Platform Engineering Jobs in London

Platform Engineering
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Platform Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 255 225 373
Rank change year-on-year -30 +148 -116
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 281 559 714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.19% 1.63% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 1.70% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 225 407 425
10th Percentile £61,250 £57,950 £58,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +9.68%
75th Percentile £106,250 £112,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £138,750 £112,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Platform Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,502 32,794 65,164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 91.13% 95.33% 96.94%
Number of salaries quoted 15,970 23,578 33,920
10th Percentile £37,800 £43,477 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,750 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,565 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £111,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +23 51 £95,000 +18.75% 13
South London +6 11 £67,500 -
West London -2 3 - - 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 14 (4.98%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (4.63%) Apache Spark
3 12 (4.27%) Confluence
4 9 (3.20%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.36%) nginx
5 1 (0.36%) SAS
5 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 132 (46.98%) Azure
2 128 (45.55%) AWS
3 52 (18.51%) GCP
4 37 (13.17%) GitHub
5 34 (12.10%) PaaS
5 34 (12.10%) Serverless
6 27 (9.61%) SaaS
7 24 (8.54%) Power Platform
8 23 (8.19%) Azure AKS
8 23 (8.19%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (6.41%) IaaS
10 17 (6.05%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (5.69%) Amazon S3
11 16 (5.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 15 (5.34%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (5.34%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (5.34%) Entra ID
13 14 (4.98%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (4.98%) Route 53
14 13 (4.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.56%) DNS
1 10 (3.56%) Firewall
1 10 (3.56%) Network Security
2 8 (2.85%) Internet
3 3 (1.07%) DHCP
3 3 (1.07%) IPv4
3 3 (1.07%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.07%) VPN
4 2 (0.71%) tcpdump
4 2 (0.71%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.36%) Broadband
5 1 (0.36%) FTP
5 1 (0.36%) SSL
5 1 (0.36%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (10.68%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (9.61%) BigQuery
3 24 (8.54%) Azure SQL Database
4 20 (7.12%) Power BI
5 17 (6.05%) Looker
5 17 (6.05%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (4.63%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (4.63%) MySQL
7 11 (3.91%) NoSQL
8 10 (3.56%) Data Lake
8 10 (3.56%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 9 (3.20%) Hadoop
10 8 (2.85%) RDBMS
10 8 (2.85%) Redis
10 8 (2.85%) Relational Database
11 7 (2.49%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (2.49%) Data Hub
11 7 (2.49%) Metadata
12 5 (1.78%) InfluxDB
12 5 (1.78%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 42 (14.95%) Jenkins
2 23 (8.19%) Git
3 20 (7.12%) JIRA
4 15 (5.34%) TeamCity
5 12 (4.27%) GitLab
6 11 (3.91%) Bitbucket
6 11 (3.91%) Octopus Deploy
7 9 (3.20%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (3.20%) Subversion
8 8 (2.85%) Artifactory
9 7 (2.49%) Snyk
10 5 (1.78%) DTrace
10 5 (1.78%) GDB
11 3 (1.07%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.71%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.71%) JMeter
13 1 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.36%) GoCD
13 1 (0.36%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.36%) Zephyr
General
1 61 (21.71%) Finance
2 41 (14.59%) Social Skills
3 34 (12.10%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (10.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (6.76%) Law
6 17 (6.05%) Banking
7 10 (3.56%) Legal
8 9 (3.20%) Games
8 9 (3.20%) Retail
8 9 (3.20%) Retail Banking
9 8 (2.85%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.71%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.71%) Marketing
10 2 (0.71%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.36%) Back Office
11 1 (0.36%) Front Office
11 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 163 (58.01%) Platform Engineer
2 79 (28.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 67 (23.84%) Senior
4 56 (19.93%) Cloud Engineer
5 52 (18.51%) Data Engineer
6 51 (18.15%) Azure Engineer
7 40 (14.23%) DevOps Engineer
8 36 (12.81%) AWS Engineer
9 34 (12.10%) Lead
10 29 (10.32%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 24 (8.54%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 24 (8.54%) Senior Data Engineer
12 23 (8.19%) Automation Engineer
12 23 (8.19%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 20 (7.12%) Cloud Automation Engineer
13 20 (7.12%) Senior DevOps
13 20 (7.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 18 (6.41%) Python Engineer
15 16 (5.69%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 16 (5.69%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.47%) Kafka
2 9 (3.20%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (3.20%) SAML
3 7 (2.49%) .NET
3 7 (2.49%) Node.js
3 7 (2.49%) React
4 6 (2.14%) Lambda Expressions
5 4 (1.42%) FastAPI
5 4 (1.42%) REST
6 3 (1.07%) PySpark
7 2 (0.71%) ADO
7 2 (0.71%) JSON
7 2 (0.71%) Keycloak
7 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (0.71%) Middleware
8 1 (0.36%) HTML
8 1 (0.36%) RESTful
8 1 (0.36%) Spring
8 1 (0.36%) Spring MVC
8 1 (0.36%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.76%) Enterprise Software
2 18 (6.41%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (5.69%) Linux Command Line
4 15 (5.34%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (4.63%) Cloud Native
6 12 (4.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.85%) Clustering
7 8 (2.85%) Replication
8 6 (2.14%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.78%) Blog
9 5 (1.78%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.78%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.42%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.42%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.42%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (1.07%) Cyberattack
11 3 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (1.07%) Mainframe
11 3 (1.07%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 53 (18.86%) Linux
2 24 (8.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (4.98%) Windows
4 8 (2.85%) Oracle Linux
4 8 (2.85%) Solaris
5 5 (1.78%) Unix
5 5 (1.78%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.42%) VMS
7 3 (1.07%) CentOS
7 3 (1.07%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.71%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.36%) Android
9 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (39.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 108 (38.43%) DevOps
3 83 (29.54%) CI/CD
4 64 (22.78%) Agile
5 43 (15.30%) Analytics
5 43 (15.30%) Configuration Management
6 40 (14.23%) Containerisation
6 40 (14.23%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (12.46%) Software Engineering
8 28 (9.96%) Data Engineering
8 28 (9.96%) Data Pipeline
9 27 (9.61%) Fintech
10 26 (9.25%) ETL
11 24 (8.54%) Innovative Thinking
12 23 (8.19%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (8.19%) Data Science
12 23 (8.19%) Mentoring
13 20 (7.12%) Business Intelligence
14 18 (6.41%) Architectural Design
14 18 (6.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 129 (45.91%) Python
2 55 (19.57%) SQL
3 44 (15.66%) Java
4 42 (14.95%) PowerShell
5 29 (10.32%) Bash
6 20 (7.12%) Go
7 19 (6.76%) C#
8 14 (4.98%) Perl
9 10 (3.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 10 (3.56%) U-SQL
10 8 (2.85%) C
10 8 (2.85%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.49%) C++
11 7 (2.49%) Scala
12 6 (2.14%) Ruby
13 5 (1.78%) JavaScript
13 5 (1.78%) OCaml
13 5 (1.78%) SystemTap
14 3 (1.07%) Bicep
14 3 (1.07%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 19 (6.76%) Degree
2 13 (4.63%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.91%) AWS Certification
3 11 (3.91%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (3.20%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.49%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (1.78%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.42%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.71%) CISA
9 2 (0.71%) CISM
9 2 (0.71%) CISSP
9 2 (0.71%) Linux+ Certification
9 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.71%) PhD
9 2 (0.71%) RHCE
10 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.36%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.05%) GDPR
2 15 (5.34%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.49%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.42%) QA
5 3 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.71%) NIST
System Software
1 84 (29.89%) Docker
2 16 (5.69%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.07%) KVM
4 3 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.71%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.71%) Firmware
6 1 (0.36%) Ceph
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.36%) vSphere
6 1 (0.36%) Xen
Systems Management
1 160 (56.94%) Terraform
2 133 (47.33%) Kubernetes
3 53 (18.86%) Ansible
4 27 (9.61%) Puppet
5 26 (9.25%) Progress Chef
6 19 (6.76%) Grafana
7 17 (6.05%) Salt
8 15 (5.34%) Prometheus
9 11 (3.91%) Istio
10 10 (3.56%) Packer
11 9 (3.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (2.49%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (2.14%) Argo
14 2 (0.71%) Kibana
14 2 (0.71%) Kubeflow
15 1 (0.36%) HAProxy
15 1 (0.36%) logstash
15 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
15 1 (0.36%) SCOM
15 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 51 (18.15%) Microsoft
2 37 (13.17%) Google
3 19 (6.76%) Databricks
4 11 (3.91%) Red Hat
5 10 (3.56%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.85%) Oracle
6 8 (2.85%) Serena
6 8 (2.85%) YouTube
7 5 (1.78%) VMware
8 4 (1.42%) Splunk
9 3 (1.07%) Facebook
9 3 (1.07%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.71%) Confluent
11 1 (0.36%) BT
11 1 (0.36%) ESRI
11 1 (0.36%) HP
11 1 (0.36%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.36%) SAP
11 1 (0.36%) TOWER Software
11 1 (0.36%) Wallstreet Suite