Senior Platform Engineer Jobs in London

Senior Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Platform Engineer salary in London is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 368 478 569
Rank change year-on-year +110 +91 +256
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 25 25 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.19% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.11% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 18 24 19
10th Percentile £70,000 £62,875 £83,500
25th Percentile £76,250 £69,375 £95,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £103,750 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.25% +3.75% +17.65%
75th Percentile £100,000 £116,875 £108,750
90th Percentile £104,875 £122,500 £121,000
England median annual salary £82,500 £87,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year -5.71% - +2.94%

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 11,585 22,238 32,603
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.14% 94.13% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 7,454 16,672 24,036
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Senior Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Platform Engineer in London

Senior Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Platform Engineer in London.

Salary trend for Senior Platform Engineer in London

Senior Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Platform Engineer in London over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Platform Engineer in London

Senior Platform 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 Senior Platform Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 11 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 14 £90,000 -14.29%
Senior Platform Engineer
England

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 11 May 2025, Senior Platform Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 20 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 18 (72.00%) Terraform
4 15 (60.00%) Azure
5 13 (52.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (52.00%) Kubernetes
6 11 (44.00%) Python
7 10 (40.00%) AWS
7 10 (40.00%) DevOps
7 10 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (36.00%) Linux
9 8 (32.00%) Go
10 7 (28.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (28.00%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (28.00%) PaaS
10 7 (28.00%) Bash
10 7 (28.00%) Containerisation
11 6 (24.00%) Observability
11 6 (24.00%) Pulumi
11 6 (24.00%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (24.00%) VMware Infrastructure
11 6 (24.00%) Citrix
11 6 (24.00%) VMware
11 6 (24.00%) Regulatory Compliance
11 6 (24.00%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (24.00%) GCP
11 6 (24.00%) Docker
11 6 (24.00%) GitHub
12 5 (20.00%) Grafana
12 5 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
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 3 (12.00%) Apache Spark
1 3 (12.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (60.00%) Azure
2 10 (40.00%) AWS
3 7 (28.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (28.00%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (28.00%) PaaS
4 6 (24.00%) GCP
4 6 (24.00%) GitHub
4 6 (24.00%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (24.00%) Pulumi
5 4 (16.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 4 (16.00%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (12.00%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (12.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (12.00%) Copilot Studio
6 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (12.00%) OpenShift
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (12.00%) Hadoop
1 3 (12.00%) HBase
2 1 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (4.00%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.00%) GitLab
3 1 (4.00%) Git
3 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (12.00%) Banking
2 3 (12.00%) Finance
2 3 (12.00%) Financial Institution
2 3 (12.00%) Law
2 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Games
3 1 (4.00%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (16.00%) Loki
2 3 (12.00%) Kafka
3 2 (8.00%) Node.js
4 1 (4.00%) ARM Templates
4 1 (4.00%) AWS CDK
4 1 (4.00%) AWS SAM
4 1 (4.00%) JSON
4 1 (4.00%) React
4 1 (4.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (36.00%) Linux
2 4 (16.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 20 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 13 (52.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (40.00%) DevOps
4 10 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (28.00%) Containerisation
6 6 (24.00%) Observability
6 6 (24.00%) Regulatory Compliance
7 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 5 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (20.00%) Test Automation
8 4 (16.00%) Continuous Deployment
8 4 (16.00%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (16.00%) Customer Requirements
8 4 (16.00%) Digital Engineering
8 4 (16.00%) Mentoring
8 4 (16.00%) Network Virtualisation
8 4 (16.00%) Presales
8 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (16.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) Python
2 8 (32.00%) Go
3 7 (28.00%) Bash
4 4 (16.00%) Java
4 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.00%) SQL
6 1 (4.00%) C#
6 1 (4.00%) Groovy
6 1 (4.00%) PHP
6 1 (4.00%) Ruby
6 1 (4.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Certification
3 3 (12.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Docker
1 6 (24.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 6 (24.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (72.00%) Terraform
2 13 (52.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (20.00%) Grafana
4 3 (12.00%) Ansible
5 2 (8.00%) Progress Chef
5 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
5 2 (8.00%) Puppet
6 1 (4.00%) Consul
6 1 (4.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Citrix
1 6 (24.00%) VMware
2 4 (16.00%) Hitachi
2 4 (16.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (12.00%) Cloudera
3 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.00%) IBM