Senior Platform Engineer Jobs in London

Senior Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Platform Engineer salary in London is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 484 560 868
Rank change year-on-year +76 +308 -261
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 25 43 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.10% 0.14% 0.078%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.15% 0.081%
Number of salaries quoted 23 17 53
10th Percentile £62,750 £82,500 £70,250
25th Percentile £66,875 £85,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £100,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +17.65% +13.33%
75th Percentile £113,750 £107,500 £103,750
90th Percentile £121,750 £116,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £84,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +1.19% +15.86%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 23,403 29,645 71,541
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 94.97% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,198 22,316 34,853
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,988 £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 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +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 12 June 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 12 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 +50 7 £105,000 +5.00%
Senior Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 16 (64.00%) Kubernetes
2 16 (64.00%) Python
3 15 (60.00%) Azure
3 15 (60.00%) Terraform
4 12 (48.00%) AWS
5 10 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (36.00%) Docker
6 9 (36.00%) DevOps
7 7 (28.00%) GCP
7 7 (28.00%) VMware
7 7 (28.00%) Linux
7 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
8 6 (24.00%) Configuration Management
8 6 (24.00%) VMware Infrastructure
8 6 (24.00%) Grafana
8 6 (24.00%) Ansible
8 6 (24.00%) Bash
9 5 (20.00%) PaaS
9 5 (20.00%) Prometheus
9 5 (20.00%) Java
9 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
10 4 (16.00%) Containerisation
10 4 (16.00%) Shell Script
10 4 (16.00%) Software Engineering
10 4 (16.00%) High Availability
10 4 (16.00%) SaaS
10 4 (16.00%) Puppet
10 4 (16.00%) Jenkins

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 15 (60.00%) Azure
2 12 (48.00%) AWS
3 7 (28.00%) GCP
4 5 (20.00%) PaaS
5 4 (16.00%) SaaS
6 3 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (12.00%) Pulumi
7 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (8.00%) IaaS
8 1 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (4.00%) Azure AKS
8 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
8 1 (4.00%) Power Automate
8 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
8 1 (4.00%) PowerApps
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.00%) Big Data
3 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (12.00%) Git
3 1 (4.00%) GitLab
3 1 (4.00%) GoCD
3 1 (4.00%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (4.00%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Advertising
2 1 (4.00%) Finance
2 1 (4.00%) Games
2 1 (4.00%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
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%) .NET
3 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.00%) JSON
3 1 (4.00%) Loki
3 1 (4.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Public Cloud
1 3 (12.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.00%) Bitcoin
3 1 (4.00%) Blockchain
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 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 10 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (36.00%) DevOps
4 6 (24.00%) Configuration Management
5 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (16.00%) Containerisation
6 4 (16.00%) High Availability
6 4 (16.00%) Software Engineering
7 3 (12.00%) Business Continuity
7 3 (12.00%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (12.00%) Cost Control
7 3 (12.00%) Data Governance
7 3 (12.00%) Data Management
7 3 (12.00%) Decarbonisation
7 3 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (12.00%) Fintech
7 3 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (12.00%) Task Automation
8 2 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (64.00%) Python
2 6 (24.00%) Bash
3 5 (20.00%) Java
4 4 (16.00%) Shell Script
5 3 (12.00%) Perl
5 3 (12.00%) SQL
6 2 (8.00%) C#
6 2 (8.00%) Go
6 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
7 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
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%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (36.00%) Docker
2 6 (24.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (12.00%) KVM
3 3 (12.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (64.00%) Kubernetes
2 15 (60.00%) Terraform
3 6 (24.00%) Ansible
3 6 (24.00%) Grafana
4 5 (20.00%) Prometheus
5 4 (16.00%) Progress Chef
5 4 (16.00%) Puppet
6 1 (4.00%) Karpenter
6 1 (4.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) VMware
2 3 (12.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (12.00%) SaltStack
2 3 (12.00%) Splunk
3 2 (8.00%) Citrix
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft