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 December 2025.

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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 264 302 338
Rank change year-on-year +38 +36 +73
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 115 138 101
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.84% 0.87% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 0.94% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 90 99 92
10th Percentile £55,000 £61,600 £60,000
25th Percentile £68,750 £66,250 £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 £110,000 £98,125
90th Percentile £117,750 £140,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.23%

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 12,433 14,742 16,770
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 93.00% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 8,215 8,650 13,551
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

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 December 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 31 December 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 +30 20 £80,000 +18.52% 30
South London - 1 £50,000 - 1
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 December 2025, 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 97 (84.35%) Platform Engineering
2 59 (51.30%) CI/CD
3 57 (49.57%) Azure
4 53 (46.09%) Linux
5 52 (45.22%) DevOps
6 50 (43.48%) Kubernetes
7 49 (42.61%) Terraform
8 48 (41.74%) Ansible
9 44 (38.26%) Infrastructure as Code
9 44 (38.26%) Python
10 33 (28.70%) AWS
11 30 (26.09%) Bash
11 30 (26.09%) PowerShell
12 26 (22.61%) Docker
12 26 (22.61%) VMware
13 23 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
13 23 (20.00%) Jenkins
14 21 (18.26%) Agile
14 21 (18.26%) GitHub
15 20 (17.39%) Analytics
15 20 (17.39%) Containerisation
15 20 (17.39%) GitLab
16 19 (16.52%) Root Cause Analysis
16 19 (16.52%) Windows
17 18 (15.65%) Firewall
17 18 (15.65%) Observability
18 17 (14.78%) GitHub Actions
18 17 (14.78%) Red Hat
18 17 (14.78%) Security Hardening
18 17 (14.78%) VMware Infrastructure

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 (4.35%) Confluence
1 5 (4.35%) IIS
1 5 (4.35%) Tomcat
2 3 (2.61%) Mule
3 2 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.74%) nginx
3 2 (1.74%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 57 (49.57%) Azure
2 33 (28.70%) AWS
3 21 (18.26%) GitHub
4 17 (14.78%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (13.91%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (10.43%) GCP
7 11 (9.57%) OpenShift
8 10 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (8.70%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (7.83%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (7.83%) Datadog
10 7 (6.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (5.22%) Azure AKS
11 6 (5.22%) PaaS
12 5 (4.35%) Azure Storage
12 5 (4.35%) Entra ID
12 5 (4.35%) Serverless
13 4 (3.48%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (3.48%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (3.48%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (15.65%) Firewall
2 15 (13.04%) VPN
3 10 (8.70%) DNS
4 6 (5.22%) TCP/IP
4 6 (5.22%) WAN
5 5 (4.35%) Network Security
6 4 (3.48%) DHCP
7 2 (1.74%) BGP
7 2 (1.74%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (1.74%) MQTT
7 2 (1.74%) OSPF
7 2 (1.74%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (1.74%) RTMP
7 2 (1.74%) VLAN
7 2 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.74%) Wireless
8 1 (0.87%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 7 (6.09%) Data Lake
2 5 (4.35%) NoSQL
2 5 (4.35%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.48%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (3.48%) Oracle Database
3 4 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.61%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.74%) Metadata
5 2 (1.74%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.74%) MySQL
5 2 (1.74%) Redis
6 1 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.87%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.87%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 23 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 20 (17.39%) GitLab
3 10 (8.70%) Git
4 5 (4.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (4.35%) Bitbucket
4 5 (4.35%) JIRA
5 2 (1.74%) Jaeger
5 2 (1.74%) MLflow
5 2 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.74%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 37 (32.17%) Finance
2 14 (12.17%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (11.30%) Social Skills
4 8 (6.96%) Law
5 7 (6.09%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.35%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.48%) Banking
7 4 (3.48%) Games
8 2 (1.74%) Advertising
8 2 (1.74%) Agriculture
8 2 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.70%) Kafka
2 9 (7.83%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (6.09%) YAML
4 6 (5.22%) GraphQL
4 6 (5.22%) REST
5 4 (3.48%) ADO
5 4 (3.48%) Middleware
5 4 (3.48%) OAuth
5 4 (3.48%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (3.48%) SAML
6 3 (2.61%) PySpark
7 2 (1.74%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.74%) Django
7 2 (1.74%) FastAPI
7 2 (1.74%) Keycloak
7 2 (1.74%) WebRTC
8 1 (0.87%) LDAP
8 1 (0.87%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.04%) Private Cloud
2 8 (6.96%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.09%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.22%) CMDB
4 6 (5.22%) Public Cloud
5 5 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.48%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.48%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.74%) Equities
7 2 (1.74%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.74%) IoT
7 2 (1.74%) MPEG
7 2 (1.74%) Robotics
8 1 (0.87%) Clustering
8 1 (0.87%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.87%) Life Science
8 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.87%) Replication
8 1 (0.87%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 53 (46.09%) Linux
2 19 (16.52%) Windows
3 14 (12.17%) Windows Server
4 11 (9.57%) Unix
5 8 (6.96%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (6.96%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (3.48%) VMS
8 3 (2.61%) SUSE
8 3 (2.61%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.87%) Debian
9 1 (0.87%) Solaris
9 1 (0.87%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (84.35%) Platform Engineering
2 59 (51.30%) CI/CD
3 52 (45.22%) DevOps
4 44 (38.26%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 21 (18.26%) Agile
7 20 (17.39%) Analytics
7 20 (17.39%) Containerisation
8 19 (16.52%) Root Cause Analysis
9 18 (15.65%) Observability
10 17 (14.78%) Security Hardening
11 16 (13.91%) Continuous Integration
11 16 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (12.17%) High Availability
13 13 (11.30%) Configuration Management
13 13 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (10.43%) Incident Response
15 11 (9.57%) Computer Science
15 11 (9.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 11 (9.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 44 (38.26%) Python
2 30 (26.09%) Bash
2 30 (26.09%) PowerShell
3 15 (13.04%) SQL
4 11 (9.57%) Perl
5 6 (5.22%) Go
5 6 (5.22%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.48%) Java
6 4 (3.48%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (2.61%) Scala
8 2 (1.74%) Bicep
9 1 (0.87%) Bourne shell
9 1 (0.87%) C-shell
9 1 (0.87%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.96%) Degree
3 7 (6.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.35%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.35%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.61%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.74%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.87%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.87%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.17%) GDPR
2 9 (7.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (5.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (4.35%) Data Quality
5 4 (3.48%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.87%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.87%) NIST
6 1 (0.87%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.87%) QA
6 1 (0.87%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (22.61%) Docker
2 17 (14.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (13.04%) Active Directory
4 5 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (3.48%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (2.61%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (2.61%) vSphere
7 2 (1.74%) NFS
Systems Management
1 50 (43.48%) Kubernetes
2 49 (42.61%) Terraform
3 48 (41.74%) Ansible
4 15 (13.04%) Grafana
4 15 (13.04%) Prometheus
5 9 (7.83%) Red Hat Satellite
6 7 (6.09%) Rancher
7 5 (4.35%) Argo
8 4 (3.48%) Progress Chef
8 4 (3.48%) Puppet
8 4 (3.48%) vRealize
9 2 (1.74%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.87%) Oracle ZFS
10 1 (0.87%) VxRail
Vendors
1 26 (22.61%) VMware
2 17 (14.78%) Red Hat
3 12 (10.43%) Microsoft
3 12 (10.43%) ServiceNow
4 9 (7.83%) Cisco
5 8 (6.96%) Oracle
6 7 (6.09%) Splunk
7 5 (4.35%) Atlassian
7 5 (4.35%) Zscaler
8 4 (3.48%) Foundry
8 4 (3.48%) Palantir
8 4 (3.48%) Palo Alto
9 3 (2.61%) Databricks
10 2 (1.74%) Google
10 2 (1.74%) MikroTik
10 2 (1.74%) NETGEAR
10 2 (1.74%) Sonatype
10 2 (1.74%) Starlink
10 2 (1.74%) Ubiquiti
11 1 (0.87%) Qualys