Senior Platform Engineer Job Trends in Belfast

Senior Platform Engineer
County Antrim > Belfast

The median Senior Platform Engineer salary in Belfast is £73,801 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 - 49
Rank change year-on-year - - +41
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Belfast 0.43% - 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% - 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68,813 - £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 - £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.14%
75th Percentile £78,790 - £77,500
90th Percentile - - -
County Antrim median annual salary £73,801 - £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Belfast

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Belfast. 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 Belfast with a recognized job title 211 392 315
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.34% 98.00% 96.63%
Number of salaries quoted 116 215 243
10th Percentile £30,750 £33,700 £29,350
25th Percentile £41,750 £46,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £76,250
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% +4.17%

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Senior Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Belfast

Senior Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Belfast

Salary distribution trend for Senior Platform Engineer job vacancies in Belfast.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Platform Engineer job vacancies in Belfast

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast

For the 6 months to 10 October 2025, Senior Platform Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Belfast region featuring Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Pulumi
1 1 (100.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google