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 15 September 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 277 324
Rank change year-on-year +23 +47 +78
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 184 108 150
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.74% 0.91% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 1.00% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 119 72 106
10th Percentile £62,000 £58,525 £60,650
25th Percentile £75,375 £67,500 £67,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £72,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% -19.44% +12.50%
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £110,250 £118,000 £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 22,984 10,794 18,142
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.82% 91.13% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 15,890 7,022 11,577
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% - -0.68%
75th Percentile £99,500 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £119,071
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 15 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 15 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 +22 50 £97,480 +29.97% 64
West London - 2 £46,250 - 13
East London - 1 - - 2
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 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.

1 162 (88.04%) Platform Engineering
2 97 (52.72%) Terraform
3 91 (49.46%) Azure
4 90 (48.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 81 (44.02%) CI/CD
5 81 (44.02%) Python
6 70 (38.04%) DevOps
7 57 (30.98%) Microsoft
8 52 (28.26%) AWS
8 52 (28.26%) Kubernetes
9 50 (27.17%) AI
10 48 (26.09%) PowerShell
11 42 (22.83%) Observability
12 40 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
13 34 (18.48%) Bash
14 32 (17.39%) Linux
14 32 (17.39%) Software Engineering
15 31 (16.85%) SQL
16 30 (16.30%) Containerisation
17 28 (15.22%) Ansible
17 28 (15.22%) Docker
17 28 (15.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 27 (14.67%) Cloud Security
19 25 (13.59%) GitHub
20 24 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
21 23 (12.50%) Mentoring
21 23 (12.50%) Serverless
22 22 (11.96%) Infrastructure Automation
23 21 (11.41%) Azure AKS
23 21 (11.41%) Grafana

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 (6.52%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.80%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.54%) Apache
4 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.54%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 91 (49.46%) Azure
2 52 (28.26%) AWS
3 40 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (13.59%) GitHub
5 23 (12.50%) Serverless
6 21 (11.41%) Azure AKS
7 16 (8.70%) Amazon S3
7 16 (8.70%) Power Platform
8 14 (7.61%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (7.61%) GCP
8 14 (7.61%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (5.43%) Entra ID
10 9 (4.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (4.89%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (4.89%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (4.35%) SaaS
12 7 (3.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 7 (3.80%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (3.80%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.98%) Firewall
2 5 (2.72%) DNS
3 4 (2.17%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.63%) LAN
4 3 (1.63%) VPN
4 3 (1.63%) WAN
5 2 (1.09%) Broadband
5 2 (1.09%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (1.09%) VoIP
5 2 (1.09%) WLAN
6 1 (0.54%) BGP
6 1 (0.54%) DHCP
6 1 (0.54%) SSL
6 1 (0.54%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.15%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.52%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (4.35%) Power BI
4 4 (2.17%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.63%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.09%) Couchbase
6 2 (1.09%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.09%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.09%) MySQL
6 2 (1.09%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.09%) Scylla
7 1 (0.54%) Big Data
7 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.54%) Redis
7 1 (0.54%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (5.98%) Jenkins
2 8 (4.35%) Git
3 6 (3.26%) GitLab
3 6 (3.26%) MLflow
3 6 (3.26%) Visual Studio Code
4 5 (2.72%) TeamCity
5 4 (2.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (2.17%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.63%) CircleCI
General
1 34 (18.48%) Finance
1 34 (18.48%) Social Skills
2 14 (7.61%) Legal
3 13 (7.07%) Law
3 13 (7.07%) Public Sector
4 8 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (4.35%) Banking
5 5 (2.72%) Retail
6 4 (2.17%) Health Technology
6 4 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.09%) Games
8 1 (0.54%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (52.72%) Terraform
2 6 (3.26%) Kafka
2 6 (3.26%) NestJS
2 6 (3.26%) Node.js
3 5 (2.72%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (2.72%) SAML
4 4 (2.17%) .NET
4 4 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (2.17%) ONNX
4 4 (2.17%) Pulumi
5 3 (1.63%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.63%) FastAPI
5 3 (1.63%) RESTful
6 1 (0.54%) Jinja
6 1 (0.54%) JWT
6 1 (0.54%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.54%) OAuth
6 1 (0.54%) Spring
6 1 (0.54%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 38 (20.65%) Cloud Native
2 19 (10.33%) Public Cloud
3 14 (7.61%) Private Cloud
4 12 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.26%) Low-Code
6 4 (2.17%) CMDB
6 4 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.17%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.63%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.09%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.09%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.09%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.09%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (1.09%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.54%) Clustering
9 1 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.54%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (17.39%) Linux
2 13 (7.07%) Windows
3 11 (5.98%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (88.04%) Platform Engineering
2 90 (48.91%) Infrastructure as Code
3 81 (44.02%) CI/CD
4 70 (38.04%) DevOps
5 50 (27.17%) AI
6 42 (22.83%) Observability
7 32 (17.39%) Software Engineering
8 30 (16.30%) Containerisation
9 28 (15.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 27 (14.67%) Cloud Security
11 24 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
12 23 (12.50%) Mentoring
13 22 (11.96%) Infrastructure Automation
14 19 (10.33%) Disaster Recovery
14 19 (10.33%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (9.24%) Continuous Improvement
15 17 (9.24%) Microservices
16 16 (8.70%) Fintech
17 15 (8.15%) Machine Learning
18 14 (7.61%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 81 (44.02%) Python
2 48 (26.09%) PowerShell
3 34 (18.48%) Bash
4 31 (16.85%) SQL
5 16 (8.70%) Java
6 8 (4.35%) Bicep
6 8 (4.35%) Go
6 8 (4.35%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.26%) C#
8 4 (2.17%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.17%) Rust
8 4 (2.17%) VBA
9 1 (0.54%) C
9 1 (0.54%) Groovy
9 1 (0.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (9.24%) Azure Certification
2 15 (8.15%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.98%) DV Cleared
4 10 (5.43%) Degree
5 7 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.26%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.09%) CISM
7 2 (1.09%) CISSP
7 2 (1.09%) GSEC
7 2 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.09%) OSCP
8 1 (0.54%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.52%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.09%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.54%) NIST
3 1 (0.54%) RMADS
System Software
1 28 (15.22%) Docker
2 15 (8.15%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.72%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 52 (28.26%) Kubernetes
2 28 (15.22%) Ansible
3 21 (11.41%) Grafana
4 19 (10.33%) Prometheus
5 13 (7.07%) Argo
6 9 (4.89%) Packer
7 6 (3.26%) Istio
8 5 (2.72%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (2.17%) Kubeflow
10 2 (1.09%) Cilium
10 2 (1.09%) linkerd
10 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.09%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.54%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.54%) Puppet
11 1 (0.54%) Rancher
11 1 (0.54%) SCOM
11 1 (0.54%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 57 (30.98%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.43%) VMware
3 9 (4.89%) Splunk
4 8 (4.35%) Google
4 8 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.26%) Foundry
5 6 (3.26%) OpenAI
6 5 (2.72%) EMC
7 4 (2.17%) Cisco
7 4 (2.17%) F5
7 4 (2.17%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.63%) Databricks
9 2 (1.09%) Informatica
9 2 (1.09%) Oracle
9 2 (1.09%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.09%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.54%) Rackspace