Platform Engineer Jobs in London

Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Platform Engineer salary in London is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 425 639
Rank change year-on-year +82 +214 -282
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 166 189 274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.70% 0.57% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.60% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 138 133 192
10th Percentile £66,750 £57,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% +10.00%
75th Percentile £110,000 £101,500 £99,063
90th Percentile £122,500 £107,500 £107,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +12.00%

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 22,433 31,433 68,252
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.36% 95.14% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 16,717 23,196 34,616
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £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%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in London

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in London

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in London over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in London

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 Platform Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 25 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 +56 29 £90,000 +1.41% 5
South London - 6 £110,000 -
West London - 3 - - 2
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 May 2024, 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 Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 156 (93.98%) Platform Engineering
2 113 (68.07%) Terraform
3 93 (56.02%) Kubernetes
4 88 (53.01%) Azure
5 77 (46.39%) Python
6 70 (42.17%) DevOps
7 69 (41.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 68 (40.96%) AWS
9 60 (36.14%) Docker
10 57 (34.34%) CI/CD
11 44 (26.51%) Finance
12 42 (25.30%) Linux
13 40 (24.10%) Ansible
14 38 (22.89%) SQL
15 35 (21.08%) Agile
16 32 (19.28%) GitHub
17 31 (18.67%) PowerShell
18 30 (18.07%) Jenkins
19 29 (17.47%) GCP
20 28 (16.87%) Bash
21 27 (16.27%) PaaS
21 27 (16.27%) Configuration Management
21 27 (16.27%) Social Skills
21 27 (16.27%) Containerisation
21 27 (16.27%) Problem-Solving
22 25 (15.06%) Serverless
22 25 (15.06%) Java
23 21 (12.65%) Git
23 21 (12.65%) Software Engineering
24 19 (11.45%) Azure AKS

