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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 205 247 226
Rank change year-on-year +42 -21 +137
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 209 289 546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.61% 1.22% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 1.34% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 156 229 397
10th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £58,550
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £122,500 £138,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%

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 12,445 21,520 32,059
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.16% 90.99% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 7,282 15,899 23,123
10th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £43,180
25th Percentile £55,813 £51,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,073 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.03% -6.57% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +36 64 £82,500 -13.16% 33
East London - 1 £107,500 - 6
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 13 (6.22%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (4.78%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.87%) Apache
4 4 (1.91%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.48%) Confluence
5 1 (0.48%) IIS
5 1 (0.48%) Jetty
5 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.91%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.91%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 109 (52.15%) AWS
2 102 (48.80%) Azure
3 47 (22.49%) GCP
4 33 (15.79%) GitHub
5 29 (13.88%) Pulumi
6 28 (13.40%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (12.92%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (9.57%) PaaS
9 13 (6.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (5.26%) SaaS
11 10 (4.78%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (4.78%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (4.78%) Entra ID
12 9 (4.31%) IaaS
13 8 (3.83%) Azure AKS
13 8 (3.83%) Datadog
14 7 (3.35%) Serverless
15 6 (2.87%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (2.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 6 (2.87%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.70%) DNS
2 10 (4.78%) DHCP
3 7 (3.35%) TCP/IP
3 7 (3.35%) VPN
4 6 (2.87%) Firewall
5 4 (1.91%) SD-WAN
5 4 (1.91%) WAN
6 2 (0.96%) HTTP
7 1 (0.48%) BGP
7 1 (0.48%) Multicast
7 1 (0.48%) Network Security
7 1 (0.48%) SAN
7 1 (0.48%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (0.48%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.35%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.91%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.91%) Power BI
4 3 (1.44%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.44%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.44%) Hadoop
4 3 (1.44%) HBase
4 3 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.96%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.96%) MySQL
5 2 (0.96%) Tableau
6 1 (0.48%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.48%) Hazelcast
6 1 (0.48%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (15.79%) GitLab
2 22 (10.53%) SonarQube
3 18 (8.61%) Sonatype Nexus
4 16 (7.66%) Jenkins
5 8 (3.83%) JIRA
6 4 (1.91%) Git
7 2 (0.96%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.48%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.48%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.48%) JUnit
8 1 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.48%) Selenium
8 1 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.48%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.48%) Vagrant
General
1 48 (22.97%) Finance
2 38 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 22 (10.53%) Law
4 16 (7.66%) Banking
5 10 (4.78%) Front Office
6 8 (3.83%) Marketing
7 5 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.39%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.91%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.91%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.91%) Legal
9 3 (1.44%) Advertising
10 2 (0.96%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.96%) Retail
11 1 (0.48%) Automotive
11 1 (0.48%) Back Office
11 1 (0.48%) Electronics
11 1 (0.48%) Games
11 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 120 (57.42%) Platform Engineer
2 44 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 41 (19.62%) Senior
4 34 (16.27%) Lead
5 30 (14.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 29 (13.88%) Data Engineer
7 28 (13.40%) Azure Engineer
8 26 (12.44%) Python Engineer
8 26 (12.44%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 23 (11.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 22 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
11 19 (9.09%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 17 (8.13%) Lead Data Engineer
12 17 (8.13%) Linux Engineer
13 16 (7.66%) AWS Engineer
14 13 (6.22%) Automation Engineer
