Platform Engineer Job Trends in London

Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Platform Engineer salary in London is £80,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 March 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 293 330
Rank change year-on-year +30 +37 +78
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 132 118 152
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.80% 0.86% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 0.94% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 111 89 135
10th Percentile £63,750 £64,077 £65,000
25th Percentile £73,125 £76,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.56% +12.50% -3.03%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £78,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.59% +5.00% +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 15,072 12,523 20,617
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.54% 90.98% 94.20%
Number of salaries quoted 10,050 7,713 16,416
10th Percentile £37,342 £42,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,651 £75,000 £72,102
Median % change year-on-year -1.80% +4.02% -1.23%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.84%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 +14 29 £80,000 -11.11% 7
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 March 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.

1 109 (82.58%) Platform Engineering
2 65 (49.24%) CI/CD
3 62 (46.97%) Infrastructure as Code
3 62 (46.97%) Terraform
4 61 (46.21%) Azure
5 54 (40.91%) Kubernetes
6 50 (37.88%) DevOps
7 46 (34.85%) Linux
8 45 (34.09%) AWS
8 45 (34.09%) Python
9 38 (28.79%) Ansible
10 28 (21.21%) PowerShell
11 27 (20.45%) Observability
12 26 (19.70%) GitHub
12 26 (19.70%) Infrastructure Automation
13 25 (18.94%) Docker
14 24 (18.18%) Firewall
15 23 (17.42%) Analytics
15 23 (17.42%) High Availability
15 23 (17.42%) VMware
16 22 (16.67%) Incident Response
16 22 (16.67%) VPN
17 20 (15.15%) Grafana
17 20 (15.15%) SQL
18 19 (14.39%) Windows
19 18 (13.64%) Active Directory
19 18 (13.64%) Bash
19 18 (13.64%) Containerisation
20 17 (12.88%) Azure DevOps
20 17 (12.88%) Configuration Management

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 (3.79%) Confluence
1 5 (3.79%) IIS
1 5 (3.79%) SharePoint
1 5 (3.79%) Tomcat
2 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.52%) Mule
4 2 (1.52%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.76%) Apache
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.76%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (3.03%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 61 (46.21%) Azure
2 45 (34.09%) AWS
3 26 (19.70%) GitHub
4 17 (12.88%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (12.88%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (11.36%) Amazon EKS
5 15 (11.36%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (10.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 14 (10.61%) Azure Monitor
7 13 (9.85%) GCP
8 11 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (7.58%) Datadog
10 8 (6.06%) Amazon ECR
10 8 (6.06%) Azure Storage
10 8 (6.06%) Entra ID
10 8 (6.06%) Serverless
11 7 (5.30%) Amazon S3
11 7 (5.30%) Azure AKS
11 7 (5.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (5.30%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 24 (18.18%) Firewall
2 22 (16.67%) VPN
3 12 (9.09%) DNS
4 6 (4.55%) Network Security
4 6 (4.55%) TCP/IP
5 5 (3.79%) WAN
6 4 (3.03%) DHCP
7 1 (0.76%) BGP
7 1 (0.76%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.76%) MQTT
7 1 (0.76%) OSPF
7 1 (0.76%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.76%) RTMP
7 1 (0.76%) VLAN
7 1 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.85%) Data Lake
2 11 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (5.30%) Delta Lake
4 5 (3.79%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.79%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.79%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.03%) Power BI
6 3 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.27%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.27%) Redis
7 2 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.76%) Metadata
8 1 (0.76%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.76%) MySQL
8 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (12.88%) Jenkins
2 16 (12.12%) GitLab
3 11 (8.33%) Git
4 6 (4.55%) Bitbucket
5 5 (3.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (3.79%) JIRA
6 2 (1.52%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.76%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.76%) MLflow
7 1 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 40 (30.30%) Finance
2 14 (10.61%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.79%) Public Sector
4 5 (3.79%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.52%) Banking
5 2 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.76%) Advertising
6 1 (0.76%) Agriculture
6 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.76%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.82%) Kafka
2 7 (5.30%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (5.30%) PySpark
3 6 (4.55%) YAML
4 4 (3.03%) ADO
4 4 (3.03%) AWS CDK
4 4 (3.03%) Middleware
4 4 (3.03%) OAuth
4 4 (3.03%) SAML
5 3 (2.27%) Django
6 2 (1.52%) Loki
6 2 (1.52%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.76%) Celery
7 1 (0.76%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.76%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.76%) Keycloak
7 1 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.76%) Ray
7 1 (0.76%) REST
7 1 (0.76%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.82%) Private Cloud
2 7 (5.30%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.55%) Hedge funds
4 5 (3.79%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.52%) Equities
6 2 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.52%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.52%) Replication
7 1 (0.76%) CMDB
7 1 (0.76%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.76%) IoT
7 1 (0.76%) Life Science
7 1 (0.76%) MPEG
7 1 (0.76%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.76%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.76%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 46 (34.85%) Linux
2 19 (14.39%) Windows
3 14 (10.61%) Windows Server
4 11 (8.33%) Unix
5 8 (6.06%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (6.06%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (3.79%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (3.03%) VMS
8 3 (2.27%) SUSE
8 3 (2.27%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.76%) Debian
9 1 (0.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (82.58%) Platform Engineering
2 65 (49.24%) CI/CD
3 62 (46.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (37.88%) DevOps
5 27 (20.45%) Observability
6 26 (19.70%) Infrastructure Automation
7 23 (17.42%) Analytics
7 23 (17.42%) High Availability
8 22 (16.67%) Incident Response
9 18 (13.64%) Containerisation
10 17 (12.88%) Configuration Management
11 15 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (10.61%) Disaster Recovery
12 14 (10.61%) Log Analytics
12 14 (10.61%) Root Cause Analysis
12 14 (10.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 13 (9.85%) Agile
14 12 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
14 12 (9.09%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (34.09%) Python
2 28 (21.21%) PowerShell
3 20 (15.15%) SQL
4 18 (13.64%) Bash
5 7 (5.30%) Scala
6 4 (3.03%) Java
6 4 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (2.27%) Go
8 2 (1.52%) Perl
9 1 (0.76%) Bicep
9 1 (0.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (11.36%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.58%) Degree
2 10 (7.58%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.03%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.27%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.76%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.55%) GDPR
3 5 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.03%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.76%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.76%) NIST
5 1 (0.76%) QA
5 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 25 (18.94%) Docker
2 18 (13.64%) Active Directory
3 12 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.03%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.27%) vSphere
6 2 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.76%) NFS
Systems Management
1 62 (46.97%) Terraform
2 54 (40.91%) Kubernetes
3 38 (28.79%) Ansible
4 20 (15.15%) Grafana
5 17 (12.88%) Prometheus
6 9 (6.82%) Progress Chef
7 8 (6.06%) Puppet
8 7 (5.30%) Argo
9 4 (3.03%) ZABBIX
10 3 (2.27%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (2.27%) Rancher
11 1 (0.76%) Istio
11 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 23 (17.42%) VMware
2 13 (9.85%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.06%) Red Hat
4 7 (5.30%) Databricks
4 7 (5.30%) Oracle
5 6 (4.55%) Cisco
5 6 (4.55%) Splunk
6 5 (3.79%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.79%) Zscaler
7 4 (3.03%) Atlassian
7 4 (3.03%) Cribl.io
7 4 (3.03%) Google
7 4 (3.03%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.52%) Foundry
8 2 (1.52%) Palantir
9 1 (0.76%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.76%) Okta
9 1 (0.76%) Sonatype
9 1 (0.76%) Starlink
9 1 (0.76%) Ubiquiti