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 21 October 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 258 274 248
Rank change year-on-year +16 -26 +106
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 36 35 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.40% 0.28% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.29% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 25 28 35
10th Percentile £56,206 £49,325 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,188 £54,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,849 £77,500
90th Percentile £78,274 £75,526 £85,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +11.11% -12.90%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 7,944 12,080 7,926
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.55% 95.01% 96.84%
Number of salaries quoted 4,385 6,493 6,027
10th Percentile £26,000 £30,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -8.26% +3.81%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,774 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,750 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% -

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 21 October 2025.

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 21 October 2025. 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 +15 26 £62,500 - 45
Yorkshire +10 9 £65,000 +8.33% 2
North East +8 1 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 October 2025, 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 30 (83.33%) Platform Engineering
2 13 (36.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (33.33%) Azure
3 12 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 12 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 12 (33.33%) Python
3 12 (33.33%) Terraform
4 11 (30.56%) Degree
4 11 (30.56%) DevOps
5 10 (27.78%) AWS
6 9 (25.00%) Docker
6 9 (25.00%) Linux
7 8 (22.22%) Bash
7 8 (22.22%) Kubernetes
8 7 (19.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (19.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 6 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (16.67%) CAD
9 6 (16.67%) Containerisation
9 6 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (16.67%) Jenkins
9 6 (16.67%) Mentoring
9 6 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
9 6 (16.67%) Oracle
9 6 (16.67%) Power Platform
10 5 (13.89%) Analytics
10 5 (13.89%) Ansible
10 5 (13.89%) Customer Engagement
10 5 (13.89%) GCP
10 5 (13.89%) GitLab

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 3 (8.33%) Mule
2 1 (2.78%) Apache
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.78%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (2.78%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 12 (33.33%) Azure
2 10 (27.78%) AWS
3 6 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
3 6 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 5 (13.89%) GCP
4 5 (13.89%) Power Automate
5 4 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (11.11%) AWS CodeBuild
5 4 (11.11%) Route 53
5 4 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (8.33%) Pulumi
7 2 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (5.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (5.56%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) DNS
1 2 (5.56%) Firewall
1 2 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.78%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) Data Lake
1 3 (8.33%) Oracle Database
2 2 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.56%) RDBMS
2 2 (5.56%) Redis
2 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.78%) Big Data
3 1 (2.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 5 (13.89%) GitLab
3 4 (11.11%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.78%) Git
4 1 (2.78%) Rational DOORS
General
1 4 (11.11%) Banking
2 3 (8.33%) Finance
3 2 (5.56%) Back Office
3 2 (5.56%) Law
3 2 (5.56%) Publishing
4 1 (2.78%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (8.33%) Kafka
3 2 (5.56%) Django
4 1 (2.78%) .NET
4 1 (2.78%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 9 (25.00%) Linux
2 4 (11.11%) Debian
2 4 (11.11%) Ubuntu
3 2 (5.56%) Unix
3 2 (5.56%) Windows
4 1 (2.78%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (83.33%) Platform Engineering
2 13 (36.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 11 (30.56%) DevOps
5 7 (19.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (16.67%) CAD
6 6 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 6 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 5 (13.89%) Analytics
7 5 (13.89%) Customer Engagement
7 5 (13.89%) ITIL
7 5 (13.89%) Observability
7 5 (13.89%) Workflow
8 4 (11.11%) Agile
8 4 (11.11%) Auto-Scaling
8 4 (11.11%) Configuration Management
8 4 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (11.11%) ITSM
9 3 (8.33%) ETL
9 3 (8.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 12 (33.33%) Python
2 8 (22.22%) Bash
3 5 (13.89%) SQL
4 3 (8.33%) Java
4 3 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.56%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.78%) Bicep
6 1 (2.78%) C#
6 1 (2.78%) Go
6 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (30.56%) Degree
2 7 (19.44%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 9 (25.00%) Docker
2 3 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (33.33%) Terraform
2 8 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 5 (13.89%) Ansible
3 5 (13.89%) Grafana
3 5 (13.89%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.56%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (2.78%) SCCM
5 1 (2.78%) SCOM
5 1 (2.78%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (16.67%) Oracle
3 4 (11.11%) Splunk
4 3 (8.33%) Databricks
5 2 (5.56%) Google
6 1 (2.78%) F5
6 1 (2.78%) Nexthink
6 1 (2.78%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.78%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.78%) Sparx
6 1 (2.78%) VMware