Platform Engineer Job Trends in London

Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Platform Engineer salary in London is £73,801 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 October 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 281 294 393
Rank change year-on-year +13 +99 +109
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 95 158 83
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.80% 0.90% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 0.95% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 71 114 65
10th Percentile £55,000 £55,375 £54,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £87,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.66% +9.38% -5.88%
75th Percentile £89,375 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +15.38% -16.13%

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 10,801 16,639 19,078
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.16% 95.20% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 7,043 10,280 15,645
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,312 £41,000
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% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £118,780 £115,000
England median annual salary £53,065 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.71% -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 26 October 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 26 October 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 +20 10 £64,250 -14.33% 30
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 26 October 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 87 (91.58%) Platform Engineering
2 56 (58.95%) CI/CD
3 49 (51.58%) Kubernetes
3 49 (51.58%) Python
4 44 (46.32%) Ansible
4 44 (46.32%) Azure
4 44 (46.32%) DevOps
5 43 (45.26%) Linux
5 43 (45.26%) Terraform
6 36 (37.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 30 (31.58%) AWS
8 28 (29.47%) Bash
9 27 (28.42%) PowerShell
10 26 (27.37%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (23.16%) Docker
11 22 (23.16%) VMware
12 18 (18.95%) Agile
12 18 (18.95%) Data Security
12 18 (18.95%) GCP
12 18 (18.95%) Security Hardening
13 17 (17.89%) Microsoft
14 15 (15.79%) Red Hat
14 15 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
14 15 (15.79%) Security Cleared
15 14 (14.74%) GitLab
15 14 (14.74%) Infrastructure Automation
15 14 (14.74%) Jenkins
15 14 (14.74%) Perl
15 14 (14.74%) ServiceNow
15 14 (14.74%) 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 (5.26%) Apache Spark
1 5 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.21%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.21%) Apache Pulsar
3 3 (3.16%) Mule
4 2 (2.11%) nginx
5 1 (1.05%) Confluence
5 1 (1.05%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 44 (46.32%) Azure
2 30 (31.58%) AWS
3 18 (18.95%) GCP
4 12 (12.63%) Amazon EKS
4 12 (12.63%) GitHub
5 11 (11.58%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (11.58%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (8.42%) PaaS
6 8 (8.42%) Power Automate
6 8 (8.42%) Power Platform
6 8 (8.42%) PowerApps
7 7 (7.37%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (5.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 5 (5.26%) OpenShift
9 4 (4.21%) AWS KMS
9 4 (4.21%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (4.21%) dbt
9 4 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (4.21%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.37%) TCP/IP
2 6 (6.32%) DNS
3 4 (4.21%) DHCP
4 3 (3.16%) Firewall
4 3 (3.16%) VPN
5 2 (2.11%) BGP
5 2 (2.11%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (2.11%) MQTT
5 2 (2.11%) OSPF
5 2 (2.11%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (2.11%) RTMP
5 2 (2.11%) VLAN
5 2 (2.11%) WAN
5 2 (2.11%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (2.11%) Wireless
6 1 (1.05%) Network Security
6 1 (1.05%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.42%) Power BI
2 6 (6.32%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.26%) BigQuery
3 5 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.21%) Flink
5 3 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.16%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.16%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (3.16%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.16%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.16%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.11%) Metadata
6 2 (2.11%) MySQL
6 2 (2.11%) Redis
7 1 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.05%) ClickHouse
7 1 (1.05%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (1.05%) Power Query
7 1 (1.05%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (14.74%) GitLab
1 14 (14.74%) Jenkins
2 11 (11.58%) Git
3 2 (2.11%) Jaeger
3 2 (2.11%) MLflow
3 2 (2.11%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.05%) JIRA
4 1 (1.05%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (33.68%) Finance
2 21 (22.11%) Law
3 17 (17.89%) Social Skills
4 14 (14.74%) Public Sector
5 13 (13.68%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (6.32%) Banking
8 4 (4.21%) Games
8 4 (4.21%) Legal
8 4 (4.21%) Marketing
9 3 (3.16%) Telecoms
10 2 (2.11%) Advertising
10 2 (2.11%) Agriculture
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.53%) Kafka
2 7 (7.37%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (7.37%) REST
3 6 (6.32%) GraphQL
4 5 (5.26%) .NET
4 5 (5.26%) AWS CDK
5 4 (4.21%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (4.21%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (3.16%) SAML
6 3 (3.16%) YAML
7 2 (2.11%) Django
7 2 (2.11%) FastAPI
7 2 (2.11%) Keycloak
7 2 (2.11%) WebRTC
8 1 (1.05%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (1.05%) LDAP
8 1 (1.05%) PySpark
8 1 (1.05%) React
8 1 (1.05%) Spring
8 1 (1.05%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.68%) Private Cloud
2 8 (8.42%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.32%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.32%) CMDB
4 5 (5.26%) Clustering
4 5 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (5.26%) Public Cloud
5 4 (4.21%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.21%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.21%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.21%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.11%) IoT
6 2 (2.11%) MPEG
6 2 (2.11%) Robotics
7 1 (1.05%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.05%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.05%) Replication
7 1 (1.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 43 (45.26%) Linux
2 14 (14.74%) Windows
3 10 (10.53%) Windows Server
4 7 (7.37%) Unix
5 4 (4.21%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.05%) Debian
6 1 (1.05%) Solaris
6 1 (1.05%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.05%) VMS
6 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (91.58%) Platform Engineering
2 56 (58.95%) CI/CD
3 44 (46.32%) DevOps
4 36 (37.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (27.37%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (18.95%) Agile
6 18 (18.95%) Data Security
6 18 (18.95%) Security Hardening
7 15 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
8 14 (14.74%) Infrastructure Automation
9 13 (13.68%) Containerisation
9 13 (13.68%) Software Engineering
10 12 (12.63%) Continuous Integration
11 11 (11.58%) Analytics
11 11 (11.58%) Open Source
11 11 (11.58%) Performance Optimisation
11 11 (11.58%) Task Automation
12 10 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (10.53%) Fintech
12 10 (10.53%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 49 (51.58%) Python
2 28 (29.47%) Bash
3 27 (28.42%) PowerShell
4 14 (14.74%) Perl
5 13 (13.68%) Go
6 11 (11.58%) JavaScript
7 9 (9.47%) Java
8 6 (6.32%) SQL
9 5 (5.26%) Shell Script
10 4 (4.21%) C#
10 4 (4.21%) Kotlin
11 3 (3.16%) Bicep
12 1 (1.05%) Bourne shell
12 1 (1.05%) C++
12 1 (1.05%) C-shell
12 1 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (1.05%) PHP
12 1 (1.05%) Scala
12 1 (1.05%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.42%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.26%) DV Cleared
3 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.16%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.16%) Degree
5 1 (1.05%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.68%) GDPR
1 13 (13.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (4.21%) QA
3 3 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.11%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.11%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.05%) NIST
5 1 (1.05%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.05%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (23.16%) Docker
2 14 (14.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (8.42%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (6.32%) Active Directory
5 2 (2.11%) NFS
6 1 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (51.58%) Kubernetes
2 44 (46.32%) Ansible
3 43 (45.26%) Terraform
4 13 (13.68%) Red Hat Satellite
5 11 (11.58%) Grafana
5 11 (11.58%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.21%) Rancher
6 4 (4.21%) vRealize
7 3 (3.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (2.11%) Argo
8 2 (2.11%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (1.05%) Oracle ZFS
9 1 (1.05%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.05%) VxRail
Vendors
1 22 (23.16%) VMware
2 17 (17.89%) Microsoft
3 15 (15.79%) Red Hat
4 14 (14.74%) ServiceNow
5 10 (10.53%) Cisco
6 7 (7.37%) Google
7 5 (5.26%) Okta
7 5 (5.26%) Zscaler
8 4 (4.21%) Foundry
8 4 (4.21%) Oracle
8 4 (4.21%) Palantir
8 4 (4.21%) Splunk
9 2 (2.11%) EMC
9 2 (2.11%) MikroTik
9 2 (2.11%) NETGEAR
9 2 (2.11%) Sonatype
9 2 (2.11%) Starlink
9 2 (2.11%) Ubiquiti
10 1 (1.05%) Databricks
10 1 (1.05%) TOWER Software