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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 230 224
Rank change year-on-year +33 -6 +134
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 233 310 443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.78% 1.38% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 1.54% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 156 229 351
10th Percentile £67,500 £62,250 £57,500
25th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £128,750
90th Percentile £121,250 £122,500 £142,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -3.23% +3.33%

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 12,434 20,194 26,858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 94.90% 89.61% 94.87%
Number of salaries quoted 7,401 14,297 20,731
10th Percentile £40,500 £38,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £118,750 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

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 19 July 2025.

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 19 July 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 +54 75 £82,500 -8.33% 13
East London -14 1 £107,500 - 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 (5.15%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.86%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (3.43%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.58%) Apache
5 4 (1.72%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (1.72%) nginx
5 4 (1.72%) Traefik
6 2 (0.86%) Confluence
7 1 (0.43%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (1.72%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.72%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 114 (48.93%) Azure
2 107 (45.92%) AWS
3 52 (22.32%) GCP
4 46 (19.74%) GitHub
5 31 (13.30%) GitHub Actions
6 30 (12.88%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (8.15%) PaaS
8 15 (6.44%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (6.01%) Pulumi
10 13 (5.58%) Power Platform
11 11 (4.72%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (4.72%) Microsoft Purview
12 10 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (4.29%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (4.29%) IaaS
12 10 (4.29%) SaaS
13 9 (3.86%) Entra ID
13 9 (3.86%) Power Automate
13 9 (3.86%) PowerApps
14 8 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.58%) DNS
2 15 (6.44%) DHCP
3 12 (5.15%) VPN
4 11 (4.72%) TCP/IP
5 8 (3.43%) Firewall
6 6 (2.58%) SD-WAN
6 6 (2.58%) WAN
7 4 (1.72%) ICMP
7 4 (1.72%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.86%) BGP
8 2 (0.86%) HTTP
8 2 (0.86%) Multicast
9 1 (0.43%) Network Security
9 1 (0.43%) Structured Cabling
9 1 (0.43%) VXLAN
9 1 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.58%) Power BI
2 10 (4.29%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.58%) BigQuery
3 6 (2.58%) Data Lake
4 5 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.72%) Flink
5 4 (1.72%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.86%) ClickHouse
7 2 (0.86%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.86%) MySQL
8 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.43%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.43%) HBase
8 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.43%) Power Query
8 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (16.31%) GitLab
2 28 (12.02%) SonarQube
3 19 (8.15%) Sonatype Nexus
4 12 (5.15%) Jenkins
5 10 (4.29%) JIRA
6 7 (3.00%) Git
7 2 (0.86%) Xcode
8 1 (0.43%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.43%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.43%) Vagrant
General
1 89 (38.20%) Finance
2 55 (23.61%) Law
3 53 (22.75%) Social Skills
4 34 (14.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (10.73%) Banking
6 20 (8.58%) Legal
7 12 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (4.29%) Marketing
9 8 (3.43%) Front Office
9 8 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (3.43%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.15%) Retail
11 4 (1.72%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.29%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.86%) Advertising
14 1 (0.43%) Automotive
14 1 (0.43%) Electronics
14 1 (0.43%) Games
Job Titles
1 116 (49.79%) Platform Engineer
2 52 (22.32%) Lead
3 40 (17.17%) Senior
4 36 (15.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 33 (14.16%) Software Engineer
6 30 (12.88%) Azure Engineer
6 30 (12.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 29 (12.45%) Cloud Engineer
8 28 (12.02%) Data Engineer
9 23 (9.87%) Python Engineer
10 22 (9.44%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 18 (7.73%) AWS Engineer
11 18 (7.73%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 18 (7.73%) Lead Data Engineer
12 17 (7.30%) Lead Software Engineer
