Platform Engineer Jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne

Platform Engineer
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The median Platform Engineer salary in Newcastle upon Tyne is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 81 61
Rank change year-on-year +3 -20 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 7 3 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.69% 0.39% 1.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.46% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 15
10th Percentile £50,000 £53,000 £51,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,625 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +12.00% +53.37%
75th Percentile - £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% +12.00% +53.37%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Newcastle upon Tyne

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne. 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 Newcastle upon Tyne with a recognized job title 988 655 761
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.53% 84.52% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 832 408 536
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £24,625
25th Percentile £37,099 £41,154 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £48,872
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +12.54% +8.60%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £82,500
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% -

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne

For the 6 months to 26 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Mentoring
3 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (42.86%) DataOps
4 3 (42.86%) GDPR
4 3 (42.86%) Prometheus
4 3 (42.86%) Data Science
4 3 (42.86%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (42.86%) Azure AKS
4 3 (42.86%) MongoDB
4 3 (42.86%) Google
4 3 (42.86%) MySQL
4 3 (42.86%) Windows
4 3 (42.86%) Change Management
4 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (42.86%) Ansible
4 3 (42.86%) BigQuery
4 3 (42.86%) GCP
4 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Terraform
4 3 (42.86%) Grafana
4 3 (42.86%) Looker

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 (14.29%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure AKS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (14.29%) AWS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (14.29%) Datadog
4 1 (14.29%) Pulumi
4 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) BigQuery
1 3 (42.86%) Looker
1 3 (42.86%) MongoDB
1 3 (42.86%) MySQL
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (28.57%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
3 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (14.29%) MariaDB
3 1 (14.29%) Redis
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Mentoring
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) Change Management
4 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (42.86%) Data Science
4 3 (42.86%) DataOps
4 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (28.57%) BCP
5 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
5 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity Planning
5 2 (28.57%) Client Onboarding
5 2 (28.57%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (28.57%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (28.57%) Secure Coding
5 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) Go
2 1 (14.29%) Groovy
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) PHP
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Ruby
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
1 3 (42.86%) Grafana
1 3 (42.86%) Prometheus
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Kibana
2 2 (28.57%) logstash
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
3 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Google
2 2 (28.57%) Splunk
3 1 (14.29%) New Relic
3 1 (14.29%) SaltStack