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 11 August 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 273 318
Rank change year-on-year +15 +45 +87
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 177 121 158
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.74% 0.99% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 1.08% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 117 80 121
10th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £61,250
25th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £110,500 £110,000 £118,750
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 22,099 11,184 18,613
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 91.69% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 15,123 7,260 12,867
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +2.84% -3.29%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,750 £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 11 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 11 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 +14 50 £90,000 +20.00% 34
East London - 1 - - 1
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 160 (90.40%) Platform Engineering
2 95 (53.67%) Terraform
3 88 (49.72%) Python
4 85 (48.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 83 (46.89%) Azure
6 82 (46.33%) CI/CD
7 62 (35.03%) DevOps
8 57 (32.20%) AWS
9 52 (29.38%) Kubernetes
10 51 (28.81%) Microsoft
11 44 (24.86%) PowerShell
12 38 (21.47%) AI
13 35 (19.77%) Linux
14 34 (19.21%) Observability
15 33 (18.64%) Bash
16 32 (18.08%) Ansible
17 30 (16.95%) Azure DevOps
17 30 (16.95%) GitHub
18 28 (15.82%) SQL
19 25 (14.12%) Containerisation
20 24 (13.56%) Docker
20 24 (13.56%) Mentoring
20 24 (13.56%) Serverless
21 23 (12.99%) Software Engineering
22 22 (12.43%) Amazon S3
22 22 (12.43%) Cloud Security
22 22 (12.43%) Infrastructure Automation
22 22 (12.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
23 21 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
24 20 (11.30%) Azure Certification

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 (5.65%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.52%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.13%) Apache
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.56%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 83 (46.89%) Azure
2 57 (32.20%) AWS
3 30 (16.95%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (16.95%) GitHub
4 24 (13.56%) Serverless
5 22 (12.43%) Amazon S3
6 17 (9.60%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (9.04%) Azure AKS
7 16 (9.04%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (8.47%) Power Platform
9 14 (7.91%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (7.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (5.65%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (5.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 9 (5.08%) GCP
13 8 (4.52%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (4.52%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (4.52%) Entra ID
13 8 (4.52%) PaaS
14 7 (3.95%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.78%) Firewall
2 5 (2.82%) DNS
2 5 (2.82%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.26%) VPN
4 2 (1.13%) Broadband
4 2 (1.13%) LAN
4 2 (1.13%) VoIP
4 2 (1.13%) WAN
4 2 (1.13%) WLAN
5 1 (0.56%) BGP
5 1 (0.56%) DHCP
5 1 (0.56%) Network Security
5 1 (0.56%) SSL
5 1 (0.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.21%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.52%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (4.52%) Power BI
3 4 (2.26%) BigQuery
3 4 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.69%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.13%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.13%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.13%) MySQL
5 2 (1.13%) Redis
6 1 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.56%) Big Data
6 1 (0.56%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.56%) Scylla
6 1 (0.56%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (6.78%) Git
2 10 (5.65%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.52%) GitLab
3 8 (4.52%) Visual Studio Code
4 6 (3.39%) MLflow
5 5 (2.82%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.82%) TeamCity
6 4 (2.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (2.26%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.56%) JIRA
General
1 38 (21.47%) Finance
2 25 (14.12%) Social Skills
3 13 (7.34%) Law
4 12 (6.78%) Legal
5 10 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (5.08%) Banking
7 8 (4.52%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.82%) Retail
10 4 (2.26%) Health Technology
11 3 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.13%) Games
13 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.39%) Node.js
2 5 (2.82%) NestJS
2 5 (2.82%) SAML
3 4 (2.26%) .NET
3 4 (2.26%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (2.26%) Kafka
3 4 (2.26%) ONNX
4 3 (1.69%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.69%) FastAPI
4 3 (1.69%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (1.69%) RESTful
5 1 (0.56%) CrewAI
5 1 (0.56%) Jinja
5 1 (0.56%) JWT
5 1 (0.56%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.56%) LangChain
5 1 (0.56%) PySpark
5 1 (0.56%) Snowpark
5 1 (0.56%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (16.95%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.91%) Public Cloud
3 12 (6.78%) Private Cloud
4 10 (5.65%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.39%) CMDB
5 6 (3.39%) Hedge funds
5 6 (3.39%) Low-Code
6 4 (2.26%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.26%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.13%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.13%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.13%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (1.13%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.56%) Blog
9 1 (0.56%) Clustering
9 1 (0.56%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 35 (19.77%) Linux
2 13 (7.34%) Windows
3 11 (6.21%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.13%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (90.40%) Platform Engineering
2 85 (48.02%) Infrastructure as Code
3 82 (46.33%) CI/CD
4 62 (35.03%) DevOps
5 38 (21.47%) AI
6 34 (19.21%) Observability
7 25 (14.12%) Containerisation
8 24 (13.56%) Mentoring
9 23 (12.99%) Software Engineering
10 22 (12.43%) Cloud Security
10 22 (12.43%) Infrastructure Automation
10 22 (12.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 21 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (11.30%) Disaster Recovery
12 20 (11.30%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (10.73%) Agile
13 19 (10.73%) Data Pipeline
14 16 (9.04%) Fintech
14 16 (9.04%) Test Automation
15 15 (8.47%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 88 (49.72%) Python
2 44 (24.86%) PowerShell
3 33 (18.64%) Bash
4 28 (15.82%) SQL
5 17 (9.60%) Java
6 8 (4.52%) Bicep
7 7 (3.95%) Go
8 5 (2.82%) C#
8 5 (2.82%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.26%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.26%) Rust
9 4 (2.26%) VBA
10 1 (0.56%) C
10 1 (0.56%) Groovy
10 1 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (11.30%) Azure Certification
2 15 (8.47%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.65%) Degree
3 10 (5.65%) DV Cleared
4 7 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (3.95%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.13%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.56%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.21%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.56%) NIST
3 1 (0.56%) RMADS
System Software
1 24 (13.56%) Docker
2 15 (8.47%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.82%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 95 (53.67%) Terraform
2 52 (29.38%) Kubernetes
3 32 (18.08%) Ansible
4 19 (10.73%) Grafana
5 15 (8.47%) Prometheus
6 11 (6.21%) Argo
6 11 (6.21%) Packer
7 4 (2.26%) Kubeflow
8 3 (1.69%) Istio
8 3 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.56%) Cilium
9 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.56%) Puppet
9 1 (0.56%) Rancher
9 1 (0.56%) SCOM
Vendors
1 51 (28.81%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.21%) ServiceNow
3 9 (5.08%) VMware
4 8 (4.52%) Splunk
5 6 (3.39%) Cisco
5 6 (3.39%) EMC
5 6 (3.39%) F5
5 6 (3.39%) Foundry
5 6 (3.39%) OpenAI
5 6 (3.39%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.26%) Databricks
7 2 (1.13%) Google
7 2 (1.13%) Informatica
7 2 (1.13%) Oracle
7 2 (1.13%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.13%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.56%) Rackspace