Platform Engineering Jobs in the City of London

Platform Engineering
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Platform Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 160 149
Rank change year-on-year +29 -11 +31
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 46 29 150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.53% 0.89% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 0.93% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 42 21 131
10th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £64,375 £57,500 £75,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% -2.70%
75th Percentile £105,000 £95,000 £106,250
90th Percentile £122,125 £107,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -11.76% -5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Platform Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,843 3,105 6,616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 94.67% 95.54% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,725 2,604 5,263
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £45,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £115,000 £111,250
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £74,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +1.35% -1.33% +7.14%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the City of London

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in the City of London

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in the City of London

Platform Engineering
Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
London Bridge - 1 £77,500 -
Platform Engineering
Central London

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 28 (60.87%) AWS
2 23 (50.00%) Azure
3 9 (19.57%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (13.04%) Power Platform
5 5 (10.87%) GCP
5 5 (10.87%) PaaS
6 3 (6.52%) Entra ID
6 3 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (4.35%) IaaS
7 2 (4.35%) Power Automate
7 2 (4.35%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.17%) Datadog
8 1 (2.17%) GitHub
8 1 (2.17%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.87%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (8.70%) Power BI
3 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) GitLab
2 1 (2.17%) CircleCI
General
1 9 (19.57%) Finance
2 7 (15.22%) Banking
3 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.87%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.17%) Advertising
5 1 (2.17%) Games
5 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.17%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (47.83%) Platform Engineer
2 15 (32.61%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (28.26%) Senior
4 9 (19.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 9 (19.57%) Senior DevOps
4 9 (19.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Product Owner
6 4 (8.70%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Engineering Manager
7 2 (4.35%) Lead
7 2 (4.35%) Platform Manager
7 2 (4.35%) Power Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Architect
8 1 (2.17%) Data Manager
8 1 (2.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Operations Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.70%) REST
2 3 (6.52%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.87%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (8.70%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.70%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.52%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.17%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.52%) Linux
2 2 (4.35%) VMS
2 2 (4.35%) Windows
3 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (67.39%) DevOps
2 26 (56.52%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (45.65%) Containerisation
4 18 (39.13%) Fintech
5 15 (32.61%) CI/CD
6 13 (28.26%) DevSecOps
7 11 (23.91%) Agile
8 9 (19.57%) Observability
9 5 (10.87%) Analytics
9 5 (10.87%) Cost Management
9 5 (10.87%) ITSM
9 5 (10.87%) Roadmaps
9 5 (10.87%) Service Management
9 5 (10.87%) Software Engineering
10 4 (8.70%) Business Analysis
10 4 (8.70%) Cloud Security
10 4 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (8.70%) Decision-Making
10 4 (8.70%) User Experience
10 4 (8.70%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 16 (34.78%) Python
2 13 (28.26%) PowerShell
3 6 (13.04%) SQL
4 4 (8.70%) Bash
5 2 (4.35%) Bicep
5 2 (4.35%) Go
6 1 (2.17%) Java
6 1 (2.17%) Perl
6 1 (2.17%) Ruby
6 1 (2.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (6.52%) Azure Certification
1 3 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (6.52%) Degree
2 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (26.09%) Docker
2 4 (8.70%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.17%) KVM
3 1 (2.17%) Xen
3 1 (2.17%) XenApp
3 1 (2.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 28 (60.87%) Terraform
2 22 (47.83%) Kubernetes
3 5 (10.87%) Ansible
4 3 (6.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.17%) Grafana
5 1 (2.17%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.17%) Puppet
5 1 (2.17%) Salt
5 1 (2.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.70%) Salesforce
2 4 (8.70%) VMware
3 3 (6.52%) Databricks
3 3 (6.52%) Google
4 2 (4.35%) Splunk
5 1 (2.17%) Citrix
5 1 (2.17%) Nexthink
5 1 (2.17%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow