Platform Engineer Jobs in London

Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Platform Engineer salary in London is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 426 590
Rank change year-on-year +88 +164 -238
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 164 226 280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.70% 0.61% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.64% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 142 157 202
10th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.03% +10.00%
75th Percentile £110,000 £101,250 £99,688
90th Percentile £122,500 £108,000 £107,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 22,063 35,308 61,804
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.17% 95.07% 96.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,690 25,807 35,082
10th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,250 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +9.09%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in London

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in London.

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in London

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in London over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

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 16 April 2024. 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 +53 28 £85,000 -2.86% 5
South London - 6 £110,000 -
West London - 3 - -
Platform Engineer
England

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, Platform Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 155 (94.51%) Platform Engineering
2 111 (67.68%) Terraform
3 90 (54.88%) Kubernetes
4 84 (51.22%) Python
5 82 (50.00%) Azure
6 78 (47.56%) AWS
6 78 (47.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 72 (43.90%) DevOps
8 65 (39.63%) CI/CD
9 58 (35.37%) Docker
10 42 (25.61%) Linux
11 39 (23.78%) Finance
12 36 (21.95%) Ansible
13 33 (20.12%) Configuration Management
14 32 (19.51%) Agile
14 32 (19.51%) Jenkins
15 30 (18.29%) Java
15 30 (18.29%) Serverless
16 29 (17.68%) GCP
17 28 (17.07%) SQL
17 28 (17.07%) Social Skills
17 28 (17.07%) Containerisation
18 27 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
19 26 (15.85%) PowerShell
20 24 (14.63%) Puppet
20 24 (14.63%) GitHub
21 23 (14.02%) Software Engineering
22 22 (13.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
22 22 (13.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
23 21 (12.80%) Progress Chef

