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 27 April 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 275 335
Rank change year-on-year +10 +60 +103
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 152 122 169
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.77% 0.95% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 1.05% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 118 84 145
10th Percentile £67,125 £67,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £75,625 £75,313 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +12.50% -
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 18,189 11,570 21,938
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.91% 90.19% 94.09%
Number of salaries quoted 12,251 7,526 16,677
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -11.33%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +10 39 £90,000 - 22
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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.

1 128 (84.21%) Platform Engineering
2 74 (48.68%) Azure
3 73 (48.03%) Terraform
4 72 (47.37%) CI/CD
5 70 (46.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 62 (40.79%) Python
7 58 (38.16%) Kubernetes
8 54 (35.53%) DevOps
9 44 (28.95%) AWS
9 44 (28.95%) Linux
10 42 (27.63%) Ansible
11 36 (23.68%) PowerShell
12 34 (22.37%) GitHub
13 29 (19.08%) Infrastructure Automation
14 28 (18.42%) Observability
15 26 (17.11%) Active Directory
15 26 (17.11%) Azure DevOps
15 26 (17.11%) Firewall
15 26 (17.11%) VMware
16 25 (16.45%) Microsoft
17 23 (15.13%) Analytics
17 23 (15.13%) GitHub Actions
17 23 (15.13%) High Availability
18 22 (14.47%) Incident Response
18 22 (14.47%) VPN
19 21 (13.82%) Continuous Improvement
20 20 (13.16%) Docker
20 20 (13.16%) SQL
20 20 (13.16%) Windows
21 19 (12.50%) Bash

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 (3.29%) Confluence
1 5 (3.29%) IIS
1 5 (3.29%) SharePoint
1 5 (3.29%) Tomcat
2 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.66%) Apache
4 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (2.63%) Weka
2 2 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 74 (48.68%) Azure
2 44 (28.95%) AWS
3 34 (22.37%) GitHub
4 26 (17.11%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (15.13%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (9.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (8.55%) Serverless
9 12 (7.89%) Amazon S3
9 12 (7.89%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (7.89%) Azure Monitor
10 10 (6.58%) Entra ID
11 9 (5.92%) Amazon ECR
11 9 (5.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (5.92%) Azure AKS
11 9 (5.92%) Datadog
12 8 (5.26%) Azure Storage
12 8 (5.26%) GCP
12 8 (5.26%) OpenShift
13 7 (4.61%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 26 (17.11%) Firewall
2 22 (14.47%) VPN
3 13 (8.55%) DNS
4 6 (3.95%) WAN
5 5 (3.29%) Network Security
6 3 (1.97%) DHCP
7 2 (1.32%) LAN
7 2 (1.32%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.32%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.55%) Data Lake
2 11 (7.24%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (4.61%) Delta Lake
4 5 (3.29%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.63%) Power BI
6 3 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.32%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.66%) Redis
8 1 (0.66%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.66%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 17 (11.18%) Git
2 12 (7.89%) GitLab
2 12 (7.89%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.26%) Visual Studio Code
4 7 (4.61%) Bitbucket
5 6 (3.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (3.29%) JIRA
7 1 (0.66%) CircleCI
General
1 42 (27.63%) Finance
2 18 (11.84%) Social Skills
3 9 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (1.97%) Health Technology
5 3 (1.97%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.32%) Retail
6 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.66%) Advertising
7 1 (0.66%) Banking
7 1 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.66%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.26%) PySpark
2 6 (3.95%) Kafka
3 5 (3.29%) OAuth
3 5 (3.29%) YAML
4 4 (2.63%) ADO
4 4 (2.63%) Middleware
4 4 (2.63%) SAML
5 2 (1.32%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.32%) Loki
6 1 (0.66%) .NET
6 1 (0.66%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.66%) Celery
6 1 (0.66%) CrewAI
6 1 (0.66%) Django
6 1 (0.66%) JWT
6 1 (0.66%) LangChain
6 1 (0.66%) Node.js
6 1 (0.66%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.66%) Ray
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.87%) Private Cloud
2 10 (6.58%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.58%) Public Cloud
3 6 (3.95%) Hedge funds
4 5 (3.29%) CMDB
5 4 (2.63%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.32%) Equities
7 2 (1.32%) Replication
8 1 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.66%) Life Science
8 1 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.66%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.66%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 44 (28.95%) Linux
2 20 (13.16%) Windows
3 18 (11.84%) Windows Server
4 8 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
4 8 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (3.95%) Unix
6 5 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (3.29%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (2.63%) VMS
8 3 (1.97%) SUSE
8 3 (1.97%) Windows 10
9 2 (1.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (84.21%) Platform Engineering
2 72 (47.37%) CI/CD
3 70 (46.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (35.53%) DevOps
5 29 (19.08%) Infrastructure Automation
6 28 (18.42%) Observability
7 23 (15.13%) Analytics
7 23 (15.13%) High Availability
8 22 (14.47%) Incident Response
9 21 (13.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
11 18 (11.84%) Configuration Management
12 17 (11.18%) Containerisation
13 16 (10.53%) Fintech
14 15 (9.87%) Data Engineering
15 14 (9.21%) AI
15 14 (9.21%) Problem-Solving
16 13 (8.55%) Agile
16 13 (8.55%) Cost Optimisation
16 13 (8.55%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 62 (40.79%) Python
2 36 (23.68%) PowerShell
3 20 (13.16%) SQL
4 19 (12.50%) Bash
5 7 (4.61%) Scala
6 5 (3.29%) Go
7 4 (2.63%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.97%) Java
9 1 (0.66%) Bicep
9 1 (0.66%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (8.55%) Azure Certification
2 12 (7.89%) Degree
3 9 (5.92%) Security Cleared
4 6 (3.95%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.66%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.66%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.55%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.29%) GDPR
3 4 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.63%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.66%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.66%) QA
System Software
1 26 (17.11%) Active Directory
2 20 (13.16%) Docker
3 15 (9.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.63%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.97%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 73 (48.03%) Terraform
2 58 (38.16%) Kubernetes
3 42 (27.63%) Ansible
4 19 (12.50%) Grafana
5 13 (8.55%) Prometheus
6 9 (5.92%) Progress Chef
7 8 (5.26%) Puppet
8 6 (3.95%) Argo
9 5 (3.29%) Packer
10 4 (2.63%) Rancher
10 4 (2.63%) ZABBIX
11 2 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.66%) AWS Copilot
12 1 (0.66%) Istio
Vendors
1 26 (17.11%) VMware
2 25 (16.45%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.92%) Palo Alto
3 9 (5.92%) ServiceNow
4 8 (5.26%) Cisco
4 8 (5.26%) Databricks
4 8 (5.26%) Red Hat
5 6 (3.95%) Zscaler
6 5 (3.29%) EMC
6 5 (3.29%) F5
6 5 (3.29%) Oracle
7 4 (2.63%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.63%) Cribl.io
7 4 (2.63%) Splunk
8 2 (1.32%) Foundry
8 2 (1.32%) Google
8 2 (1.32%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.66%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.66%) Informatica