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 £74,051 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 March 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 212 254
Rank change year-on-year -44 +42 +53
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 45 35 108
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.29% 0.55% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.59% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 30 32 40
10th Percentile £51,125 £52,750 £42,139
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,051 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.79% +16.67% -13.95%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £67,594
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £82,625
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +6.67% +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 14,005 5,889 14,886
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.05% 92.15% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 8,986 3,761 11,963
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £79,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.71%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -25 22 £65,000 -7.14% 15
Yorkshire -28 19 £80,000 +33.33% 14
North East -17 4 £73,801 +1.93% 3
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 March 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 43 (95.56%) Platform Engineering
2 30 (66.67%) DevOps
3 28 (62.22%) Azure
4 27 (60.00%) Terraform
5 24 (53.33%) CI/CD
6 22 (48.89%) Observability
7 20 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (31.11%) Python
9 13 (28.89%) AWS
9 13 (28.89%) Microsoft
10 12 (26.67%) Docker
10 12 (26.67%) Incident Response
11 11 (24.44%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (24.44%) Cost Optimisation
11 11 (24.44%) Linux
11 11 (24.44%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (24.44%) Microsoft Intune
11 11 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (22.22%) Agile
12 10 (22.22%) Change Management
12 10 (22.22%) Entra ID
12 10 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 10 (22.22%) Power Platform
13 9 (20.00%) AI
13 9 (20.00%) Kubernetes
14 8 (17.78%) Active Directory
14 8 (17.78%) BPR
14 8 (17.78%) Containerisation
14 8 (17.78%) Data Loss Prevention
14 8 (17.78%) E-Discovery

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 (17.78%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.22%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 28 (62.22%) Azure
2 13 (28.89%) AWS
3 11 (24.44%) Azure Monitor
3 11 (24.44%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (22.22%) Entra ID
4 10 (22.22%) Power Platform
5 8 (17.78%) GCP
5 8 (17.78%) Microsoft Purview
5 8 (17.78%) OneDrive
5 8 (17.78%) SaaS
6 6 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (13.33%) Amazon S3
6 6 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (13.33%) GitHub
7 5 (11.11%) Amazon ECR
7 5 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (11.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 5 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (11.11%) Pulumi
7 5 (11.11%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 3 (6.67%) Firewall
3 1 (2.22%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (2.22%) iSCSI
3 1 (2.22%) NAS
3 1 (2.22%) SAN
3 1 (2.22%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (13.33%) Spark SQL
2 5 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (11.11%) Redis
3 3 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.44%) Power BI
5 1 (2.22%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (4.44%) GitLab
2 1 (2.22%) Git
2 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.22%) JIRA
General
1 12 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Legal
4 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.33%) PySpark
2 5 (11.11%) Django
3 4 (8.89%) ARM Templates
4 3 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (6.67%) REST
5 2 (4.44%) .NET
6 1 (2.22%) Software Packaging
6 1 (2.22%) Spring
6 1 (2.22%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.44%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.44%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.22%) Clustering
4 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.22%) Replication
4 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (24.44%) Linux
2 6 (13.33%) Unix
3 3 (6.67%) Windows
4 2 (4.44%) Debian
4 2 (4.44%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.22%) VMS
5 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (95.56%) Platform Engineering
2 30 (66.67%) DevOps
3 24 (53.33%) CI/CD
4 22 (48.89%) Observability
5 20 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (26.67%) Incident Response
7 11 (24.44%) Cost Optimisation
7 11 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (22.22%) Agile
8 10 (22.22%) Change Management
8 10 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 9 (20.00%) AI
10 8 (17.78%) BPR
10 8 (17.78%) Containerisation
10 8 (17.78%) Data Loss Prevention
10 8 (17.78%) E-Discovery
10 8 (17.78%) Identity Access Management
10 8 (17.78%) Proactive Monitoring
10 8 (17.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (17.78%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.11%) Python
2 6 (13.33%) SQL
3 5 (11.11%) Bash
4 3 (6.67%) Java
5 2 (4.44%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 6 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.11%) Degree
3 3 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.44%) Chartered Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.67%) GDPR
2 3 (6.67%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 12 (26.67%) Docker
2 8 (17.78%) Active Directory
3 4 (8.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.89%) vSphere
4 2 (4.44%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (60.00%) Terraform
2 11 (24.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 8 (17.78%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (11.11%) Ansible
5 5 (11.11%) AWS Copilot
6 3 (6.67%) Argo
7 2 (4.44%) Grafana
7 2 (4.44%) Prometheus
8 1 (2.22%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (2.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (28.89%) Microsoft
2 8 (17.78%) New Relic
2 8 (17.78%) Splunk
3 6 (13.33%) Databricks
3 6 (13.33%) Google
4 5 (11.11%) Oracle
4 5 (11.11%) VMware
5 1 (2.22%) Commvault
5 1 (2.22%) Dell
5 1 (2.22%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.22%) F5
5 1 (2.22%) NetApp
5 1 (2.22%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.22%) Veeam
5 1 (2.22%) Zerto