Platform Engineer Job Trends in London

Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Platform Engineer salary in London is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 November 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 298 366
Rank change year-on-year +18 +68 +63
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 99 154 86
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.76% 0.89% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 0.94% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 73 114 74
10th Percentile £52,000 £56,775 £56,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £66,250 £64,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £87,500 £75,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +15.89% -11.18%
75th Percentile £85,000 £102,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £119,500 £116,750 £100,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -9.68%

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 11,843 16,345 17,638
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.68% 94.56% 94.94%
Number of salaries quoted 7,711 9,943 14,399
10th Percentile £35,750 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £119,067 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -

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 30 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 30 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 +16 6 £70,500 +4.44% 7
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 30 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 (88.89%) Platform Engineering
2 60 (60.61%) CI/CD
3 54 (54.55%) Kubernetes
4 51 (51.52%) Ansible
4 51 (51.52%) Linux
5 49 (49.49%) Azure
5 49 (49.49%) DevOps
6 48 (48.48%) Python
7 47 (47.47%) Terraform
8 42 (42.42%) Infrastructure as Code
9 33 (33.33%) Bash
10 32 (32.32%) PowerShell
11 31 (31.31%) AWS
12 30 (30.30%) Docker
13 28 (28.28%) VMware
14 23 (23.23%) Agile
14 23 (23.23%) Infrastructure Automation
15 22 (22.22%) Jenkins
16 21 (21.21%) GitLab
17 20 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
17 20 (20.20%) Windows
18 19 (19.19%) Containerisation
18 19 (19.19%) Red Hat
19 18 (18.18%) GitHub
19 18 (18.18%) Security Hardening
19 18 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
20 17 (17.17%) Continuous Integration
20 17 (17.17%) GitHub Actions
20 17 (17.17%) Root Cause Analysis
21 16 (16.16%) GCP

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 (5.05%) Confluence
1 5 (5.05%) IIS
1 5 (5.05%) Tomcat
2 3 (3.03%) Mule
2 3 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.02%) Apache Pulsar
3 2 (2.02%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.02%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 49 (49.49%) Azure
2 31 (31.31%) AWS
3 18 (18.18%) GitHub
4 17 (17.17%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (16.16%) GCP
6 11 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (11.11%) OpenShift
7 9 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (8.08%) Datadog
9 7 (7.07%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (6.06%) Azure AKS
10 6 (6.06%) PaaS
11 5 (5.05%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (4.04%) Serverless
13 3 (3.03%) Azure Key Vault
13 3 (3.03%) Azure Pipelines
13 3 (3.03%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.10%) DNS
2 9 (9.09%) Firewall
3 6 (6.06%) TCP/IP
3 6 (6.06%) VPN
4 5 (5.05%) WAN
5 4 (4.04%) DHCP
5 4 (4.04%) Network Security
6 2 (2.02%) BGP
6 2 (2.02%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (2.02%) MQTT
6 2 (2.02%) OSPF
6 2 (2.02%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (2.02%) RTMP
6 2 (2.02%) VLAN
6 2 (2.02%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (2.02%) Wireless
7 1 (1.01%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.08%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.05%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.04%) Oracle Database
3 4 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (3.03%) Power BI
5 2 (2.02%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.02%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.02%) Flink
5 2 (2.02%) Metadata
5 2 (2.02%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.02%) MySQL
5 2 (2.02%) Redis
6 1 (1.01%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 22 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 21 (21.21%) GitLab
3 9 (9.09%) Git
4 5 (5.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (5.05%) Bitbucket
4 5 (5.05%) JIRA
5 2 (2.02%) Jaeger
5 2 (2.02%) MLflow
5 2 (2.02%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.02%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (32.32%) Finance
2 16 (16.16%) Social Skills
3 14 (14.14%) Law
4 13 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (5.05%) Banking
7 5 (5.05%) Telecoms
8 4 (4.04%) Games
9 2 (2.02%) Advertising
9 2 (2.02%) Agriculture
9 2 (2.02%) Legal
9 2 (2.02%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.12%) Kafka
2 9 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (6.06%) GraphQL
3 6 (6.06%) REST
3 6 (6.06%) YAML
4 4 (4.04%) Middleware
4 4 (4.04%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (3.03%) .NET
5 3 (3.03%) ADO
5 3 (3.03%) AWS CDK
5 3 (3.03%) OAuth
5 3 (3.03%) SAML
6 2 (2.02%) Django
6 2 (2.02%) FastAPI
6 2 (2.02%) Keycloak
6 2 (2.02%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.02%) WebRTC
7 1 (1.01%) LDAP
7 1 (1.01%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.13%) Private Cloud
2 10 (10.10%) Cloud Native
3 8 (8.08%) Product Ownership
4 6 (6.06%) CMDB
4 6 (6.06%) Public Cloud
5 5 (5.05%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (4.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (4.04%) Management Information System
7 3 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.02%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.02%) IoT
8 2 (2.02%) MPEG
8 2 (2.02%) Robotics
9 1 (1.01%) Clustering
9 1 (1.01%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.01%) Life Science
9 1 (1.01%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.01%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 51 (51.52%) Linux
2 20 (20.20%) Windows
3 14 (14.14%) Windows Server
4 8 (8.08%) Unix
4 8 (8.08%) Windows Server 2016
4 8 (8.08%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (5.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (5.05%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (3.03%) SUSE
6 3 (3.03%) VMS
6 3 (3.03%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.01%) Debian
7 1 (1.01%) Solaris
7 1 (1.01%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (88.89%) Platform Engineering
2 60 (60.61%) CI/CD
3 49 (49.49%) DevOps
4 42 (42.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (23.23%) Agile
5 23 (23.23%) Infrastructure Automation
6 20 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (19.19%) Containerisation
8 18 (18.18%) Security Hardening
9 17 (17.17%) Continuous Integration
9 17 (17.17%) Root Cause Analysis
10 15 (15.15%) Observability
11 14 (14.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (14.14%) Data Security
12 13 (13.13%) Analytics
12 13 (13.13%) Task Automation
13 12 (12.12%) Computer Science
13 12 (12.12%) Configuration Management
14 11 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 11 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 48 (48.48%) Python
2 33 (33.33%) Bash
3 32 (32.32%) PowerShell
4 13 (13.13%) Perl
5 11 (11.11%) SQL
6 9 (9.09%) Go
6 9 (9.09%) JavaScript
7 6 (6.06%) Java
8 3 (3.03%) Bicep
8 3 (3.03%) C#
8 3 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (3.03%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.02%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.01%) Bourne shell
10 1 (1.01%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 12 (12.12%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.07%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (7.07%) Degree
2 7 (7.07%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.05%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.04%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.02%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.01%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.01%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.15%) GDPR
2 11 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (5.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.04%) QA
5 3 (3.03%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.01%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.01%) NIST
6 1 (1.01%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.01%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (30.30%) Docker
2 18 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (14.14%) Active Directory
4 4 (4.04%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (4.04%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (3.03%) vSphere
6 2 (2.02%) NFS
Systems Management
1 54 (54.55%) Kubernetes
2 51 (51.52%) Ansible
3 47 (47.47%) Terraform
4 15 (15.15%) Grafana
4 15 (15.15%) Prometheus
5 11 (11.11%) Red Hat Satellite
6 7 (7.07%) Rancher
7 5 (5.05%) Argo
8 4 (4.04%) Progress Chef
8 4 (4.04%) Puppet
8 4 (4.04%) vRealize
9 2 (2.02%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (1.01%) Oracle ZFS
10 1 (1.01%) VxRail
Vendors
1 28 (28.28%) VMware
2 19 (19.19%) Red Hat
3 13 (13.13%) Microsoft
3 13 (13.13%) ServiceNow
4 10 (10.10%) Cisco
5 8 (8.08%) Oracle
6 7 (7.07%) Splunk
6 7 (7.07%) Zscaler
7 5 (5.05%) Atlassian
8 4 (4.04%) Foundry
8 4 (4.04%) Google
8 4 (4.04%) Okta
8 4 (4.04%) Palantir
9 3 (3.03%) Palo Alto
10 2 (2.02%) MikroTik
10 2 (2.02%) NETGEAR
10 2 (2.02%) Sonatype
10 2 (2.02%) Starlink
10 2 (2.02%) Ubiquiti
11 1 (1.01%) Databricks