Platform Engineering Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Platform Engineering
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 57 47
Rank change year-on-year -1 -10 +6
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 4 5 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.68% 0.93% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.03% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile - £62,125 £44,750
25th Percentile £100,000 £63,438 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £73,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +42.37% +40.48% -25.00%
75th Percentile £110,000 £82,813 £57,500
90th Percentile - £83,375 -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £105,000 £73,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +42.37% +34.09% -21.43%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 468 484 372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 79.73% 90.30% 89.00%
Number of salaries quoted 363 199 321
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,750 £40,375 £37,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,056
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +9.88% -8.99%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,889 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £77,500
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Platform Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Head of Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Head of IT
1 3 (75.00%) Head of IT Security
1 3 (75.00%) Head of Security
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (75.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (75.00%) Business Continuity
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 3 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (75.00%) Information Security
2 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Problem Management
2 3 (75.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (75.00%) Service Management
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (75.00%) Threat Detection
2 3 (75.00%) Threat Management
2 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 3 (75.00%) Master's Degree
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (75.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Docker Swarm
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace