Platform Engineering Jobs in London

Platform Engineering
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Platform Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 249 226 378
Rank change year-on-year -23 +152 -119
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 289 550 727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.22% 1.64% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.72% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 229 401 419
10th Percentile £61,250 £58,750 £58,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +9.68%
75th Percentile £110,000 £112,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £138,750 £112,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Platform Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,526 32,049 67,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 90.97% 95.35% 97.00%
Number of salaries quoted 15,906 23,132 34,106
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,257 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in London

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in London

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in London

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering within the London region over the 6 months to 18 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 +28 53 £95,000 +18.75% 11
South London +6 11 £67,500 -
West London 0 3 - - 5
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
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 14 (4.84%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (4.50%) Apache Spark
3 12 (4.15%) Confluence
4 9 (3.11%) Apache
5 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.35%) nginx
5 1 (0.35%) SAS
5 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 136 (47.06%) Azure
2 130 (44.98%) AWS
3 55 (19.03%) GCP
4 40 (13.84%) GitHub
5 39 (13.49%) PaaS
6 33 (11.42%) Serverless
7 29 (10.03%) SaaS
8 26 (9.00%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (8.65%) Azure AKS
9 25 (8.65%) Power Platform
10 19 (6.57%) IaaS
11 17 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 16 (5.54%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (5.54%) Azure Data Factory
12 16 (5.54%) Entra ID
13 15 (5.19%) Amazon S3
14 14 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (4.50%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (4.50%) Route 53
16 12 (4.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.81%) DNS
1 11 (3.81%) Network Security
2 10 (3.46%) Firewall
3 8 (2.77%) Internet
4 3 (1.04%) DHCP
4 3 (1.04%) IPv4
4 3 (1.04%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.04%) VPN
5 2 (0.69%) tcpdump
5 2 (0.69%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.35%) Broadband
6 1 (0.35%) FTP
6 1 (0.35%) SSL
6 1 (0.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (10.73%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (9.34%) Azure SQL Database
2 27 (9.34%) BigQuery
3 21 (7.27%) Power BI
4 18 (6.23%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (5.88%) Looker
6 14 (4.84%) MySQL
7 12 (4.15%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (3.81%) Data Lake
8 11 (3.81%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 11 (3.81%) NoSQL
9 9 (3.11%) Hadoop
9 9 (3.11%) Redis
10 8 (2.77%) RDBMS
10 8 (2.77%) Relational Database
11 7 (2.42%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (2.42%) Data Hub
11 7 (2.42%) Metadata
12 6 (2.08%) MariaDB
12 6 (2.08%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 41 (14.19%) Jenkins
2 23 (7.96%) Git
3 20 (6.92%) JIRA
4 15 (5.19%) TeamCity
5 14 (4.84%) Octopus Deploy
6 13 (4.50%) GitLab
7 11 (3.81%) Bitbucket
8 9 (3.11%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (3.11%) Subversion
9 8 (2.77%) Artifactory
10 7 (2.42%) Snyk
11 5 (1.73%) DTrace
11 5 (1.73%) GDB
12 3 (1.04%) CircleCI
13 2 (0.69%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.69%) JMeter
14 1 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 1 (0.35%) GoCD
14 1 (0.35%) Terragrunt
14 1 (0.35%) Zephyr
General
1 64 (22.15%) Finance
2 43 (14.88%) Social Skills
3 35 (12.11%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (10.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (6.92%) Law
6 18 (6.23%) Banking
7 11 (3.81%) Legal
8 9 (3.11%) Games
8 9 (3.11%) Retail Banking
9 8 (2.77%) Health Technology
9 8 (2.77%) Retail
10 2 (0.69%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.69%) Marketing
10 2 (0.69%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.35%) Back Office
11 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Front Office
11 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 162 (56.06%) Platform Engineer
2 80 (27.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 70 (24.22%) Senior
4 54 (18.69%) Azure Engineer
4 54 (18.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 52 (17.99%) Data Engineer
6 43 (14.88%) DevOps Engineer
7 35 (12.11%) Lead
8 34 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
9 33 (11.42%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 25 (8.65%) Senior Data Engineer
11 24 (8.30%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 23 (7.96%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 22 (7.61%) Senior DevOps
13 22 (7.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 21 (7.27%) Automation Engineer
15 19 (6.57%) Python Engineer
