Platform Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Platform Engineer
England > North of England

The median Platform Engineer salary in the North of England is £57,560 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 264 312
Rank change year-on-year +105 +48 +55
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 229 120 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.73% 0.64% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.00% 0.67% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 69 49 75
10th Percentile - £45,000 £48,000
25th Percentile £56,176 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,560 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.07% -11.11% +22.73%
75th Percentile £58,943 £70,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £74,907 £82,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -5.41%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 11,423 17,885 12,505
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.49% 95.17% 88.85%
Number of salaries quoted 6,093 13,124 7,796
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,187 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £69,136
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £80,563
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.66% -12.42% -

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in the North of England

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in the North of England

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in the North of England

Platform Engineer
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 July 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
North West +109 224 £57,560 -4.07% 27
Yorkshire -1 4 £65,000 +8.33% 11
North East +30 1 £75,500 -5.63% 8
Platform Engineer
England

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 13 July 2025, 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 North of England region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 210 (91.70%) Degree
1 210 (91.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 145 (63.32%) Mentoring
2 145 (63.32%) CAD
2 145 (63.32%) Microsoft Office
3 84 (36.68%) Platform Engineering
4 66 (28.82%) Agile
5 65 (28.38%) TOGAF
5 65 (28.38%) Teamcenter
5 65 (28.38%) MODAF
5 65 (28.38%) SysML
5 65 (28.38%) Rational DOORS
5 65 (28.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 65 (28.38%) ArchiMate
5 65 (28.38%) Product Ownership
5 65 (28.38%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 65 (28.38%) Programme Delivery
5 65 (28.38%) TOGAF Certification
5 65 (28.38%) Sparx
5 65 (28.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 15 (6.55%) Terraform
7 14 (6.11%) Azure
7 14 (6.11%) CI/CD
8 11 (4.80%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (4.80%) Python
9 10 (4.37%) Bicep
10 8 (3.49%) Bash
11 7 (3.06%) AWS
11 7 (3.06%) DevOps
11 7 (3.06%) Containerisation

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Applications
1 145 (63.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 65 (28.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 65 (28.38%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (6.11%) Azure
2 7 (3.06%) AWS
3 4 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (1.75%) GitHub
4 3 (1.31%) AWS CodeBuild
4 3 (1.31%) GCP
4 3 (1.31%) Pulumi
5 2 (0.87%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (0.87%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (0.87%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 2 (0.87%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (0.87%) dbt
6 1 (0.44%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.44%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.44%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.44%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.44%) Route 53
6 1 (0.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.87%) DNS
1 2 (0.87%) Internet
1 2 (0.87%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.44%) DHCP
2 1 (0.44%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (0.87%) Redis
1 2 (0.87%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 65 (28.38%) Rational DOORS
2 6 (2.62%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.75%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.87%) GitLab
5 1 (0.44%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.44%) Git
General
1 5 (2.18%) Finance
2 2 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (0.87%) Social Skills
3 1 (0.44%) Aviation
3 1 (0.44%) Banking
3 1 (0.44%) Law
3 1 (0.44%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.75%) ADO
2 2 (0.87%) Django
3 1 (0.44%) .NET
3 1 (0.44%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.44%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.44%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.44%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (28.38%) Product Ownership
2 2 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (0.44%) Cloud Native
3 1 (0.44%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (0.44%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (0.44%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.18%) Linux
2 2 (0.87%) Unix
3 1 (0.44%) Debian
3 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.44%) Windows
3 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (63.32%) CAD
1 145 (63.32%) Mentoring
2 84 (36.68%) Platform Engineering
3 66 (28.82%) Agile
4 65 (28.38%) ArchiMate
4 65 (28.38%) MODAF
4 65 (28.38%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 65 (28.38%) Programme Delivery
4 65 (28.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 65 (28.38%) SysML
4 65 (28.38%) TOGAF
5 14 (6.11%) CI/CD
6 11 (4.80%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (3.06%) Containerisation
7 7 (3.06%) DevOps
8 5 (2.18%) Roadmaps
9 4 (1.75%) Cloud Security
9 4 (1.75%) Performance Monitoring
10 3 (1.31%) Analytics
10 3 (1.31%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 11 (4.80%) Python
2 10 (4.37%) Bicep
3 8 (3.49%) Bash
4 4 (1.75%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.75%) Ruby
5 1 (0.44%) C#
5 1 (0.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 210 (91.70%) BPSS Clearance
1 210 (91.70%) Degree
2 65 (28.38%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (0.87%) Azure Certification
3 2 (0.87%) SC Cleared
3 2 (0.87%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.44%) CCSP
4 1 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.44%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.44%) GDPR
1 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (0.44%) NIST
1 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (1.75%) Docker
2 2 (0.87%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (6.55%) Terraform
2 6 (2.62%) Ansible
3 4 (1.75%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.75%) Progress Chef
3 4 (1.75%) Puppet
4 2 (0.87%) AWS Copilot
4 2 (0.87%) Grafana
4 2 (0.87%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.87%) SCCM
5 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.44%) SCOM
5 1 (0.44%) WSUS
Vendors
1 65 (28.38%) Sparx
2 5 (2.18%) Microsoft
3 2 (0.87%) Google
4 1 (0.44%) Databricks
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle
4 1 (0.44%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.44%) Splunk