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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 268 233 374
Rank change year-on-year -35 +141 -109
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 296 498 787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.21% 1.59% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.67% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 229 371 427
10th Percentile £62,250 £58,750 £58,750
25th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% +9.68%
75th Percentile £110,000 £118,750 £101,250
90th Percentile £123,000 £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 21,954 29,884 72,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 89.57% 95.13% 97.10%
Number of salaries quoted 15,939 21,954 34,489
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 9 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 9 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 +21 55 £90,000 +16.13% 9
South London - 11 £67,500 -
West London -7 3 - - 2
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 (4.73%) Apache Spark
2 13 (4.39%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (3.72%) Apache
4 7 (2.36%) Confluence
5 3 (1.01%) 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
1 136 (45.95%) AWS
2 135 (45.61%) Azure
3 60 (20.27%) GCP
4 35 (11.82%) GitHub
4 35 (11.82%) PaaS
5 28 (9.46%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (8.78%) Power Platform
6 26 (8.78%) Serverless
7 24 (8.11%) SaaS
8 21 (7.09%) Azure AKS
9 17 (5.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 16 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
11 15 (5.07%) IaaS
12 12 (4.05%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (4.05%) Entra ID
13 11 (3.72%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
14 10 (3.38%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (3.38%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (3.38%) Amazon S3
15 9 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.72%) Network Security
2 9 (3.04%) Firewall
3 8 (2.70%) DNS
4 7 (2.36%) Internet
5 4 (1.35%) DHCP
5 4 (1.35%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.01%) tcpdump
6 3 (1.01%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.68%) IPv4
7 2 (0.68%) VPN
8 1 (0.34%) Broadband
8 1 (0.34%) FTP
8 1 (0.34%) HTTP
8 1 (0.34%) SSL
8 1 (0.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.81%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (9.46%) BigQuery
3 24 (8.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 22 (7.43%) Power BI
5 19 (6.42%) Looker
6 17 (5.74%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (4.05%) MySQL
8 11 (3.72%) Data Lake
8 11 (3.72%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 11 (3.72%) NoSQL
9 9 (3.04%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (2.70%) Big Data
10 8 (2.70%) RDBMS
10 8 (2.70%) Redis
10 8 (2.70%) Relational Database
11 7 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (2.36%) Data Hub
11 7 (2.36%) Hadoop
11 7 (2.36%) Metadata
12 6 (2.03%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 39 (13.18%) Jenkins
2 24 (8.11%) Git
3 16 (5.41%) JIRA
4 15 (5.07%) GitLab
5 11 (3.72%) Octopus Deploy
5 11 (3.72%) TeamCity
6 8 (2.70%) Artifactory
7 7 (2.36%) Snyk
8 6 (2.03%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.69%) DTrace
9 5 (1.69%) GDB
10 4 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.35%) Subversion
11 3 (1.01%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.68%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.68%) JMeter
12 2 (0.68%) Spinnaker
13 1 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.34%) PVCS
13 1 (0.34%) Terragrunt
General
1 72 (24.32%) Finance
2 51 (17.23%) Social Skills
3 37 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (10.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (7.09%) Banking
5 21 (7.09%) Law
6 13 (4.39%) Legal
7 11 (3.72%) Retail Banking
8 9 (3.04%) Retail
9 7 (2.36%) Games
9 7 (2.36%) Health Technology
10 4 (1.35%) Advertising
10 4 (1.35%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.68%) Marketing
11 2 (0.68%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.34%) Back Office
12 1 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Front Office
12 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 153 (51.69%) Platform Engineer
2 72 (24.32%) Senior
3 71 (23.99%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 51 (17.23%) Azure Engineer
5 50 (16.89%) DevOps Engineer
6 49 (16.55%) Data Engineer
7 45 (15.20%) Cloud Engineer
8 40 (13.51%) Lead
9 34 (11.49%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 26 (8.78%) Senior DevOps
10 26 (8.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 25 (8.45%) AWS Engineer
12 24 (8.11%) Senior Data Engineer
13 22 (7.43%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 19 (6.42%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 18 (6.08%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 18 (6.08%) Python Engineer
16 17 (5.74%) Linux Engineer
