL
5 5 (3.79%) REST
6 4 (3.03%) ADO
6 4 (3.03%) AWS CDK
6 4 (3.03%) Middleware
6 4 (3.03%) OAuth
6 4 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (3.03%) SAML
7 2 (1.52%) Django
7 2 (1.52%) FastAPI
7 2 (1.52%) Keycloak
7 2 (1.52%) Loki
7 2 (1.52%) WebRTC
8 1 (0.76%) Celery
8 1 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.76%) Ray
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.09%) Private Cloud
2 9 (6.82%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.79%) CMDB
3 5 (3.79%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (3.79%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.79%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.27%) 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%) Replication
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
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 67 (50.76%) CI/CD
3 60 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (43.18%) DevOps
5 27 (20.45%) Analytics
6 26 (19.70%) Infrastructure Automation
7 22 (16.67%) Observability
8 21 (15.91%) Containerisation
8 21 (15.91%) Root Cause Analysis
9 20 (15.15%) High Availability
10 17 (12.88%) Agile
10 17 (12.88%) Configuration Management
10 17 (12.88%) Incident Response
10 17 (12.88%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (11.36%) Continuous Integration
12 14 (10.61%) Log Analytics
13 13 (9.85%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (9.85%) Disaster Recovery
13 13 (9.85%) Security Hardening
14 12 (9.09%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 49 (37.12%) Python
2 31 (23.48%) PowerShell
3 26 (19.70%) Bash
4 19 (14.39%) SQL
5 7 (5.30%) Perl
5 7 (5.30%) Scala
6 6 (4.55%) Go
7 5 (3.79%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.03%) Java
8 4 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.52%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 14 (10.61%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.58%) Degree
3 8 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (6.06%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.79%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.27%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.52%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 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 27 (20.45%) Docker
2 18 (13.64%) Active Directory
3 17 (12.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (3.03%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.27%) vSphere
6 2 (1.52%) NFS
Systems Management
1 59 (44.70%) Terraform
2 56 (42.42%) Kubernetes
3 47 (35.61%) Ansible
4 20 (15.15%) Grafana
4 20 (15.15%) Prometheus
5 8 (6.06%) Progress Chef
5 8 (6.06%) Puppet
6 6 (4.55%) Rancher
6 6 (4.55%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (3.79%) Argo
8 4 (3.03%) ZABBIX
9 3 (2.27%) vRealize
10 2 (1.52%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 28 (21.21%) VMware
2 14 (10.61%) Microsoft
3 13 (9.85%) Red Hat
4 9 (6.82%) 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