16 18 (6.23%) Cloud Automation Engineer
17 17 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 17 (5.88%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.27%) Kafka
2 11 (3.81%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (3.46%) SAML
4 7 (2.42%) .NET
4 7 (2.42%) Node.js
4 7 (2.42%) React
5 6 (2.08%) Lambda Expressions
6 4 (1.38%) FastAPI
6 4 (1.38%) REST
7 3 (1.04%) ADO
7 3 (1.04%) HTML
7 3 (1.04%) PySpark
8 2 (0.69%) JSON
8 2 (0.69%) Keycloak
8 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.69%) Middleware
9 1 (0.35%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.35%) PostGIS
9 1 (0.35%) Shiny
9 1 (0.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.92%) Enterprise Software
2 18 (6.23%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.19%) Linux Command Line
4 13 (4.50%) Cloud Native
5 10 (3.46%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.77%) Clustering
6 8 (2.77%) Replication
7 7 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.42%) Private Cloud
8 6 (2.08%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.73%) Blog
9 5 (1.73%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.38%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.38%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.04%) Cyberattack
11 3 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (1.04%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 52 (17.99%) Linux
2 22 (7.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (4.84%) Windows
4 8 (2.77%) Oracle Linux
4 8 (2.77%) Solaris
5 5 (1.73%) Unix
5 5 (1.73%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.38%) VMS
7 3 (1.04%) CentOS
7 3 (1.04%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.69%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.35%) Android
9 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (38.75%) DevOps
2 110 (38.06%) Infrastructure as Code
3 83 (28.72%) CI/CD
4 64 (22.15%) Agile
5 45 (15.57%) Analytics
6 42 (14.53%) Containerisation
7 41 (14.19%) Configuration Management
8 39 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (12.11%) Software Engineering
10 31 (10.73%) Fintech
11 28 (9.69%) Data Engineering
12 27 (9.34%) Data Pipeline
13 26 (9.00%) ETL
14 24 (8.30%) Data Science
15 23 (7.96%) Continuous Improvement
15 23 (7.96%) Mentoring
16 22 (7.61%) Innovative Thinking
17 21 (7.27%) Business Intelligence
18 18 (6.23%) Artificial Intelligence
18 18 (6.23%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 129 (44.64%) Python
2 58 (20.07%) SQL
3 44 (15.22%) PowerShell
4 43 (14.88%) Java
5 32 (11.07%) Bash
6 20 (6.92%) Go
7 19 (6.57%) C#
8 12 (4.15%) Perl
9 11 (3.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 11 (3.81%) U-SQL
10 8 (2.77%) C
10 8 (2.77%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.42%) C++
11 7 (2.42%) Scala
12 6 (2.08%) Ruby
13 5 (1.73%) JavaScript
13 5 (1.73%) OCaml
13 5 (1.73%) SystemTap
14 4 (1.38%) Kotlin
15 3 (1.04%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 19 (6.57%) Degree
2 14 (4.84%) Security Cleared
3 13 (4.50%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (3.46%) SC Cleared
6 9 (3.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.42%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (1.73%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.38%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.69%) CISA
10 2 (0.69%) CISM
10 2 (0.69%) CISSP
10 2 (0.69%) Linux+ Certification
10 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.69%) PhD
10 2 (0.69%) RHCE
11 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.35%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.88%) GDPR
2 15 (5.19%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.42%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.73%) QA
5 3 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.69%) NIST
System Software
1 85 (29.41%) Docker
2 17 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.04%) KVM
4 3 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.69%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.69%) Firmware
6 1 (0.35%) Ceph
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.35%) vSphere
6 1 (0.35%) Xen
Systems Management
1 162 (56.06%) Terraform
2 137 (47.40%) Kubernetes
3 54 (18.69%) Ansible
4 24 (8.30%) Progress Chef
4 24 (8.30%) Puppet
5 18 (6.23%) Grafana
6 14 (4.84%) Prometheus
6 14 (4.84%) Salt
7 11 (3.81%) Istio
8 10 (3.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 10 (3.46%) Packer
9 7 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (2.08%) Argo
11 2 (0.69%) Kibana
11 2 (0.69%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.35%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.35%) logstash
12 1 (0.35%) Podman
12 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (19.38%) Microsoft
2 38 (13.15%) Google
3 20 (6.92%) Databricks
4 11 (3.81%) Red Hat
5 10 (3.46%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.77%) Oracle
6 8 (2.77%) Serena
6 8 (2.77%) YouTube
7 5 (1.73%) VMware
8 3 (1.04%) Facebook
8 3 (1.04%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.04%) Splunk
9 2 (0.69%) Confluent
10 1 (0.35%) BT
10 1 (0.35%) ESRI
10 1 (0.35%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.35%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.35%) SAP
10 1 (0.35%) TOWER Software
10 1 (0.35%) Wallstreet Suite