Platform Engineering Jobs in London

Platform Engineering
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring Platform Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 218 225 361
Rank change year-on-year +7 +136 -74
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 310 418 857
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.49% 1.54% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 1.63% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 228 336 457
10th Percentile £62,125 £57,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% +9.68%
75th Percentile £107,188 £125,938 £101,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £143,125 £112,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% - +24.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Platform Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18,545 25,706 72,795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 89.42% 94.78% 97.04%
Number of salaries quoted 12,808 20,124 35,328
10th Percentile £39,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +5.71% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £91,732
90th Percentile £120,000 £116,250 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +4.35%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in London

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in London

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in London

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering within the London region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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 +27 56 £95,000 +31.03% 5
South London - 7 £67,500 - 1
West London - 3 - - 1
East London +25 1 - -
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
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 12 (3.87%) Apache
1 12 (3.87%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (2.90%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.65%) nginx
4 1 (0.32%) Confluence
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.32%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Shopify
2 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 153 (49.35%) Azure
2 144 (46.45%) AWS
3 63 (20.32%) GCP
4 42 (13.55%) GitHub
5 39 (12.58%) PaaS
6 33 (10.65%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (7.10%) Azure AKS
7 22 (7.10%) Power Platform
8 19 (6.13%) Serverless
9 18 (5.81%) SaaS
10 16 (5.16%) Azure Data Factory
11 15 (4.84%) IaaS
12 14 (4.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 13 (4.19%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (4.19%) Entra ID
14 11 (3.55%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (3.23%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
16 9 (2.90%) Amazon EMR
16 9 (2.90%) dbt
16 9 (2.90%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.16%) Network Security
2 10 (3.23%) Remote Desktop
3 9 (2.90%) DNS
4 6 (1.94%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.61%) Firewall
5 5 (1.61%) VPN
6 4 (1.29%) DHCP
6 4 (1.29%) Internet
6 4 (1.29%) VLAN
7 3 (0.97%) BGP
7 3 (0.97%) tcpdump
7 3 (0.97%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.32%) Broadband
8 1 (0.32%) HTTP
8 1 (0.32%) IPv4
8 1 (0.32%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 27 (8.71%) BigQuery
3 24 (7.74%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (6.77%) Power BI
5 16 (5.16%) Looker
5 16 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (4.19%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (4.19%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.55%) Data Lake
7 11 (3.55%) MongoDB
8 10 (3.23%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 9 (2.90%) Amazon Athena
9 9 (2.90%) Big Data
10 8 (2.58%) RDBMS
10 8 (2.58%) Relational Database
11 7 (2.26%) Data Hub
11 7 (2.26%) Metadata
11 7 (2.26%) MySQL
12 6 (1.94%) Redis
13 5 (1.61%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 40 (12.90%) Jenkins
2 29 (9.35%) Git
3 22 (7.10%) GitLab
4 15 (4.84%) Octopus Deploy
5 12 (3.87%) JIRA
6 8 (2.58%) Artifactory
6 8 (2.58%) Snyk
6 8 (2.58%) TeamCity
7 5 (1.61%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.29%) Spinnaker
9 2 (0.65%) DTrace
9 2 (0.65%) GDB
9 2 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.32%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.32%) GoCD
10 1 (0.32%) JMeter
10 1 (0.32%) PVCS
10 1 (0.32%) Terragrunt
General
1 100 (32.26%) Finance
2 56 (18.06%) Social Skills
3 41 (13.23%) Banking
4 35 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (11.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (9.68%) Law
6 16 (5.16%) Legal
7 15 (4.84%) Retail
8 13 (4.19%) Retail Banking
9 8 (2.58%) Games
10 4 (1.29%) Advertising
10 4 (1.29%) Back Office
10 4 (1.29%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.97%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.97%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.97%) Marketing
12 2 (0.65%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.32%) Aviation
13 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.32%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 158 (50.97%) Platform Engineer
2 78 (25.16%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 70 (22.58%) Senior
4 62 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
5 54 (17.42%) DevOps Engineer
6 50 (16.13%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 44 (14.19%) Lead
8 40 (12.90%) Cloud Engineer
9 36 (11.61%) Senior DevOps
9 36 (11.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 35 (11.29%) Data Engineer
11 29 (9.35%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 25 (8.06%) Python Engineer
13 22 (7.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 20 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
