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 11 March 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 288 333
Rank change year-on-year +33 +45 +88
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 139 118 152
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.84% 0.86% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 0.95% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 115 89 135
10th Percentile £64,750 £64,077 £65,000
25th Percentile £74,375 £76,250 £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 £110,000 £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 15,230 12,434 20,634
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.56% 90.96% 94.17%
Number of salaries quoted 10,172 7,647 16,422
10th Percentile £37,375 £42,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £75,000 £72,150
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% +3.95% -1.16%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £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 11 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 11 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 +25 29 £80,000 -11.11% 16
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 116 (83.45%) Platform Engineering
2 71 (51.08%) CI/CD
3 68 (48.92%) Terraform
4 67 (48.20%) Infrastructure as Code
5 64 (46.04%) Azure
6 59 (42.45%) Kubernetes
7 53 (38.13%) DevOps
8 51 (36.69%) Python
9 49 (35.25%) AWS
10 47 (33.81%) Linux
11 41 (29.50%) Ansible
12 30 (21.58%) PowerShell
13 29 (20.86%) GitHub
14 28 (20.14%) Infrastructure Automation
14 28 (20.14%) Observability
15 26 (18.71%) Docker
16 25 (17.99%) Firewall
17 24 (17.27%) Incident Response
17 24 (17.27%) VMware
18 23 (16.55%) Analytics
18 23 (16.55%) High Availability
18 23 (16.55%) VPN
19 21 (15.11%) Grafana
19 21 (15.11%) SQL
20 20 (14.39%) Windows
21 19 (13.67%) Active Directory
21 19 (13.67%) Bash
21 19 (13.67%) Containerisation
21 19 (13.67%) GitHub Actions
22 18 (12.95%) Configuration Management

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 (3.60%) Confluence
1 5 (3.60%) IIS
1 5 (3.60%) SharePoint
1 5 (3.60%) Tomcat
2 4 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.44%) Mule
4 2 (1.44%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.72%) Apache
5 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.72%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (2.88%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 64 (46.04%) Azure
2 49 (35.25%) AWS
3 29 (20.86%) GitHub
4 19 (13.67%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (12.23%) Amazon EKS
5 17 (12.23%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (11.51%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (10.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (10.07%) Azure Monitor
9 13 (9.35%) GCP
10 12 (8.63%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (7.91%) Datadog
12 9 (6.47%) Amazon ECR
12 9 (6.47%) Amazon S3
12 9 (6.47%) Serverless
13 8 (5.76%) Azure Storage
13 8 (5.76%) Entra ID
14 7 (5.04%) AWS KMS
14 7 (5.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (5.04%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 25 (17.99%) Firewall
2 23 (16.55%) VPN
3 13 (9.35%) DNS
4 6 (4.32%) Network Security
4 6 (4.32%) TCP/IP
5 5 (3.60%) WAN
6 4 (2.88%) DHCP
7 1 (0.72%) BGP
7 1 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.72%) MQTT
7 1 (0.72%) OSPF
7 1 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.72%) RTMP
7 1 (0.72%) VLAN
7 1 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.35%) Data Lake
2 11 (7.91%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (5.04%) Delta Lake
4 5 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.60%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.60%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.88%) Power BI
6 3 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.16%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.16%) Redis
7 2 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.72%) Metadata
8 1 (0.72%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.72%) MySQL
8 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.72%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 18 (12.95%) Jenkins
2 16 (11.51%) GitLab
3 12 (8.63%) Git
4 6 (4.32%) Bitbucket
5 5 (3.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (3.60%) JIRA
6 3 (2.16%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.72%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.72%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.72%) MLflow
7 1 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 41 (29.50%) Finance
2 15 (10.79%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.47%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.60%) Public Sector
4 5 (3.60%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.16%) Banking
6 2 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.44%) Law
7 1 (0.72%) Advertising
7 1 (0.72%) Agriculture
7 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.47%) Kafka
2 8 (5.76%) PySpark
3 7 (5.04%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (4.32%) YAML
5 4 (2.88%) ADO
5 4 (2.88%) AWS CDK
5 4 (2.88%) Middleware
5 4 (2.88%) OAuth
5 4 (2.88%) SAML
6 3 (2.16%) Django
7 2 (1.44%) Loki
7 2 (1.44%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.72%) Celery
8 1 (0.72%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.72%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.72%) Keycloak
8 1 (0.72%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.72%) Ray
8 1 (0.72%) REST
8 1 (0.72%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.91%) Private Cloud
2 8 (5.76%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.32%) Hedge funds
4 5 (3.60%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.88%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.44%) CMDB
7 2 (1.44%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.44%) Equities
7 2 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.44%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.44%) Replication
8 1 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.72%) IoT
8 1 (0.72%) Life Science
8 1 (0.72%) MPEG
8 1 (0.72%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.72%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 47 (33.81%) Linux
2 20 (14.39%) Windows
3 15 (10.79%) Windows Server
4 11 (7.91%) Unix
5 8 (5.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (5.76%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (3.60%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (2.88%) VMS
8 3 (2.16%) SUSE
8 3 (2.16%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.72%) Debian
9 1 (0.72%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (83.45%) Platform Engineering
2 71 (51.08%) CI/CD
3 67 (48.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (38.13%) DevOps
5 28 (20.14%) Infrastructure Automation
5 28 (20.14%) Observability
6 24 (17.27%) Incident Response
7 23 (16.55%) Analytics
7 23 (16.55%) High Availability
8 19 (13.67%) Containerisation
9 18 (12.95%) Configuration Management
10 16 (11.51%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (10.79%) Agile
11 15 (10.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (10.79%) Disaster Recovery
11 15 (10.79%) Root Cause Analysis
12 14 (10.07%) Log Analytics
12 14 (10.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 13 (9.35%) Continuous Integration
13 13 (9.35%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 51 (36.69%) Python
2 30 (21.58%) PowerShell
3 21 (15.11%) SQL
4 19 (13.67%) Bash
5 7 (5.04%) Scala
6 4 (2.88%) Go
6 4 (2.88%) Java
6 4 (2.88%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.44%) Perl
8 1 (0.72%) Bicep
8 1 (0.72%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (10.79%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.91%) Degree
3 10 (7.19%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.60%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.88%) 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 (8.63%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.32%) GDPR
3 5 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.88%) 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 26 (18.71%) Docker
2 19 (13.67%) Active Directory
3 13 (9.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.88%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.16%) vSphere
6 2 (1.44%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.72%) NFS
Systems Management
1 68 (48.92%) Terraform
2 59 (42.45%) Kubernetes
3 41 (29.50%) Ansible
4 21 (15.11%) Grafana
5 17 (12.23%) Prometheus
6 9 (6.47%) Progress Chef
7 8 (5.76%) Puppet
8 7 (5.04%) Argo
9 4 (2.88%) ZABBIX
10 3 (2.16%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (2.16%) Rancher
11 1 (0.72%) Istio
11 1 (0.72%) Packer
11 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 24 (17.27%) VMware
2 15 (10.79%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.76%) Databricks
3 8 (5.76%) Red Hat
4 7 (5.04%) Cisco
4 7 (5.04%) Oracle
4 7 (5.04%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.32%) Splunk
6 5 (3.60%) Palo Alto
6 5 (3.60%) Zscaler
7 4 (2.88%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.88%) Cribl.io
7 4 (2.88%) Google
8 2 (1.44%) Foundry
8 2 (1.44%) Palantir
9 1 (0.72%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.72%) EMC
9 1 (0.72%) F5
9 1 (0.72%) NETGEAR
9 1 (0.72%) Sonatype