15 11 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
15 11 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 10 (4.78%) Software Engineer
17 9 (4.31%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.00%) REST
2 16 (7.66%) Kafka
3 15 (7.18%) ARM Templates
3 15 (7.18%) React
4 7 (3.35%) Loki
5 6 (2.87%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (2.39%) SAML
6 5 (2.39%) Spring
6 5 (2.39%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.91%) LangChain
7 4 (1.91%) Node.js
7 4 (1.91%) YAML
8 3 (1.44%) .NET
8 3 (1.44%) GraphQL
8 3 (1.44%) JSON
8 3 (1.44%) Middleware
8 3 (1.44%) PyTorch
8 3 (1.44%) scikit-learn
8 3 (1.44%) TensorFlow
9 2 (0.96%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 26 (12.44%) Cloud Native
2 23 (11.00%) Public Cloud
3 12 (5.74%) Clustering
4 10 (4.78%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (3.35%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.87%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.87%) Derivative
6 6 (2.87%) Replication
7 5 (2.39%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.91%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.91%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.91%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.44%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.96%) Blog
10 2 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.96%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.96%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 60 (28.71%) Linux
2 25 (11.96%) Windows
3 19 (9.09%) Windows Server
4 12 (5.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.91%) CentOS
6 4 (1.91%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (1.91%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.91%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.96%) Unix
7 2 (0.96%) VMS
8 1 (0.48%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (62.68%) CI/CD
2 101 (48.33%) DevOps
3 93 (44.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (29.67%) Containerisation
5 37 (17.70%) Agile
6 34 (16.27%) Machine Learning
7 33 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence
7 33 (15.79%) Observability
8 31 (14.83%) Analytics
9 29 (13.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 25 (11.96%) Stakeholder Management
11 24 (11.48%) Data Science
11 24 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (11.00%) Computer Science
12 23 (11.00%) Deployment Automation
13 22 (10.53%) Fintech
14 21 (10.05%) Event-Driven
15 20 (9.57%) Roadmaps
16 19 (9.09%) Low Latency
16 19 (9.09%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 139 (66.51%) Python
2 46 (22.01%) Java
3 41 (19.62%) PowerShell
4 37 (17.70%) Bash
5 35 (16.75%) Go
6 23 (11.00%) SQL
7 20 (9.57%) Bicep
8 17 (8.13%) Scala
9 13 (6.22%) Ruby
10 12 (5.74%) TypeScript
11 7 (3.35%) Rust
12 6 (2.87%) C#
12 6 (2.87%) C++
12 6 (2.87%) JavaScript
12 6 (2.87%) Perl
13 5 (2.39%) T-SQL
14 4 (1.91%) C
15 2 (0.96%) Groovy
15 2 (0.96%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.96%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (11.96%) Degree
2 21 (10.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (7.18%) Master's Degree
4 13 (6.22%) Security Cleared
5 12 (5.74%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.44%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.44%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.48%) CCIE
8 1 (0.48%) CCNP
8 1 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.48%) MCSE
8 1 (0.48%) PhD
8 1 (0.48%) VCAP
8 1 (0.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.26%) GDPR
2 6 (2.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (0.96%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.96%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 78 (37.32%) Docker
2 27 (12.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (9.09%) Active Directory
4 13 (6.22%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (4.31%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.96%) Firmware
7 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 114 (54.55%) Kubernetes
2 110 (52.63%) Terraform
3 68 (32.54%) Ansible
4 22 (10.53%) Progress Chef
4 22 (10.53%) Puppet
5 19 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 18 (8.61%) Grafana
6 18 (8.61%) Podman
7 6 (2.87%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (2.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.91%) Packer
10 2 (0.96%) Argo
10 2 (0.96%) Consul
11 1 (0.48%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.48%) Salt
Vendors
1 31 (14.83%) VMware
2 26 (12.44%) Microsoft
3 17 (8.13%) Google
4 15 (7.18%) Citrix
5 11 (5.26%) Red Hat
6 10 (4.78%) Databricks
7 7 (3.35%) Hitachi
7 7 (3.35%) Oracle
7 7 (3.35%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.39%) Cisco
8 5 (2.39%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.91%) EMC
9 4 (1.91%) Remedy
9 4 (1.91%) TOWER Software
10 3 (1.44%) Cloudera
11 2 (0.96%) Splunk
11 2 (0.96%) WSO2
12 1 (0.48%) IBM
12 1 (0.48%) LogicMonitor
12 1 (0.48%) Netskope