Platform Engineer Jobs in West Yorkshire

Platform Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Platform Engineer salary in West Yorkshire is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 199 175
Rank change year-on-year +66 -24 -37
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 25 49 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.83% 0.93% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 1.00% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 11 38 43
10th Percentile £31,250 £51,000 -
25th Percentile £38,890 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £69,724 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.12% +26.77% +15.79%
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 -
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,564 £66,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £69,447 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.60% +26.27% +15.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 2,909 4,916 4,520
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.04% 93.34% 97.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,128 2,376 3,183
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £68,163 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £81,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £49,000 £54,882 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.72% +9.76% +5.26%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in West Yorkshire

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in West Yorkshire.

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in West Yorkshire

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in West Yorkshire

Platform Engineer
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Leeds +25 16 £55,000 -21.43% 5
Wakefield - 3 - - 1
Bradford - 3 - -
Huddersfield - 3 - -
Platform Engineer
Yorkshire

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 West Yorkshire region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 17 (68.00%) DevOps
3 14 (56.00%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (48.00%) GCP
4 12 (48.00%) Agile
4 12 (48.00%) Google
5 11 (44.00%) Mentoring
6 10 (40.00%) Azure
6 10 (40.00%) Data Engineering
6 10 (40.00%) Data Science
7 9 (36.00%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (36.00%) Looker
7 9 (36.00%) GDPR
7 9 (36.00%) Data Pipeline
7 9 (36.00%) DataOps
7 9 (36.00%) Linux
7 9 (36.00%) Change Management
7 9 (36.00%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (36.00%) BigQuery
8 7 (28.00%) SaaS
8 7 (28.00%) Finance
8 7 (28.00%) SQL
9 6 (24.00%) AWS
9 6 (24.00%) Ansible
9 6 (24.00%) Kubernetes
10 5 (20.00%) Terraform
10 5 (20.00%) Containerisation
10 5 (20.00%) Docker
10 5 (20.00%) Windows

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 1 (4.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) GCP
2 10 (40.00%) Azure
3 7 (28.00%) SaaS
4 6 (24.00%) AWS
5 4 (16.00%) Azure AKS
5 4 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (16.00%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (12.00%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (8.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (8.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (8.00%) Datadog
7 2 (8.00%) Power Automate
7 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
7 2 (8.00%) PowerApps
7 2 (8.00%) Pulumi
7 2 (8.00%) Serverless
8 1 (4.00%) IaaS
8 1 (4.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (36.00%) BigQuery
1 9 (36.00%) Looker
2 4 (16.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (16.00%) MySQL
2 4 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (8.00%) MariaDB
3 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.00%) Power BI
3 2 (8.00%) Redis
4 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.00%) Git
2 2 (8.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (4.00%) Artifactory
General
1 9 (36.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Finance
3 5 (20.00%) Retail
4 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Games
5 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (36.00%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (12.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (8.00%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (36.00%) Linux
2 5 (20.00%) Windows
3 3 (12.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 17 (68.00%) DevOps
3 14 (56.00%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (48.00%) Agile
5 11 (44.00%) Mentoring
6 10 (40.00%) Data Engineering
6 10 (40.00%) Data Science
7 9 (36.00%) Change Management
7 9 (36.00%) Data Pipeline
7 9 (36.00%) DataOps
7 9 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (20.00%) Containerisation
9 4 (16.00%) Cloud Security
9 4 (16.00%) Collaborative Culture
9 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Automation
10 3 (12.00%) Analytics
10 3 (12.00%) Business Strategy
10 3 (12.00%) Multichannel Retail
10 3 (12.00%) Server Management
11 2 (8.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) SQL
2 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.00%) Bash
3 2 (8.00%) C#
3 2 (8.00%) Go
3 2 (8.00%) Groovy
3 2 (8.00%) Java
3 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.00%) PHP
3 2 (8.00%) Python
3 2 (8.00%) Ruby
3 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (36.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Ansible
1 6 (24.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (20.00%) Terraform
3 4 (16.00%) Grafana
3 4 (16.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (8.00%) Kibana
4 2 (8.00%) logstash
4 2 (8.00%) Progress Chef
4 2 (8.00%) Puppet
5 1 (4.00%) FortiGate
5 1 (4.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 12 (48.00%) Google
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.00%) New Relic
3 2 (8.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (8.00%) SaltStack
3 2 (8.00%) Splunk