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 23 July 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 285 245
Rank change year-on-year +49 -40 +51
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 114 31 117
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.54% 0.33% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.37% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 96 21 49
10th Percentile £53,750 £56,176 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - +11.11%

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 19,992 8,355 15,828
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 88.44% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 14,556 4,502 11,673
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £36,565
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -8.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 23 July 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 23 July 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
Yorkshire +24 58 £80,000 +23.08% 27
North West +19 47 £70,000 +5.66% 50
North East -45 9 £60,000 -20.53%
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 July 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.

1 113 (99.12%) Platform Engineering
2 62 (54.39%) CI/CD
3 54 (47.37%) DevOps
4 51 (44.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (42.11%) Azure
6 45 (39.47%) Terraform
7 40 (35.09%) Python
8 33 (28.95%) Kubernetes
9 26 (22.81%) GitHub
9 26 (22.81%) GitHub Actions
9 26 (22.81%) Observability
10 25 (21.93%) Containerisation
10 25 (21.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 24 (21.05%) AWS
12 22 (19.30%) Docker
13 21 (18.42%) Linux
14 20 (17.54%) Oracle
15 19 (16.67%) SQL
16 17 (14.91%) Azure DevOps
17 16 (14.04%) Cost Optimisation
17 16 (14.04%) Deployment Automation
17 16 (14.04%) Jenkins
17 16 (14.04%) Progress Chef
18 15 (13.16%) Amazon EC2
18 15 (13.16%) AWS CloudFormation
18 15 (13.16%) Bash
19 14 (12.28%) Databricks
19 14 (12.28%) Software Engineering
20 13 (11.40%) Azure Data Factory
20 13 (11.40%) Data Engineering

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 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 48 (42.11%) Azure
2 26 (22.81%) GitHub
2 26 (22.81%) GitHub Actions
3 24 (21.05%) AWS
4 17 (14.91%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (13.16%) Amazon EC2
5 15 (13.16%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (11.40%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (11.40%) OCI
7 9 (7.89%) Azure Functions
7 9 (7.89%) Azure Logic Apps
7 9 (7.89%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (7.89%) Serverless
8 6 (5.26%) GCP
8 6 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (4.39%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (4.39%) Azure AKS
9 5 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (4.39%) Snowflake
10 4 (3.51%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.51%) Firewall
2 3 (2.63%) SAN
3 2 (1.75%) DNS
3 2 (1.75%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.75%) VPN
4 1 (0.88%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.88%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.88%) NAS
4 1 (0.88%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.40%) Spark SQL
2 10 (8.77%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.63%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.75%) Redis
6 1 (0.88%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (14.04%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.39%) GitLab
3 4 (3.51%) Git
4 2 (1.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (1.75%) Bitbucket
General
1 14 (12.28%) Social Skills
2 6 (5.26%) Finance
3 2 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (0.88%) Advertising
4 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (0.88%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.40%) PySpark
1 13 (11.40%) Web Services
2 9 (7.89%) ARM Templates
2 9 (7.89%) REST
3 4 (3.51%) Node.js
3 4 (3.51%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (3.51%) RESTful
4 3 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.63%) Kafka
5 2 (1.75%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.42%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.39%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.51%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.75%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.88%) Clustering
6 1 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (18.42%) Linux
2 3 (2.63%) Unix
3 2 (1.75%) Debian
3 2 (1.75%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.88%) Windows
4 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (99.12%) Platform Engineering
2 62 (54.39%) CI/CD
3 54 (47.37%) DevOps
4 51 (44.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (22.81%) Observability
6 25 (21.93%) Containerisation
6 25 (21.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 16 (14.04%) Cost Optimisation
7 16 (14.04%) Deployment Automation
8 14 (12.28%) Software Engineering
9 13 (11.40%) Data Engineering
9 13 (11.40%) Test Automation
10 12 (10.53%) Network Load Balancing
11 10 (8.77%) Software Delivery
12 9 (7.89%) AI
12 9 (7.89%) Dashboard Development
12 9 (7.89%) Data Governance
12 9 (7.89%) Data Integration
12 9 (7.89%) Performance Optimisation
12 9 (7.89%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (35.09%) Python
2 19 (16.67%) SQL
3 15 (13.16%) Bash
4 13 (11.40%) Groovy
5 7 (6.14%) Go
6 5 (4.39%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.75%) Bicep
7 2 (1.75%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (9.65%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (7.89%) Degree
3 8 (7.02%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.89%) GDPR
2 3 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.63%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (19.30%) Docker
2 5 (4.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 45 (39.47%) Terraform
2 33 (28.95%) Kubernetes
3 16 (14.04%) Progress Chef
4 7 (6.14%) Istio
4 7 (6.14%) linkerd
5 5 (4.39%) Argo
6 4 (3.51%) Grafana
7 3 (2.63%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.63%) Puppet
8 2 (1.75%) Ansible
8 2 (1.75%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.88%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 20 (17.54%) Oracle
2 14 (12.28%) Databricks
3 5 (4.39%) Google
3 5 (4.39%) VMware
4 4 (3.51%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.88%) Commvault
5 1 (0.88%) Dell
5 1 (0.88%) NetApp
5 1 (0.88%) Veeam
5 1 (0.88%) Zerto