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 £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 January 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 253 278
Rank change year-on-year +23 +25 +28
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 40 33 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.36% 0.36% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.39% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25 28 20
10th Percentile £53,250 £51,750 £41,375
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,308 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.22% +26.01% -20.80%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £82,875 £80,375
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -

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 9,827 8,511 8,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.84% 93.85% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 5,765 4,006 7,097
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £40,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,483 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,100 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -7.39%

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 19 January 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 19 January 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 +17 29 £65,000 -7.14% 15
Yorkshire -12 8 £66,250 +10.42% 17
North East +8 3 £73,801 +6.48% 8
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 January 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 38 (95.00%) Platform Engineering
2 22 (55.00%) Azure
2 22 (55.00%) Terraform
3 21 (52.50%) DevOps
4 19 (47.50%) Microsoft
5 16 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (37.50%) CI/CD
6 15 (37.50%) Power Platform
7 14 (35.00%) Observability
8 12 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (30.00%) Python
9 11 (27.50%) Agile
9 11 (27.50%) AWS
9 11 (27.50%) Docker
9 11 (27.50%) Splunk
10 10 (25.00%) Change Management
10 10 (25.00%) Incident Response
10 10 (25.00%) Linux
10 10 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (25.00%) SaaS
11 9 (22.50%) AI
11 9 (22.50%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (22.50%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (22.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 8 (20.00%) Active Directory
12 8 (20.00%) BPR
12 8 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
12 8 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
12 8 (20.00%) E-Discovery
12 8 (20.00%) Entra ID

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 8 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (7.50%) Mule
3 1 (2.50%) Apache
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.50%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 22 (55.00%) Azure
2 15 (37.50%) Power Platform
3 11 (27.50%) AWS
4 10 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (25.00%) SaaS
5 9 (22.50%) Azure Monitor
6 8 (20.00%) Entra ID
6 8 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 8 (20.00%) OneDrive
7 7 (17.50%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (15.00%) GCP
8 6 (15.00%) Power Automate
9 5 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (7.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 3 (7.50%) Amazon S3
11 3 (7.50%) PaaS
11 3 (7.50%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (7.50%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (7.50%) Oracle Database
2 3 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (7.50%) Redis
3 2 (5.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.00%) Power BI
3 2 (5.00%) RDBMS
3 2 (5.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.50%) Big Data
4 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.50%) CircleCI
2 3 (7.50%) GitLab
3 1 (2.50%) Git
3 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 8 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.50%) Banking
2 3 (7.50%) Finance
3 2 (5.00%) Back Office
3 2 (5.00%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) Django
1 3 (7.50%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (7.50%) Kafka
2 2 (5.00%) .NET
3 1 (2.50%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.50%) Software Packaging
3 1 (2.50%) Spring
3 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (7.50%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (7.50%) Debian
2 3 (7.50%) Ubuntu
2 3 (7.50%) Unix
2 3 (7.50%) Windows
3 1 (2.50%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (95.00%) Platform Engineering
2 21 (52.50%) DevOps
3 16 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (37.50%) CI/CD
5 14 (35.00%) Observability
6 12 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (27.50%) Agile
8 10 (25.00%) Change Management
8 10 (25.00%) Incident Response
9 9 (22.50%) AI
9 9 (22.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (20.00%) BPR
10 8 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
10 8 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
10 8 (20.00%) E-Discovery
10 8 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
10 8 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
10 8 (20.00%) RBAC
10 8 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 8 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.00%) Python
2 7 (17.50%) Bash
3 4 (10.00%) Java
3 4 (10.00%) SQL
4 2 (5.00%) C#
4 2 (5.00%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.50%) Go
5 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Degree
2 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.00%) Chartered Engineer
3 2 (5.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 11 (27.50%) Docker
2 8 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (7.50%) vSphere
4 2 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (5.00%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (55.00%) Terraform
2 9 (22.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (15.00%) Ansible
5 5 (12.50%) Grafana
5 5 (12.50%) Prometheus
6 3 (7.50%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (2.50%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 19 (47.50%) Microsoft
2 11 (27.50%) Splunk
3 8 (20.00%) New Relic
4 5 (12.50%) Oracle
5 3 (7.50%) Google
5 3 (7.50%) VMware
6 2 (5.00%) Databricks
7 1 (2.50%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.50%) F5
7 1 (2.50%) Nexthink
7 1 (2.50%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow