Platform Engineer Job Trends in London

Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Platform Engineer salary in London is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 June 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 264 346
Rank change year-on-year +21 +82 +79
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 171 125 164
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.82% 1.03% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 1.14% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 124 85 134
10th Percentile £71,363 £67,500 £65,750
25th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.94% +6.25%
75th Percentile £105,625 £100,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £132,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.96% +0.67% +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 19,362 10,928 22,532
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 90.03% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 13,249 6,960 16,856
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,979 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,875 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.83% +9.52% -13.22%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +14 51 £90,000 +9.09% 15
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 146 (85.38%) Platform Engineering
2 92 (53.80%) Terraform
3 91 (53.22%) Azure
4 89 (52.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 84 (49.12%) CI/CD
6 80 (46.78%) Python
7 62 (36.26%) DevOps
8 54 (31.58%) Kubernetes
9 51 (29.82%) AWS
10 42 (24.56%) PowerShell
11 37 (21.64%) Microsoft
12 36 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
13 35 (20.47%) Ansible
13 35 (20.47%) GitHub
14 31 (18.13%) Linux
14 31 (18.13%) Observability
15 28 (16.37%) Infrastructure Automation
16 27 (15.79%) Bash
17 26 (15.20%) AI
18 25 (14.62%) Firewall
18 25 (14.62%) Mentoring
19 23 (13.45%) Disaster Recovery
19 23 (13.45%) High Availability
20 22 (12.87%) Cloud Security
20 22 (12.87%) Fintech
21 21 (12.28%) Analytics
21 21 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
21 21 (12.28%) Incident Response
21 21 (12.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
21 21 (12.28%) 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 (2.92%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.58%) Apache
4 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.58%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.34%) Weka
2 2 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 91 (53.22%) Azure
2 51 (29.82%) AWS
3 36 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (20.47%) GitHub
5 20 (11.70%) Amazon S3
6 19 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (11.11%) Serverless
7 18 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (8.77%) Azure AKS
8 15 (8.77%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (7.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (7.60%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (5.26%) Amazon ECR
10 9 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (4.68%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (4.68%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (4.09%) Entra ID
12 7 (4.09%) Power Platform
12 7 (4.09%) Route 53
12 7 (4.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (14.62%) Firewall
2 19 (11.11%) VPN
3 6 (3.51%) DNS
4 3 (1.75%) WAN
5 2 (1.17%) LAN
5 2 (1.17%) Network Security
5 2 (1.17%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.17%) WLAN
6 1 (0.58%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.19%) Data Lake
2 10 (5.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (4.09%) Delta Lake
3 7 (4.09%) Power BI
4 3 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.17%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.58%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.58%) MySQL
6 1 (0.58%) Redis
6 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.58%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.58%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 18 (10.53%) Git
2 8 (4.68%) Visual Studio Code
3 6 (3.51%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.92%) GitLab
5 4 (2.34%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.17%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.17%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.58%) JIRA
General
1 44 (25.73%) Finance
2 26 (15.20%) Social Skills
3 8 (4.68%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (4.68%) Public Sector
4 6 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (2.34%) Health Technology
6 3 (1.75%) Banking
6 3 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.75%) Retail
7 2 (1.17%) Law
8 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.58%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.68%) PySpark
2 6 (3.51%) Node.js
3 3 (1.75%) .NET
3 3 (1.75%) SAML
4 2 (1.17%) AWS CDK
4 2 (1.17%) Kafka
4 2 (1.17%) Loki
4 2 (1.17%) OAuth
4 2 (1.17%) YAML
5 1 (0.58%) ADO
5 1 (0.58%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.58%) Celery
5 1 (0.58%) CrewAI
5 1 (0.58%) Django
5 1 (0.58%) JWT
5 1 (0.58%) LangChain
5 1 (0.58%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.58%) Ray
5 1 (0.58%) RESTful
5 1 (0.58%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.94%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.19%) Private Cloud
3 11 (6.43%) Public Cloud
4 6 (3.51%) CMDB
4 6 (3.51%) Hedge funds
5 5 (2.92%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.17%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.17%) Equities
7 2 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.17%) Replication
8 1 (0.58%) Blog
8 1 (0.58%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.58%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.58%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 31 (18.13%) Linux
2 10 (5.85%) Windows
2 10 (5.85%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.34%) Unix
4 2 (1.17%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.58%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (85.38%) Platform Engineering
2 89 (52.05%) Infrastructure as Code
3 84 (49.12%) CI/CD
4 62 (36.26%) DevOps
5 31 (18.13%) Observability
6 28 (16.37%) Infrastructure Automation
7 26 (15.20%) AI
8 25 (14.62%) Mentoring
9 23 (13.45%) Disaster Recovery
9 23 (13.45%) High Availability
10 22 (12.87%) Cloud Security
10 22 (12.87%) Fintech
11 21 (12.28%) Analytics
11 21 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (12.28%) Incident Response
11 21 (12.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 17 (9.94%) Agile
12 17 (9.94%) Containerisation
12 17 (9.94%) Data Pipeline
13 16 (9.36%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 80 (46.78%) Python
2 42 (24.56%) PowerShell
3 27 (15.79%) Bash
4 21 (12.28%) SQL
5 7 (4.09%) Scala
6 6 (3.51%) Bicep
6 6 (3.51%) Go
6 6 (3.51%) Java
7 1 (0.58%) Groovy
7 1 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 18 (10.53%) Azure Certification
2 15 (8.77%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.26%) Degree
4 7 (4.09%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.51%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.77%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.58%) GDPR
2 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.58%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (8.77%) Active Directory
1 15 (8.77%) Docker
2 8 (4.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.34%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 92 (53.80%) Terraform
2 54 (31.58%) Kubernetes
3 35 (20.47%) Ansible
4 20 (11.70%) Grafana
5 15 (8.77%) Prometheus
6 8 (4.68%) Packer
7 6 (3.51%) Argo
7 6 (3.51%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.34%) Puppet
8 4 (2.34%) ZABBIX
9 2 (1.17%) Istio
9 2 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.58%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.58%) Rancher
Vendors
1 37 (21.64%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.19%) VMware
3 10 (5.85%) ServiceNow
4 8 (4.68%) Databricks
5 7 (4.09%) Palo Alto
6 6 (3.51%) Cisco
6 6 (3.51%) EMC
6 6 (3.51%) F5
6 6 (3.51%) Foundry
6 6 (3.51%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.34%) Cribl.io
8 3 (1.75%) Google
8 3 (1.75%) Splunk
8 3 (1.75%) Zscaler
9 2 (1.17%) Informatica
9 2 (1.17%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.58%) Oracle