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 £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 280 300 344
Rank change year-on-year +20 +44 -118
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 114 135 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.65% 0.80% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.89% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 42 110 90
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +27.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £69,375 £78,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £86,375 £82,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,749 15,186 17,437
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.98% 89.51% 96.19%
Number of salaries quoted 12,956 8,055 10,931
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £27,875
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,438 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

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 16 May 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 16 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
North West -25 57 £65,000 -7.14% 17
Yorkshire +75 47 £60,000 -13.60% 6
North East +3 12 £80,000 +14.29%
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 North of England region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 113 (99.12%) Platform Engineering
2 93 (81.58%) DevOps
3 77 (67.54%) Problem-Solving
4 68 (59.65%) DataOps
4 68 (59.65%) GCP
5 67 (58.77%) Agile
6 66 (57.89%) Data Science
7 65 (57.02%) Analytical Skills
8 64 (56.14%) Data Engineering
8 64 (56.14%) Google
9 63 (55.26%) BigQuery
10 60 (52.63%) Mentoring
10 60 (52.63%) Change Management
11 59 (51.75%) GDPR
11 59 (51.75%) Data Pipeline
12 57 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
12 57 (50.00%) Looker
13 45 (39.47%) Azure
14 38 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
15 29 (25.44%) CI/CD
16 25 (21.93%) Python
17 24 (21.05%) Terraform
18 23 (20.18%) PowerShell
18 23 (20.18%) Azure DevOps
19 22 (19.30%) Kubernetes
20 20 (17.54%) Bash
21 17 (14.91%) Analytics
22 16 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
22 16 (14.04%) Docker
22 16 (14.04%) Retail

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 2 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.75%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.88%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 68 (59.65%) GCP
2 45 (39.47%) Azure
3 23 (20.18%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (13.16%) AWS
5 9 (7.89%) Cloud Computing
5 9 (7.89%) Power Platform
6 8 (7.02%) Azure AKS
7 7 (6.14%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (6.14%) Datadog
7 7 (6.14%) SaaS
8 6 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
8 6 (5.26%) IaaS
9 5 (4.39%) Anthos
9 5 (4.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (4.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (4.39%) GitHub
9 5 (4.39%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (4.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (4.39%) PaaS
9 5 (4.39%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.02%) Firewall
1 8 (7.02%) Network Security
2 3 (2.63%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (55.26%) BigQuery
2 57 (50.00%) Looker
3 8 (7.02%) MongoDB
3 8 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (7.02%) Power BI
4 7 (6.14%) MySQL
5 5 (4.39%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (4.39%) MariaDB
5 5 (4.39%) Redis
6 3 (2.63%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.75%) Big Data
7 2 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.88%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 10 (8.77%) Jenkins
2 8 (7.02%) Git
3 5 (4.39%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (2.63%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.88%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.88%) GitLab
General
1 65 (57.02%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (14.04%) Retail
3 15 (13.16%) Social Skills
4 10 (8.77%) Finance
5 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (0.88%) Games
5 1 (0.88%) Law
5 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.88%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.89%) ARM Templates
2 2 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.88%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 57 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.39%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (4.39%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.51%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.63%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.63%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.75%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.88%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.53%) Linux
2 10 (8.77%) Windows
3 5 (4.39%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (99.12%) Platform Engineering
2 93 (81.58%) DevOps
3 77 (67.54%) Problem-Solving
4 68 (59.65%) DataOps
5 67 (58.77%) Agile
6 66 (57.89%) Data Science
7 64 (56.14%) Data Engineering
8 60 (52.63%) Change Management
8 60 (52.63%) Mentoring
9 59 (51.75%) Data Pipeline
10 38 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 29 (25.44%) CI/CD
12 17 (14.91%) Analytics
13 16 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
14 15 (13.16%) Containerisation
15 13 (11.40%) Network Virtualisation
16 10 (8.77%) Cloud Security
16 10 (8.77%) Continuous Integration
16 10 (8.77%) Infrastructure Automation
16 10 (8.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (21.93%) Python
2 23 (20.18%) PowerShell
3 20 (17.54%) Bash
4 14 (12.28%) Go
5 12 (10.53%) SQL
6 11 (9.65%) Bicep
7 8 (7.02%) Ruby
8 5 (4.39%) C#
8 5 (4.39%) Groovy
8 5 (4.39%) Java
8 5 (4.39%) JavaScript
8 5 (4.39%) PHP
8 5 (4.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (5.26%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (51.75%) GDPR
2 6 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (14.04%) Docker
2 6 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (21.05%) Terraform
2 22 (19.30%) Kubernetes
3 14 (12.28%) Ansible
4 10 (8.77%) Grafana
4 10 (8.77%) Prometheus
5 7 (6.14%) Puppet
6 5 (4.39%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.75%) Kibana
7 2 (1.75%) logstash
7 2 (1.75%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.88%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.88%) Packer
8 1 (0.88%) Podman
Vendors
1 64 (56.14%) Google
2 13 (11.40%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.14%) New Relic
4 5 (4.39%) Databricks
4 5 (4.39%) LogicMonitor
4 5 (4.39%) PagerDuty
4 5 (4.39%) SaltStack
5 4 (3.51%) Splunk
6 2 (1.75%) Red Hat