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 1 September 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 268 326
Rank change year-on-year +14 +58 +68
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 184 116 142
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.76% 0.97% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 1.06% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 120 76 102
10th Percentile £67,500 £58,000 £60,170
25th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £71,563
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 £110,125 £113,750 £117,250
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 22,409 10,982 18,460
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 91.39% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 15,406 7,165 12,202
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 1 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 1 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 +30 50 £90,000 +20.00% 20
West London - 2 £46,250 - 6
East London - 1 - - 2
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 165 (89.67%) Platform Engineering
2 100 (54.35%) Terraform
3 92 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 91 (49.46%) Azure
5 88 (47.83%) Python
6 84 (45.65%) CI/CD
7 68 (36.96%) DevOps
8 58 (31.52%) Microsoft
9 56 (30.43%) Kubernetes
10 55 (29.89%) AWS
11 49 (26.63%) PowerShell
12 43 (23.37%) AI
13 38 (20.65%) Observability
14 36 (19.57%) Azure DevOps
15 35 (19.02%) Bash
16 34 (18.48%) Linux
17 31 (16.85%) Ansible
18 30 (16.30%) Containerisation
18 30 (16.30%) SQL
19 29 (15.76%) Software Engineering
20 28 (15.22%) GitHub
21 27 (14.67%) Cloud Security
21 27 (14.67%) Docker
22 24 (13.04%) Infrastructure Automation
22 24 (13.04%) Mentoring
22 24 (13.04%) Serverless
22 24 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
23 22 (11.96%) Grafana
24 21 (11.41%) Continuous Improvement
24 21 (11.41%) Data Pipeline

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 55 (29.89%) AWS
3 36 (19.57%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (15.22%) GitHub
5 24 (13.04%) Serverless
6 20 (10.87%) Azure AKS
7 19 (10.33%) Amazon S3
8 16 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (8.70%) Power Platform
9 11 (5.98%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (5.98%) GCP
10 10 (5.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (5.43%) Entra ID
11 9 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (4.89%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (4.35%) SaaS
13 7 (3.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.61%) Firewall
2 7 (3.80%) DNS
3 6 (3.26%) VPN
4 4 (2.17%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.09%) Broadband
5 2 (1.09%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (1.09%) LAN
5 2 (1.09%) VoIP
5 2 (1.09%) WAN
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 14 (7.61%) SQL Server
2 11 (5.98%) 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%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.09%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.09%) MySQL
7 1 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.54%) Big Data
7 1 (0.54%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.54%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.54%) Redis
7 1 (0.54%) Scylla
7 1 (0.54%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.54%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (5.98%) Jenkins
2 10 (5.43%) Git
3 8 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
4 6 (3.26%) MLflow
5 5 (2.72%) GitLab
5 5 (2.72%) TeamCity
6 4 (2.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (2.17%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.17%) CircleCI
General
1 38 (20.65%) Finance
2 33 (17.93%) Social Skills
3 13 (7.07%) Law
3 13 (7.07%) Legal
4 10 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.43%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.89%) Banking
6 6 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.72%) Retail
8 4 (2.17%) Health Technology
8 4 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.09%) Games
10 1 (0.54%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (54.35%) Terraform
2 6 (3.26%) NestJS
2 6 (3.26%) Node.js
3 5 (2.72%) Kafka
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%) OpenTelemetry
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%) PySpark
6 1 (0.54%) Spring
6 1 (0.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 36 (19.57%) Cloud Native
2 18 (9.78%) Public Cloud
3 14 (7.61%) Private Cloud
4 10 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.26%) CMDB
5 6 (3.26%) Low-Code
6 5 (2.72%) Hedge funds
7 4 (2.17%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.17%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.09%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
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%) Blog
9 1 (0.54%) Clustering
9 1 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.54%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 34 (18.48%) Linux
2 15 (8.15%) Windows
3 13 (7.07%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (89.67%) Platform Engineering
2 92 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 84 (45.65%) CI/CD
4 68 (36.96%) DevOps
5 43 (23.37%) AI
6 38 (20.65%) Observability
7 30 (16.30%) Containerisation
8 29 (15.76%) Software Engineering
9 27 (14.67%) Cloud Security
10 24 (13.04%) Infrastructure Automation
10 24 (13.04%) Mentoring
10 24 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 21 (11.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (11.41%) Data Pipeline
11 21 (11.41%) Disaster Recovery
12 19 (10.33%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (9.24%) Agile
14 16 (8.70%) Fintech
14 16 (8.70%) Machine Learning
14 16 (8.70%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 88 (47.83%) Python
2 49 (26.63%) PowerShell
3 35 (19.02%) Bash
4 30 (16.30%) 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 20 (10.87%) Azure Certification
2 15 (8.15%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.52%) Degree
4 11 (5.98%) DV Cleared
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 27 (14.67%) Docker
2 17 (9.24%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.72%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (30.43%) Kubernetes
2 31 (16.85%) Ansible
3 22 (11.96%) Grafana
4 18 (9.78%) Prometheus
5 12 (6.52%) Argo
6 11 (5.98%) 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
11 1 (0.54%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.54%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.54%) Puppet
11 1 (0.54%) Rancher
11 1 (0.54%) SCOM
Vendors
1 58 (31.52%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.98%) ServiceNow
2 11 (5.98%) VMware
3 8 (4.35%) Splunk
4 6 (3.26%) Cisco
4 6 (3.26%) EMC
4 6 (3.26%) F5
4 6 (3.26%) Foundry
4 6 (3.26%) OpenAI
4 6 (3.26%) Palo Alto
5 5 (2.72%) Google
6 4 (2.17%) Databricks
7 2 (1.09%) Informatica
7 2 (1.09%) Oracle
7 2 (1.09%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.09%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.54%) Rackspace