Platform Engineering Jobs in the North East

Platform Engineering
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East requiring Platform Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 91 104
Rank change year-on-year +16 +13 -9
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 1 26 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 0.12% 1.38% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 1.60% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 7
10th Percentile - £68,000 £34,125
25th Percentile £72,750 £72,500 £41,649
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,500 £80,000 £47,672
Median % change year-on-year -5.63% +67.81% -28.04%
75th Percentile £78,250 £82,500 £63,836
90th Percentile - £84,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 726 1,630 1,215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 90.07% 86.56% 96.97%
Number of salaries quoted 394 1,325 593
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,924 £30,500
25th Percentile £26,563 £36,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,672
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -0.36% +12.17%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,541 £75,772 £72,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the North East

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in the North East.

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in the North East

Platform Engineering
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineering within the North East region over the 6 months to 19 May 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
Durham +15 1 £75,500 - 3
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) B2C
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform