Platform Support Engineer Job Trends in London

Platform Support Engineer
England > London

The median Platform Support Engineer salary in London is £76,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 October 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 374 447 466
Rank change year-on-year +73 +19 +358
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Support Engineer 2 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.017% 0.006% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.019% 0.006% 0.005%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £67,875 - -
25th Percentile £68,438 £51,250 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £52,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +45.24% -27.59% +16.94%
75th Percentile £83,438 £53,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,625 - -
England median annual salary £75,000 £55,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +36.36% -24.14% +104.80%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 10,662 16,696 19,438
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.90% 95.19% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 6,944 10,425 15,926
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +5.63%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £53,688 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.63% -4.17% -

Platform Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Platform Support Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Platform Support Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Platform Support Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Platform Support Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Platform Support Engineer job vacancies in London

Platform Support 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 Support Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 20 October 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 +48 1 £77,500 +47.62% 2
Platform Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 October 2025, Platform Support 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 Support Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Datadog
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving

Platform Support 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Datadog
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk