Platform Engineer Job Trends in London

Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Platform Engineer salary in London is £74,401 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 November 2025.

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

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 295 384
Rank change year-on-year +12 +89 +91
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 96 150 82
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.78% 0.87% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 0.92% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 72 107 68
10th Percentile £55,000 £57,300 £56,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,401 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.33% +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £85,250 £102,500 £96,063
90th Percentile £118,000 £115,000 £101,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +11.11% -12.90%

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 11,206 16,383 18,526
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.01% 94.90% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 7,268 10,015 15,097
10th Percentile £36,000 £41,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

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 9 November 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 9 November 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 +28 11 £65,000 -8.77% 75
South London - 1 £50,000 -
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 November 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 88 (91.67%) Platform Engineering
2 57 (59.38%) CI/CD
3 51 (53.13%) Kubernetes
3 51 (53.13%) Python
4 47 (48.96%) DevOps
4 47 (48.96%) Linux
5 46 (47.92%) Ansible
5 46 (47.92%) Azure
6 43 (44.79%) Terraform
7 37 (38.54%) Infrastructure as Code
8 32 (33.33%) PowerShell
9 30 (31.25%) Bash
10 28 (29.17%) AWS
11 25 (26.04%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (26.04%) VMware
12 24 (25.00%) Docker
13 20 (20.83%) Agile
14 18 (18.75%) Infrastructure Automation
14 18 (18.75%) Windows
15 17 (17.71%) Data Security
15 17 (17.71%) GitLab
16 16 (16.67%) GCP
16 16 (16.67%) Jenkins
16 16 (16.67%) Microsoft
16 16 (16.67%) Red Hat
16 16 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
16 16 (16.67%) Security Hardening
16 16 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
17 15 (15.63%) ServiceNow
18 14 (14.58%) Containerisation

