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 26 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 245 225 369
Rank change year-on-year -20 +144 -113
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 291 537 755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.22% 1.62% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.70% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 229 390 422
10th Percentile £62,250 £58,750 £58,750
25th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +7.94%
75th Percentile £110,000 £112,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £138,750 £112,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +18.85%

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 21,547 31,589 68,877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 90.53% 95.32% 97.08%
Number of salaries quoted 15,864 22,815 34,118
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,924 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,073 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.57% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £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 26 May 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 26 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 +26 54 £95,000 +18.75% 11
South London +16 11 £67,500 -
West London +1 3 - - 5
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 (4.81%) Apache Airflow
1 14 (4.81%) Apache Spark
2 10 (3.44%) Confluence
3 9 (3.09%) Apache
4 2 (0.69%) nginx
5 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.34%) SAS
5 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 135 (46.39%) Azure
2 132 (45.36%) AWS
3 57 (19.59%) GCP
4 39 (13.40%) PaaS
5 38 (13.06%) GitHub
6 31 (10.65%) Serverless
7 28 (9.62%) SaaS
8 27 (9.28%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (8.59%) Azure AKS
9 25 (8.59%) Power Platform
10 19 (6.53%) IaaS
11 17 (5.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 16 (5.50%) Azure Data Factory
12 16 (5.50%) Entra ID
13 15 (5.15%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (4.47%) Amazon S3
15 12 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (3.78%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (3.78%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
17 10 (3.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.78%) Network Security
2 10 (3.44%) Firewall
3 9 (3.09%) DNS
4 7 (2.41%) Internet
5 3 (1.03%) DHCP
5 3 (1.03%) IPv4
5 3 (1.03%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.03%) VPN
6 2 (0.69%) tcpdump
6 2 (0.69%) 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 (11.00%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (9.62%) BigQuery
3 27 (9.28%) Azure SQL Database
4 21 (7.22%) Power BI
5 18 (6.19%) Looker
5 18 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (4.81%) MySQL
7 12 (4.12%) NoSQL
8 11 (3.78%) Data Lake
8 11 (3.78%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 10 (3.44%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (3.09%) Hadoop
10 9 (3.09%) Redis
11 8 (2.75%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (2.75%) RDBMS
11 8 (2.75%) Relational Database
12 7 (2.41%) Data Hub
12 7 (2.41%) Metadata
13 6 (2.06%) Big Data
13 6 (2.06%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 40 (13.75%) Jenkins
2 25 (8.59%) Git
3 18 (6.19%) JIRA
4 14 (4.81%) GitLab
4 14 (4.81%) TeamCity
5 13 (4.47%) Octopus Deploy
6 9 (3.09%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.75%) Artifactory
8 7 (2.41%) Snyk
8 7 (2.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (2.41%) Subversion
9 5 (1.72%) DTrace
9 5 (1.72%) GDB
10 3 (1.03%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.69%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.69%) JMeter
12 1 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.34%) GoCD
12 1 (0.34%) Spinnaker
12 1 (0.34%) Terragrunt
General
1 67 (23.02%) Finance
2 45 (15.46%) Social Skills
3 35 (12.03%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (10.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (6.87%) Law
6 19 (6.53%) Banking
7 11 (3.78%) Legal
8 9 (3.09%) Games
8 9 (3.09%) Retail Banking
9 8 (2.75%) Health Technology
9 8 (2.75%) Retail
10 2 (0.69%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.69%) Marketing
10 2 (0.69%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.69%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.34%) Back Office
11 1 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 156 (53.61%) Platform Engineer
2 76 (26.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 72 (24.74%) Senior
4 54 (18.56%) Azure Engineer
5 52 (17.87%) Data Engineer
6 51 (17.53%) Cloud Engineer
7 46 (15.81%) DevOps Engineer
8 36 (12.37%) Lead
9 34 (11.68%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 30 (10.31%) AWS Engineer
11 25 (8.59%) Senior Data Engineer
12 24 (8.25%) Senior DevOps
12 24 (8.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 22 (7.56%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 21 (7.22%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 19 (6.53%) Python Engineer
16 18 (6.19%) Automation Engineer
17 17 (5.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 17 (5.84%) Linux Engineer
