Platform Engineer Job Trends in London

Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Platform Engineer salary in London is £80,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 March 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 276 334
Rank change year-on-year +19 +58 +93
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 138 120 157
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.81% 0.90% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 0.99% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 114 88 137
10th Percentile £64,500 £65,716 £65,000
25th Percentile £74,063 £80,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.56% +12.50% -3.03%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,625 £110,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +6.67% +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 15,650 12,078 20,589
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.62% 90.90% 94.10%
Number of salaries quoted 10,453 7,547 16,370
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £75,000 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% +4.90% -2.18%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £94,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £121,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.69%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 +16 29 £80,000 -11.11% 15
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 March 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.

1 115 (83.33%) Platform Engineering
2 71 (51.45%) CI/CD
3 68 (49.28%) Terraform
4 66 (47.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 63 (45.65%) Azure
6 58 (42.03%) Kubernetes
7 52 (37.68%) DevOps
8 51 (36.96%) Python
9 49 (35.51%) AWS
10 48 (34.78%) Linux
11 41 (29.71%) Ansible
12 30 (21.74%) GitHub
12 30 (21.74%) Infrastructure Automation
12 30 (21.74%) PowerShell
13 27 (19.57%) Observability
14 25 (18.12%) Docker
14 25 (18.12%) Firewall
14 25 (18.12%) Incident Response
14 25 (18.12%) VMware
15 23 (16.67%) VPN
16 22 (15.94%) Analytics
17 21 (15.22%) High Availability
17 21 (15.22%) SQL
17 21 (15.22%) Windows
18 20 (14.49%) Active Directory
18 20 (14.49%) GitHub Actions
18 20 (14.49%) Grafana
19 19 (13.77%) Bash
19 19 (13.77%) Configuration Management
19 19 (13.77%) 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 (3.62%) Confluence
1 5 (3.62%) IIS
1 5 (3.62%) SharePoint
1 5 (3.62%) Tomcat
2 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.45%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.72%) Apache
4 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.72%) Mule
Applications
1 4 (2.90%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 63 (45.65%) Azure
2 49 (35.51%) AWS
3 30 (21.74%) GitHub
4 20 (14.49%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (12.32%) Amazon EKS
6 16 (11.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 16 (11.59%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (11.59%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (9.42%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (8.70%) Datadog
8 12 (8.70%) GCP
9 11 (7.97%) Amazon S3
10 10 (7.25%) Amazon ECR
10 10 (7.25%) Serverless
11 8 (5.80%) Azure Storage
11 8 (5.80%) Entra ID
12 7 (5.07%) OpenShift
12 7 (5.07%) Route 53
12 7 (5.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (18.12%) Firewall
2 23 (16.67%) VPN
3 14 (10.14%) DNS
4 6 (4.35%) Network Security
5 5 (3.62%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.90%) DHCP
6 4 (2.90%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.70%) Data Lake
2 11 (7.97%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (5.07%) Delta Lake
4 5 (3.62%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.62%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.62%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.90%) Power BI
6 3 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.17%) Redis
7 2 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.45%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.72%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 17 (12.32%) Jenkins
2 15 (10.87%) GitLab
3 13 (9.42%) Git
4 6 (4.35%) Bitbucket
5 5 (3.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (3.62%) JIRA
6 4 (2.90%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.72%) CircleCI
General
1 39 (28.26%) Finance
2 16 (11.59%) Social Skills
3 10 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.62%) Telecoms
5 4 (2.90%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.45%) Banking
6 2 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.45%) Law
6 2 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.72%) Advertising
7 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.80%) PySpark
2 7 (5.07%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (5.07%) Kafka
3 5 (3.62%) YAML
4 4 (2.90%) ADO
4 4 (2.90%) Middleware
4 4 (2.90%) OAuth
4 4 (2.90%) SAML
5 3 (2.17%) AWS CDK
5 3 (2.17%) Django
6 2 (1.45%) Loki
6 2 (1.45%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.72%) Celery
7 1 (0.72%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.72%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.72%) Ray
7 1 (0.72%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.70%) Private Cloud
2 7 (5.07%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.35%) Hedge funds
4 5 (3.62%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.90%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.17%) CMDB
6 3 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.45%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.45%) Equities
7 2 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.45%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.45%) Replication
8 1 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.72%) Life Science
8 1 (0.72%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 48 (34.78%) Linux
2 21 (15.22%) Windows
3 16 (11.59%) Windows Server
4 11 (7.97%) Unix
5 8 (5.80%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (5.80%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (3.62%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (2.90%) VMS
8 3 (2.17%) SUSE
8 3 (2.17%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.72%) Debian
9 1 (0.72%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (83.33%) Platform Engineering
2 71 (51.45%) CI/CD
3 66 (47.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 52 (37.68%) DevOps
5 30 (21.74%) Infrastructure Automation
6 27 (19.57%) Observability
7 25 (18.12%) Incident Response
8 22 (15.94%) Analytics
9 21 (15.22%) High Availability
10 19 (13.77%) Configuration Management
10 19 (13.77%) Containerisation
11 17 (12.32%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (11.59%) Agile
12 16 (11.59%) Disaster Recovery
12 16 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (10.14%) Continuous Integration
13 14 (10.14%) Root Cause Analysis
14 13 (9.42%) Data Engineering
14 13 (9.42%) Log Analytics
14 13 (9.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 51 (36.96%) Python
2 30 (21.74%) PowerShell
3 21 (15.22%) SQL
4 19 (13.77%) Bash
5 7 (5.07%) Scala
6 4 (2.90%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (2.17%) Go
7 3 (2.17%) Java
8 2 (1.45%) Perl
9 1 (0.72%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (10.14%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.70%) Degree
3 9 (6.52%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.35%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.90%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.72%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.35%) GDPR
3 5 (3.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.90%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.72%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.72%) NIST
5 1 (0.72%) QA
5 1 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 25 (18.12%) Docker
2 20 (14.49%) Active Directory
3 14 (10.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.90%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.17%) vSphere
6 2 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 68 (49.28%) Terraform
2 58 (42.03%) Kubernetes
3 41 (29.71%) Ansible
4 20 (14.49%) Grafana
5 16 (11.59%) Prometheus
6 9 (6.52%) Progress Chef
7 8 (5.80%) Puppet
8 6 (4.35%) Argo
9 4 (2.90%) ZABBIX
10 3 (2.17%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (2.17%) Rancher
11 2 (1.45%) Packer
12 1 (0.72%) Istio
12 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 25 (18.12%) VMware
2 15 (10.87%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.80%) Databricks
3 8 (5.80%) Red Hat
3 8 (5.80%) ServiceNow
4 7 (5.07%) Cisco
5 6 (4.35%) Oracle
5 6 (4.35%) Palo Alto
5 6 (4.35%) Splunk
6 5 (3.62%) Zscaler
7 4 (2.90%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.90%) Cribl.io
7 4 (2.90%) Google
8 2 (1.45%) EMC
8 2 (1.45%) F5
8 2 (1.45%) Foundry
8 2 (1.45%) Palantir
9 1 (0.72%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.72%) Okta