Senior Platform Engineer Jobs in London

Senior Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Platform Engineer salary in London is £102,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 466 589 858
Rank change year-on-year +123 +269 -267
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 25 47 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.10% 0.14% 0.079%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.15% 0.082%
Number of salaries quoted 23 19 55
10th Percentile £62,750 £82,500 £67,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £85,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £100,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +17.65% +17.24%
75th Percentile £115,000 £107,500 £105,625
90th Percentile £122,500 £121,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £82,500 £86,250 £85,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +1.47% +17.24%

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 22,535 31,280 69,453
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.40% 95.12% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 16,745 23,071 34,798
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,108 £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 £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%

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 28 May 2024.

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 28 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 +51 9 £105,000 +5.00% 1
Senior Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, 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 23 (92.00%) Platform Engineering
2 18 (72.00%) Kubernetes
3 17 (68.00%) Azure
4 16 (64.00%) Terraform
5 15 (60.00%) Python
6 13 (52.00%) AWS
6 13 (52.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (44.00%) DevOps
8 10 (40.00%) Docker
9 8 (32.00%) GCP
10 7 (28.00%) PaaS
10 7 (28.00%) Linux
11 6 (24.00%) Bash
11 6 (24.00%) VMware
11 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
12 5 (20.00%) Software Engineering
12 5 (20.00%) SaaS
12 5 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
12 5 (20.00%) Java
12 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (20.00%) Grafana
13 4 (16.00%) Public Cloud
13 4 (16.00%) Fintech
13 4 (16.00%) Prometheus
13 4 (16.00%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (16.00%) Progress Chef
13 4 (16.00%) Jenkins
13 4 (16.00%) C#
13 4 (16.00%) Shell Script
13 4 (16.00%) Configuration Management

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
1 3 (12.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 17 (68.00%) Azure
2 13 (52.00%) AWS
3 8 (32.00%) GCP
4 7 (28.00%) PaaS
5 5 (20.00%) SaaS
6 4 (16.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (12.00%) IaaS
7 3 (12.00%) Pulumi
8 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
9 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
9 1 (4.00%) Power Automate
9 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
9 1 (4.00%) PowerApps
9 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) DHCP
1 3 (12.00%) DNS
1 3 (12.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (12.00%) tcpdump
1 3 (12.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) IPv4
2 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.00%) Big Data
2 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (12.00%) Git
2 3 (12.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (12.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (4.00%) GitLab
3 1 (4.00%) GoCD
General
1 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Finance
2 1 (4.00%) Games
2 1 (4.00%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) .NET
1 3 (12.00%) Keycloak
1 3 (12.00%) Middleware
1 3 (12.00%) PySpark
2 2 (8.00%) Node.js
2 2 (8.00%) React
3 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.00%) JSON
3 1 (4.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (12.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.00%) Blockchain
4 1 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 7 (28.00%) Linux
2 3 (12.00%) CentOS
2 3 (12.00%) Ubuntu
2 3 (12.00%) Windows
2 3 (12.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (92.00%) Platform Engineering
2 13 (52.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (44.00%) DevOps
4 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (16.00%) Configuration Management
5 4 (16.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (16.00%) Fintech
6 3 (12.00%) Business Continuity
6 3 (12.00%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (12.00%) Cost Control
6 3 (12.00%) Data Governance
6 3 (12.00%) Data Management
6 3 (12.00%) Decarbonisation
6 3 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (12.00%) High Availability
6 3 (12.00%) OO
6 3 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (12.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (60.00%) Python
2 6 (24.00%) Bash
3 5 (20.00%) Java
4 4 (16.00%) C#
4 4 (16.00%) Shell Script
5 3 (12.00%) Perl
5 3 (12.00%) SQL
6 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
7 1 (4.00%) Go
7 1 (4.00%) Ruby
7 1 (4.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Linux+ Certification
1 3 (12.00%) RHCE
2 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (4.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (40.00%) Docker
2 5 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (12.00%) KVM
3 3 (12.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (72.00%) Kubernetes
2 16 (64.00%) Terraform
3 5 (20.00%) Grafana
4 4 (16.00%) Progress Chef
4 4 (16.00%) Prometheus
4 4 (16.00%) Puppet
5 3 (12.00%) Ansible
6 1 (4.00%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) VMware
2 3 (12.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (12.00%) SaltStack
2 3 (12.00%) Splunk
3 2 (8.00%) Citrix
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft