Platform Engineer Job Trends in the North of England

Platform Engineer
England > North of England

The median Platform Engineer salary in the North of England is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 270 289
Rank change year-on-year +49 +19 -29
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 149 35 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.62% 0.37% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.43% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 114 23 28
10th Percentile £53,825 £56,176 £49,325
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,875 £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £95,625 £70,000 £71,563
90th Percentile £100,000 £77,500 £75,526
England median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.34% -3.33% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 22,377 8,209 13,153
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.23% 87.06% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 16,276 4,375 7,593
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for Platform Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Salary distribution trend for Platform Engineer job vacancies 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 24 September 2026.

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 24 September 2026. 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 +24 74 £70,400 +14.94% 77
Yorkshire +17 65 £81,250 +25.00% 30
North East - 10 £60,000 - 12
Platform Engineer
England

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 24 September 2026, Platform Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 148 (99.33%) Platform Engineering
2 71 (47.65%) CI/CD
3 69 (46.31%) Azure
4 61 (40.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 60 (40.27%) DevOps
6 57 (38.26%) Terraform
7 44 (29.53%) Python
8 40 (26.85%) Kubernetes
9 39 (26.17%) GitHub
10 37 (24.83%) GitHub Actions
11 32 (21.48%) AWS
12 30 (20.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 28 (18.79%) Docker
14 27 (18.12%) Containerisation
15 26 (17.45%) Observability
16 25 (16.78%) Jenkins
17 23 (15.44%) Linux
18 22 (14.77%) AWS CloudFormation
18 22 (14.77%) SQL
19 21 (14.09%) Azure DevOps
19 21 (14.09%) Progress Chef
20 20 (13.42%) Cost Optimisation
20 20 (13.42%) Software Delivery
21 19 (12.75%) Software Engineering
22 18 (12.08%) Amazon EC2
22 18 (12.08%) Groovy
22 18 (12.08%) Web Services
23 17 (11.41%) Bash
23 17 (11.41%) Network Load Balancing
24 16 (10.74%) Oracle

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 69 (46.31%) Azure
2 39 (26.17%) GitHub
3 37 (24.83%) GitHub Actions
4 32 (21.48%) AWS
5 22 (14.77%) AWS CloudFormation
6 21 (14.09%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (12.08%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (7.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (7.38%) OCI
9 9 (6.04%) Snowflake
10 8 (5.37%) PaaS
11 7 (4.70%) Azure Functions
11 7 (4.70%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (4.70%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (4.70%) SaaS
11 7 (4.70%) Serverless
12 6 (4.03%) GCP
13 5 (3.36%) OpenShift
14 4 (2.68%) Entra ID
14 4 (2.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.34%) DNS
1 2 (1.34%) Firewall
1 2 (1.34%) SAN
1 2 (1.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.04%) Spark SQL
2 8 (5.37%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.01%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.67%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (16.78%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.36%) GitLab
3 4 (2.68%) Git
4 2 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (1.34%) Bitbucket
General
1 19 (12.75%) Social Skills
2 14 (9.40%) Finance
3 1 (0.67%) Advertising
3 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (38.26%) Terraform
2 18 (12.08%) Web Services
3 11 (7.38%) PySpark
4 7 (4.70%) ARM Templates
4 7 (4.70%) REST
5 4 (2.68%) Node.js
5 4 (2.68%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (2.68%) RESTful
6 3 (2.01%) Kafka
7 1 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 26 (17.45%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (6.04%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.67%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.67%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.67%) FMCG
5 1 (0.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (15.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (99.33%) Platform Engineering
2 71 (47.65%) CI/CD
3 61 (40.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 60 (40.27%) DevOps
5 30 (20.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 27 (18.12%) Containerisation
7 26 (17.45%) Observability
8 20 (13.42%) Cost Optimisation
8 20 (13.42%) Software Delivery
9 19 (12.75%) Software Engineering
10 17 (11.41%) Network Load Balancing
11 14 (9.40%) Deployment Automation
12 13 (8.72%) Analytics
12 13 (8.72%) Performance Optimisation
13 12 (8.05%) Data Engineering
14 11 (7.38%) Lakehouse
15 10 (6.71%) AI
15 10 (6.71%) Disaster Recovery
15 10 (6.71%) Infrastructure Automation
15 10 (6.71%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 44 (29.53%) Python
2 22 (14.77%) SQL
3 18 (12.08%) Groovy
4 17 (11.41%) Bash
5 7 (4.70%) Go
5 7 (4.70%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.68%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 15 (10.07%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.05%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (4.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.70%) GDPR
2 2 (1.34%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (18.79%) Docker
2 3 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 40 (26.85%) Kubernetes
2 21 (14.09%) Progress Chef
3 7 (4.70%) Istio
3 7 (4.70%) linkerd
4 4 (2.68%) Grafana
5 3 (2.01%) Argo
5 3 (2.01%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.01%) Puppet
6 1 (0.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (10.74%) Oracle
2 10 (6.71%) Databricks
3 5 (3.36%) Google
4 4 (2.68%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.01%) VMware