Platform Engineering Job Trends in County Antrim

Platform Engineering
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in County Antrim requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - 50
Rank change year-on-year - - +40
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in County Antrim 0.39% - 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% - 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68,813 - £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 - £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 - £77,500
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median annual salary £73,801 - £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
County Antrim

Platform Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in County Antrim.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 227 334 320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 89.02% 79.15% 92.75%
Number of salaries quoted 114 176 248
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £35,313 £46,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +1.52%
75th Percentile £60,000 £80,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,318 £94,375 £76,250
Northern Ireland median annual salary £50,000 £59,430 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.87% +18.86% +4.17%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Platform Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in County Antrim.

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in County Antrim

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in County Antrim

Salary distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Platform Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering
Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineering within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 9 October 2025. 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
Belfast - 1 £73,801 - 4
Platform Engineering
Northern Ireland

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim 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
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
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%) 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