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 (5.21%) Apache Spark
1 5 (5.21%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.17%) Apache Pulsar
3 3 (3.13%) Confluence
3 3 (3.13%) IIS
3 3 (3.13%) Mule
4 2 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.08%) nginx
4 2 (2.08%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 46 (47.92%) Azure
2 28 (29.17%) AWS
3 16 (16.67%) GCP
4 13 (13.54%) GitHub
5 12 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (11.46%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (11.46%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (7.29%) OpenShift
8 7 (7.29%) PaaS
8 7 (7.29%) Power Automate
8 7 (7.29%) Power Platform
8 7 (7.29%) PowerApps
9 6 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (5.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (4.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 4 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (4.17%) Datadog
11 4 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (4.17%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.38%) DNS
2 6 (6.25%) TCP/IP
3 5 (5.21%) DHCP
4 4 (4.17%) Firewall
5 3 (3.13%) VPN
6 2 (2.08%) BGP
6 2 (2.08%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (2.08%) MQTT
6 2 (2.08%) OSPF
6 2 (2.08%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (2.08%) RTMP
6 2 (2.08%) VLAN
6 2 (2.08%) WAN
6 2 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (2.08%) Wireless
7 1 (1.04%) Network Security
7 1 (1.04%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.29%) Power BI
1 7 (7.29%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.17%) BigQuery
2 4 (4.17%) Flink
2 4 (4.17%) NoSQL
2 4 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.13%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.13%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.08%) Metadata
4 2 (2.08%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.08%) MySQL
4 2 (2.08%) Redis
5 1 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.04%) ClickHouse
5 1 (1.04%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (1.04%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 17 (17.71%) GitLab
2 16 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 12 (12.50%) Git
4 3 (3.13%) JIRA
5 2 (2.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (2.08%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.08%) Jaeger
5 2 (2.08%) MLflow
5 2 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.08%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (33.33%) Finance
2 21 (21.88%) Law
3 17 (17.71%) Social Skills
4 14 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (13.54%) Public Sector
6 10 (10.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (6.25%) Banking
8 4 (4.17%) Games
8 4 (4.17%) Legal
8 4 (4.17%) Marketing
8 4 (4.17%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.08%) Agriculture
10 1 (1.04%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.46%) Kafka
2 8 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (6.25%) GraphQL
3 6 (6.25%) REST
4 5 (5.21%) .NET
5 4 (4.17%) AWS CDK
5 4 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (3.13%) SAML
6 3 (3.13%) YAML
7 2 (2.08%) Django
7 2 (2.08%) FastAPI
7 2 (2.08%) Keycloak
7 2 (2.08%) Middleware
7 2 (2.08%) WebRTC
8 1 (1.04%) LDAP
8 1 (1.04%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.63%) Private Cloud
2 8 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 7 (7.29%) Cloud Native
4 6 (6.25%) CMDB
4 6 (6.25%) Public Cloud
5 5 (5.21%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (4.17%) Clustering
6 4 (4.17%) Data Structures
6 4 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (4.17%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.08%) IoT
7 2 (2.08%) MPEG
7 2 (2.08%) Robotics
8 1 (1.04%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.04%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 47 (48.96%) Linux
2 18 (18.75%) Windows
3 13 (13.54%) Windows Server
4 8 (8.33%) Unix
5 6 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.04%) Debian
8 1 (1.04%) Solaris
8 1 (1.04%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.04%) VMS
8 1 (1.04%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (91.67%) Platform Engineering
2 57 (59.38%) CI/CD
3 47 (48.96%) DevOps
4 37 (38.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (26.04%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (20.83%) Agile
7 18 (18.75%) Infrastructure Automation
8 17 (17.71%) Data Security
9 16 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
9 16 (16.67%) Security Hardening
10 14 (14.58%) Containerisation
10 14 (14.58%) Continuous Integration
11 13 (13.54%) Software Engineering
12 12 (12.50%) Task Automation
13 11 (11.46%) Open Source
13 11 (11.46%) Performance Optimisation
14 10 (10.42%) Analytics
14 10 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (10.42%) Fintech
14 10 (10.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 51 (53.13%) Python
2 32 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 30 (31.25%) Bash
4 13 (13.54%) Perl
5 12 (12.50%) Go
6 10 (10.42%) JavaScript
7 8 (8.33%) Java
8 7 (7.29%) SQL
9 5 (5.21%) Shell Script
10 4 (4.17%) C#
10 4 (4.17%) Kotlin
11 3 (3.13%) Bicep
12 1 (1.04%) Bourne shell
12 1 (1.04%) C++
12 1 (1.04%) C-shell
12 1 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (1.04%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (13.54%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.29%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.21%) Degree
3 5 (5.21%) DV Cleared
3 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (4.17%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.08%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.50%) GDPR
1 12 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (4.17%) QA
3 3 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.08%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.08%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.04%) NIST
5 1 (1.04%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.04%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (25.00%) Docker
2 16 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (10.42%) Active Directory
4 7 (7.29%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.08%) NFS
6 1 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 51 (53.13%) Kubernetes
2 46 (47.92%) Ansible
3 43 (44.79%) Terraform
4 12 (12.50%) Grafana
4 12 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 12 (12.50%) Red Hat Satellite
5 4 (4.17%) Rancher
5 4 (4.17%) vRealize
6 3 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (3.13%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.08%) Argo
7 2 (2.08%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (2.08%) Puppet
8 1 (1.04%) Oracle ZFS
8 1 (1.04%) VxRail
Vendors
1 25 (26.04%) VMware
2 16 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 16 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 15 (15.63%) ServiceNow
4 12 (12.50%) Cisco
5 6 (6.25%) Google
6 5 (5.21%) Okta
6 5 (5.21%) Oracle
6 5 (5.21%) Splunk
6 5 (5.21%) Zscaler
7 4 (4.17%) Foundry
7 4 (4.17%) Palantir
8 3 (3.13%) Atlassian
9 2 (2.08%) MikroTik
9 2 (2.08%) NETGEAR
9 2 (2.08%) Sonatype
9 2 (2.08%) Starlink
9 2 (2.08%) Ubiquiti
10 1 (1.04%) Databricks
10 1 (1.04%) VocaLink