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 £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 October 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 260 278
Rank change year-on-year +39 +18 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 145 36 36
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.60% 0.38% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.44% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 105 25 28
10th Percentile £53,750 £56,206 £49,325
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £97,500 £72,500 £73,849
90th Percentile £100,000 £78,274 £75,526
England median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.34% -3.33% +9.09%

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 22,174 8,234 12,341
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 87.33% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 16,199 4,359 6,697
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £79,375
England median annual salary £59,250 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +7.73% -3.51% -5.00%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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
North West +22 76 £70,400 +12.64% 7
Yorkshire +16 60 £82,500 +26.92% 4
North East -55 9 £60,000 -18.70% 3
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 October 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.

1 143 (98.62%) Platform Engineering
2 71 (48.97%) CI/CD
3 68 (46.90%) Azure
4 61 (42.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 59 (40.69%) DevOps
6 58 (40.00%) Terraform
7 41 (28.28%) Kubernetes
7 41 (28.28%) Python
8 40 (27.59%) GitHub
9 36 (24.83%) GitHub Actions
10 34 (23.45%) AWS
11 29 (20.00%) Containerisation
11 29 (20.00%) Docker
12 27 (18.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 26 (17.93%) Jenkins
14 24 (16.55%) Linux
15 23 (15.86%) AWS CloudFormation
16 22 (15.17%) Observability
17 21 (14.48%) Progress Chef
17 21 (14.48%) Software Delivery
18 20 (13.79%) Software Engineering
19 18 (12.41%) Azure DevOps
19 18 (12.41%) Bash
19 18 (12.41%) Groovy
19 18 (12.41%) Security Cleared
19 18 (12.41%) Web Services
20 17 (11.72%) Amazon EC2
20 17 (11.72%) Cost Optimisation
20 17 (11.72%) Network Load Balancing
20 17 (11.72%) 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 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.69%) Confluence
2 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 68 (46.90%) Azure
2 40 (27.59%) GitHub
3 36 (24.83%) GitHub Actions
4 34 (23.45%) AWS
5 23 (15.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 18 (12.41%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (11.72%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (6.21%) OCI
8 9 (6.21%) Snowflake
9 8 (5.52%) PaaS
10 7 (4.83%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (4.83%) GCP
10 7 (4.83%) SaaS
11 5 (3.45%) Entra ID
11 5 (3.45%) OpenShift
12 4 (2.76%) Azure Functions
12 4 (2.76%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (2.76%) Power Platform
12 4 (2.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.07%) DNS
2 2 (1.38%) Firewall
2 2 (1.38%) SAN
2 2 (1.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.45%) Spark SQL
2 4 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.07%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.69%) Power BI
4 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (17.93%) Jenkins
2 7 (4.83%) GitLab
3 4 (2.76%) Git
4 2 (1.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (1.38%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.69%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.69%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.69%) JIRA
General
1 19 (13.10%) Social Skills
2 14 (9.66%) Finance
3 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (0.69%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (40.00%) Terraform
2 18 (12.41%) Web Services
3 8 (5.52%) PySpark
4 4 (2.76%) ARM Templates
4 4 (2.76%) Node.js
4 4 (2.76%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (2.76%) REST
4 4 (2.76%) RESTful
5 3 (2.07%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 26 (17.93%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (6.21%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.38%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.38%) FMCG
4 2 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.38%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 24 (16.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (98.62%) Platform Engineering
2 71 (48.97%) CI/CD
3 61 (42.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 59 (40.69%) DevOps
5 29 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 27 (18.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 22 (15.17%) Observability
8 21 (14.48%) Software Delivery
9 20 (13.79%) Software Engineering
10 17 (11.72%) Cost Optimisation
10 17 (11.72%) Network Load Balancing
11 13 (8.97%) Performance Optimisation
12 12 (8.28%) Analytics
13 11 (7.59%) AI
13 11 (7.59%) Deployment Automation
14 10 (6.90%) Business Continuity
14 10 (6.90%) Disaster Recovery
14 10 (6.90%) Infrastructure Automation
14 10 (6.90%) Runbook
15 9 (6.21%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 41 (28.28%) Python
2 18 (12.41%) Bash
2 18 (12.41%) Groovy
3 17 (11.72%) SQL
4 7 (4.83%) Go
4 7 (4.83%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.76%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 18 (12.41%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.76%) Degree
4 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.76%) GDPR
2 2 (1.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 29 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (28.28%) Kubernetes
2 21 (14.48%) Progress Chef
3 7 (4.83%) Istio
3 7 (4.83%) linkerd
4 4 (2.76%) Grafana
5 3 (2.07%) Ansible
5 3 (2.07%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.07%) Puppet
6 2 (1.38%) Argo
7 1 (0.69%) Opsview
Vendors
1 11 (7.59%) Oracle
2 7 (4.83%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.14%) Databricks
3 6 (4.14%) Google
4 2 (1.38%) VMware
5 1 (0.69%) Aderant
5 1 (0.69%) iManage
5 1 (0.69%) Intapp
5 1 (0.69%) YouTube