Platform Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Platform Engineer
England > North of England

The median Platform Engineer salary in the North of England is £66,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 292 265 360
Rank change year-on-year -27 +95 -118
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 33 37 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.23% 0.43% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.44% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 26 31 63
10th Percentile £48,875 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,188 £54,313 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% - +26.32%
75th Percentile £74,144 £77,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £80,625 £86,250 £93,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% -16.13% +19.23%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 13,476 8,349 16,498
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.04% 96.81% 96.74%
Number of salaries quoted 6,904 5,788 10,051
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £29,173
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £83,125
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in the North of England

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in the North of England

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in the North of England

Platform Engineer
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
North West -30 29 £62,500 -9.09% 14
Yorkshire +9 2 £65,000 +18.18% 7
North East -36 2 £69,308 -15.99% 4
Platform Engineer
England

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 31 October 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 North of England region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 33 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 27 (81.82%) Azure
3 25 (75.76%) CI/CD
4 22 (66.67%) Terraform
5 21 (63.64%) Python
6 18 (54.55%) DevOps
7 15 (45.45%) AWS
7 15 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (39.39%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (36.36%) Kubernetes
10 11 (33.33%) Ansible
10 11 (33.33%) PowerShell
11 10 (30.30%) Microsoft
11 10 (30.30%) Infrastructure Management
11 10 (30.30%) Roadmaps
12 9 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (27.27%) Agile
13 8 (24.24%) GCP
13 8 (24.24%) Docker
13 8 (24.24%) Go
14 7 (21.21%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (21.21%) GitHub
14 7 (21.21%) Jenkins
14 7 (21.21%) Security Operations
14 7 (21.21%) SDLC
14 7 (21.21%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (21.21%) PCI DSS
14 7 (21.21%) JIRA
14 7 (21.21%) Atlassian

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (21.21%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 27 (81.82%) Azure
2 15 (45.45%) AWS
3 9 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (24.24%) GCP
5 7 (21.21%) GitHub
6 6 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (15.15%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (15.15%) PaaS
8 4 (12.12%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (12.12%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (12.12%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 4 (12.12%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 4 (12.12%) AWS CodeBuild
8 4 (12.12%) dbt
8 4 (12.12%) Pulumi
8 4 (12.12%) Sentry
9 3 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (9.09%) Azure Stack
9 3 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) Internet
1 4 (12.12%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.06%) Firewall
3 1 (3.03%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (15.15%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (12.12%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (12.12%) Redis
4 2 (6.06%) Power BI
5 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.03%) Hazelcast
5 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Jenkins
1 7 (21.21%) JIRA
2 5 (15.15%) GitLab
2 5 (15.15%) TeamCity
3 2 (6.06%) Bitbucket
3 2 (6.06%) Git
3 2 (6.06%) NUnit
4 1 (3.03%) JMeter
General
1 4 (12.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (6.06%) Finance
2 2 (6.06%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) AWS CDK
1 5 (15.15%) SAML
2 4 (12.12%) Django
2 4 (12.12%) OAuth
2 4 (12.12%) OAuth2
3 3 (9.09%) .NET
3 3 (9.09%) ADO
4 1 (3.03%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.03%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 13 (39.39%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (21.21%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.06%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) Linux
2 4 (12.12%) Unix
2 4 (12.12%) VMS
3 3 (9.09%) Windows
4 2 (6.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 25 (75.76%) CI/CD
3 18 (54.55%) DevOps
4 15 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (30.30%) Infrastructure Management
5 10 (30.30%) Roadmaps
6 9 (27.27%) Agile
7 7 (21.21%) Containerisation
7 7 (21.21%) SDLC
7 7 (21.21%) Security Operations
8 5 (15.15%) Configuration Management
8 5 (15.15%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (15.15%) Data Management
8 5 (15.15%) Observability
8 5 (15.15%) Prototyping
8 5 (15.15%) Scrum
9 4 (12.12%) Application Performance Monitoring
9 4 (12.12%) Continuous Delivery
9 4 (12.12%) Mentoring
9 4 (12.12%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 21 (63.64%) Python
2 11 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 8 (24.24%) Go
4 7 (21.21%) Bicep
5 5 (15.15%) Bash
5 5 (15.15%) TypeScript
6 4 (12.12%) Ruby
7 3 (9.09%) Java
8 2 (6.06%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
1 4 (12.12%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.21%) Cyber Essentials
1 7 (21.21%) PCI DSS
2 6 (18.18%) NIST
3 5 (15.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (24.24%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Firmware
2 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (66.67%) Terraform
2 12 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 11 (33.33%) Ansible
4 5 (15.15%) Progress Chef
5 4 (12.12%) Puppet
6 2 (6.06%) Grafana
6 2 (6.06%) Prometheus
7 1 (3.03%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) Microsoft
2 7 (21.21%) Atlassian
3 4 (12.12%) Google
4 3 (9.09%) Databricks
5 1 (3.03%) IBM
5 1 (3.03%) Red Hat