Platform Engineer Job Trends in London

Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Platform Engineer salary in London is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 November 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 286 376
Rank change year-on-year -6 +90 +75
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 99 151 83
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.76% 0.87% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 0.92% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 71 110 69
10th Percentile £55,000 £57,825 £56,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £66,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £88,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.49% +18.33% -11.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £117,625 £101,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +11.11% -12.90%

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 11,757 16,416 17,771
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.82% 94.78% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,563 9,992 14,480
10th Percentile £35,750 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £119,350 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £54,292 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.58% -4.17% -

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 20 November 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 20 November 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 +21 8 £64,250 -4.81% 49
South London - 1 £50,000 -
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 November 2025, 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 89 (89.90%) Platform Engineering
2 61 (61.62%) CI/CD
3 57 (57.58%) Kubernetes
4 52 (52.53%) Python
5 49 (49.49%) Ansible
5 49 (49.49%) DevOps
6 48 (48.48%) Linux
7 47 (47.47%) Azure
7 47 (47.47%) Terraform
8 41 (41.41%) Infrastructure as Code
9 33 (33.33%) PowerShell
10 32 (32.32%) Bash
11 30 (30.30%) Docker
12 29 (29.29%) AWS
13 27 (27.27%) VMware
14 24 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
15 22 (22.22%) Agile
15 22 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
16 20 (20.20%) GitLab
17 19 (19.19%) Jenkins
17 19 (19.19%) Windows
18 18 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
18 18 (18.18%) GCP
18 18 (18.18%) Red Hat
19 17 (17.17%) Containerisation
19 17 (17.17%) GitHub
19 17 (17.17%) Root Cause Analysis
19 17 (17.17%) Security Hardening
19 17 (17.17%) VMware Infrastructure
20 16 (16.16%) GitHub Actions

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 (5.05%) Confluence
2 4 (4.04%) Apache Pulsar
2 4 (4.04%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.04%) IIS
2 4 (4.04%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.04%) Tomcat
3 3 (3.03%) Mule
4 2 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.02%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 47 (47.47%) Azure
2 29 (29.29%) AWS
3 18 (18.18%) GCP
4 17 (17.17%) GitHub
5 16 (16.16%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (12.12%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (10.10%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (10.10%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (10.10%) OpenShift
8 7 (7.07%) Datadog
8 7 (7.07%) PaaS
9 6 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (5.05%) Power Automate
10 5 (5.05%) Power Platform
10 5 (5.05%) PowerApps
11 4 (4.04%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 4 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.10%) DNS
2 7 (7.07%) Firewall
3 6 (6.06%) TCP/IP
4 5 (5.05%) VPN
5 4 (4.04%) DHCP
5 4 (4.04%) WAN
6 3 (3.03%) Network Security
7 2 (2.02%) BGP
7 2 (2.02%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (2.02%) MQTT
7 2 (2.02%) OSPF
7 2 (2.02%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (2.02%) RTMP
7 2 (2.02%) VLAN
7 2 (2.02%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (2.02%) Wireless
8 1 (1.01%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.08%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.05%) NoSQL
2 5 (5.05%) Power BI
3 4 (4.04%) BigQuery
3 4 (4.04%) Flink
3 4 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.03%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.02%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.02%) Metadata
5 2 (2.02%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.02%) MySQL
5 2 (2.02%) Redis
6 1 (1.01%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 20 (20.20%) GitLab
2 19 (19.19%) Jenkins
3 11 (11.11%) Git
4 5 (5.05%) JIRA
5 4 (4.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (4.04%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.02%) Jaeger
6 2 (2.02%) MLflow
6 2 (2.02%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.02%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (33.33%) Finance
2 20 (20.20%) Law
3 17 (17.17%) Social Skills
4 13 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (13.13%) Public Sector
5 10 (10.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.05%) Banking
6 5 (5.05%) Telecoms
7 4 (4.04%) Games
7 4 (4.04%) Legal
7 4 (4.04%) Marketing
8 2 (2.02%) Advertising
8 2 (2.02%) Agriculture
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.13%) Kafka
2 9 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (6.06%) GraphQL
3 6 (6.06%) REST
4 5 (5.05%) YAML
5 4 (4.04%) .NET
5 4 (4.04%) AWS CDK
5 4 (4.04%) Middleware
5 4 (4.04%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (4.04%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (3.03%) SAML
7 2 (2.02%) ADO
7 2 (2.02%) Django
7 2 (2.02%) FastAPI
7 2 (2.02%) Keycloak
7 2 (2.02%) OAuth
7 2 (2.02%) WebRTC
8 1 (1.01%) LDAP
8 1 (1.01%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.15%) Private Cloud
2 8 (8.08%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.08%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.06%) CMDB
3 6 (6.06%) Public Cloud
4 5 (5.05%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (4.04%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.04%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.02%) Clustering
6 2 (2.02%) IoT
6 2 (2.02%) MPEG
6 2 (2.02%) Robotics
7 1 (1.01%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.01%) Life Science
7 1 (1.01%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (48.48%) Linux
2 19 (19.19%) Windows
3 13 (13.13%) Windows Server
4 8 (8.08%) Unix
5 7 (7.07%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (6.06%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (4.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (4.04%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.02%) VMS
8 2 (2.02%) Windows 10
9 1 (1.01%) Debian
9 1 (1.01%) Solaris
9 1 (1.01%) SUSE
9 1 (1.01%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (89.90%) Platform Engineering
2 61 (61.62%) CI/CD
3 49 (49.49%) DevOps
4 41 (41.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (22.22%) Agile
6 22 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
7 18 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
8 17 (17.17%) Containerisation
8 17 (17.17%) Root Cause Analysis
8 17 (17.17%) Security Hardening
9 15 (15.15%) Data Security
9 15 (15.15%) Task Automation
10 13 (13.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (13.13%) Observability
11 12 (12.12%) Analytics
11 12 (12.12%) Computer Science
11 12 (12.12%) Software Engineering
12 11 (11.11%) Open Source
12 11 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 52 (52.53%) Python
2 33 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 32 (32.32%) Bash
4 12 (12.12%) Go
4 12 (12.12%) Perl
5 10 (10.10%) JavaScript
6 9 (9.09%) SQL
7 8 (8.08%) Java
8 5 (5.05%) Shell Script
9 4 (4.04%) C#
9 4 (4.04%) Kotlin
10 3 (3.03%) Bicep
11 2 (2.02%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (1.01%) Bourne shell
12 1 (1.01%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 13 (13.13%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.07%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (7.07%) Degree
2 7 (7.07%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.05%) DV Cleared
3 5 (5.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (4.04%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.02%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.01%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.01%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.14%) GDPR
2 11 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.04%) QA
4 2 (2.02%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.01%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.01%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.01%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.01%) NIST
5 1 (1.01%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.01%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (30.30%) Docker
2 17 (17.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (12.12%) Active Directory
4 5 (5.05%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.02%) NFS
6 2 (2.02%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (2.02%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (57.58%) Kubernetes
2 49 (49.49%) Ansible
3 47 (47.47%) Terraform
4 13 (13.13%) Grafana
4 13 (13.13%) Prometheus
5 11 (11.11%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (5.05%) Rancher
7 4 (4.04%) Progress Chef
7 4 (4.04%) Puppet
7 4 (4.04%) vRealize
8 3 (3.03%) Argo
9 2 (2.02%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (1.01%) Oracle ZFS
10 1 (1.01%) VxRail
Vendors
1 27 (27.27%) VMware
2 18 (18.18%) Red Hat
3 15 (15.15%) ServiceNow
4 14 (14.14%) Microsoft
5 12 (12.12%) Cisco
6 7 (7.07%) Oracle
6 7 (7.07%) Zscaler
7 6 (6.06%) Google
7 6 (6.06%) Splunk
8 5 (5.05%) Atlassian
8 5 (5.05%) Okta
9 4 (4.04%) Foundry
9 4 (4.04%) Palantir
10 2 (2.02%) MikroTik
10 2 (2.02%) NETGEAR
10 2 (2.02%) Palo Alto
10 2 (2.02%) Sonatype
10 2 (2.02%) Starlink
10 2 (2.02%) Ubiquiti
11 1 (1.01%) Databricks