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 June 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 262 357
Rank change year-on-year +22 +95 +82
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 179 127 159
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.84% 1.04% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 1.15% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 126 84 129
10th Percentile £68,750 £60,150 £63,750
25th Percentile £78,750 £68,750 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.94% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £123,750 £123,000
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 19,805 11,062 23,198
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 90.47% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 13,658 6,965 17,253
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £93,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,239 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.45% +9.52% -12.87%

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 June 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 June 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 +12 48 £90,000 +9.09% 12
East London - 1 - -
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 June 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.

1 156 (87.15%) Platform Engineering
2 98 (54.75%) Terraform
3 94 (52.51%) Azure
3 94 (52.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 89 (49.72%) CI/CD
5 87 (48.60%) Python
6 65 (36.31%) DevOps
7 58 (32.40%) AWS
8 54 (30.17%) Kubernetes
9 46 (25.70%) PowerShell
10 45 (25.14%) Microsoft
11 35 (19.55%) Ansible
11 35 (19.55%) Azure DevOps
12 34 (18.99%) GitHub
13 33 (18.44%) AI
13 33 (18.44%) Linux
14 32 (17.88%) Observability
15 31 (17.32%) Bash
16 27 (15.08%) Infrastructure Automation
17 26 (14.53%) Mentoring
18 25 (13.97%) Amazon S3
19 24 (13.41%) Disaster Recovery
20 23 (12.85%) High Availability
20 23 (12.85%) SQL
21 22 (12.29%) Continuous Improvement
21 22 (12.29%) Fintech
21 22 (12.29%) Serverless
22 21 (11.73%) Amazon EKS
22 21 (11.73%) Cloud Security
22 21 (11.73%) 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 9 (5.03%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.12%) Apache
4 2 (1.12%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.56%) Confluence
5 1 (0.56%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (2.23%) Weka
2 2 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 94 (52.51%) Azure
2 58 (32.40%) AWS
3 35 (19.55%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (18.99%) GitHub
5 25 (13.97%) Amazon S3
6 22 (12.29%) Serverless
7 21 (11.73%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (10.06%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (9.50%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (8.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (8.94%) Azure AKS
11 15 (8.38%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (6.15%) Power Platform
13 10 (5.59%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (5.59%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (5.03%) Amazon ECR
14 9 (5.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 8 (4.47%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
16 7 (3.91%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (11.17%) Firewall
2 14 (7.82%) VPN
3 7 (3.91%) DNS
4 2 (1.12%) Broadband
4 2 (1.12%) LAN
4 2 (1.12%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.12%) WAN
4 2 (1.12%) WLAN
5 1 (0.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.26%) Data Lake
2 10 (5.59%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (4.47%) Power BI
4 6 (3.35%) Delta Lake
4 6 (3.35%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.12%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.12%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.12%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.12%) Redis
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.56%) Big Data
7 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.56%) MySQL
7 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.56%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.56%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (10.06%) Git
2 9 (5.03%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.47%) Visual Studio Code
4 7 (3.91%) GitLab
5 5 (2.79%) TeamCity
6 4 (2.23%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.12%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.56%) JIRA
9 1 (0.56%) MLflow
General
1 45 (25.14%) Finance
2 28 (15.64%) Social Skills
3 8 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (4.47%) Public Sector
4 7 (3.91%) Law
5 6 (3.35%) Legal
5 6 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (2.23%) Health Technology
7 3 (1.68%) Banking
7 3 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.68%) Retail
8 2 (1.12%) Games
9 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.91%) PySpark
2 6 (3.35%) Node.js
3 5 (2.79%) SAML
4 4 (2.23%) Kafka
5 3 (1.68%) .NET
5 3 (1.68%) RESTful
6 2 (1.12%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.12%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.12%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.56%) CrewAI
7 1 (0.56%) Django
7 1 (0.56%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.56%) JWT
7 1 (0.56%) LangChain
7 1 (0.56%) NestJS
7 1 (0.56%) OAuth
7 1 (0.56%) Ray
7 1 (0.56%) Spring
7 1 (0.56%) Web Services
7 1 (0.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.85%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.70%) Public Cloud
3 11 (6.15%) Private Cloud
4 8 (4.47%) Hedge funds
5 7 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.35%) CMDB
7 4 (2.23%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.23%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.68%) Replication
9 2 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.12%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.56%) Blog
10 1 (0.56%) Clustering
10 1 (0.56%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 33 (18.44%) Linux
2 12 (6.70%) Windows
3 11 (6.15%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.12%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (87.15%) Platform Engineering
2 94 (52.51%) Infrastructure as Code
3 89 (49.72%) CI/CD
4 65 (36.31%) DevOps
5 33 (18.44%) AI
6 32 (17.88%) Observability
7 27 (15.08%) Infrastructure Automation
8 26 (14.53%) Mentoring
9 24 (13.41%) Disaster Recovery
10 23 (12.85%) High Availability
11 22 (12.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (12.29%) Fintech
12 21 (11.73%) Cloud Security
12 21 (11.73%) Incident Response
12 21 (11.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 19 (10.61%) Analytics
13 19 (10.61%) Data Pipeline
14 18 (10.06%) Agile
14 18 (10.06%) Containerisation
14 18 (10.06%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 87 (48.60%) Python
2 46 (25.70%) PowerShell
3 31 (17.32%) Bash
4 23 (12.85%) SQL
5 9 (5.03%) Java
6 7 (3.91%) Go
6 7 (3.91%) Scala
7 6 (3.35%) Bicep
8 1 (0.56%) C#
8 1 (0.56%) Groovy
8 1 (0.56%) Rust
8 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (10.61%) Azure Certification
2 16 (8.94%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.03%) Degree
4 8 (4.47%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.91%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 19 (10.61%) Docker
2 15 (8.38%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.23%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 98 (54.75%) Terraform
2 54 (30.17%) Kubernetes
3 35 (19.55%) Ansible
4 21 (11.73%) Grafana
5 16 (8.94%) Prometheus
6 11 (6.15%) Argo
6 11 (6.15%) Packer
7 6 (3.35%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.23%) Puppet
8 4 (2.23%) ZABBIX
9 3 (1.68%) Istio
9 3 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.56%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.56%) Cilium
10 1 (0.56%) Rancher
Vendors
1 45 (25.14%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.82%) VMware
3 10 (5.59%) ServiceNow
4 8 (4.47%) Databricks
5 6 (3.35%) Cisco
5 6 (3.35%) EMC
5 6 (3.35%) F5
5 6 (3.35%) Foundry
5 6 (3.35%) OpenAI
5 6 (3.35%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.23%) Cribl.io
6 4 (2.23%) Splunk
7 3 (1.68%) Google
8 2 (1.12%) Informatica
8 2 (1.12%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.12%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle