Platform Engineer Job Trends in London

Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Platform Engineer salary in London is £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 September 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 279 304
Rank change year-on-year +12 +25 +86
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 194 105 154
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.76% 0.89% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.98% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 122 74 107
10th Percentile £60,125 £58,575 £60,770
25th Percentile £75,188 £67,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £72,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.69% -19.44% +12.50%
75th Percentile £100,000 £89,688 £101,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £114,000 £115,000
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 23,517 10,727 18,011
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.61% 91.12% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 16,109 6,984 11,341
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -2.03%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 22 September 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 22 September 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 +32 50 £90,000 +20.00% 63
West London - 2 £46,250 - 15
East London - 1 - - 3
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 September 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.

1 170 (87.63%) Platform Engineering
2 103 (53.09%) Terraform
3 98 (50.52%) Azure
4 93 (47.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 86 (44.33%) CI/CD
6 84 (43.30%) Python
7 77 (39.69%) DevOps
8 58 (29.90%) Microsoft
9 57 (29.38%) Kubernetes
10 53 (27.32%) AI
10 53 (27.32%) PowerShell
11 50 (25.77%) AWS
12 43 (22.16%) Azure DevOps
12 43 (22.16%) Observability
13 37 (19.07%) Bash
14 36 (18.56%) SQL
15 33 (17.01%) Containerisation
15 33 (17.01%) Docker
15 33 (17.01%) Software Engineering
16 32 (16.49%) Linux
17 31 (15.98%) Ansible
18 30 (15.46%) Cloud Security
19 29 (14.95%) GitHub
19 29 (14.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 26 (13.40%) Data Pipeline
21 25 (12.89%) Serverless
22 24 (12.37%) Azure AKS
22 24 (12.37%) Grafana
23 22 (11.34%) Infrastructure Automation
23 22 (11.34%) Mentoring

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 12 (6.19%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.52%) Apache
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.52%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 98 (50.52%) Azure
2 50 (25.77%) AWS
3 43 (22.16%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (14.95%) GitHub
5 25 (12.89%) Serverless
6 24 (12.37%) Azure AKS
7 18 (9.28%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (8.76%) GCP
9 16 (8.25%) Power Platform
10 15 (7.73%) Amazon S3
11 14 (7.22%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (7.22%) Entra ID
12 11 (5.67%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (5.67%) PaaS
13 9 (4.64%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (4.64%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (4.64%) SaaS
14 8 (4.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (4.12%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (3.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.70%) Firewall
2 5 (2.58%) DNS
3 4 (2.06%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.06%) VPN
4 3 (1.55%) LAN
4 3 (1.55%) WAN
5 2 (1.03%) Broadband
5 2 (1.03%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (1.03%) SSL
5 2 (1.03%) VoIP
5 2 (1.03%) WLAN
6 1 (0.52%) BGP
6 1 (0.52%) DHCP
6 1 (0.52%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (8.25%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.12%) Power BI
4 5 (2.58%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.55%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.03%) Couchbase
6 2 (1.03%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.03%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.03%) MySQL
6 2 (1.03%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.03%) Scylla
7 1 (0.52%) Big Data
7 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.52%) Redis
7 1 (0.52%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (5.67%) Jenkins
2 8 (4.12%) Git
3 6 (3.09%) GitLab
3 6 (3.09%) MLflow
3 6 (3.09%) Visual Studio Code
4 5 (2.58%) TeamCity
5 4 (2.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (2.06%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.55%) CircleCI
General
1 38 (19.59%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.04%) Finance
3 16 (8.25%) Public Sector
4 14 (7.22%) Legal
5 13 (6.70%) Law
6 9 (4.64%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (4.12%) Banking
8 5 (2.58%) Retail
9 4 (2.06%) Health Technology
9 4 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.03%) Games
10 2 (1.03%) Military
11 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (53.09%) Terraform
2 8 (4.12%) SAML
3 6 (3.09%) Kafka
3 6 (3.09%) NestJS
3 6 (3.09%) Node.js
4 5 (2.58%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (2.06%) .NET
5 4 (2.06%) ARM Templates
5 4 (2.06%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (2.06%) ONNX
5 4 (2.06%) Pulumi
6 3 (1.55%) FastAPI
6 3 (1.55%) RESTful
7 1 (0.52%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (0.52%) CrewAI
7 1 (0.52%) JWT
7 1 (0.52%) Keycloak
7 1 (0.52%) LangChain
7 1 (0.52%) Snowpark
7 1 (0.52%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 40 (20.62%) Cloud Native
2 20 (10.31%) Public Cloud
3 15 (7.73%) Private Cloud
4 13 (6.70%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.09%) Low-Code
6 5 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.06%) CMDB
7 4 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.06%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.55%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.03%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.03%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.03%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.03%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.03%) Mobile Banking
9 2 (1.03%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.03%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.52%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 32 (16.49%) Linux
2 13 (6.70%) Windows
3 11 (5.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.03%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (87.63%) Platform Engineering
2 93 (47.94%) Infrastructure as Code
3 86 (44.33%) CI/CD
4 77 (39.69%) DevOps
5 53 (27.32%) AI
6 43 (22.16%) Observability
7 33 (17.01%) Containerisation
7 33 (17.01%) Software Engineering
8 30 (15.46%) Cloud Security
9 29 (14.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 26 (13.40%) Data Pipeline
11 22 (11.34%) Infrastructure Automation
11 22 (11.34%) Mentoring
12 21 (10.82%) Disaster Recovery
12 21 (10.82%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (9.28%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (9.28%) Microservices
14 17 (8.76%) Agile
15 16 (8.25%) Migration
16 15 (7.73%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 84 (43.30%) Python
2 53 (27.32%) PowerShell
3 37 (19.07%) Bash
4 36 (18.56%) SQL
5 16 (8.25%) Java
6 9 (4.64%) Bicep
7 8 (4.12%) Go
7 8 (4.12%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.09%) C#
9 4 (2.06%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.06%) Rust
9 4 (2.06%) VBA
10 1 (0.52%) C
10 1 (0.52%) Groovy
10 1 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (10.82%) Azure Certification
2 17 (8.76%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.19%) DV Cleared
4 10 (5.15%) Degree
5 8 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (3.61%) SC Cleared
7 6 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.03%) CISM
8 2 (1.03%) CISSP
8 2 (1.03%) GSEC
8 2 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.03%) OSCP
9 1 (0.52%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.19%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.03%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.52%) NIST
3 1 (0.52%) RMADS
System Software
1 33 (17.01%) Docker
2 15 (7.73%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.58%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (29.38%) Kubernetes
2 31 (15.98%) Ansible
3 24 (12.37%) Grafana
4 22 (11.34%) Prometheus
5 13 (6.70%) Argo
6 9 (4.64%) Packer
7 6 (3.09%) Istio
8 5 (2.58%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (2.06%) Kubeflow
10 2 (1.03%) Cilium
10 2 (1.03%) linkerd
10 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.03%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.52%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.52%) Puppet
11 1 (0.52%) Rancher
11 1 (0.52%) SCOM
11 1 (0.52%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 58 (29.90%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.15%) Google
2 10 (5.15%) VMware
3 9 (4.64%) Splunk
4 8 (4.12%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.09%) Databricks
5 6 (3.09%) Foundry
5 6 (3.09%) OpenAI
6 5 (2.58%) EMC
7 4 (2.06%) Cisco
7 4 (2.06%) F5
7 4 (2.06%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.03%) Informatica
8 2 (1.03%) Oracle
8 2 (1.03%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.03%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.52%) Rackspace