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 £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 October 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 264 274
Rank change year-on-year +43 +10 -15
Permanent Platform Engineer jobs 146 40 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.60% 0.43% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.48% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 109 27 26
10th Percentile £53,750 £54,250 £48,875
25th Percentile £60,250 £58,125 £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -1.89% +10.42%
75th Percentile £97,500 £75,000 £74,144
90th Percentile £100,000 £78,790 £80,625
England median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.34% -3.33% +15.38%

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 adverts in the North of England matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all permanent IT job adverts they make up.

6 months to
30 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent job adverts in the North of England matching a recognised job title 22,293 8,315 11,869
% of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title 91.73% 88.84% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 16,169 4,711 6,324
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £73,205 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,490 £53,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +11.20% -6.96% -4.17%

Platform Engineer Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent Platform Engineer job postings 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 Platform Engineer jobs in the North of England over the 6 months to 30 October 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 Platform Engineer jobs within the North of England region over the 6 months to 30 October 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
North West +7 77 £70,400 +8.31% 10
Yorkshire +20 60 £80,000 +23.08% 6
North East -66 9 £60,000 -18.70% 2
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 October 2026, Platform Engineer job ads cited 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 Platform Engineer job ads across the North of England region.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Platform Engineering98.6%144
2Azure46.6%68
3CI/CD43.8%64
4DevOps39.0%57
5Infrastructure as Code37.0%54
6Terraform36.3%53
7Kubernetes24.7%36
8Python24.0%35
9GitHub22.6%33
10AWS20.5%30
11GitHub Actions19.9%29
12Infrastructure Engineering19.2%28
13Containerisation17.1%25
14Docker16.4%24
15Jenkins14.4%21
16Linux13.7%20
16Observability13.7%20
18AWS CloudFormation13.0%19
19Security Cleared12.3%18
19Software Delivery12.3%18
21Bash11.6%17
22Azure DevOps11.0%16
22Progress Chef11.0%16
22Software Engineering11.0%16
25SC Cleared10.3%15
26Amazon EC28.9%13
26Cost Optimisation8.9%13
26Groovy8.9%13
26Network Load Balancing8.9%13
26Web Services8.9%13

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

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Cloud Platform Engineer56.2%82
2Cloud Engineer38.4%56
3Senior Platform Engineer24.0%35
4Azure Platform Engineer19.9%29
4Lead Cloud Engineer19.9%29
6DevOps Platform Engineer15.8%23
7Data Engineer8.2%12
7Senior DevOps Engineer8.2%12
9DevOps Automation Engineer7.5%11
9Senior Automation Engineer7.5%11
11Cloud Infrastructure Engineer6.2%9
11Lead Infrastructure Engineer6.2%9
11Oracle Infrastructure Engineer6.2%9
14AWS Platform Engineer5.5%8
14Senior Data Engineer5.5%8
16Snowflake Engineer4.8%7
17Artificial Intelligence Engineer3.4%5
18Microsoft Engineer2.7%4
19GCP Engineer2.1%3
20Databricks Data Engineer1.4%2
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