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 23 October 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 252 280
Rank change year-on-year +30 +28 -26
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 142 37 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.59% 0.41% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.46% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 106 26 28
10th Percentile £53,750 £56,213 £49,325
25th Percentile £60,063 £57,813 £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +1.96% +6.25%
75th Percentile £97,500 £76,250 £74,144
90th Percentile £100,000 £78,790 £78,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.34% -3.33% +15.38%

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.

6 months to
23 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 22,239 8,008 12,068
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.99% 87.71% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 16,182 4,450 6,479
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% -8.26%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,999 £54,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.09% -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 23 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 23 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 +17 75 £70,400 +12.64% 86
Yorkshire +14 58 £80,000 +23.08% 38
North East -56 9 £60,000 -18.70% 14
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Platform Engineering98.6%140
2Azure47.2%67
3CI/CD46.5%66
4DevOps40.8%58
5Infrastructure as Code39.4%56
6Terraform38.7%55
7Kubernetes26.1%37
7Python26.1%37
9GitHub24.6%35
10AWS21.8%31
10GitHub Actions21.8%31
12Infrastructure Engineering18.3%26
13Containerisation17.6%25
13Docker17.6%25
15Jenkins15.5%22
16Linux14.8%21
16Observability14.8%21
18AWS CloudFormation14.1%20
19Software Delivery13.4%19
20Azure DevOps12.7%18
20Bash12.7%18
20Security Cleared12.7%18
23Progress Chef12.0%17
24Software Engineering11.3%16
25Cost Optimisation10.6%15
25SC Cleared10.6%15
27Amazon EC29.9%14
27Groovy9.9%14
27Network Load Balancing9.9%14
27SQL9.9%14

Platform Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Cloud Platform Engineer54.2%77
2Cloud Engineer35.2%50
3Senior Platform Engineer25.4%36
4Azure Platform Engineer21.1%30
5Lead Cloud Engineer17.6%25
6DevOps Platform Engineer16.2%23
7Data Engineer9.9%14
8Senior DevOps Engineer8.5%12
9DevOps Automation Engineer7.7%11
9Senior Automation Engineer7.7%11
11Cloud Infrastructure Engineer6.3%9
11Lead Infrastructure Engineer6.3%9
11Oracle Infrastructure Engineer6.3%9
11Senior Data Engineer6.3%9
15AWS Platform Engineer5.6%8
15Snowflake Engineer5.6%8
17Artificial Intelligence Engineer2.8%4
17Microsoft Engineer2.8%4
19Databricks Data Engineer2.1%3
19GCP Engineer2.1%3
138 Platform Engineer jobs in the North of England