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 £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 October 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 257 283
Rank change year-on-year +34 +26 -34
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 149 36 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.62% 0.38% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.43% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 112 24 29
10th Percentile £53,775 £56,176 £49,550
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,188 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £97,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £77,500 £75,065
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 22,380 8,342 12,913
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.98% 87.38% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 16,344 4,289 7,282
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,250 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,725
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 1 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 IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +18 75 £70,400 +12.64% 88
Yorkshire +20 63 £81,250 +25.00% 32
North East - 11 £60,000 - 14
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 October 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 70 (46.98%) CI/CD
3 68 (45.64%) Azure
4 61 (40.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 59 (39.60%) DevOps
6 57 (38.26%) Terraform
7 43 (28.86%) Python
8 40 (26.85%) Kubernetes
9 38 (25.50%) GitHub
10 36 (24.16%) GitHub Actions
11 33 (22.15%) AWS
12 29 (19.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 27 (18.12%) Containerisation
13 27 (18.12%) Docker
14 25 (16.78%) Jenkins
15 24 (16.11%) Observability
16 23 (15.44%) Linux
17 22 (14.77%) AWS CloudFormation
18 21 (14.09%) Progress Chef
19 20 (13.42%) Azure DevOps
19 20 (13.42%) Software Delivery
19 20 (13.42%) SQL
20 19 (12.75%) Cost Optimisation
20 19 (12.75%) Software Engineering
21 18 (12.08%) Groovy
21 18 (12.08%) Web Services
22 17 (11.41%) Amazon EC2
22 17 (11.41%) Bash
22 17 (11.41%) Network Load Balancing
22 17 (11.41%) Security Cleared

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
2 1 (0.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 68 (45.64%) Azure
2 38 (25.50%) GitHub
3 36 (24.16%) GitHub Actions
4 33 (22.15%) AWS
5 22 (14.77%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (13.42%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (11.41%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (7.38%) OCI
9 9 (6.04%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (6.04%) Snowflake
10 8 (5.37%) PaaS
11 7 (4.70%) SaaS
12 6 (4.03%) Azure Functions
12 6 (4.03%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (4.03%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (4.03%) GCP
12 6 (4.03%) Serverless
13 5 (3.36%) OpenShift
14 4 (2.68%) Azure AKS
14 4 (2.68%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.01%) DNS
2 2 (1.34%) Firewall
2 2 (1.34%) SAN
2 2 (1.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.70%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (4.70%) Spark SQL
2 4 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.01%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.67%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (16.78%) Jenkins
2 7 (4.70%) GitLab
3 4 (2.68%) Git
4 2 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (1.34%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.67%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.67%) JIRA
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 10 (6.71%) PySpark
4 6 (4.03%) ARM Templates
4 6 (4.03%) REST
5 4 (2.68%) Node.js
5 4 (2.68%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (2.68%) RESTful
6 3 (2.01%) Kafka
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%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.67%) FMCG
5 1 (0.67%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (15.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (99.33%) Platform Engineering
2 70 (46.98%) CI/CD
3 61 (40.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 59 (39.60%) DevOps
5 29 (19.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 27 (18.12%) Containerisation
7 24 (16.11%) Observability
8 20 (13.42%) Software Delivery
9 19 (12.75%) Cost Optimisation
9 19 (12.75%) Software Engineering
10 17 (11.41%) Network Load Balancing
11 13 (8.72%) Analytics
11 13 (8.72%) Deployment Automation
11 13 (8.72%) Performance Optimisation
12 11 (7.38%) AI
12 11 (7.38%) Data Engineering
13 10 (6.71%) Business Continuity
13 10 (6.71%) Disaster Recovery
13 10 (6.71%) Infrastructure Automation
13 10 (6.71%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 43 (28.86%) Python
2 20 (13.42%) SQL
3 18 (12.08%) Groovy
4 17 (11.41%) Bash
5 8 (5.37%) Go
6 7 (4.70%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.68%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 17 (11.41%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.40%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.03%) GDPR
2 2 (1.34%) Data Quality
System Software
1 27 (18.12%) 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%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.01%) Puppet
6 2 (1.34%) Ansible
6 2 (1.34%) Argo
7 1 (0.67%) Opsview
Vendors
1 16 (10.74%) Oracle
2 8 (5.37%) Databricks
3 5 (3.36%) Google
3 5 (3.36%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.01%) VMware
5 1 (0.67%) YouTube