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 11 June 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 268 270
Rank change year-on-year +26 +2 +22
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 85 29 124
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.43% 0.36% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.41% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 65 24 49
10th Percentile £56,500 £55,353 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £59,044 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £68,442 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.89% +14.07% -13.60%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,875 £82,500
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 18,591 7,154 18,298
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 89.20% 94.95%
Number of salaries quoted 13,489 3,679 14,189
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,220 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.89% +0.11% -7.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,922 £83,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £56,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.74% +9.52% -12.87%

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 11 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 11 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 -2 45 £80,000 +23.08% 8
North West +16 31 £70,200 +1.18% 23
North East -35 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 11 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 85 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 45 (52.94%) CI/CD
3 43 (50.59%) Terraform
4 41 (48.24%) DevOps
5 37 (43.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 34 (40.00%) Python
7 33 (38.82%) Azure
8 28 (32.94%) Observability
9 27 (31.76%) Kubernetes
10 23 (27.06%) GitHub
11 22 (25.88%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (24.71%) AWS
12 21 (24.71%) Containerisation
13 19 (22.35%) Docker
13 19 (22.35%) SQL
14 18 (21.18%) Cost Optimisation
14 18 (21.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 18 (21.18%) Linux
15 15 (17.65%) Oracle
16 14 (16.47%) Amazon EC2
16 14 (16.47%) Azure DevOps
16 14 (16.47%) Databricks
16 14 (16.47%) Deployment Automation
17 13 (15.29%) AWS CloudFormation
17 13 (15.29%) Azure Data Factory
17 13 (15.29%) Azure Monitor
17 13 (15.29%) Data Engineering
17 13 (15.29%) PySpark
17 13 (15.29%) Software Engineering
17 13 (15.29%) Spark SQL

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 4 (4.71%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 33 (38.82%) Azure
2 23 (27.06%) GitHub
3 22 (25.88%) GitHub Actions
4 21 (24.71%) AWS
5 14 (16.47%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (16.47%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (15.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (15.29%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (15.29%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (10.59%) Azure Functions
7 9 (10.59%) Azure Logic Apps
7 9 (10.59%) Serverless
8 8 (9.41%) OCI
9 7 (8.24%) Entra ID
10 6 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (5.88%) Azure AKS
11 5 (5.88%) GCP
11 5 (5.88%) Snowflake
11 5 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.35%) Firewall
1 2 (2.35%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.18%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (1.18%) iSCSI
2 1 (1.18%) NAS
2 1 (1.18%) SAN
2 1 (1.18%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.29%) Spark SQL
2 10 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.35%) Redis
5 1 (1.18%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.18%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (14.12%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.53%) GitLab
3 2 (2.35%) Git
4 1 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.18%) Bitbucket
General
1 15 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.18%) Advertising
4 1 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.18%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (15.29%) PySpark
2 11 (12.94%) Web Services
3 9 (10.59%) ARM Templates
3 9 (10.59%) REST
4 3 (3.53%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (3.53%) Node.js
4 3 (3.53%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (3.53%) RESTful
5 2 (2.35%) Django
6 1 (1.18%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.12%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.71%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.71%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.35%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.18%) Clustering
5 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.18%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.18%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (21.18%) Linux
2 3 (3.53%) Unix
3 2 (2.35%) Debian
3 2 (2.35%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.35%) Windows
4 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 45 (52.94%) CI/CD
3 41 (48.24%) DevOps
4 37 (43.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (32.94%) Observability
6 21 (24.71%) Containerisation
7 18 (21.18%) Cost Optimisation
7 18 (21.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 14 (16.47%) Deployment Automation
9 13 (15.29%) Data Engineering
9 13 (15.29%) Software Engineering
9 13 (15.29%) Test Automation
10 10 (11.76%) AI
10 10 (11.76%) Network Load Balancing
11 9 (10.59%) Analytics
11 9 (10.59%) Computer Science
11 9 (10.59%) Data Integration
11 9 (10.59%) Data Modelling
11 9 (10.59%) ETL
11 9 (10.59%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (40.00%) Python
2 19 (22.35%) SQL
3 11 (12.94%) Bash
3 11 (12.94%) Groovy
4 5 (5.88%) Go
5 2 (2.35%) Java
6 1 (1.18%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (10.59%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (10.59%) Degree
1 9 (10.59%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.41%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.18%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.59%) GDPR
2 3 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.53%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (22.35%) Docker
2 4 (4.71%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.35%) vSphere
4 1 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (50.59%) Terraform
2 27 (31.76%) Kubernetes
3 12 (14.12%) Progress Chef
4 6 (7.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (4.71%) Argo
5 4 (4.71%) Istio
5 4 (4.71%) linkerd
5 4 (4.71%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (3.53%) Ansible
7 2 (2.35%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (2.35%) Grafana
8 1 (1.18%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.18%) Puppet
8 1 (1.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (17.65%) Oracle
2 14 (16.47%) Databricks
3 7 (8.24%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.71%) Google
4 4 (4.71%) New Relic
4 4 (4.71%) Splunk
4 4 (4.71%) VMware
5 1 (1.18%) Commvault
5 1 (1.18%) Dell
5 1 (1.18%) NetApp
5 1 (1.18%) Veeam
5 1 (1.18%) Zerto