13 16 (6.87%) Automation Engineer
14 13 (5.58%) Linux Engineer
15 12 (5.15%) DevOps Platform Engineer
16 11 (4.72%) AWS DevOps
16 11 (4.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.73%) REST
2 19 (8.15%) React
3 17 (7.30%) Kafka
4 15 (6.44%) ARM Templates
5 9 (3.86%) Spring
5 9 (3.86%) YAML
6 8 (3.43%) Loki
7 6 (2.58%) .NET
7 6 (2.58%) SAML
8 5 (2.15%) RESTful
8 5 (2.15%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.72%) Hibernate
9 4 (1.72%) LangChain
9 4 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (1.29%) AWS CDK
10 3 (1.29%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (1.29%) PyTorch
10 3 (1.29%) scikit-learn
10 3 (1.29%) TensorFlow
11 2 (0.86%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 47 (20.17%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.30%) Public Cloud
3 14 (6.01%) Product Ownership
4 13 (5.58%) Clustering
5 9 (3.86%) Distributed Computing
5 9 (3.86%) Virtual Team
6 8 (3.43%) Mobile Banking
7 7 (3.00%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.58%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.58%) Hedge funds
8 6 (2.58%) Replication
8 6 (2.58%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 5 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.15%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.72%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.72%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.29%) Derivative
11 3 (1.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 50 (21.46%) Linux
2 21 (9.01%) Windows
3 17 (7.30%) Windows Server
4 12 (5.15%) Windows Server 2016
5 11 (4.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.72%) CentOS
6 4 (1.72%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.86%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.86%) Unix
7 2 (0.86%) VMS
8 1 (0.43%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (59.66%) CI/CD
2 115 (49.36%) DevOps
3 99 (42.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (28.76%) Containerisation
5 58 (24.89%) Agile
6 45 (19.31%) Problem-Solving
7 42 (18.03%) Observability
8 39 (16.74%) Software Engineering
9 38 (16.31%) Artificial Intelligence
9 38 (16.31%) Machine Learning
10 32 (13.73%) Analytics
11 30 (12.88%) Stakeholder Management
12 29 (12.45%) DevSecOps
12 29 (12.45%) Fintech
13 28 (12.02%) Computer Science
14 24 (10.30%) Risk Management
15 23 (9.87%) Data Science
15 23 (9.87%) Event-Driven
15 23 (9.87%) Microservices
16 22 (9.44%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 139 (59.66%) Python
2 61 (26.18%) Java
3 48 (20.60%) PowerShell
4 41 (17.60%) Bash
5 40 (17.17%) Go
6 27 (11.59%) SQL
7 15 (6.44%) Scala
8 13 (5.58%) Kotlin
9 12 (5.15%) TypeScript
10 10 (4.29%) JavaScript
10 10 (4.29%) Perl
11 8 (3.43%) C#
12 6 (2.58%) C++
13 5 (2.15%) Bicep
13 5 (2.15%) Groovy
13 5 (2.15%) Rust
13 5 (2.15%) T-SQL
14 4 (1.72%) C
14 4 (1.72%) Shell Script
15 3 (1.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (12.45%) Degree
2 23 (9.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (7.30%) Master's Degree
4 12 (5.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (4.72%) Security Cleared
6 9 (3.86%) SC Cleared
7 6 (2.58%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (2.58%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.86%) CISSP
8 2 (0.86%) MBA
9 1 (0.43%) CCIE
9 1 (0.43%) CCNP
9 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.30%) GDPR
2 10 (4.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (1.72%) QA
4 3 (1.29%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.86%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.86%) NIST
5 2 (0.86%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 58 (24.89%) Docker
2 23 (9.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (7.73%) Active Directory
4 13 (5.58%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (3.86%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.43%) Firmware
6 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 117 (50.21%) Kubernetes
2 105 (45.06%) Terraform
3 66 (28.33%) Ansible
4 22 (9.44%) Grafana
5 20 (8.58%) Prometheus
6 10 (4.29%) Red Hat Satellite
7 9 (3.86%) Progress Chef
8 7 (3.00%) Puppet
9 6 (2.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (1.72%) HAProxy
11 3 (1.29%) Packer
12 2 (0.86%) Consul
12 2 (0.86%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.86%) Podman
13 1 (0.43%) Argo
13 1 (0.43%) Salt
Vendors
1 41 (17.60%) Microsoft
2 30 (12.88%) VMware
3 25 (10.73%) Google
4 15 (6.44%) Red Hat
5 13 (5.58%) Citrix
6 10 (4.29%) Databricks
6 10 (4.29%) ServiceNow
7 8 (3.43%) Hitachi
8 7 (3.00%) Cisco
8 7 (3.00%) Oracle
9 4 (1.72%) EMC
9 4 (1.72%) Okta
9 4 (1.72%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.72%) Remedy
9 4 (1.72%) TOWER Software
9 4 (1.72%) Zscaler
10 3 (1.29%) Mellanox
10 3 (1.29%) Solarflare
11 2 (0.86%) Arista
11 2 (0.86%) WSO2