Platform Engineer Jobs in Yorkshire

Platform Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Platform Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 175 253 229
Rank change year-on-year +78 -24 -74
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 47 50 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.81% 0.62% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 0.67% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 18 41 46
10th Percentile £36,598 £52,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £46,875 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £69,447 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +26.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £64,375 £75,000 -
90th Percentile £73,000 £77,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 5,537 7,413 6,926
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.22% 91.20% 96.50%
Number of salaries quoted 4,284 3,513 4,561
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,205 £54,882 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +9.76% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Yorkshire

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in Yorkshire

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in Yorkshire

Platform Engineer
Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 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
West Yorkshire +57 26 £55,000 -21.43% 5
East Yorkshire - 9 £60,000 -
North Yorkshire +39 8 £70,000 +3.70%
South Yorkshire - 4 - -
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 Yorkshire region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 47 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 38 (80.85%) DevOps
3 34 (72.34%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (57.45%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (55.32%) Agile
6 25 (53.19%) GCP
7 24 (51.06%) Google
8 23 (48.94%) Mentoring
9 22 (46.81%) Data Engineering
9 22 (46.81%) Data Science
10 21 (44.68%) Self-Motivation
10 21 (44.68%) Data Pipeline
10 21 (44.68%) DataOps
10 21 (44.68%) Looker
10 21 (44.68%) GDPR
10 21 (44.68%) BigQuery
10 21 (44.68%) Change Management
11 20 (42.55%) Azure
12 17 (36.17%) Infrastructure as Code
13 15 (31.91%) Kubernetes
14 14 (29.79%) Docker
15 13 (27.66%) AWS
16 12 (25.53%) PowerShell
17 11 (23.40%) Containerisation
18 10 (21.28%) Cloud Security
18 10 (21.28%) Infrastructure Automation
18 10 (21.28%) Bash
18 10 (21.28%) Python
19 9 (19.15%) SQL
19 9 (19.15%) Linux

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (2.13%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 25 (53.19%) GCP
2 20 (42.55%) Azure
3 13 (27.66%) AWS
4 9 (19.15%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (17.02%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (14.89%) SaaS
7 6 (12.77%) Azure AKS
7 6 (12.77%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (8.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (8.51%) Datadog
8 4 (8.51%) Pulumi
9 3 (6.38%) Power Platform
9 3 (6.38%) PowerApps
10 2 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (4.26%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (4.26%) Power Automate
10 2 (4.26%) Serverless
11 1 (2.13%) IaaS
11 1 (2.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.77%) Network Security
2 1 (2.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (44.68%) BigQuery
1 21 (44.68%) Looker
2 6 (12.77%) MongoDB
2 6 (12.77%) MySQL
2 6 (12.77%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (8.51%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (8.51%) MariaDB
3 4 (8.51%) Redis
4 2 (4.26%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.26%) Power BI
5 1 (2.13%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.51%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (4.26%) Git
4 1 (2.13%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.13%) GitLab
General
1 27 (57.45%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (19.15%) Social Skills
3 7 (14.89%) Finance
3 7 (14.89%) Retail
4 1 (2.13%) Games
4 1 (2.13%) Law
4 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) ARM Templates
2 2 (4.26%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 21 (44.68%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (8.51%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (8.51%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.38%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.13%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 9 (19.15%) Linux
2 5 (10.64%) Windows
3 3 (6.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 38 (80.85%) DevOps
3 34 (72.34%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (55.32%) Agile
5 23 (48.94%) Mentoring
6 22 (46.81%) Data Engineering
6 22 (46.81%) Data Science
7 21 (44.68%) Change Management
7 21 (44.68%) Data Pipeline
7 21 (44.68%) DataOps
8 17 (36.17%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (23.40%) Containerisation
10 10 (21.28%) Cloud Security
10 10 (21.28%) Infrastructure Automation
11 9 (19.15%) CI/CD
12 8 (17.02%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (14.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 6 (12.77%) Continuous Integration
14 6 (12.77%) Data Protection
14 6 (12.77%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (25.53%) PowerShell
2 10 (21.28%) Bash
2 10 (21.28%) Python
3 9 (19.15%) SQL
4 6 (12.77%) Bicep
5 4 (8.51%) C#
5 4 (8.51%) Go
5 4 (8.51%) Groovy
5 4 (8.51%) Java
5 4 (8.51%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.51%) PHP
5 4 (8.51%) Ruby
5 4 (8.51%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (8.51%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (44.68%) GDPR
2 6 (12.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (29.79%) Docker
2 2 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (31.91%) Kubernetes
2 8 (17.02%) Ansible
3 7 (14.89%) Terraform
4 6 (12.77%) Grafana
4 6 (12.77%) Prometheus
5 4 (8.51%) Progress Chef
5 4 (8.51%) Puppet
6 2 (4.26%) Kibana
6 2 (4.26%) logstash
7 1 (2.13%) FortiGate
7 1 (2.13%) Podman
Vendors
1 24 (51.06%) Google
2 4 (8.51%) New Relic
2 4 (8.51%) SaltStack
3 3 (6.38%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.26%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.26%) Splunk