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 4 May 2026.

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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 284 333
Rank change year-on-year +40 +49 +80
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 162 120 170
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.81% 0.94% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 1.04% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 124 82 146
10th Percentile £68,250 £67,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £77,500 £73,438 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £109,063
90th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.23% +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 18,476 11,505 21,962
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.94% 90.27% 94.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,487 7,468 16,670
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,084
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 £102,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -11.18%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +11 43 £95,000 +5.56% 22
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 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.

1 137 (84.57%) Platform Engineering
2 83 (51.23%) Azure
3 78 (48.15%) Terraform
4 77 (47.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 76 (46.91%) CI/CD
6 65 (40.12%) Python
7 58 (35.80%) Kubernetes
8 56 (34.57%) DevOps
9 46 (28.40%) AWS
10 41 (25.31%) Linux
11 40 (24.69%) Ansible
12 36 (22.22%) PowerShell
13 34 (20.99%) GitHub
14 31 (19.14%) Azure DevOps
14 31 (19.14%) Observability
15 29 (17.90%) Microsoft
16 27 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
17 26 (16.05%) Firewall
18 25 (15.43%) VMware
19 24 (14.81%) Active Directory
19 24 (14.81%) Analytics
19 24 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
20 23 (14.20%) GitHub Actions
20 23 (14.20%) High Availability
21 22 (13.58%) VPN
22 21 (12.96%) Incident Response
22 21 (12.96%) SQL
23 20 (12.35%) Disaster Recovery
24 18 (11.11%) Bash
24 18 (11.11%) Docker

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 (3.09%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.47%) Confluence
2 4 (2.47%) IIS
2 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.47%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.62%) Apache
4 1 (0.62%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (2.47%) Weka
2 2 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 83 (51.23%) Azure
2 46 (28.40%) AWS
3 34 (20.99%) GitHub
4 31 (19.14%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (14.20%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (9.88%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (8.64%) Serverless
8 13 (8.02%) Amazon S3
8 13 (8.02%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (7.41%) Azure Monitor
10 11 (6.79%) Azure AKS
11 10 (6.17%) Entra ID
12 9 (5.56%) Amazon ECR
13 8 (4.94%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (4.94%) Azure Storage
13 8 (4.94%) Datadog
13 8 (4.94%) GCP
14 7 (4.32%) AWS KMS
14 7 (4.32%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 26 (16.05%) Firewall
2 22 (13.58%) VPN
3 12 (7.41%) DNS
4 6 (3.70%) WAN
5 5 (3.09%) Network Security
6 3 (1.85%) DHCP
7 2 (1.23%) LAN
7 2 (1.23%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.23%) WLAN
8 1 (0.62%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.64%) Data Lake
2 11 (6.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (4.32%) Delta Lake
4 5 (3.09%) Power BI
5 4 (2.47%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.62%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.62%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.62%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.62%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.62%) Redis
8 1 (0.62%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.62%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.62%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 16 (9.88%) Git
2 10 (6.17%) GitLab
2 10 (6.17%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.32%) Visual Studio Code
4 6 (3.70%) Bitbucket
5 5 (3.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (2.47%) JIRA
7 1 (0.62%) CircleCI
General
1 42 (25.93%) Finance
2 19 (11.73%) Social Skills
3 8 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (2.47%) Health Technology
6 3 (1.85%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.23%) Retail
8 1 (0.62%) Advertising
8 1 (0.62%) Banking
8 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.62%) Games
8 1 (0.62%) Law
8 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.94%) PySpark
2 5 (3.09%) Kafka
2 5 (3.09%) OAuth
2 5 (3.09%) YAML
3 4 (2.47%) ADO
3 4 (2.47%) SAML
4 3 (1.85%) Middleware
5 2 (1.23%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.23%) Loki
6 1 (0.62%) .NET
6 1 (0.62%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.62%) CrewAI
6 1 (0.62%) Django
6 1 (0.62%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.62%) JWT
6 1 (0.62%) LangChain
6 1 (0.62%) Node.js
6 1 (0.62%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.62%) Ray
6 1 (0.62%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.26%) Private Cloud
2 11 (6.79%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.17%) Public Cloud
4 6 (3.70%) Hedge funds
5 5 (3.09%) CMDB
5 5 (3.09%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.23%) Equities
7 2 (1.23%) Replication
8 1 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.62%) Life Science
8 1 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.62%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.62%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.62%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.62%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 41 (25.31%) Linux
2 17 (10.49%) Windows
3 16 (9.88%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.32%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (4.32%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (3.09%) Unix
6 4 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.47%) VMS
6 4 (2.47%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (1.85%) SUSE
7 3 (1.85%) Windows 10
8 2 (1.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (84.57%) Platform Engineering
2 77 (47.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 76 (46.91%) CI/CD
4 56 (34.57%) DevOps
5 31 (19.14%) Observability
6 27 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
7 24 (14.81%) Analytics
7 24 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (14.20%) High Availability
9 21 (12.96%) Incident Response
10 20 (12.35%) Disaster Recovery
11 18 (11.11%) Fintech
12 17 (10.49%) AI
12 17 (10.49%) Configuration Management
12 17 (10.49%) Containerisation
12 17 (10.49%) Data Engineering
13 16 (9.88%) Data Pipeline
13 16 (9.88%) Mentoring
14 15 (9.26%) Problem-Solving
15 14 (8.64%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 65 (40.12%) Python
2 36 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 21 (12.96%) SQL
4 18 (11.11%) Bash
5 7 (4.32%) Scala
6 6 (3.70%) Go
7 4 (2.47%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.85%) Java
9 1 (0.62%) Bicep
9 1 (0.62%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (8.64%) Azure Certification
2 10 (6.17%) Degree
3 9 (5.56%) Security Cleared
4 6 (3.70%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.62%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.62%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.62%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.26%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.09%) GDPR
3 4 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.47%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.62%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.62%) QA
System Software
1 24 (14.81%) Active Directory
2 18 (11.11%) Docker
3 14 (8.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.47%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 78 (48.15%) Terraform
2 58 (35.80%) Kubernetes
3 40 (24.69%) Ansible
4 18 (11.11%) Grafana
5 12 (7.41%) Prometheus
6 8 (4.94%) Progress Chef
7 7 (4.32%) Argo
7 7 (4.32%) Puppet
8 5 (3.09%) Packer
9 4 (2.47%) Rancher
9 4 (2.47%) ZABBIX
10 2 (1.23%) Istio
10 2 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.62%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 29 (17.90%) Microsoft
2 25 (15.43%) VMware
3 9 (5.56%) Palo Alto
3 9 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 8 (4.94%) Databricks
5 7 (4.32%) Cisco
5 7 (4.32%) Red Hat
6 6 (3.70%) Zscaler
7 5 (3.09%) EMC
7 5 (3.09%) F5
8 4 (2.47%) Cribl.io
8 4 (2.47%) Oracle
9 3 (1.85%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.85%) Foundry
9 3 (1.85%) Google
9 3 (1.85%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.85%) Splunk
10 2 (1.23%) Informatica
11 1 (0.62%) CyberArk