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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 242 236 382
Rank change year-on-year -6 +146 -119
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 292 505 772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.21% 1.58% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.66% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 226 378 421
10th Percentile £61,875 £58,750 £58,750
25th Percentile £70,313 £68,750 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £89,500 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.56% +5.88% +9.68%
75th Percentile £110,000 £116,875 £101,250
90th Percentile £123,750 £138,750 £112,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +16.00%

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 21,759 30,392 71,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 90.06% 95.23% 97.13%
Number of salaries quoted 15,918 22,244 34,287
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £116,250 £110,000
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 1 June 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 1 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 +24 53 £90,000 +12.50% 9
South London - 11 £67,500 -
West London +5 3 - - 3
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 (4.79%) Apache Spark
2 13 (4.45%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (3.77%) Apache
4 9 (3.08%) Confluence
5 2 (0.68%) nginx
6 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.34%) SAS
6 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 137 (46.92%) AWS
2 136 (46.58%) Azure
3 60 (20.55%) GCP
4 37 (12.67%) PaaS
5 36 (12.33%) GitHub
6 29 (9.93%) Serverless
7 27 (9.25%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (8.90%) SaaS
9 25 (8.56%) Power Platform
10 22 (7.53%) Azure AKS
11 17 (5.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 16 (5.48%) Azure Data Factory
12 16 (5.48%) IaaS
13 15 (5.14%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (4.45%) Entra ID
15 12 (4.11%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (4.11%) Amazon S3
16 11 (3.77%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
17 10 (3.42%) Amazon ECS
17 10 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.77%) Network Security
2 10 (3.42%) Firewall
3 9 (3.08%) DNS
4 7 (2.40%) Internet
5 4 (1.37%) DHCP
5 4 (1.37%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.03%) IPv4
6 3 (1.03%) tcpdump
6 3 (1.03%) VPN
6 3 (1.03%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.34%) Broadband
7 1 (0.34%) FTP
7 1 (0.34%) HTTP
7 1 (0.34%) SSL
7 1 (0.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.96%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (9.59%) BigQuery
3 24 (8.22%) Azure SQL Database
4 21 (7.19%) Power BI
5 19 (6.51%) Looker
6 17 (5.82%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (4.11%) MySQL
8 11 (3.77%) Data Lake
8 11 (3.77%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 11 (3.77%) NoSQL
9 9 (3.08%) Amazon Athena
9 9 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (2.74%) Big Data
10 8 (2.74%) RDBMS
10 8 (2.74%) Redis
10 8 (2.74%) Relational Database
11 7 (2.40%) Data Hub
11 7 (2.40%) Hadoop
11 7 (2.40%) Metadata
12 6 (2.05%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 40 (13.70%) Jenkins
2 24 (8.22%) Git
3 17 (5.82%) JIRA
4 14 (4.79%) GitLab
5 12 (4.11%) Octopus Deploy
5 12 (4.11%) TeamCity
6 8 (2.74%) Artifactory
6 8 (2.74%) Bitbucket
7 7 (2.40%) Snyk
8 6 (2.05%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.05%) Subversion
9 5 (1.71%) DTrace
9 5 (1.71%) GDB
10 3 (1.03%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.68%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.68%) JMeter
11 2 (0.68%) Spinnaker
12 1 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.34%) GoCD
12 1 (0.34%) Terragrunt
General
1 70 (23.97%) Finance
2 49 (16.78%) Social Skills
3 36 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (10.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (7.19%) Law
6 20 (6.85%) Banking
7 12 (4.11%) Legal
8 10 (3.42%) Retail Banking
9 9 (3.08%) Retail
10 7 (2.40%) Games
10 7 (2.40%) Health Technology
11 3 (1.03%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.68%) Marketing
12 2 (0.68%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.34%) Advertising
13 1 (0.34%) Back Office
13 1 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.34%) Front Office
13 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.34%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 154 (52.74%) Platform Engineer
2 74 (25.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 73 (25.00%) Senior
4 52 (17.81%) Azure Engineer
5 49 (16.78%) Cloud Engineer
5 49 (16.78%) Data Engineer
6 48 (16.44%) DevOps Engineer
7 38 (13.01%) Lead
8 34 (11.64%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 28 (9.59%) AWS Engineer
10 25 (8.56%) Senior DevOps
10 25 (8.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 24 (8.22%) Senior Data Engineer
11 24 (8.22%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 21 (7.19%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 18 (6.16%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 18 (6.16%) Python Engineer
14 17 (5.82%) Linux Engineer
15 16 (5.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 16 (5.48%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.19%) Kafka
2 12 (4.11%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (2.40%) Node.js
3 7 (2.40%) React
4 6 (2.05%) Lambda Expressions
5 5 (1.71%) .NET
5 5 (1.71%) HTML
6 4 (1.37%) ADO
6 4 (1.37%) PySpark
6 4 (1.37%) REST
6 4 (1.37%) SAML
7 3 (1.03%) FastAPI
7 3 (1.03%) Keycloak
7 3 (1.03%) Middleware
8 2 (0.68%) JSON
8 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.68%) Spark Streaming
9 1 (0.34%) boto
9 1 (0.34%) Loki
9 1 (0.34%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.16%) Self-Motivation
2 17 (5.82%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (5.14%) Cloud Native
4 14 (4.79%) Linux Command Line
5 12 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (3.08%) Clustering
7 8 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.74%) Replication
8 7 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.05%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.71%) Blog
10 5 (1.71%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.71%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 5 (1.71%) Wiki
11 4 (1.37%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.37%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.37%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.03%) Cyberattack
12 3 (1.03%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 54 (18.49%) Linux
2 19 (6.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (4.79%) Windows
4 8 (2.74%) Oracle Linux
4 8 (2.74%) Solaris
5 6 (2.05%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.71%) Unix
7 4 (1.37%) VMS
8 3 (1.03%) CentOS
8 3 (1.03%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.68%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.34%) Android
10 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (39.73%) DevOps
2 102 (34.93%) Infrastructure as Code
3 85 (29.11%) CI/CD
4 66 (22.60%) Agile
5 47 (16.10%) Containerisation
6 45 (15.41%) Analytics
7 44 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (13.36%) Configuration Management
8 39 (13.36%) Software Engineering
9 37 (12.67%) Fintech
10 32 (10.96%) Data Engineering
11 28 (9.59%) Data Pipeline
11 28 (9.59%) ETL
12 26 (8.90%) Data Science
12 26 (8.90%) Mentoring
13 23 (7.88%) Artificial Intelligence
14 21 (7.19%) Business Intelligence
14 21 (7.19%) DevSecOps
15 20 (6.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 20 (6.85%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 126 (43.15%) Python
2 55 (18.84%) SQL
3 46 (15.75%) PowerShell
4 42 (14.38%) Java
5 34 (11.64%) Bash
6 22 (7.53%) Go
7 18 (6.16%) C#
8 11 (3.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 11 (3.77%) U-SQL
9 9 (3.08%) Perl
9 9 (3.08%) Scala
9 9 (3.08%) Shell Script
10 8 (2.74%) C
11 6 (2.05%) C++
11 6 (2.05%) Kotlin
11 6 (2.05%) Ruby
12 5 (1.71%) JavaScript
12 5 (1.71%) OCaml
12 5 (1.71%) SystemTap
13 2 (0.68%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (6.51%) Degree
2 16 (5.48%) AWS Certification
3 13 (4.45%) Security Cleared
4 12 (4.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 12 (4.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (3.42%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.05%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.71%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.37%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.03%) Linux+ Certification
9 3 (1.03%) RHCE
10 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.68%) CISA
10 2 (0.68%) CISM
10 2 (0.68%) CISSP
11 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.34%) MCSA
11 1 (0.34%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.82%) GDPR
2 15 (5.14%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.40%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.05%) QA
5 3 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.68%) NIST
System Software
1 72 (24.66%) Docker
2 15 (5.14%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.71%) KVM
5 4 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.68%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.68%) Firmware
6 2 (0.68%) Xen
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 159 (54.45%) Terraform
2 133 (45.55%) Kubernetes
3 52 (17.81%) Ansible
4 18 (6.16%) Grafana
4 18 (6.16%) Progress Chef
4 18 (6.16%) Puppet
5 15 (5.14%) Prometheus
6 11 (3.77%) Istio
7 7 (2.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (2.40%) Packer
7 7 (2.40%) Salt
8 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (1.71%) Argo
10 4 (1.37%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.34%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.34%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.34%) logstash
11 1 (0.34%) Podman
11 1 (0.34%) Rancher
11 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (19.18%) Microsoft
2 41 (14.04%) Google
3 18 (6.16%) Databricks
4 11 (3.77%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.74%) Oracle
5 8 (2.74%) Serena
5 8 (2.74%) VMware
6 7 (2.40%) Atlassian
7 6 (2.05%) YouTube
8 4 (1.37%) Splunk
9 3 (1.03%) Facebook
9 3 (1.03%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.03%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.68%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.68%) Confluent
10 2 (0.68%) Hortonworks
11 1 (0.34%) Dell
11 1 (0.34%) HP
11 1 (0.34%) NetApp
11 1 (0.34%) Palo Alto