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 £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 April 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 228 265
Rank change year-on-year -32 +37 +28
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 60 36 114
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.33% 0.51% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.57% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 40 31 43
10th Percentile £58,000 £52,500 £43,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £58,088 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £69,384 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.30% +15.64% -13.60%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £82,500
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 16,699 6,356 15,795
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.09% 89.52% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 10,808 3,817 12,614
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -11.06%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -33 31 £80,000 +33.33% 6
North West -36 23 £70,400 +0.57% 20
North East -36 6 £60,000 -20.53% 2
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 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 58 (96.67%) Platform Engineering
2 33 (55.00%) DevOps
3 32 (53.33%) Terraform
4 31 (51.67%) CI/CD
5 29 (48.33%) Azure
6 25 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 24 (40.00%) Observability
8 20 (33.33%) Python
9 16 (26.67%) Cost Optimisation
10 14 (23.33%) AWS
10 14 (23.33%) Azure Monitor
10 14 (23.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 13 (21.67%) Kubernetes
11 13 (21.67%) SQL
12 12 (20.00%) Docker
12 12 (20.00%) GitHub
13 11 (18.33%) Containerisation
13 11 (18.33%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (18.33%) Incident Response
13 11 (18.33%) Linux
14 10 (16.67%) Agile
14 10 (16.67%) AI
14 10 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (16.67%) Change Management
14 10 (16.67%) Data Engineering
14 10 (16.67%) Databricks
14 10 (16.67%) Entra ID
14 10 (16.67%) Microsoft
14 10 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune

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 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 29 (48.33%) Azure
2 14 (23.33%) AWS
2 14 (23.33%) Azure Monitor
3 12 (20.00%) GitHub
4 11 (18.33%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 10 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (13.33%) Microsoft Purview
7 8 (13.33%) OneDrive
7 8 (13.33%) Power Platform
7 8 (13.33%) SaaS
8 7 (11.67%) Serverless
9 6 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (10.00%) Amazon S3
9 6 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (10.00%) Azure Functions
9 6 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) Firewall
1 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.67%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (1.67%) iSCSI
2 1 (1.67%) NAS
2 1 (1.67%) SAN
2 1 (1.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.67%) Spark SQL
2 7 (11.67%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.33%) Redis
5 1 (1.67%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.33%) GitLab
3 1 (1.67%) Git
General
1 15 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.67%) Advertising
4 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.67%) Legal
4 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.67%) PySpark
2 7 (11.67%) ARM Templates
3 6 (10.00%) REST
4 4 (6.67%) Web Services
5 3 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (3.33%) Django
7 1 (1.67%) Spring
7 1 (1.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.33%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.67%) Clustering
4 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.33%) Linux
2 3 (5.00%) Unix
2 3 (5.00%) Windows
3 2 (3.33%) Debian
3 2 (3.33%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.67%) VMS
4 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (96.67%) Platform Engineering
2 33 (55.00%) DevOps
3 31 (51.67%) CI/CD
4 25 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (40.00%) Observability
6 16 (26.67%) Cost Optimisation
7 14 (23.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (18.33%) Containerisation
8 11 (18.33%) Incident Response
9 10 (16.67%) Agile
9 10 (16.67%) AI
9 10 (16.67%) Change Management
9 10 (16.67%) Data Engineering
9 10 (16.67%) RBAC
9 10 (16.67%) Test Automation
10 9 (15.00%) Deployment Automation
11 8 (13.33%) Data Loss Prevention
11 8 (13.33%) Identity Access Management
11 8 (13.33%) Proactive Monitoring
11 8 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 20 (33.33%) Python
2 13 (21.67%) SQL
3 6 (10.00%) Bash
4 4 (6.67%) Groovy
5 3 (5.00%) Java
6 1 (1.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (13.33%) Degree
2 6 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.33%) Chartered Engineer
4 2 (3.33%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.00%) GDPR
2 4 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.00%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.67%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 12 (20.00%) Docker
2 8 (13.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (5.00%) vSphere
5 2 (3.33%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 32 (53.33%) Terraform
2 13 (21.67%) Kubernetes
3 10 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (13.33%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (8.33%) Ansible
6 4 (6.67%) Progress Chef
7 3 (5.00%) Argo
8 2 (3.33%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (3.33%) Grafana
8 2 (3.33%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.67%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (1.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (16.67%) Databricks
1 10 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 10 (16.67%) Oracle
2 8 (13.33%) New Relic
2 8 (13.33%) Splunk
3 5 (8.33%) VMware
4 3 (5.00%) Google
5 1 (1.67%) Commvault
5 1 (1.67%) Dell
5 1 (1.67%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.67%) NetApp
5 1 (1.67%) Veeam
5 1 (1.67%) Zerto