17 17 (5.84%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (7.56%) Kafka
2 12 (4.12%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (2.75%) SAML
4 7 (2.41%) Node.js
4 7 (2.41%) React
5 6 (2.06%) .NET
5 6 (2.06%) Lambda Expressions
6 4 (1.37%) FastAPI
6 4 (1.37%) HTML
6 4 (1.37%) REST
7 3 (1.03%) ADO
7 3 (1.03%) PySpark
8 2 (0.69%) JSON
8 2 (0.69%) Keycloak
8 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.69%) Middleware
9 1 (0.34%) RESTful
9 1 (0.34%) Spring
9 1 (0.34%) Spring MVC
9 1 (0.34%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.19%) Enterprise Software
1 18 (6.19%) Self-Motivation
2 15 (5.15%) Linux Command Line
3 14 (4.81%) Cloud Native
4 13 (4.47%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.09%) Clustering
5 9 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.75%) Replication
7 7 (2.41%) Private Cloud
8 6 (2.06%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.72%) Blog
9 5 (1.72%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.37%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.37%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 4 (1.37%) Wiki
11 3 (1.03%) Cyberattack
11 3 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 54 (18.56%) Linux
2 21 (7.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (5.15%) Windows
4 8 (2.75%) Oracle Linux
4 8 (2.75%) Solaris
5 6 (2.06%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.72%) Unix
7 4 (1.37%) VMS
8 3 (1.03%) CentOS
8 3 (1.03%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.69%) 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
1 115 (39.52%) DevOps
2 107 (36.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 84 (28.87%) CI/CD
4 65 (22.34%) Agile
5 46 (15.81%) Analytics
6 45 (15.46%) Containerisation
7 41 (14.09%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (13.40%) Configuration Management
9 37 (12.71%) Software Engineering
10 34 (11.68%) Fintech
11 29 (9.97%) Data Engineering
12 28 (9.62%) Data Pipeline
13 27 (9.28%) ETL
14 25 (8.59%) Data Science
15 24 (8.25%) Mentoring
16 21 (7.22%) Business Intelligence
16 21 (7.22%) Innovative Thinking
17 20 (6.87%) Artificial Intelligence
17 20 (6.87%) Continuous Improvement
18 19 (6.53%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 130 (44.67%) Python
2 59 (20.27%) SQL
3 45 (15.46%) PowerShell
4 43 (14.78%) Java
5 33 (11.34%) Bash
6 21 (7.22%) Go
7 19 (6.53%) C#
8 11 (3.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 11 (3.78%) Perl
8 11 (3.78%) U-SQL
9 8 (2.75%) C
9 8 (2.75%) Scala
9 8 (2.75%) Shell Script
10 7 (2.41%) C++
11 6 (2.06%) Ruby
12 5 (1.72%) JavaScript
12 5 (1.72%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.72%) OCaml
12 5 (1.72%) SystemTap
13 2 (0.69%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (6.87%) Degree
2 14 (4.81%) AWS Certification
3 13 (4.47%) Security Cleared
4 12 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (3.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (3.44%) SC Cleared
6 7 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.06%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (1.72%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.37%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.69%) CISA
10 2 (0.69%) CISM
10 2 (0.69%) CISSP
10 2 (0.69%) Linux+ Certification
10 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.69%) PhD
10 2 (0.69%) RHCE
11 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.34%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.84%) GDPR
2 15 (5.15%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.41%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.72%) QA
5 3 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.69%) NIST
System Software
1 81 (27.84%) Docker
2 17 (5.84%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.03%) KVM
4 3 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.69%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.69%) Firmware
6 1 (0.34%) Ceph
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.34%) vSphere
6 1 (0.34%) Xen
Systems Management
1 163 (56.01%) Terraform
2 138 (47.42%) Kubernetes
3 53 (18.21%) Ansible
4 21 (7.22%) Progress Chef
4 21 (7.22%) Puppet
5 19 (6.53%) Grafana
6 15 (5.15%) Prometheus
7 11 (3.78%) Istio
8 10 (3.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 10 (3.44%) Salt
9 8 (2.75%) Packer
10 6 (2.06%) Argo
10 6 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.37%) Karpenter
12 2 (0.69%) Kibana
12 2 (0.69%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.34%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.34%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.34%) logstash
13 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (19.24%) Microsoft
2 40 (13.75%) Google
3 20 (6.87%) Databricks
4 11 (3.78%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.75%) Atlassian
5 8 (2.75%) Oracle
5 8 (2.75%) Serena
5 8 (2.75%) YouTube
6 6 (2.06%) VMware
7 3 (1.03%) Facebook
7 3 (1.03%) SaltStack
7 3 (1.03%) Splunk
8 2 (0.69%) Confluent
8 2 (0.69%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.34%) Dell
9 1 (0.34%) ESRI
9 1 (0.34%) HP
9 1 (0.34%) NetApp
9 1 (0.34%) SAP
9 1 (0.34%) TOWER Software