Platform Engineer Job Trends 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 leading to 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 306 329
Rank change year-on-year +50 +23 +52
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 121 124 114
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.86% 0.80% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 0.86% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 96 90 104
10th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £64,125
25th Percentile £68,750 £66,250 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +14.29% -10.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £96,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £76,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% -

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 12,862 14,378 17,329
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.20% 92.68% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 8,531 8,295 13,928
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.50%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 +46 25 £80,000 +18.52% 11
South London - 1 £50,000 - 1
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 January 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.

1 102 (84.30%) Platform Engineering
2 62 (51.24%) Azure
2 62 (51.24%) CI/CD
3 54 (44.63%) DevOps
4 52 (42.98%) Linux
5 51 (42.15%) Kubernetes
5 51 (42.15%) Terraform
6 47 (38.84%) Infrastructure as Code
7 46 (38.02%) Ansible
7 46 (38.02%) Python
8 34 (28.10%) AWS
9 31 (25.62%) PowerShell
10 29 (23.97%) Bash
11 26 (21.49%) Docker
12 25 (20.66%) VMware
13 24 (19.83%) Infrastructure Automation
14 23 (19.01%) Analytics
14 23 (19.01%) GitHub
14 23 (19.01%) Jenkins
15 20 (16.53%) Agile
15 20 (16.53%) Containerisation
15 20 (16.53%) Firewall
15 20 (16.53%) GitLab
15 20 (16.53%) Root Cause Analysis
16 19 (15.70%) Azure DevOps
16 19 (15.70%) Observability
16 19 (15.70%) Windows
17 17 (14.05%) GitHub Actions
17 17 (14.05%) High Availability
17 17 (14.05%) SQL

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 (4.13%) IIS
1 5 (4.13%) Tomcat
2 4 (3.31%) Confluence
3 3 (2.48%) Mule
3 3 (2.48%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.65%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 62 (51.24%) Azure
2 34 (28.10%) AWS
3 23 (19.01%) GitHub
4 19 (15.70%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (14.05%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (9.92%) Azure Monitor
6 12 (9.92%) GCP
7 11 (9.09%) OpenShift
8 10 (8.26%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (8.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (7.44%) Datadog
10 8 (6.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (5.79%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (4.96%) Azure AKS
12 6 (4.96%) Azure Storage
12 6 (4.96%) Entra ID
12 6 (4.96%) PaaS
13 5 (4.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (4.13%) Serverless
14 4 (3.31%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (16.53%) Firewall
2 17 (14.05%) VPN
3 9 (7.44%) DNS
4 6 (4.96%) WAN
5 5 (4.13%) Network Security
5 5 (4.13%) TCP/IP
6 4 (3.31%) DHCP
7 2 (1.65%) BGP
7 2 (1.65%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (1.65%) MQTT
7 2 (1.65%) OSPF
7 2 (1.65%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (1.65%) RTMP
7 2 (1.65%) VLAN
7 2 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.26%) Data Lake
2 9 (7.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (4.13%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (4.13%) Delta Lake
3 5 (4.13%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.13%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.31%) Oracle Database
4 4 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.65%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.65%) Metadata
5 2 (1.65%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.65%) MySQL
5 2 (1.65%) Power BI
5 2 (1.65%) Redis
6 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 23 (19.01%) Jenkins
2 20 (16.53%) GitLab
3 11 (9.09%) Git
4 5 (4.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (4.13%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.31%) JIRA
6 2 (1.65%) Jaeger
6 2 (1.65%) MLflow
6 2 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 40 (33.06%) Finance
2 14 (11.57%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (11.57%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.61%) Law
4 7 (5.79%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.13%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.31%) Banking
6 4 (3.31%) Games
7 2 (1.65%) Advertising
7 2 (1.65%) Agriculture
7 2 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.26%) Kafka
2 9 (7.44%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (5.79%) YAML
4 6 (4.96%) GraphQL
4 6 (4.96%) REST
5 5 (4.13%) PySpark
6 4 (3.31%) ADO
6 4 (3.31%) Middleware
6 4 (3.31%) OAuth
6 4 (3.31%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (3.31%) SAML
7 2 (1.65%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.65%) Django
7 2 (1.65%) FastAPI
7 2 (1.65%) Keycloak
7 2 (1.65%) Loki
7 2 (1.65%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.40%) Private Cloud
2 8 (6.61%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.79%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.96%) CMDB
4 6 (4.96%) Public Cloud
5 5 (4.13%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.31%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.31%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.65%) Equities
7 2 (1.65%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.65%) IoT
7 2 (1.65%) MPEG
7 2 (1.65%) Robotics
8 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.83%) Life Science
8 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.83%) Replication
8 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (42.98%) Linux
2 19 (15.70%) Windows
3 14 (11.57%) Windows Server
4 10 (8.26%) Unix
5 8 (6.61%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (6.61%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (4.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (4.13%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (3.31%) VMS
8 3 (2.48%) SUSE
8 3 (2.48%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.83%) Debian
9 1 (0.83%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (84.30%) Platform Engineering
2 62 (51.24%) CI/CD
3 54 (44.63%) DevOps
4 47 (38.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (19.83%) Infrastructure Automation
6 23 (19.01%) Analytics
7 20 (16.53%) Agile
7 20 (16.53%) Containerisation
7 20 (16.53%) Root Cause Analysis
8 19 (15.70%) Observability
9 17 (14.05%) High Availability
10 16 (13.22%) Continuous Integration
10 16 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (13.22%) Security Hardening
11 13 (10.74%) Configuration Management
11 13 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (10.74%) Incident Response
12 12 (9.92%) Log Analytics
12 12 (9.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 11 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 46 (38.02%) Python
2 31 (25.62%) PowerShell
3 29 (23.97%) Bash
4 17 (14.05%) SQL
5 9 (7.44%) Perl
6 6 (4.96%) Go
6 6 (4.96%) JavaScript
7 5 (4.13%) Scala
8 4 (3.31%) Java
8 4 (3.31%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.65%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 10 (8.26%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.44%) Degree
3 7 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.13%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.13%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.48%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.65%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.83%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.74%) GDPR
2 8 (6.61%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (4.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.31%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.83%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.83%) NIST
5 1 (0.83%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.83%) QA
System Software
1 26 (21.49%) Docker
2 16 (13.22%) Active Directory
2 16 (13.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.31%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.31%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (2.48%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (2.48%) vSphere
5 2 (1.65%) NFS
Systems Management
1 51 (42.15%) Kubernetes
1 51 (42.15%) Terraform
2 46 (38.02%) Ansible
3 16 (13.22%) Grafana
3 16 (13.22%) Prometheus
4 8 (6.61%) Red Hat Satellite
5 7 (5.79%) Rancher
6 5 (4.13%) Argo
7 4 (3.31%) Progress Chef
7 4 (3.31%) Puppet
7 4 (3.31%) vRealize
8 2 (1.65%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 25 (20.66%) VMware
2 15 (12.40%) Red Hat
3 13 (10.74%) Microsoft
4 12 (9.92%) ServiceNow
5 9 (7.44%) Cisco
6 8 (6.61%) Oracle
7 6 (4.96%) Splunk
8 5 (4.13%) Databricks
8 5 (4.13%) Zscaler
9 4 (3.31%) Atlassian
9 4 (3.31%) Foundry
9 4 (3.31%) Palantir
9 4 (3.31%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.65%) Google
10 2 (1.65%) MikroTik
10 2 (1.65%) NETGEAR
10 2 (1.65%) Sonatype
10 2 (1.65%) Starlink
10 2 (1.65%) Ubiquiti
11 1 (0.83%) Okta