15 16 (5.16%) DevOps Platform Engineer
15 16 (5.16%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 16 (5.16%) Principal Engineer
15 16 (5.16%) Senior Data Engineer
16 15 (4.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.81%) Kafka
2 14 (4.52%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (3.55%) RESTful
4 9 (2.90%) Node.js
4 9 (2.90%) React
5 8 (2.58%) REST
6 6 (1.94%) HTML
6 6 (1.94%) JSON
6 6 (1.94%) Lambda Expressions
7 5 (1.61%) SAML
8 4 (1.29%) PySpark
9 3 (0.97%) ADO
9 3 (0.97%) Keycloak
9 3 (0.97%) Loki
9 3 (0.97%) Middleware
10 2 (0.65%) ARM Templates
10 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Graph
10 2 (0.65%) React Native
10 2 (0.65%) Spark Streaming
10 2 (0.65%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 37 (11.94%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.84%) Data Centre
2 15 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.52%) Linux Command Line
3 14 (4.52%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (3.55%) Blog
5 10 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.90%) Clustering
7 8 (2.58%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.58%) Replication
8 6 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.94%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.94%) Wiki
9 5 (1.61%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.61%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 4 (1.29%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.29%) Taxonomies
11 3 (0.97%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 57 (18.39%) Linux
2 12 (3.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (3.55%) Windows
4 8 (2.58%) Oracle Linux
4 8 (2.58%) Solaris
5 6 (1.94%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.97%) CentOS
6 3 (0.97%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.97%) VMS
7 2 (0.65%) Unix
8 1 (0.32%) Android
8 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.32%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (47.10%) DevOps
2 112 (36.13%) Infrastructure as Code
3 100 (32.26%) CI/CD
4 71 (22.90%) Agile
5 68 (21.94%) Containerisation
6 52 (16.77%) Fintech
7 43 (13.87%) Analytics
8 40 (12.90%) Software Engineering
9 39 (12.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 39 (12.58%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (10.97%) DevSecOps
11 32 (10.32%) Cloud Security
12 31 (10.00%) Configuration Management
13 30 (9.68%) Data Engineering
14 29 (9.35%) Mentoring
14 29 (9.35%) Observability
15 27 (8.71%) Disaster Recovery
16 26 (8.39%) Data Pipeline
17 25 (8.06%) Artificial Intelligence
17 25 (8.06%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 135 (43.55%) Python
2 83 (26.77%) PowerShell
3 60 (19.35%) SQL
4 48 (15.48%) Bash
5 39 (12.58%) Java
6 27 (8.71%) Go
7 13 (4.19%) C#
8 11 (3.55%) JavaScript
9 10 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 10 (3.23%) U-SQL
10 8 (2.58%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.94%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.61%) Scala
13 4 (1.29%) Bicep
13 4 (1.29%) C
13 4 (1.29%) C++
13 4 (1.29%) Perl
14 2 (0.65%) Rust
14 2 (0.65%) SystemTap
14 2 (0.65%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (4.84%) AWS Certification
2 14 (4.52%) Degree
3 11 (3.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (2.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (2.58%) CISSP
6 6 (1.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 6 (1.94%) CCSP
6 6 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.61%) Security Cleared
8 4 (1.29%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.29%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.29%) SC Cleared
9 3 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.97%) Linux+ Certification
9 3 (0.97%) RHCE
10 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.65%) CISA
10 2 (0.65%) CISM
10 2 (0.65%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.84%) GDPR
2 13 (4.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.87%) Data Quality
4 11 (3.55%) PCI DSS
5 9 (2.90%) SOC 2
6 8 (2.58%) NIST
7 6 (1.94%) QA
8 1 (0.32%) GRC
8 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
System Software
1 79 (25.48%) Docker
2 18 (5.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (4.19%) Active Directory
4 10 (3.23%) XenApp
4 10 (3.23%) XenDesktop
5 5 (1.61%) KVM
5 5 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.65%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.65%) Firmware
6 2 (0.65%) Xen
7 1 (0.32%) HDFS
7 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 171 (55.16%) Terraform
2 136 (43.87%) Kubernetes
3 79 (25.48%) Ansible
4 20 (6.45%) Puppet
5 18 (5.81%) Prometheus
6 17 (5.48%) Grafana
6 17 (5.48%) Progress Chef
7 13 (4.19%) Istio
8 9 (2.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (1.61%) Argo
10 4 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.97%) Packer
12 1 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.32%) Hadoop YARN
12 1 (0.32%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.32%) Rancher
12 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.32%) Salt
12 1 (0.32%) SCOM
Vendors
1 64 (20.65%) Microsoft
2 49 (15.81%) Google
3 19 (6.13%) VMware
4 15 (4.84%) Databricks
5 14 (4.52%) Splunk
6 12 (3.87%) Citrix
7 11 (3.55%) Red Hat
8 8 (2.58%) Oracle
8 8 (2.58%) Serena
9 5 (1.61%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.97%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.65%) Adobe
11 2 (0.65%) Cisco
11 2 (0.65%) Cloudera
11 2 (0.65%) Hortonworks
11 2 (0.65%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.65%) YouTube
12 1 (0.32%) Dell
12 1 (0.32%) HP
12 1 (0.32%) SAP