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 8 (4.82%) Apache Spark
1 8 (4.82%) Confluence
2 6 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.20%) Apache
4 1 (0.60%) nginx
4 1 (0.60%) SAS
4 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 88 (53.01%) Azure
2 68 (40.96%) AWS
3 32 (19.28%) GitHub
4 29 (17.47%) GCP
5 27 (16.27%) PaaS
6 25 (15.06%) Serverless
7 19 (11.45%) Azure AKS
8 13 (7.83%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (6.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (6.63%) IaaS
10 10 (6.02%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (6.02%) Amazon S3
10 10 (6.02%) Entra ID
10 10 (6.02%) Route 53
11 9 (5.42%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (5.42%) OpenShift
11 9 (5.42%) SaaS
11 9 (5.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (4.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (3.61%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.82%) Firewall
2 7 (4.22%) DNS
3 3 (1.81%) IPv4
3 3 (1.81%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.81%) VPN
4 2 (1.20%) DHCP
4 2 (1.20%) Internet
4 2 (1.20%) tcpdump
4 2 (1.20%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.60%) Broadband
5 1 (0.60%) FTP
5 1 (0.60%) SSL
5 1 (0.60%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.45%) BigQuery
2 14 (8.43%) Azure SQL Database
2 14 (8.43%) MongoDB
3 10 (6.02%) MySQL
4 9 (5.42%) Looker
5 8 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (3.61%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (3.01%) Hadoop
7 5 (3.01%) MariaDB
7 5 (3.01%) Redis
8 4 (2.41%) Big Data
8 4 (2.41%) InfluxDB
8 4 (2.41%) Power BI
9 3 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.60%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.60%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 30 (18.07%) Jenkins
2 21 (12.65%) Git
3 16 (9.64%) JIRA
4 13 (7.83%) Octopus Deploy
4 13 (7.83%) TeamCity
5 9 (5.42%) Bitbucket
6 8 (4.82%) Artifactory
7 7 (4.22%) GitLab
7 7 (4.22%) Snyk
7 7 (4.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (4.22%) Subversion
8 5 (3.01%) DTrace
8 5 (3.01%) GDB
9 3 (1.81%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.60%) GoCD
10 1 (0.60%) Zephyr
General
1 44 (26.51%) Finance
2 27 (16.27%) Social Skills
3 18 (10.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (7.83%) Banking
5 9 (5.42%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.22%) Retail Banking
7 6 (3.61%) Law
8 5 (3.01%) Games
8 5 (3.01%) Retail
9 4 (2.41%) Front Office
9 4 (2.41%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.20%) Legal
10 2 (1.20%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.04%) Kafka
2 11 (6.63%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (3.61%) .NET
3 6 (3.61%) SAML
4 3 (1.81%) Node.js
4 3 (1.81%) PySpark
4 3 (1.81%) React
5 2 (1.20%) Keycloak
5 2 (1.20%) Middleware
5 2 (1.20%) REST
6 1 (0.60%) Anaconda
6 1 (0.60%) JSON
6 1 (0.60%) Loki
6 1 (0.60%) RESTful
6 1 (0.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.83%) Distributed Systems
1 13 (7.83%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (6.02%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (4.82%) Clustering
3 8 (4.82%) Replication
4 7 (4.22%) Data Centre
4 7 (4.22%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (4.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.01%) Blog
5 5 (3.01%) Client/Server
5 5 (3.01%) Private Cloud
6 4 (2.41%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.41%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.81%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.60%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 42 (25.30%) Linux
2 19 (11.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (4.82%) Oracle Linux
3 8 (4.82%) Solaris
3 8 (4.82%) Windows
4 5 (3.01%) Unix
5 4 (2.41%) VMS
5 4 (2.41%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.20%) CentOS
6 2 (1.20%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.60%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (93.98%) Platform Engineering
2 70 (42.17%) DevOps
3 69 (41.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (34.34%) CI/CD
5 35 (21.08%) Agile
6 27 (16.27%) Configuration Management
6 27 (16.27%) Containerisation
6 27 (16.27%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (12.65%) Software Engineering
8 17 (10.24%) Deployment Automation
9 15 (9.04%) Data Pipeline
10 13 (7.83%) Data Engineering
10 13 (7.83%) Identity Access Management
11 12 (7.23%) Fintech
11 12 (7.23%) Infrastructure Automation
11 12 (7.23%) Innovative Thinking
12 11 (6.63%) Analytics
12 11 (6.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (6.63%) High Availability
12 11 (6.63%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 77 (46.39%) Python
2 38 (22.89%) SQL
3 31 (18.67%) PowerShell
4 28 (16.87%) Bash
5 25 (15.06%) Java
6 16 (9.64%) C#
7 10 (6.02%) Perl
8 9 (5.42%) Go
9 8 (4.82%) Shell Script
10 6 (3.61%) C
11 5 (3.01%) JavaScript
11 5 (3.01%) OCaml
11 5 (3.01%) SystemTap
12 3 (1.81%) Ruby
12 3 (1.81%) Scala
13 1 (0.60%) Bicep
13 1 (0.60%) C++
13 1 (0.60%) Groovy
13 1 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (7.23%) Degree
2 7 (4.22%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.61%) AWS Certification
3 6 (3.61%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 5 (3.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.81%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.20%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.20%) Linux+ Certification
6 2 (1.20%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.20%) PhD
6 2 (1.20%) RHCE
7 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.42%) GDPR
2 7 (4.22%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.81%) QA
System Software
1 60 (36.14%) Docker
2 11 (6.63%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.20%) KVM
Systems Management
1 113 (68.07%) Terraform
2 93 (56.02%) Kubernetes
3 40 (24.10%) Ansible
4 15 (9.04%) Progress Chef
4 15 (9.04%) Puppet
5 13 (7.83%) Grafana
6 12 (7.23%) Prometheus
7 11 (6.63%) Istio
8 10 (6.02%) Salt
9 8 (4.82%) Packer
10 7 (4.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (2.41%) Karpenter
12 3 (1.81%) Argo
13 2 (1.20%) Kubeflow
14 1 (0.60%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.60%) Kibana
14 1 (0.60%) logstash
14 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 19 (11.45%) Google
1 19 (11.45%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.02%) Red Hat
3 8 (4.82%) Atlassian
3 8 (4.82%) Oracle
3 8 (4.82%) Serena
4 6 (3.61%) VMware
5 4 (2.41%) Databricks
5 4 (2.41%) YouTube
6 3 (1.81%) Splunk
7 2 (1.20%) Citrix
7 2 (1.20%) Confluent
7 2 (1.20%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.60%) BT
8 1 (0.60%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.60%) Wallstreet Suite