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 August 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 268 304
Rank change year-on-year +7 +36 +109
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 176 122 161
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.75% 1.00% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 1.09% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 117 80 122
10th Percentile £67,500 £58,725 £61,250
25th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £100,000 £92,438 £102,500
90th Percentile £111,750 £110,250 £122,125
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - +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 21,671 11,225 18,692
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 91.75% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 14,843 7,298 13,009
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £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 4 August 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 August 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 49 £90,000 +14.29% 44
East London - 1 - - 1
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 August 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.

1 158 (89.77%) Platform Engineering
2 98 (55.68%) Terraform
3 87 (49.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 86 (48.86%) Python
5 84 (47.73%) Azure
6 83 (47.16%) CI/CD
7 63 (35.80%) DevOps
8 59 (33.52%) AWS
9 53 (30.11%) Kubernetes
10 50 (28.41%) Microsoft
11 45 (25.57%) PowerShell
12 35 (19.89%) AI
12 35 (19.89%) Linux
13 34 (19.32%) Ansible
13 34 (19.32%) Bash
13 34 (19.32%) Observability
14 30 (17.05%) Azure DevOps
14 30 (17.05%) GitHub
15 26 (14.77%) SQL
16 24 (13.64%) Amazon S3
16 24 (13.64%) Containerisation
16 24 (13.64%) Mentoring
16 24 (13.64%) Serverless
17 23 (13.07%) Docker
17 23 (13.07%) Infrastructure Automation
18 22 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
18 22 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 21 (11.93%) Cloud Security
19 21 (11.93%) Software Engineering
20 20 (11.36%) Agile

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 10 (5.68%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.14%) Apache
4 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.57%) Confluence
4 1 (0.57%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 84 (47.73%) Azure
2 59 (33.52%) AWS
3 30 (17.05%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (17.05%) GitHub
4 24 (13.64%) Amazon S3
4 24 (13.64%) Serverless
5 18 (10.23%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (9.66%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (9.09%) Azure AKS
8 15 (8.52%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (8.52%) Power Platform
9 14 (7.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (5.68%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (5.68%) GCP
11 9 (5.11%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (5.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 8 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (4.55%) Entra ID
12 8 (4.55%) PaaS
13 7 (3.98%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.95%) Firewall
2 7 (3.98%) DNS
3 6 (3.41%) TCP/IP
3 6 (3.41%) VPN
4 2 (1.14%) Broadband
4 2 (1.14%) LAN
4 2 (1.14%) VoIP
4 2 (1.14%) WAN
4 2 (1.14%) WLAN
5 1 (0.57%) BGP
5 1 (0.57%) DHCP
5 1 (0.57%) Network Security
5 1 (0.57%) SSL
5 1 (0.57%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (4.55%) Power BI
3 4 (2.27%) BigQuery
3 4 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.70%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.14%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.14%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.14%) MySQL
5 2 (1.14%) Redis
6 1 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.57%) Big Data
6 1 (0.57%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.57%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.57%) Scylla
6 1 (0.57%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (6.82%) Git
2 9 (5.11%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.55%) GitLab
3 8 (4.55%) Visual Studio Code
4 5 (2.84%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.84%) TeamCity
5 4 (2.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (2.27%) MLflow
6 3 (1.70%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.57%) JIRA
General
1 35 (19.89%) Finance
2 26 (14.77%) Social Skills
3 13 (7.39%) Law
4 12 (6.82%) Legal
5 10 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.55%) Banking
6 8 (4.55%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.84%) Retail
9 4 (2.27%) Health Technology
10 3 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.14%) Games
12 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.41%) Node.js
2 5 (2.84%) SAML
3 4 (2.27%) .NET
3 4 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (2.27%) Kafka
3 4 (2.27%) NestJS
4 3 (1.70%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.70%) FastAPI
4 3 (1.70%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (1.70%) RESTful
5 2 (1.14%) ONNX
6 1 (0.57%) CrewAI
6 1 (0.57%) Jinja
6 1 (0.57%) JWT
6 1 (0.57%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.57%) LangChain
6 1 (0.57%) PySpark
6 1 (0.57%) Snowpark
6 1 (0.57%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (17.05%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.95%) Public Cloud
3 12 (6.82%) Private Cloud
4 10 (5.68%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.41%) CMDB
5 6 (3.41%) Hedge funds
5 6 (3.41%) Low-Code
6 4 (2.27%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.27%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.14%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.14%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (1.14%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.57%) Blog
9 1 (0.57%) Clustering
9 1 (0.57%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 35 (19.89%) Linux
2 13 (7.39%) Windows
3 11 (6.25%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.14%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (89.77%) Platform Engineering
2 87 (49.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 83 (47.16%) CI/CD
4 63 (35.80%) DevOps
5 35 (19.89%) AI
6 34 (19.32%) Observability
7 24 (13.64%) Containerisation
7 24 (13.64%) Mentoring
8 23 (13.07%) Infrastructure Automation
9 22 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 21 (11.93%) Cloud Security
10 21 (11.93%) Software Engineering
11 20 (11.36%) Agile
11 20 (11.36%) Disaster Recovery
11 20 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (10.23%) Data Pipeline
13 17 (9.66%) Fintech
13 17 (9.66%) Test Automation
14 16 (9.09%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 86 (48.86%) Python
2 45 (25.57%) PowerShell
3 34 (19.32%) Bash
4 26 (14.77%) SQL
5 15 (8.52%) Java
6 8 (4.55%) Bicep
7 7 (3.98%) Go
8 5 (2.84%) C#
9 4 (2.27%) Rust
9 4 (2.27%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.27%) VBA
10 2 (1.14%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.57%) C
11 1 (0.57%) Groovy
11 1 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (11.36%) Azure Certification
2 16 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.68%) Degree
3 10 (5.68%) DV Cleared
4 8 (4.55%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.57%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.68%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.57%) NIST
3 1 (0.57%) RMADS
System Software
1 23 (13.07%) Docker
2 15 (8.52%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.84%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 98 (55.68%) Terraform
2 53 (30.11%) Kubernetes
3 34 (19.32%) Ansible
4 20 (11.36%) Grafana
5 15 (8.52%) Prometheus
6 11 (6.25%) Argo
6 11 (6.25%) Packer
7 3 (1.70%) Istio
7 3 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.14%) Kubeflow
8 2 (1.14%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.57%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.57%) Cilium
9 1 (0.57%) Puppet
9 1 (0.57%) Rancher
9 1 (0.57%) SCOM
Vendors
1 50 (28.41%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.25%) ServiceNow
3 9 (5.11%) VMware
4 8 (4.55%) Splunk
5 6 (3.41%) Cisco
5 6 (3.41%) EMC
5 6 (3.41%) F5
5 6 (3.41%) Foundry
5 6 (3.41%) OpenAI
5 6 (3.41%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.27%) Databricks
7 3 (1.70%) Google
8 2 (1.14%) Informatica
8 2 (1.14%) Oracle
8 2 (1.14%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.14%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.57%) Rackspace