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (6.10%) Confluence
2 8 (4.88%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.61%) nginx
4 1 (0.61%) SAS
4 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 82 (50.00%) Azure
2 78 (47.56%) AWS
3 30 (18.29%) Serverless
4 29 (17.68%) GCP
5 24 (14.63%) GitHub
6 15 (9.15%) Amazon S3
6 15 (9.15%) AWS CloudFormation
6 15 (9.15%) PaaS
6 15 (9.15%) Route 53
6 15 (9.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 14 (8.54%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (8.54%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (7.93%) Azure AKS
8 13 (7.93%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (6.71%) IaaS
10 9 (5.49%) SaaS
11 8 (4.88%) OpenShift
12 6 (3.66%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (3.66%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (3.05%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.49%) Firewall
2 7 (4.27%) DNS
3 4 (2.44%) IPv4
3 4 (2.44%) VPN
4 3 (1.83%) Internet
5 1 (0.61%) Broadband
5 1 (0.61%) FTP
5 1 (0.61%) SSL
5 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.61%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.59%) BigQuery
2 12 (7.32%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (5.49%) Looker
3 9 (5.49%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.66%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.05%) Hadoop
5 5 (3.05%) MySQL
6 4 (2.44%) Big Data
7 3 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.83%) InfluxDB
7 3 (1.83%) Power BI
8 1 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.61%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 32 (19.51%) Jenkins
2 19 (11.59%) Git
3 17 (10.37%) JIRA
4 13 (7.93%) TeamCity
5 11 (6.71%) Bitbucket
6 9 (5.49%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (5.49%) Subversion
7 8 (4.88%) Artifactory
8 7 (4.27%) GitLab
8 7 (4.27%) Snyk
9 5 (3.05%) DTrace
9 5 (3.05%) GDB
9 5 (3.05%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (1.83%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.61%) Zephyr
General
1 39 (23.78%) Finance
2 28 (17.07%) Social Skills
3 22 (13.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (9.15%) Banking
5 9 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.27%) Law
6 7 (4.27%) Retail Banking
7 6 (3.66%) Retail
8 5 (3.05%) Games
9 4 (2.44%) Front Office
9 4 (2.44%) Health Technology
10 3 (1.83%) Legal
11 2 (1.22%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.15%) Kafka
2 6 (3.66%) .NET
2 6 (3.66%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (3.05%) SAML
4 3 (1.83%) Node.js
4 3 (1.83%) PySpark
4 3 (1.83%) React
5 2 (1.22%) REST
6 1 (0.61%) Anaconda
6 1 (0.61%) JSON
6 1 (0.61%) Loki
6 1 (0.61%) RESTful
6 1 (0.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.37%) Linux Command Line
2 15 (9.15%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (6.10%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (5.49%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (4.27%) Clustering
6 7 (4.27%) Replication
7 6 (3.66%) Data Centre
8 5 (3.05%) Blog
8 5 (3.05%) Client/Server
9 4 (2.44%) Cloud Native
9 4 (2.44%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.83%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.61%) Blockchain
12 1 (0.61%) Cyberattack
12 1 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 1 (0.61%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.61%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 42 (25.61%) Linux
2 22 (13.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (4.27%) Oracle Linux
3 7 (4.27%) Solaris
3 7 (4.27%) Windows
4 5 (3.05%) Unix
5 3 (1.83%) VMS
6 2 (1.22%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.61%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (94.51%) Platform Engineering
2 78 (47.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 72 (43.90%) DevOps
4 65 (39.63%) CI/CD
5 33 (20.12%) Configuration Management
6 32 (19.51%) Agile
7 28 (17.07%) Containerisation
8 27 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (14.02%) Software Engineering
10 17 (10.37%) Deployment Automation
11 16 (9.76%) Data Pipeline
11 16 (9.76%) Innovative Thinking
12 15 (9.15%) Fintech
12 15 (9.15%) Infrastructure Automation
13 14 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (8.54%) Data Engineering
13 14 (8.54%) Migration
14 13 (7.93%) Software Testing
15 12 (7.32%) Analytics
15 12 (7.32%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 84 (51.22%) Python
2 30 (18.29%) Java
3 28 (17.07%) SQL
4 26 (15.85%) PowerShell
5 19 (11.59%) Bash
6 15 (9.15%) C#
7 12 (7.32%) Go
7 12 (7.32%) Perl
8 6 (3.66%) C
9 5 (3.05%) OCaml
9 5 (3.05%) Shell Script
9 5 (3.05%) SystemTap
10 3 (1.83%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.83%) Ruby
10 3 (1.83%) Scala
11 2 (1.22%) Bicep
12 1 (0.61%) C++
12 1 (0.61%) Groovy
12 1 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (7.93%) Degree
2 7 (4.27%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.66%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.05%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 4 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.22%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.22%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.22%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.22%) PhD
8 1 (0.61%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.49%) GDPR
2 7 (4.27%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.83%) QA
System Software
1 58 (35.37%) Docker
2 6 (3.66%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 111 (67.68%) Terraform
2 90 (54.88%) Kubernetes
3 36 (21.95%) Ansible
4 24 (14.63%) Puppet
5 21 (12.80%) Progress Chef
6 18 (10.98%) Salt
7 11 (6.71%) Grafana
8 10 (6.10%) Istio
8 10 (6.10%) Packer
8 10 (6.10%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.22%) Argo
9 2 (1.22%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.61%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.61%) Kibana
10 1 (0.61%) logstash
10 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.61%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 18 (10.98%) Google
2 12 (7.32%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.10%) Atlassian
4 8 (4.88%) Red Hat
5 7 (4.27%) Oracle
5 7 (4.27%) Serena
6 4 (2.44%) Databricks
6 4 (2.44%) YouTube
7 2 (1.22%) Confluent
7 2 (1.22%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.22%) Splunk
7 2 (1.22%) VMware
8 1 (0.61%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.61%) BT
8 1 (0.61%) Citrix
8 1 (0.61%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.61%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.61%) Wallstreet Suite