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 25 August 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 277 329
Rank change year-on-year +13 +52 +59
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 182 115 146
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.76% 0.95% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 1.04% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 119 74 108
10th Percentile £67,500 £57,800 £60,890
25th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £72,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £72,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% -19.44% +12.50%
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £110,250 £110,000 £117,875
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 22,359 11,031 18,604
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 91.54% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 15,311 7,177 12,556
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £71,840
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +0.92% -0.91%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 25 August 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 25 August 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 +35 51 £93,740 +24.99% 8
East London - 1 - - 1
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 August 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.

1 163 (89.56%) Platform Engineering
2 98 (53.85%) Terraform
3 90 (49.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 90 (49.45%) Python
4 88 (48.35%) Azure
5 84 (46.15%) CI/CD
6 64 (35.16%) DevOps
7 56 (30.77%) AWS
8 55 (30.22%) Kubernetes
8 55 (30.22%) Microsoft
9 46 (25.27%) PowerShell
10 43 (23.63%) AI
11 37 (20.33%) Observability
12 36 (19.78%) Bash
13 34 (18.68%) Linux
14 33 (18.13%) Azure DevOps
15 31 (17.03%) Ansible
16 30 (16.48%) Containerisation
16 30 (16.48%) SQL
17 29 (15.93%) GitHub
18 28 (15.38%) Software Engineering
19 27 (14.84%) Docker
20 26 (14.29%) Cloud Security
21 25 (13.74%) Serverless
22 24 (13.19%) Mentoring
22 24 (13.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
23 23 (12.64%) Infrastructure Automation
24 22 (12.09%) Grafana
25 21 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
25 21 (11.54%) Data Pipeline

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 10 (5.49%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.40%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.10%) Apache
4 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.55%) Confluence
4 1 (0.55%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 88 (48.35%) Azure
2 56 (30.77%) AWS
3 33 (18.13%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (15.93%) GitHub
5 25 (13.74%) Serverless
6 20 (10.99%) Amazon S3
7 19 (10.44%) Azure AKS
8 17 (9.34%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (9.34%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (8.79%) Power Platform
10 12 (6.59%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (6.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (6.04%) GCP
12 9 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (4.40%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (4.40%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 8 (4.40%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (4.40%) Entra ID
13 8 (4.40%) SaaS
14 7 (3.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.59%) Firewall
2 5 (2.75%) DNS
3 4 (2.20%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.20%) VPN
4 2 (1.10%) Broadband
4 2 (1.10%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.10%) LAN
4 2 (1.10%) VoIP
4 2 (1.10%) WAN
4 2 (1.10%) WLAN
5 1 (0.55%) BGP
5 1 (0.55%) DHCP
5 1 (0.55%) SSL
5 1 (0.55%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.49%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (4.40%) Power BI
4 4 (2.20%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.65%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.10%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.10%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.10%) MySQL
7 1 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.55%) Big Data
7 1 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.55%) Redis
7 1 (0.55%) Scylla
7 1 (0.55%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.55%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (6.04%) Jenkins
2 10 (5.49%) Git
3 8 (4.40%) Visual Studio Code
4 6 (3.30%) GitLab
4 6 (3.30%) MLflow
5 5 (2.75%) TeamCity
6 4 (2.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (2.20%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.20%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.55%) JIRA
General
1 38 (20.88%) Finance
2 30 (16.48%) Social Skills
3 13 (7.14%) Law
3 13 (7.14%) Legal
4 10 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.49%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.95%) Banking
6 6 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.75%) Retail
8 4 (2.20%) Health Technology
8 4 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.10%) Games
10 1 (0.55%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.55%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (53.85%) Terraform
2 6 (3.30%) NestJS
2 6 (3.30%) Node.js
3 5 (2.75%) Kafka
3 5 (2.75%) SAML
4 4 (2.20%) .NET
4 4 (2.20%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (2.20%) ONNX
4 4 (2.20%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (1.65%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.65%) FastAPI
5 3 (1.65%) Pulumi
5 3 (1.65%) RESTful
6 1 (0.55%) Jinja
6 1 (0.55%) JWT
6 1 (0.55%) OAuth
6 1 (0.55%) Spring
6 1 (0.55%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.55%) Web Services
6 1 (0.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (19.23%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.79%) Public Cloud
3 14 (7.69%) Private Cloud
4 10 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.30%) CMDB
5 6 (3.30%) Low-Code
6 5 (2.75%) Hedge funds
7 4 (2.20%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.20%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.10%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.10%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.10%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (1.10%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.55%) Clustering
9 1 (0.55%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.55%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 34 (18.68%) Linux
2 13 (7.14%) Windows
3 11 (6.04%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (89.56%) Platform Engineering
2 90 (49.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 84 (46.15%) CI/CD
4 64 (35.16%) DevOps
5 43 (23.63%) AI
6 37 (20.33%) Observability
7 30 (16.48%) Containerisation
8 28 (15.38%) Software Engineering
9 26 (14.29%) Cloud Security
10 24 (13.19%) Mentoring
10 24 (13.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 23 (12.64%) Infrastructure Automation
12 21 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (11.54%) Data Pipeline
13 20 (10.99%) Disaster Recovery
13 20 (10.99%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (9.89%) Agile
15 16 (8.79%) Fintech
15 16 (8.79%) Machine Learning
15 16 (8.79%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 90 (49.45%) Python
2 46 (25.27%) PowerShell
3 36 (19.78%) Bash
4 30 (16.48%) SQL
5 16 (8.79%) Java
6 8 (4.40%) Bicep
6 8 (4.40%) Go
7 7 (3.85%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.30%) C#
9 4 (2.20%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.20%) Rust
9 4 (2.20%) VBA
10 1 (0.55%) C
10 1 (0.55%) Groovy
10 1 (0.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (10.99%) Azure Certification
2 15 (8.24%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.59%) Degree
4 11 (6.04%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.30%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.10%) CISM
7 2 (1.10%) CISSP
7 2 (1.10%) GSEC
7 2 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.10%) OSCP
8 1 (0.55%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.59%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.10%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.55%) NIST
3 1 (0.55%) RMADS
System Software
1 27 (14.84%) Docker
2 15 (8.24%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.75%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.55%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (30.22%) Kubernetes
2 31 (17.03%) Ansible
3 22 (12.09%) Grafana
4 18 (9.89%) Prometheus
5 12 (6.59%) Argo
6 11 (6.04%) Packer
7 6 (3.30%) Istio
8 4 (2.20%) Kubeflow
9 3 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.10%) Cilium
10 2 (1.10%) linkerd
11 1 (0.55%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.55%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.55%) Puppet
11 1 (0.55%) Rancher
11 1 (0.55%) SCOM
Vendors
1 55 (30.22%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.04%) ServiceNow
3 9 (4.95%) VMware
4 8 (4.40%) Splunk
5 6 (3.30%) Cisco
5 6 (3.30%) EMC
5 6 (3.30%) F5
5 6 (3.30%) Foundry
5 6 (3.30%) OpenAI
5 6 (3.30%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.75%) Google
7 4 (2.20%) Databricks
8 2 (1.10%) Informatica
8 2 (1.10%) Oracle
8 2 (1.10%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.10%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.55%) Rackspace