Platform Engineer Jobs in London

Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Platform Engineer salary in London is £83,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 331 429
Rank change year-on-year +60 +98 +185
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 124 172 195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.96% 0.73% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 0.77% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 86 146 139
10th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £57,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% +3.13% -3.03%
75th Percentile £103,125 £109,063 £101,375
90th Percentile £137,500 £122,500 £107,750
England median annual salary £71,750 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.33% +7.14% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 11,624 22,265 32,087
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.18% 94.22% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 7,221 16,628 23,661
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in London

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in London.

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in London

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

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 16 May 2025. 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 32 £82,500 -8.33% 19
Platform Engineer
England

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Platform Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 119 (95.97%) Platform Engineering
2 80 (64.52%) Python
2 80 (64.52%) Kubernetes
3 77 (62.10%) Terraform
4 76 (61.29%) CI/CD
5 67 (54.03%) Infrastructure as Code
6 62 (50.00%) AWS
7 60 (48.39%) Docker
7 60 (48.39%) DevOps
8 55 (44.35%) Ansible
8 55 (44.35%) Azure
9 45 (36.29%) Linux
10 39 (31.45%) Containerisation
11 38 (30.65%) GCP
12 29 (23.39%) Finance
13 27 (21.77%) Java
14 26 (20.97%) Analytics
14 26 (20.97%) Pulumi
15 25 (20.16%) Go
15 25 (20.16%) Artificial Intelligence
16 24 (19.35%) Social Skills
16 24 (19.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 22 (17.74%) Progress Chef
18 21 (16.94%) Fintech
18 21 (16.94%) Puppet
18 21 (16.94%) PowerShell
19 20 (16.13%) GitLab
19 20 (16.13%) Bash
19 20 (16.13%) Deployment Automation
19 20 (16.13%) Bicep

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (5.65%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.23%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.42%) Apache
5 2 (1.61%) Confluence
6 1 (0.81%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 62 (50.00%) AWS
2 55 (44.35%) Azure
3 38 (30.65%) GCP
4 26 (20.97%) Pulumi
5 14 (11.29%) PaaS
6 10 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (7.26%) GitHub
8 8 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (6.45%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (4.84%) IaaS
10 5 (4.03%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (4.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 5 (4.03%) OpenShift
10 5 (4.03%) SaaS
11 4 (3.23%) Azure AKS
11 4 (3.23%) Nutanix
11 4 (3.23%) Power Automate
11 4 (3.23%) Power Platform
11 4 (3.23%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.84%) VPN
2 4 (3.23%) DHCP
2 4 (3.23%) DNS
2 4 (3.23%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.61%) Firewall
4 1 (0.81%) Network Security
4 1 (0.81%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.03%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (3.23%) Power BI
2 4 (3.23%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.42%) Hadoop
3 3 (2.42%) HBase
3 3 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.61%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.61%) Tableau
5 1 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.81%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.81%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.81%) ClickHouse
5 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.81%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.81%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (16.13%) GitLab
2 11 (8.87%) Jenkins
2 11 (8.87%) SonarQube
2 11 (8.87%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (2.42%) JIRA
4 2 (1.61%) Git
5 1 (0.81%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.81%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.81%) Vagrant
5 1 (0.81%) Zephyr
General
1 29 (23.39%) Finance
2 24 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 18 (14.52%) Law
4 11 (8.87%) Banking
5 6 (4.84%) Front Office
6 4 (3.23%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.42%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.61%) Marketing
9 1 (0.81%) Advertising
9 1 (0.81%) Games
9 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.81%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.10%) ARM Templates
2 14 (11.29%) Kafka
2 14 (11.29%) REST
3 5 (4.03%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (4.03%) Spring
3 5 (4.03%) Spring Boot
4 4 (3.23%) Loki
5 3 (2.42%) JSON
5 3 (2.42%) Node.js
5 3 (2.42%) React
6 2 (1.61%) .NET
6 2 (1.61%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (1.61%) SAML
7 1 (0.81%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.81%) AWS SAM
7 1 (0.81%) JSON-LD
7 1 (0.81%) RESTful
7 1 (0.81%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.32%) Public Cloud
2 9 (7.26%) Clustering
2 9 (7.26%) Distributed Computing
3 5 (4.03%) Replication
4 4 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.42%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.61%) Blog
6 2 (1.61%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.61%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.61%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.81%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.81%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 45 (36.29%) Linux
2 11 (8.87%) Windows
3 9 (7.26%) Windows Server
4 8 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (6.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (3.23%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (3.23%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.61%) CentOS
6 2 (1.61%) Unix
6 2 (1.61%) VMS
7 1 (0.81%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (95.97%) Platform Engineering
2 76 (61.29%) CI/CD
3 67 (54.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 60 (48.39%) DevOps
5 39 (31.45%) Containerisation
6 26 (20.97%) Analytics
7 25 (20.16%) Artificial Intelligence
8 24 (19.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 21 (16.94%) Fintech
10 20 (16.13%) Deployment Automation
11 19 (15.32%) Cost Management
11 19 (15.32%) Network Virtualisation
12 18 (14.52%) Data Science
12 18 (14.52%) Low Latency
12 18 (14.52%) Machine Learning
12 18 (14.52%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (12.90%) Computer Science
13 16 (12.90%) Roadmaps
13 16 (12.90%) Strategic Roadmap
14 15 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 80 (64.52%) Python
2 27 (21.77%) Java
3 25 (20.16%) Go
4 21 (16.94%) PowerShell
5 20 (16.13%) Bash
5 20 (16.13%) Bicep
6 17 (13.71%) Scala
7 14 (11.29%) SQL
8 11 (8.87%) Ruby
9 6 (4.84%) Perl
10 4 (3.23%) JavaScript
10 4 (3.23%) TypeScript
11 3 (2.42%) C#
11 3 (2.42%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.61%) Groovy
12 2 (1.61%) PHP
12 2 (1.61%) Rust
13 1 (0.81%) C++
13 1 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.81%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 16 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
1 16 (12.90%) Degree
2 15 (12.10%) Master's Degree
3 9 (7.26%) Security Cleared
4 8 (6.45%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.42%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.42%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.26%) GDPR
2 6 (4.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.61%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 60 (48.39%) Docker
2 16 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (6.45%) Active Directory
3 8 (6.45%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (5.65%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 80 (64.52%) Kubernetes
2 77 (62.10%) Terraform
3 55 (44.35%) Ansible
4 22 (17.74%) Progress Chef
5 21 (16.94%) Puppet
6 18 (14.52%) Podman
7 12 (9.68%) Grafana
8 9 (7.26%) Prometheus
9 6 (4.84%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (2.42%) Packer
11 2 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (1.61%) Consul
12 1 (0.81%) Argo
12 1 (0.81%) Salt
Vendors
1 18 (14.52%) Google
2 17 (13.71%) VMware
3 14 (11.29%) Microsoft
4 11 (8.87%) Red Hat
5 10 (8.06%) Citrix
6 9 (7.26%) Databricks
7 4 (3.23%) EMC
7 4 (3.23%) Hitachi
7 4 (3.23%) Oracle
7 4 (3.23%) TOWER Software
8 3 (2.42%) Cloudera
9 2 (1.61%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.61%) WSO2
10 1 (0.81%) Cisco
10 1 (0.81%) IBM
10 1 (0.81%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.81%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.81%) Splunk