Platform Engineer Jobs in Southwark

Platform Engineer
Central London > Southwark

The median Platform Engineer salary in Southwark is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 14 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 3 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southwark 5.36% 2.00% -
As % of the Job Titles category 6.98% 3.33% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 -
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year - - +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Southwark

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Southwark. 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 Southwark with a recognized job title 43 30 124
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 76.79% 60.00% 95.38%
Number of salaries quoted 14 26 123
10th Percentile £26,638 £34,457 £50,522
25th Percentile £32,000 £36,426 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £40,952 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +46.51% -43.51% -12.12%
75th Percentile £80,000 £64,375 £86,250
90th Percentile £114,500 £76,875 £94,500
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £74,000
% change year-on-year - -2.03% +2.07%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Southwark

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Southwark

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Southwark

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in Southwark

Platform Engineer
Job Locations in Southwark

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the Southwark region over the 6 months to 12 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
London Bridge - 2 - -
Platform Engineer
Central London

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2025, 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 Southwark region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Go
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Deployment
2 2 (66.67%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Pulumi
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Value Proposition
2 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Presales
2 2 (66.67%) Loki
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Hitachi
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southwark 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) Pulumi
3 1 (33.33%) IaaS
3 1 (33.33%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Games
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Loki
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Deployment
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Presales
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Value Proposition
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Go
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
3 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Hitachi