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 £73,401 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 June 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 272 275
Rank change year-on-year +22 +3 +22
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 92 31 127
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.45% 0.37% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.42% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 74 23 52
10th Percentile £53,750 £55,235 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,088 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,401 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £81,875 £77,500 £68,125
90th Percentile £83,750 £81,000 £82,250
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £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 19,077 7,456 18,555
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.33% 87.99% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 13,903 3,814 14,238
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,125 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -8.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £77,896
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +11 47 £80,000 +23.08% 9
North West +8 36 £62,500 -9.92% 19
North East -38 9 £60,000 -20.53%
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 June 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 92 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 51 (55.43%) CI/CD
3 45 (48.91%) DevOps
4 42 (45.65%) Terraform
5 39 (42.39%) Infrastructure as Code
6 36 (39.13%) Python
7 32 (34.78%) Azure
7 32 (34.78%) Kubernetes
8 27 (29.35%) Observability
9 25 (27.17%) Containerisation
10 24 (26.09%) GitHub
11 23 (25.00%) AWS
11 23 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (22.83%) Docker
12 21 (22.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 21 (22.83%) Linux
13 19 (20.65%) SQL
14 16 (17.39%) Deployment Automation
14 16 (17.39%) Oracle
15 15 (16.30%) Amazon EC2
15 15 (16.30%) Azure DevOps
15 15 (16.30%) Cost Optimisation
16 14 (15.22%) AWS CloudFormation
16 14 (15.22%) Bash
16 14 (15.22%) Databricks
16 14 (15.22%) Jenkins
16 14 (15.22%) Progress Chef
16 14 (15.22%) Software Engineering
17 13 (14.13%) Azure Data Factory
17 13 (14.13%) Data Engineering

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 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 32 (34.78%) Azure
2 24 (26.09%) GitHub
3 23 (25.00%) AWS
3 23 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 15 (16.30%) Amazon EC2
4 15 (16.30%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (15.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (14.13%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (10.87%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (9.78%) Azure Functions
8 9 (9.78%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (9.78%) OCI
8 9 (9.78%) Serverless
9 6 (6.52%) GCP
9 6 (6.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (5.43%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (5.43%) Azure AKS
10 5 (5.43%) Snowflake
11 4 (4.35%) Entra ID
11 4 (4.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.17%) Firewall
1 2 (2.17%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.09%) DNS
2 1 (1.09%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (1.09%) iSCSI
2 1 (1.09%) NAS
2 1 (1.09%) SAN
2 1 (1.09%) VLAN
2 1 (1.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.13%) Spark SQL
2 10 (10.87%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.26%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.17%) Redis
6 1 (1.09%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (15.22%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.35%) GitLab
3 3 (3.26%) Git
4 2 (2.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (2.17%) Bitbucket
General
1 12 (13.04%) Social Skills
2 3 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (1.09%) Advertising
3 1 (1.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (1.09%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.13%) PySpark
2 12 (13.04%) Web Services
3 9 (9.78%) ARM Templates
3 9 (9.78%) REST
4 4 (4.35%) Node.js
4 4 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (4.35%) RESTful
5 3 (3.26%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (3.26%) Kafka
6 2 (2.17%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 20 (21.74%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.43%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.17%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.09%) Clustering
5 1 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (22.83%) Linux
2 3 (3.26%) Unix
3 2 (2.17%) Debian
3 2 (2.17%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.17%) Windows
4 1 (1.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 51 (55.43%) CI/CD
3 45 (48.91%) DevOps
4 39 (42.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (29.35%) Observability
6 25 (27.17%) Containerisation
7 21 (22.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 16 (17.39%) Deployment Automation
9 15 (16.30%) Cost Optimisation
10 14 (15.22%) Software Engineering
11 13 (14.13%) Data Engineering
11 13 (14.13%) Test Automation
12 11 (11.96%) Network Load Balancing
13 9 (9.78%) Analytics
13 9 (9.78%) Computer Science
13 9 (9.78%) Data Governance
13 9 (9.78%) Data Integration
13 9 (9.78%) Data Modelling
13 9 (9.78%) ETL
13 9 (9.78%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (39.13%) Python
2 19 (20.65%) SQL
3 14 (15.22%) Bash
4 12 (13.04%) Groovy
5 6 (6.52%) Go
6 3 (3.26%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (10.87%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.78%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (9.78%) Degree
3 8 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.78%) GDPR
2 3 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.26%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (22.83%) Docker
2 4 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.17%) vSphere
4 1 (1.09%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 42 (45.65%) Terraform
2 32 (34.78%) Kubernetes
3 14 (15.22%) Progress Chef
4 6 (6.52%) Istio
4 6 (6.52%) linkerd
5 5 (5.43%) Argo
6 3 (3.26%) Ansible
6 3 (3.26%) Grafana
6 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.17%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (2.17%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.17%) Puppet
8 1 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.09%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (17.39%) Oracle
2 14 (15.22%) Databricks
3 5 (5.43%) Google
4 4 (4.35%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.35%) VMware
5 1 (1.09%) Commvault
5 1 (1.09%) Dell
5 1 (1.09%) NetApp
5 1 (1.09%) New Relic
5 1 (1.09%) Splunk
5 1 (1.09%) Veeam
5 1 (1.09%) Zerto