Senior Platform Engineer Job Trends in London

Senior Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Platform Engineer salary in London is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 406 429
Rank change year-on-year +50 +23 +156
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 18 22 14
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.13% 0.14% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.15% 0.081%
Number of salaries quoted 10 19 12
10th Percentile £68,813 £47,500 -
25th Percentile £79,375 £64,471 £97,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £80,000 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -25.58% +19.44%
75th Percentile - £93,750 £122,500
90th Percentile - £110,000 -
England median annual salary £82,500 £69,308 £103,750
% change year-on-year +19.03% -33.20% +22.06%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 12,862 14,378 17,329
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.20% 92.68% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 8,531 8,295 13,928
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.50%

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Senior Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Senior Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary distribution trend for Senior Platform Engineer job vacancies in London

Senior Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Platform Engineer in London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Platform Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Senior Platform 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 Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 10 (55.56%) AWS
3 8 (44.44%) Linux
3 8 (44.44%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (33.33%) Agile
4 6 (33.33%) Analytics
4 6 (33.33%) Business Strategy
4 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 6 (33.33%) Data Analysis
4 6 (33.33%) GraphQL
4 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (33.33%) IT Asset Management
4 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 6 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
4 6 (33.33%) Python
4 6 (33.33%) REST
4 6 (33.33%) Scrum
4 6 (33.33%) ServiceNow
4 6 (33.33%) Terraform
5 5 (27.78%) Docker
6 4 (22.22%) Azure
6 4 (22.22%) DevOps
6 4 (22.22%) GCP
6 4 (22.22%) High Availability
6 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
6 4 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
7 3 (16.67%) AI
7 3 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (16.67%) Amazon RDS

Senior Platform 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (11.11%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) GCP
3 3 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon ECR
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (11.11%) Dagster
4 2 (11.11%) dbt
4 2 (11.11%) PaaS
4 2 (11.11%) Pulumi
4 2 (11.11%) Sentry
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub
5 1 (5.56%) Route 53
5 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
2 2 (11.11%) BGP
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (11.11%) Firewall
2 2 (11.11%) MQTT
2 2 (11.11%) OSPF
2 2 (11.11%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (11.11%) RTMP
2 2 (11.11%) VLAN
2 2 (11.11%) VPN
2 2 (11.11%) WAN
2 2 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (11.11%) Wireless
3 1 (5.56%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (11.11%) Data Lake
3 2 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (11.11%) Metadata
3 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 2 (11.11%) MySQL
3 2 (11.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) GitLab
1 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.11%) Jaeger
2 2 (11.11%) MLflow
2 2 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (33.33%) Law
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Agriculture
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) GraphQL
1 6 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (11.11%) Django
2 2 (11.11%) FastAPI
2 2 (11.11%) Kafka
2 2 (11.11%) Keycloak
2 2 (11.11%) WebRTC
3 1 (5.56%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) CMDB
1 6 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.11%) Hedge funds
2 2 (11.11%) IoT
2 2 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (11.11%) MPEG
2 2 (11.11%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 8 (44.44%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (33.33%) Agile
3 6 (33.33%) Analytics
3 6 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 6 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (33.33%) IT Asset Management
3 6 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 6 (33.33%) Scrum
4 4 (22.22%) DevOps
4 4 (22.22%) High Availability
5 3 (16.67%) AI
5 3 (16.67%) Observability
5 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (16.67%) Systematic Trading
6 2 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (11.11%) Edge AI
6 2 (11.11%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 6 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) Go
3 1 (5.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Docker
2 2 (11.11%) NFS
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Terraform
2 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 3 (16.67%) Grafana
4 2 (11.11%) Ansible
4 2 (11.11%) Argo
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Copilot
4 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco
2 2 (11.11%) Google
2 2 (11.11%) MikroTik
2 2 (11.11%) NETGEAR
2 2 (11.11%) Sonatype
2 2 (11.11%) Starlink
2 2 (11.11%) Ubiquiti