Platform Engineer Jobs in London

Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Platform Engineer salary in London is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 437 616
Rank change year-on-year +98 +179 -263
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 172 195 272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.73% 0.58% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.61% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 144 139 191
10th Percentile £65,750 £57,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% +10.00%
75th Percentile £110,000 £101,375 £100,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £107,750 £107,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 22,283 31,984 66,421
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.21% 95.13% 96.30%
Number of salaries quoted 16,636 23,610 34,531
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,444 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in London

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in London

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in London

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 Platform Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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 +59 30 £90,000 - 3
South London - 6 £110,000 -
West London - 3 - -
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, 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 Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 162 (94.19%) Platform Engineering
2 117 (68.02%) Terraform
3 97 (56.40%) Kubernetes
4 91 (52.91%) Azure
5 81 (47.09%) Python
6 75 (43.60%) Infrastructure as Code
7 73 (42.44%) AWS
8 71 (41.28%) DevOps
9 65 (37.79%) Docker
10 60 (34.88%) CI/CD
11 44 (25.58%) Ansible
12 43 (25.00%) Linux
12 43 (25.00%) Finance
13 38 (22.09%) SQL
14 36 (20.93%) Agile
15 34 (19.77%) GitHub
16 33 (19.19%) Jenkins
17 32 (18.60%) PowerShell
18 30 (17.44%) Configuration Management
18 30 (17.44%) GCP
19 29 (16.86%) Bash
20 28 (16.28%) Java
20 28 (16.28%) Serverless
21 27 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
21 27 (15.70%) Social Skills
21 27 (15.70%) PaaS
22 26 (15.12%) Containerisation
23 21 (12.21%) Git
23 21 (12.21%) Software Engineering
24 20 (11.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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 10 (5.81%) Confluence
2 8 (4.65%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.16%) Apache
5 1 (0.58%) nginx
5 1 (0.58%) SAS
5 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 91 (52.91%) Azure
2 73 (42.44%) AWS
3 34 (19.77%) GitHub
4 30 (17.44%) GCP
5 28 (16.28%) Serverless
6 27 (15.70%) PaaS
7 19 (11.05%) Azure AKS
8 14 (8.14%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (7.56%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (7.56%) Amazon S3
9 13 (7.56%) Route 53
10 12 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (6.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 11 (6.40%) IaaS
12 10 (5.81%) Entra ID
12 10 (5.81%) SaaS
13 9 (5.23%) OpenShift
14 8 (4.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 6 (3.49%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.23%) DNS
2 8 (4.65%) Firewall
3 3 (1.74%) Internet
3 3 (1.74%) IPv4
3 3 (1.74%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.74%) VPN
4 2 (1.16%) DHCP
4 2 (1.16%) tcpdump
4 2 (1.16%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.58%) Broadband
5 1 (0.58%) FTP
5 1 (0.58%) SSL
5 1 (0.58%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.05%) BigQuery
2 14 (8.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 14 (8.14%) MongoDB
3 11 (6.40%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (5.81%) MySQL
5 9 (5.23%) Looker
6 6 (3.49%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.91%) Hadoop
7 5 (2.91%) MariaDB
7 5 (2.91%) Redis
8 4 (2.33%) Big Data
8 4 (2.33%) InfluxDB
8 4 (2.33%) Power BI
9 3 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.58%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.58%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (19.19%) Jenkins
2 21 (12.21%) Git
3 18 (10.47%) JIRA
4 14 (8.14%) Octopus Deploy
4 14 (8.14%) TeamCity
5 11 (6.40%) Bitbucket
6 9 (5.23%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (5.23%) Subversion
7 8 (4.65%) Artifactory
8 7 (4.07%) GitLab
8 7 (4.07%) Snyk
9 5 (2.91%) DTrace
9 5 (2.91%) GDB
10 3 (1.74%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.58%) GoCD
11 1 (0.58%) Zephyr
General
1 43 (25.00%) Finance
2 27 (15.70%) Social Skills