17 16 (5.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 16 (5.41%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.09%) Kafka
2 12 (4.05%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (2.36%) Node.js
3 7 (2.36%) React
4 6 (2.03%) HTML
4 6 (2.03%) Lambda Expressions
5 4 (1.35%) .NET
5 4 (1.35%) ADO
5 4 (1.35%) PySpark
5 4 (1.35%) REST
6 3 (1.01%) FastAPI
6 3 (1.01%) Keycloak
6 3 (1.01%) Middleware
6 3 (1.01%) SAML
7 2 (0.68%) JSON
7 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (0.68%) Spark Streaming
8 1 (0.34%) Spring
8 1 (0.34%) Spring MVC
8 1 (0.34%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.08%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (5.41%) Cloud Native
3 15 (5.07%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (4.73%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (3.04%) Clustering
7 8 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.70%) Replication
8 6 (2.03%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (2.03%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.03%) Wiki
9 5 (1.69%) Blog
9 5 (1.69%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 4 (1.35%) Cyberattack
10 4 (1.35%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.35%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.01%) Mainframe
11 3 (1.01%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (18.58%) Linux
2 18 (6.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (4.73%) Windows
4 8 (2.70%) Oracle Linux
4 8 (2.70%) Solaris
5 6 (2.03%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.69%) Unix
7 4 (1.35%) VMS
8 3 (1.01%) CentOS
8 3 (1.01%) 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
1 118 (39.86%) DevOps
2 100 (33.78%) Infrastructure as Code
3 88 (29.73%) CI/CD
4 68 (22.97%) Agile
5 51 (17.23%) Containerisation
6 46 (15.54%) Analytics
6 46 (15.54%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (13.18%) Fintech
8 38 (12.84%) Configuration Management
8 38 (12.84%) Software Engineering
9 33 (11.15%) Data Engineering
10 28 (9.46%) Data Pipeline
10 28 (9.46%) ETL
10 28 (9.46%) Mentoring
11 26 (8.78%) Data Science
12 25 (8.45%) DevSecOps
13 23 (7.77%) Artificial Intelligence
14 22 (7.43%) Business Intelligence
15 21 (7.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 21 (7.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 128 (43.24%) Python
2 55 (18.58%) SQL
3 48 (16.22%) PowerShell
4 39 (13.18%) Java
5 36 (12.16%) Bash
6 25 (8.45%) Go
7 17 (5.74%) C#
8 11 (3.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 11 (3.72%) U-SQL
9 9 (3.04%) Scala
9 9 (3.04%) Shell Script
10 8 (2.70%) C
10 8 (2.70%) Perl
11 7 (2.36%) C++
11 7 (2.36%) Ruby
12 6 (2.03%) JavaScript
12 6 (2.03%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.69%) OCaml
13 5 (1.69%) SystemTap
14 2 (0.68%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (6.08%) Degree
2 16 (5.41%) AWS Certification
3 12 (4.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 12 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (4.05%) Security Cleared
4 10 (3.38%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 6 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.69%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.69%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.35%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.01%) Linux+ Certification
8 3 (1.01%) RHCE
9 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.68%) CISA
9 2 (0.68%) CISM
9 2 (0.68%) CISSP
10 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.34%) MCSA
10 1 (0.34%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.74%) GDPR
2 15 (5.07%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.36%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.03%) QA
5 3 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.68%) NIST
System Software
1 69 (23.31%) Docker
2 14 (4.73%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.69%) KVM
5 4 (1.35%) 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
1 157 (53.04%) Terraform
2 135 (45.61%) Kubernetes
3 52 (17.57%) Ansible
4 18 (6.08%) Grafana
5 16 (5.41%) Progress Chef
5 16 (5.41%) Puppet
6 15 (5.07%) Prometheus
7 12 (4.05%) Istio
8 7 (2.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (1.69%) Argo
9 5 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (1.69%) Packer
9 5 (1.69%) Salt
10 4 (1.35%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.34%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.34%) Kibana
11 1 (0.34%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.34%) logstash
11 1 (0.34%) Podman
11 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 54 (18.24%) Microsoft
2 41 (13.85%) Google
3 18 (6.08%) Databricks
4 11 (3.72%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.70%) Oracle
5 8 (2.70%) Serena
5 8 (2.70%) VMware
6 6 (2.03%) YouTube
7 5 (1.69%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.69%) Splunk
8 4 (1.35%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.01%) Facebook
9 3 (1.01%) 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