Platform Engineer Job Trends in London

Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Platform Engineer salary in London is £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 October 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 281 310
Rank change year-on-year +24 +29 +86
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 200 99 158
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.77% 0.84% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 0.93% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 123 71 111
10th Percentile £56,330 £57,500 £61,250
25th Percentile £75,375 £67,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £72,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.69% -19.44% +12.50%
75th Percentile £98,750 £89,375 £101,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.34% -3.33% +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 24,003 10,661 17,613
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 90.97% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 16,104 6,886 10,855
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £59,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.18% - -8.33%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +38 47 £90,000 +28.57% 68
West London - 4 £47,500 - 13
East London - 1 - - 2
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 October 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.

1 175 (87.50%) Platform Engineering
2 103 (51.50%) Terraform
3 97 (48.50%) Azure
4 96 (48.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 82 (41.00%) CI/CD
6 81 (40.50%) DevOps
7 78 (39.00%) Python
8 56 (28.00%) AI
9 54 (27.00%) Kubernetes
9 54 (27.00%) Microsoft
10 50 (25.00%) PowerShell
11 48 (24.00%) AWS
12 46 (23.00%) Observability
13 45 (22.50%) Azure DevOps
14 38 (19.00%) SQL
15 37 (18.50%) Bash
16 35 (17.50%) Software Engineering
17 33 (16.50%) Containerisation
18 32 (16.00%) Docker
19 31 (15.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 29 (14.50%) Cloud Security
20 29 (14.50%) Linux
20 29 (14.50%) Serverless
21 28 (14.00%) Ansible
21 28 (14.00%) GitHub
22 27 (13.50%) Data Pipeline
23 25 (12.50%) Grafana
24 24 (12.00%) Azure AKS
25 23 (11.50%) Prometheus
26 22 (11.00%) Infrastructure Automation

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 13 (6.50%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.50%) Apache
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.50%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 97 (48.50%) Azure
2 48 (24.00%) AWS
3 45 (22.50%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (14.50%) Serverless
5 28 (14.00%) GitHub
6 24 (12.00%) Azure AKS
7 19 (9.50%) GCP
8 17 (8.50%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (8.00%) Power Platform
10 15 (7.50%) Amazon S3
11 14 (7.00%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (6.50%) Entra ID
12 13 (6.50%) PaaS
13 11 (5.50%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
15 9 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (4.50%) SaaS
16 8 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (4.00%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.00%) Firewall
2 6 (3.00%) DNS
3 5 (2.50%) VPN
4 4 (2.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.00%) Broadband
5 2 (1.00%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (1.00%) SSL
5 2 (1.00%) VoIP
6 1 (0.50%) BGP
6 1 (0.50%) DHCP
6 1 (0.50%) LAN
6 1 (0.50%) VSAN
6 1 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (8.00%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.00%) Power BI
4 5 (2.50%) BigQuery
5 4 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.50%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.50%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.50%) MySQL
7 2 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.00%) Couchbase
7 2 (1.00%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.00%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.00%) Scylla
8 1 (0.50%) Big Data
8 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.50%) Redis
8 1 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (5.50%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.00%) MLflow
3 5 (2.50%) Git
3 5 (2.50%) TeamCity
4 4 (2.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (2.00%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.00%) GitLab
5 3 (1.50%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 36 (18.00%) Finance
1 36 (18.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (8.50%) Public Sector
3 14 (7.00%) Legal
4 13 (6.50%) Law
5 8 (4.00%) Banking
6 7 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.00%) Health Technology
7 4 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.50%) Retail
9 2 (1.00%) Games
9 2 (1.00%) Military
9 2 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.50%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (51.50%) Terraform
2 8 (4.00%) SAML
3 6 (3.00%) Kafka
3 6 (3.00%) NestJS
3 6 (3.00%) Node.js
4 5 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (2.50%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (2.00%) .NET
5 4 (2.00%) ARM Templates
5 4 (2.00%) ONNX
5 4 (2.00%) Pulumi
6 3 (1.50%) FastAPI
6 3 (1.50%) RESTful
7 1 (0.50%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (0.50%) Jinja
7 1 (0.50%) JWT
7 1 (0.50%) Keycloak
7 1 (0.50%) Snowpark
7 1 (0.50%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 40 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 20 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 14 (7.00%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (7.00%) Private Cloud
4 6 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.00%) Low-Code
5 4 (2.00%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.00%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.50%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.00%) CMDB
7 2 (1.00%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.00%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.00%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.00%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (1.00%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.50%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 29 (14.50%) Linux
2 11 (5.50%) Windows
3 9 (4.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (87.50%) Platform Engineering
2 96 (48.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 82 (41.00%) CI/CD
4 81 (40.50%) DevOps
5 56 (28.00%) AI
6 46 (23.00%) Observability
7 35 (17.50%) Software Engineering
8 33 (16.50%) Containerisation
9 31 (15.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 29 (14.50%) Cloud Security
11 27 (13.50%) Data Pipeline
12 22 (11.00%) Infrastructure Automation
13 21 (10.50%) Problem-Solving
14 20 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
14 20 (10.00%) Mentoring
14 20 (10.00%) Microservices
15 18 (9.00%) Agile
15 18 (9.00%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (8.50%) Machine Learning
16 17 (8.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 78 (39.00%) Python
2 50 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 38 (19.00%) SQL
4 37 (18.50%) Bash
5 15 (7.50%) Java
6 11 (5.50%) Bicep
7 8 (4.00%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.50%) Go
9 6 (3.00%) C#
10 4 (2.00%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.00%) Rust
10 4 (2.00%) VBA
11 1 (0.50%) C
11 1 (0.50%) Groovy
11 1 (0.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (8.50%) Azure Certification
2 16 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.00%) DV Cleared
4 8 (4.00%) Degree
5 7 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.00%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.00%) CISM
7 2 (1.00%) CISSP
7 2 (1.00%) GSEC
7 2 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.00%) OSCP
8 1 (0.50%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.50%) NIST
3 1 (0.50%) RMADS
System Software
1 32 (16.00%) Docker
2 11 (5.50%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.50%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 54 (27.00%) Kubernetes
2 28 (14.00%) Ansible
3 25 (12.50%) Grafana
4 23 (11.50%) Prometheus
5 13 (6.50%) Argo
6 8 (4.00%) Packer
7 6 (3.00%) Istio
8 4 (2.00%) Kubeflow
8 4 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.50%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.00%) Cilium
10 2 (1.00%) linkerd
11 1 (0.50%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.50%) Puppet
11 1 (0.50%) Rancher
11 1 (0.50%) Rsyslog
11 1 (0.50%) SCOM
11 1 (0.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 54 (27.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.50%) Google
3 9 (4.50%) Splunk
4 7 (3.50%) VMware
5 6 (3.00%) Databricks
5 6 (3.00%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.50%) Foundry
6 5 (2.50%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.50%) EMC
8 2 (1.00%) Cisco
8 2 (1.00%) F5
8 2 (1.00%) Informatica
8 2 (1.00%) Oracle
8 2 (1.00%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.50%) Rackspace