Platform Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Platform Engineer
England > North of England

The median Platform Engineer salary in the North of England is £57,560 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 269 295
Rank change year-on-year +72 +26 +57
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 148 120 136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.29% 0.68% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.40% 0.71% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 75 48 111
10th Percentile - £45,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,176 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,560 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.07% -14.29% +27.27%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -

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 10,540 16,826 15,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.70% 94.99% 89.55%
Number of salaries quoted 5,485 12,999 8,069
10th Percentile £25,480 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £56,800 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.17% -12.83% +1.33%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in the North of England

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Platform Engineer 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 22 May 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 22 May 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 +63 142 £57,560 -11.45% 127
Yorkshire +24 5 £65,000 +8.33% 83
North East +33 1 £75,500 -5.63% 25
Platform Engineer
England

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 22 May 2025, Platform Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 122 (82.43%) Degree
1 122 (82.43%) BPSS Clearance
2 91 (61.49%) Platform Engineering
3 69 (46.62%) Agile
4 65 (43.92%) TOGAF
4 65 (43.92%) Teamcenter
4 65 (43.92%) MODAF
4 65 (43.92%) SysML
4 65 (43.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 65 (43.92%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 65 (43.92%) TOGAF Certification
4 65 (43.92%) Programme Delivery
4 65 (43.92%) Rational DOORS
4 65 (43.92%) ArchiMate
4 65 (43.92%) Sparx
4 65 (43.92%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 65 (43.92%) Product Ownership
5 61 (41.22%) Mentoring
6 57 (38.51%) CAD
6 57 (38.51%) Microsoft Office
7 22 (14.86%) Terraform
8 20 (13.51%) Azure
9 19 (12.84%) CI/CD
10 16 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (10.14%) Python
11 15 (10.14%) Bicep
12 11 (7.43%) Bash
12 11 (7.43%) Ansible
13 10 (6.76%) GitHub
14 9 (6.08%) Progress Chef

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.68%) Confluence
Applications
1 57 (38.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 65 (43.92%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 65 (43.92%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (13.51%) Azure
2 10 (6.76%) GitHub
3 8 (5.41%) AWS
4 4 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (2.03%) GCP
5 3 (2.03%) Power Automate
5 3 (2.03%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.03%) PowerApps
5 3 (2.03%) Pulumi
6 2 (1.35%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (1.35%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 2 (1.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (1.35%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.35%) dbt
7 1 (0.68%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.68%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.35%) Internet
1 2 (1.35%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.68%) DHCP
2 1 (0.68%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (2.03%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.35%) Redis
3 1 (0.68%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 65 (43.92%) Rational DOORS
2 9 (6.08%) Jenkins
2 9 (6.08%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.68%) JIRA
General
1 9 (6.08%) Finance
2 4 (2.70%) Social Skills
3 2 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (0.68%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (0.68%) Aviation
4 1 (0.68%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.41%) ADO
2 2 (1.35%) Django
3 1 (0.68%) .NET
3 1 (0.68%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.68%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.68%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (43.92%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (1.35%) Low-Code
4 1 (0.68%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.38%) Linux
2 2 (1.35%) Unix
2 2 (1.35%) Windows
3 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (61.49%) Platform Engineering
2 69 (46.62%) Agile
3 65 (43.92%) ArchiMate
3 65 (43.92%) MODAF
3 65 (43.92%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 65 (43.92%) Programme Delivery
3 65 (43.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 65 (43.92%) SysML
3 65 (43.92%) TOGAF
4 61 (41.22%) Mentoring
5 57 (38.51%) CAD
6 19 (12.84%) CI/CD
7 16 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (6.08%) Roadmaps
9 7 (4.73%) Containerisation
9 7 (4.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (4.73%) Strategic Roadmap
10 5 (3.38%) DevOps
11 4 (2.70%) Deployment Automation
12 3 (2.03%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 15 (10.14%) Bicep
1 15 (10.14%) Python
2 11 (7.43%) Bash
3 9 (6.08%) Ruby
4 4 (2.70%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.68%) C#
5 1 (0.68%) Go
5 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 122 (82.43%) BPSS Clearance
1 122 (82.43%) Degree
2 65 (43.92%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (1.35%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.35%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.68%) CCSP
4 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.68%) CISSP
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.35%) NIST
1 2 (1.35%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.68%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (2.70%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (14.86%) Terraform
2 11 (7.43%) Ansible
3 9 (6.08%) Progress Chef
3 9 (6.08%) Puppet
4 4 (2.70%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.35%) AWS Copilot
5 2 (1.35%) SCCM
6 1 (0.68%) Grafana
6 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.68%) SCOM
6 1 (0.68%) WSUS
Vendors
1 65 (43.92%) Sparx
2 5 (3.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.35%) Google
3 2 (1.35%) Oracle
4 1 (0.68%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.68%) Red Hat