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 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 428 642
Rank change year-on-year +60 +214 -263
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 164 170 284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.67% 0.54% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.57% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 135 122 197
10th Percentile £65,000 £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% +11.86%
75th Percentile £110,000 £101,438 £97,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £107,250 £106,000
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 23,153 29,839 71,327
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 94.99% 96.18%
Number of salaries quoted 17,040 22,415 34,936
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,578 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,750 £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 £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +40 27 £85,000 -2.86% 6
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 9 June 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.

1 153 (93.29%) Platform Engineering
2 106 (64.63%) Terraform
3 90 (54.88%) Kubernetes
4 85 (51.83%) Azure
5 73 (44.51%) Python
6 65 (39.63%) DevOps
7 63 (38.41%) AWS
8 60 (36.59%) Infrastructure as Code
9 54 (32.93%) CI/CD
10 52 (31.71%) Docker
11 46 (28.05%) Finance
12 43 (26.22%) Linux
13 40 (24.39%) Ansible
14 36 (21.95%) SQL
15 34 (20.73%) PowerShell
16 33 (20.12%) Agile
17 30 (18.29%) Bash
18 29 (17.68%) Containerisation
19 28 (17.07%) Social Skills
19 28 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
19 28 (17.07%) GitHub
20 27 (16.46%) Jenkins
20 27 (16.46%) GCP
21 26 (15.85%) Configuration Management
22 24 (14.63%) PaaS
23 20 (12.20%) Git
23 20 (12.20%) Software Engineering
23 20 (12.20%) Serverless
24 19 (11.59%) Microsoft
24 19 (11.59%) Java

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 7 (4.27%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.05%) Confluence
3 3 (1.83%) Apache
4 2 (1.22%) nginx
5 1 (0.61%) Appian
5 1 (0.61%) SAS
5 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 85 (51.83%) Azure
2 63 (38.41%) AWS
3 28 (17.07%) GitHub
4 27 (16.46%) GCP
5 24 (14.63%) PaaS
6 20 (12.20%) Serverless
7 17 (10.37%) Azure AKS
8 15 (9.15%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (5.49%) IaaS
9 9 (5.49%) OpenShift
10 8 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (4.88%) Entra ID
11 7 (4.27%) Amazon S3
11 7 (4.27%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (4.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (4.27%) Route 53
11 7 (4.27%) SaaS
12 6 (3.66%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (3.66%) Power Platform
12 6 (3.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.27%) Firewall
2 6 (3.66%) DNS
3 4 (2.44%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.83%) DHCP
4 3 (1.83%) tcpdump
4 3 (1.83%) Wireshark
5 2 (1.22%) Internet
5 2 (1.22%) IPv4
5 2 (1.22%) VPN
6 1 (0.61%) Broadband
6 1 (0.61%) FTP
6 1 (0.61%) SSL
6 1 (0.61%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.98%) BigQuery
2 14 (8.54%) MongoDB
3 13 (7.93%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (5.49%) Looker
4 9 (5.49%) MySQL
5 6 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (3.05%) MariaDB
6 5 (3.05%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.05%) Power BI
6 5 (3.05%) Redis
7 4 (2.44%) Big Data
7 4 (2.44%) Hadoop
7 4 (2.44%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.61%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (16.46%) Jenkins
2 20 (12.20%) Git
3 13 (7.93%) JIRA
4 11 (6.71%) Octopus Deploy
4 11 (6.71%) TeamCity
5 8 (4.88%) Artifactory
6 7 (4.27%) Snyk
7 6 (3.66%) Bitbucket
7 6 (3.66%) GitLab
8 5 (3.05%) DTrace
8 5 (3.05%) GDB
9 4 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (2.44%) Subversion
10 3 (1.83%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.61%) GoCD
11 1 (0.61%) PVCS
11 1 (0.61%) Zephyr
General
1 46 (28.05%) Finance
2 28 (17.07%) Social Skills
3 18 (10.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (7.93%) Banking
5 9 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.27%) Retail Banking
7 6 (3.66%) Law
7 6 (3.66%) Retail
8 4 (2.44%) Advertising
8 4 (2.44%) Front Office
8 4 (2.44%) Games
9 3 (1.83%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.22%) Legal
10 2 (1.22%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.61%) Retail Finance
11 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.54%) Kafka
2 11 (6.71%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (3.05%) .NET
4 3 (1.83%) Keycloak
4 3 (1.83%) Middleware
4 3 (1.83%) Node.js
4 3 (1.83%) PySpark
4 3 (1.83%) React
4 3 (1.83%) SAML
5 2 (1.22%) REST
6 1 (0.61%) Anaconda
6 1 (0.61%) JSON
6 1 (0.61%) Loki
6 1 (0.61%) RESTful
6 1 (0.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.10%) Distributed Systems
1 10 (6.10%) Linux Command Line
1 10 (6.10%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (4.88%) Clustering
2 8 (4.88%) Replication
3 7 (4.27%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.05%) Blog
4 5 (3.05%) Client/Server
5 4 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.44%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.83%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.83%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.61%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.61%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 43 (26.22%) Linux
2 16 (9.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (4.88%) Oracle Linux
3 8 (4.88%) Solaris
4 7 (4.27%) Windows
5 5 (3.05%) Unix
6 4 (2.44%) VMS
6 4 (2.44%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.83%) CentOS
7 3 (1.83%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.61%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (93.29%) Platform Engineering
2 65 (39.63%) DevOps
3 60 (36.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (32.93%) CI/CD
5 33 (20.12%) Agile
6 29 (17.68%) Containerisation
7 28 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (15.85%) Configuration Management
9 20 (12.20%) Software Engineering
10 17 (10.37%) Deployment Automation
11 14 (8.54%) Data Engineering
11 14 (8.54%) Data Pipeline
12 12 (7.32%) Disaster Recovery
12 12 (7.32%) Fintech
12 12 (7.32%) High Availability
12 12 (7.32%) Mentoring
13 11 (6.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 11 (6.71%) Performance Tuning
14 10 (6.10%) Data Science
14 10 (6.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 73 (44.51%) Python
2 36 (21.95%) SQL
3 34 (20.73%) PowerShell
4 30 (18.29%) Bash
5 19 (11.59%) Java
6 14 (8.54%) C#
7 11 (6.71%) Go
8 9 (5.49%) Shell Script
9 8 (4.88%) Perl
10 6 (3.66%) C
11 5 (3.05%) JavaScript
11 5 (3.05%) OCaml
11 5 (3.05%) SystemTap
12 3 (1.83%) Ruby
12 3 (1.83%) Scala
13 1 (0.61%) Bicep
13 1 (0.61%) C++
13 1 (0.61%) Groovy
13 1 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (6.10%) Degree
2 7 (4.27%) AWS Certification
2 7 (4.27%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 6 (3.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 6 (3.66%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.83%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.83%) Linux+ Certification
4 3 (1.83%) RHCE
5 2 (1.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.22%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.61%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.49%) GDPR
2 7 (4.27%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.83%) QA
System Software
1 52 (31.71%) Docker
2 10 (6.10%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.83%) KVM
Systems Management
1 106 (64.63%) Terraform
2 90 (54.88%) Kubernetes
3 40 (24.39%) Ansible
4 14 (8.54%) Grafana
5 13 (7.93%) Prometheus
6 12 (7.32%) Istio
7 11 (6.71%) Progress Chef
7 11 (6.71%) Puppet
8 6 (3.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (3.05%) Packer
9 5 (3.05%) Salt
10 4 (2.44%) Karpenter
11 2 (1.22%) Argo
12 1 (0.61%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.61%) Kibana
12 1 (0.61%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.61%) logstash
12 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 19 (11.59%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.98%) Google
3 11 (6.71%) Red Hat
4 8 (4.88%) Oracle
4 8 (4.88%) Serena
4 8 (4.88%) VMware
5 5 (3.05%) Atlassian
5 5 (3.05%) Splunk
6 3 (1.83%) Databricks
6 3 (1.83%) SaltStack
6 3 (1.83%) YouTube
7 2 (1.22%) Citrix
7 2 (1.22%) Confluent
8 1 (0.61%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.61%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.61%) BT
8 1 (0.61%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.61%) Pega
8 1 (0.61%) UiPath
8 1 (0.61%) Wallstreet Suite