3 18 (10.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (7.56%) Banking
5 9 (5.23%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.07%) Law
6 7 (4.07%) Retail Banking
7 5 (2.91%) Games
7 5 (2.91%) Retail
8 4 (2.33%) Front Office
8 4 (2.33%) Health Technology
9 3 (1.74%) Legal
10 2 (1.16%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.72%) Kafka
2 11 (6.40%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (4.65%) SAML
4 7 (4.07%) .NET
5 3 (1.74%) Node.js
5 3 (1.74%) PySpark
5 3 (1.74%) React
6 2 (1.16%) Keycloak
6 2 (1.16%) Middleware
6 2 (1.16%) REST
7 1 (0.58%) Anaconda
7 1 (0.58%) JSON
7 1 (0.58%) Loki
7 1 (0.58%) RESTful
7 1 (0.58%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.72%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (8.14%) Linux Command Line
3 10 (5.81%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (5.23%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.65%) Clustering
5 8 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (4.65%) Replication
6 7 (4.07%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.91%) Blog
7 5 (2.91%) Client/Server
7 5 (2.91%) Private Cloud
8 4 (2.33%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.33%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.74%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.58%) Fixed Income
11 1 (0.58%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.58%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 43 (25.00%) Linux
2 20 (11.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (4.65%) Oracle Linux
3 8 (4.65%) Solaris
3 8 (4.65%) Windows
4 5 (2.91%) Unix
5 4 (2.33%) VMS
5 4 (2.33%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.16%) CentOS
6 2 (1.16%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.58%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (94.19%) Platform Engineering
2 75 (43.60%) Infrastructure as Code
3 71 (41.28%) DevOps
4 60 (34.88%) CI/CD
5 36 (20.93%) Agile
6 30 (17.44%) Configuration Management
7 27 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (15.12%) Containerisation
9 21 (12.21%) Software Engineering
10 17 (9.88%) Deployment Automation
11 15 (8.72%) Data Pipeline
11 15 (8.72%) Identity Access Management
11 15 (8.72%) Infrastructure Automation
12 14 (8.14%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (8.14%) Migration
13 13 (7.56%) Data Engineering
13 13 (7.56%) Fintech
13 13 (7.56%) Innovative Thinking
14 11 (6.40%) Analytics
14 11 (6.40%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 81 (47.09%) Python
2 38 (22.09%) SQL
3 32 (18.60%) PowerShell
4 29 (16.86%) Bash
5 28 (16.28%) Java
6 17 (9.88%) C#
7 11 (6.40%) Perl
8 10 (5.81%) Go
9 8 (4.65%) Shell Script
10 6 (3.49%) C
11 5 (2.91%) JavaScript
11 5 (2.91%) OCaml
11 5 (2.91%) SystemTap
12 3 (1.74%) Ruby
12 3 (1.74%) Scala
13 2 (1.16%) Bicep
14 1 (0.58%) C++
14 1 (0.58%) Groovy
14 1 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (6.98%) Degree
2 7 (4.07%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.49%) AWS Certification
3 6 (3.49%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 5 (2.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.74%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.16%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.16%) Linux+ Certification
6 2 (1.16%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.16%) PhD
6 2 (1.16%) RHCE
7 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.23%) GDPR
2 7 (4.07%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.74%) QA
System Software
1 65 (37.79%) Docker
2 11 (6.40%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.16%) KVM
Systems Management
1 117 (68.02%) Terraform
2 97 (56.40%) Kubernetes
3 44 (25.58%) Ansible
4 19 (11.05%) Progress Chef
4 19 (11.05%) Puppet
5 14 (8.14%) Salt
6 13 (7.56%) Grafana
7 12 (6.98%) Prometheus
8 11 (6.40%) Istio
9 10 (5.81%) Packer
10 7 (4.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (1.74%) Argo
12 2 (1.16%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.58%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.58%) Kibana
13 1 (0.58%) logstash
13 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 20 (11.63%) Microsoft
2 19 (11.05%) Google
3 10 (5.81%) Atlassian
3 10 (5.81%) Red Hat
4 8 (4.65%) Oracle
4 8 (4.65%) Serena
5 6 (3.49%) VMware
6 4 (2.33%) Databricks
6 4 (2.33%) YouTube
7 3 (1.74%) Splunk
8 2 (1.16%) Citrix
8 2 (1.16%) Confluent
8 2 (1.16%) SaltStack
9 1 (0.58%) BT
9 1 (0.58%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.58%) Wallstreet Suite