Platform Engineer Jobs in Leeds

Platform Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Platform Engineer salary in Leeds is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 139 175
Rank change year-on-year +25 +36 -59
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 16 42 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 0.71% 1.38% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 1.45% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 11 36 24
10th Percentile £31,250 £50,000 £44,000
25th Percentile £38,890 £54,375 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +40.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 - £72,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £69,447 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.80% +26.27% +15.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 2,172 2,891 3,674
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.02% 95.19% 97.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,570 1,727 2,548
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,087 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,923 £87,500 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Leeds

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in Leeds

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 Leeds region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 11 (68.75%) DevOps
3 7 (43.75%) Azure
4 6 (37.50%) Agile
4 6 (37.50%) Linux
4 6 (37.50%) Ansible
4 6 (37.50%) Kubernetes
4 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (31.25%) Terraform
5 5 (31.25%) Docker
5 5 (31.25%) Mentoring
6 4 (25.00%) MongoDB
6 4 (25.00%) SaaS
6 4 (25.00%) SQL
6 4 (25.00%) MySQL
6 4 (25.00%) Finance
6 4 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (25.00%) Azure AKS
6 4 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
6 4 (25.00%) Grafana
6 4 (25.00%) Data Engineering
6 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (25.00%) Prometheus
6 4 (25.00%) Data Science
6 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (18.75%) DataOps
7 3 (18.75%) Self-Motivation

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 (6.25%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 4 (25.00%) SaaS
3 3 (18.75%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) GCP
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (12.50%) Datadog
4 2 (12.50%) Power Automate
4 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 2 (12.50%) PowerApps
4 2 (12.50%) Pulumi
4 2 (12.50%) Serverless
5 1 (6.25%) IaaS
5 1 (6.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (25.00%) MySQL
1 4 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (18.75%) BigQuery
2 3 (18.75%) Looker
3 2 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (12.50%) MariaDB
3 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 2 (12.50%) Power BI
3 2 (12.50%) Redis
4 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (6.25%) Artifactory
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Retail
4 1 (6.25%) Games
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) ARM Templates
1 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 11 (68.75%) DevOps
3 6 (37.50%) Agile
3 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (31.25%) Mentoring
4 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
5 4 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 4 (25.00%) Data Science
5 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (18.75%) Analytics
6 3 (18.75%) Change Management
6 3 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (18.75%) DataOps
7 2 (12.50%) BCP
7 2 (12.50%) Business Continuity Planning
7 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (12.50%) Process Improvement
7 2 (12.50%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 2 (12.50%) Bash
3 2 (12.50%) C#
3 2 (12.50%) Go
3 2 (12.50%) Groovy
3 2 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) PHP
3 2 (12.50%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) Ruby
3 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
2 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Ansible
1 6 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (31.25%) Terraform
3 4 (25.00%) Grafana
3 4 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (12.50%) Kibana
4 2 (12.50%) logstash
4 2 (12.50%) Progress Chef
4 2 (12.50%) Puppet
5 1 (6.25%) FortiGate
5 1 (6.25%) Podman
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Google
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) New Relic
2 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 2 (12.50%) SaltStack
2 2 (12.50%) Splunk