Platform Engineering Jobs in the North of England

Platform Engineering
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 208 258 233
Rank change year-on-year +50 -25 -133
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 181 185 244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.04% 1.07% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.11% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 65 155 200
10th Percentile £38,890 £44,450 £48,625
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,568 16,681 16,852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 83.41% 96.88% 93.89%
Number of salaries quoted 11,194 7,946 10,620
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £38,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +9.62% +5.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
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 the North of England

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the North of England

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in the North of England

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in the North of England

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 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 -4 79 £66,250 -5.36% 15
Yorkshire +87 77 £55,000 -14.10% 13
North East +16 27 £77,500 +62.57% 3
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
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 5 (2.76%) Confluence
2 2 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.10%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.10%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 115 (63.54%) GCP
2 104 (57.46%) Azure
3 62 (34.25%) AWS
4 30 (16.57%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (11.05%) Power Platform
6 11 (6.08%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (6.08%) PowerApps
7 10 (5.52%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (5.52%) GitHub
8 9 (4.97%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (4.97%) Power Automate
8 9 (4.97%) SaaS
9 8 (4.42%) Azure AKS
10 7 (3.87%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (3.87%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (3.87%) Datadog
10 7 (3.87%) Entra ID
11 6 (3.31%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (3.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (3.31%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.42%) Firewall
1 8 (4.42%) Network Security
2 3 (1.66%) DNS
3 1 (0.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (54.14%) BigQuery
2 90 (49.72%) Looker
3 34 (18.78%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (8.29%) Power BI
5 14 (7.73%) MySQL
6 12 (6.63%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (5.52%) MongoDB
7 10 (5.52%) NoSQL
7 10 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (3.87%) Redis
9 5 (2.76%) MariaDB
9 5 (2.76%) Metadata
10 3 (1.66%) SQL Server
11 2 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.10%) Big Data
11 2 (1.10%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.55%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 16 (8.84%) Jenkins
2 11 (6.08%) Git
3 6 (3.31%) JIRA
4 5 (2.76%) Spinnaker
4 5 (2.76%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (1.66%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.10%) GitLab
7 1 (0.55%) Artifactory
General
1 99 (54.70%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (15.47%) Social Skills
3 20 (11.05%) Finance
4 17 (9.39%) Retail
5 5 (2.76%) Banking
6 3 (1.66%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.10%) Law
8 1 (0.55%) Billing
8 1 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.55%) Games
8 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.55%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.55%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 114 (62.98%) Platform Engineer
2 69 (38.12%) Data Engineer
3 59 (32.60%) Principal Data Engineer
3 59 (32.60%) Principal Engineer
4 38 (20.99%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 33 (18.23%) Architect
5 33 (18.23%) Data Architect
6 20 (11.05%) Azure Engineer
6 20 (11.05%) Cloud Engineer
7 19 (10.50%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 14 (7.73%) Lead
9 9 (4.97%) Developer
9 9 (4.97%) Senior
10 7 (3.87%) .NET Developer
10 7 (3.87%) Applications Engineer
10 7 (3.87%) Lead .NET Developer
10 7 (3.87%) Lead Developer
11 6 (3.31%) Lead Data Engineer
12 5 (2.76%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (2.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.52%) .NET
2 9 (4.97%) .NET Framework
2 9 (4.97%) ARM Templates
3 7 (3.87%) Web Services
4 3 (1.66%) CSS
4 3 (1.66%) HTML
5 2 (1.10%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.10%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.10%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.10%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.10%) Node.js
6 1 (0.55%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 89 (49.17%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (7.73%) Cloud Native
3 11 (6.08%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.87%) Video\Live Streaming
5 6 (3.31%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.76%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.21%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.66%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.66%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.10%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.55%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.29%) Linux
2 13 (7.18%) Windows
3 8 (4.42%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.55%) Unix
5 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (66.30%) Problem-Solving
2 113 (62.43%) DevOps
3 106 (58.56%) Mentoring
4 103 (56.91%) Data Engineering
5 90 (49.72%) Agile
6 67 (37.02%) DataOps
7 65 (35.91%) Data Science
8 60 (33.15%) Change Management
8 60 (33.15%) Data Pipeline
9 44 (24.31%) Infrastructure as Code
10 42 (23.20%) Data Modelling
11 41 (22.65%) ETL
12 34 (18.78%) CI/CD
12 34 (18.78%) Data Governance
13 33 (18.23%) Data Architecture
13 33 (18.23%) Data Security
14 32 (17.68%) Data Integration
14 32 (17.68%) ERD
14 32 (17.68%) Innovative Thinking
15 23 (12.71%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 30 (16.57%) SQL
2 29 (16.02%) Python
3 24 (13.26%) PowerShell
4 21 (11.60%) Bash
5 14 (7.73%) C#
5 14 (7.73%) Go
6 12 (6.63%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.52%) Bicep
8 8 (4.42%) JavaScript
8 8 (4.42%) Ruby
9 7 (3.87%) Java
10 5 (2.76%) Groovy
10 5 (2.76%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (7.18%) Azure Certification
2 9 (4.97%) AWS Certification
3 7 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.87%) Degree
3 7 (3.87%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (52.49%) GDPR
2 37 (20.44%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.55%) QA
System Software
1 18 (9.94%) Docker
2 7 (3.87%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (14.92%) Terraform
2 23 (12.71%) Kubernetes
3 15 (8.29%) Ansible
4 10 (5.52%) Grafana
4 10 (5.52%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.87%) Puppet
6 5 (2.76%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.10%) Kibana
7 2 (1.10%) logstash
7 2 (1.10%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.55%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.55%) Packer
8 1 (0.55%) Podman
Vendors
1 102 (56.35%) Google
2 29 (16.02%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.87%) New Relic
4 5 (2.76%) LogicMonitor
4 5 (2.76%) PagerDuty
4 5 (2.76%) SaltStack
5 4 (2.21%) Databricks
5 4 (2.21%) Splunk
6 2 (1.10%) Red Hat