Platform Engineering Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Platform Engineering
North East > Tyne and Wear

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 89 81
Rank change year-on-year +14 -8 0
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 23 6 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 1.56% 0.66% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.82% 0.68% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 12
10th Percentile £68,000 £33,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £38,637 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £47,672 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +67.81% -18.86% +23.68%
75th Percentile £82,500 - £76,875
90th Percentile £84,000 £63,836 £82,500
North East median annual salary £80,000 £47,672 £62,500
% change year-on-year +67.81% -23.72% +31.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,261 882 970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 85.61% 97.03% 88.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,058 443 676
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,772 £75,000 £83,750
North East median annual salary £47,500 £48,250 £42,500
% change year-on-year -1.55% +13.53% -5.56%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Tyne and Wear

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in Tyne and Wear.

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in Tyne and Wear

Platform Engineering
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineering within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 1 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +9 19 £80,000 +67.81% 1
Sunderland - 3 - -
Gateshead - 1 - -
Platform Engineering
North East

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Cloud Services
1 16 (69.57%) GCP
2 12 (52.17%) Azure
3 9 (39.13%) AWS
4 4 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (13.04%) Azure AKS
5 3 (13.04%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (4.35%) Datadog
7 1 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (4.35%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (69.57%) BigQuery
2 15 (65.22%) Looker
3 9 (39.13%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (13.04%) MongoDB
4 3 (13.04%) MySQL
4 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (8.70%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
6 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (4.35%) MariaDB
6 1 (4.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) GitLab
1 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.35%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 15 (65.22%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Billing
2 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (34.78%) Architect
2 8 (34.78%) Data Architect
3 7 (30.43%) Data Engineer
4 6 (26.09%) Principal Data Engineer
4 6 (26.09%) Principal Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) Senior
7 2 (8.70%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 1 (4.35%) Data Manager
8 1 (4.35%) Engineering Manager
8 1 (4.35%) Lead
8 1 (4.35%) Lead Data Engineer
8 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.35%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 14 (60.87%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (17.39%) Cloud Native
2 4 (17.39%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (8.70%) Onboarding
3 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) Mentoring
2 16 (69.57%) Data Engineering
2 16 (69.57%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (65.22%) DevOps
4 12 (52.17%) Agile
5 10 (43.48%) Data Modelling
5 10 (43.48%) ETL
6 9 (39.13%) Data Governance
7 8 (34.78%) Data Architecture
7 8 (34.78%) Data Integration
7 8 (34.78%) Data Security
7 8 (34.78%) ERD
7 8 (34.78%) Innovative Thinking
8 7 (30.43%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (26.09%) Change Management
9 6 (26.09%) Data Science
9 6 (26.09%) DataOps
10 5 (21.74%) High Availability
11 4 (17.39%) Due Diligence
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) SQL
2 2 (8.70%) Python
3 1 (4.35%) Bash
3 1 (4.35%) C#
3 1 (4.35%) Go
3 1 (4.35%) Groovy
3 1 (4.35%) Java
3 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.35%) PHP
3 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.35%) Ruby
3 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (60.87%) GDPR
2 8 (34.78%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Ansible
1 4 (17.39%) Terraform
2 3 (13.04%) Grafana
2 3 (13.04%) Prometheus
3 2 (8.70%) Kibana
3 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.70%) logstash
4 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (65.22%) Google
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.70%) Splunk
4 1 (4.35%) New Relic
4 1 (4.35%) SaltStack