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 28 May 2026.

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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 263 268
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 +24
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 77 32 121
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.39% 0.41% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.46% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 60 28 49
10th Percentile £58,250 £54,250 £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 £77,688 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,375 £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 18,421 6,951 16,617
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.19% 89.68% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,706 3,449 13,230
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% +3.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -13.65%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -15 41 £80,000 +23.08% 11
North West -5 27 £70,400 +1.47% 27
North East -36 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 28 May 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 77 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 40 (51.95%) CI/CD
2 40 (51.95%) Terraform
3 36 (46.75%) DevOps
4 34 (44.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (42.86%) Azure
6 30 (38.96%) Python
7 28 (36.36%) Observability
8 22 (28.57%) Kubernetes
9 19 (24.68%) Cost Optimisation
9 19 (24.68%) GitHub
9 19 (24.68%) SQL
10 18 (23.38%) AWS
10 18 (23.38%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (23.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 17 (22.08%) Containerisation
11 17 (22.08%) Docker
12 16 (20.78%) Linux
13 15 (19.48%) Oracle
14 14 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (18.18%) Databricks
15 13 (16.88%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (16.88%) Data Engineering
15 13 (16.88%) Deployment Automation
15 13 (16.88%) PySpark
15 13 (16.88%) Spark SQL
15 13 (16.88%) Test Automation
16 12 (15.58%) Amazon EC2
16 12 (15.58%) Software 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 5 (6.49%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 33 (42.86%) Azure
2 19 (24.68%) GitHub
3 18 (23.38%) AWS
3 18 (23.38%) GitHub Actions
4 14 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
5 13 (16.88%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (15.58%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (12.99%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (11.69%) Azure Functions
8 9 (11.69%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (11.69%) Serverless
9 8 (10.39%) Entra ID
9 8 (10.39%) OCI
10 7 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (6.49%) Amazon S3
11 5 (6.49%) GCP
11 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (6.49%) SaaS
11 5 (6.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.60%) Firewall
1 2 (2.60%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.30%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (1.30%) iSCSI
2 1 (1.30%) NAS
2 1 (1.30%) SAN
2 1 (1.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.88%) Spark SQL
2 10 (12.99%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.60%) Redis
5 1 (1.30%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.30%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (11.69%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.90%) GitLab
3 2 (2.60%) Git
4 1 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
General
1 15 (19.48%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.30%) Advertising
4 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.30%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (16.88%) PySpark
2 9 (11.69%) ARM Templates
2 9 (11.69%) REST
3 8 (10.39%) Web Services
4 3 (3.90%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.60%) Django
6 1 (1.30%) Kafka
6 1 (1.30%) Node.js
6 1 (1.30%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.30%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.49%) Cloud Native
1 5 (6.49%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (6.49%) Onboarding
2 4 (5.19%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.60%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.30%) Clustering
4 1 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.30%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (20.78%) Linux
2 3 (3.90%) Unix
2 3 (3.90%) Windows
3 2 (2.60%) Debian
3 2 (2.60%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.30%) VMS
4 1 (1.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 40 (51.95%) CI/CD
3 36 (46.75%) DevOps
4 34 (44.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (36.36%) Observability
6 19 (24.68%) Cost Optimisation
7 18 (23.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 17 (22.08%) Containerisation
9 13 (16.88%) Data Engineering
9 13 (16.88%) Deployment Automation
9 13 (16.88%) Test Automation
10 12 (15.58%) Software Engineering
11 10 (12.99%) AI
11 10 (12.99%) Analytics
11 10 (12.99%) RBAC
12 9 (11.69%) Computer Science
12 9 (11.69%) Dashboard Development
12 9 (11.69%) Data Governance
12 9 (11.69%) Regulatory Compliance
12 9 (11.69%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (38.96%) Python
2 19 (24.68%) SQL
3 11 (14.29%) Bash
4 8 (10.39%) Groovy
5 4 (5.19%) Go
6 2 (2.60%) Java
7 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (11.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (11.69%) Degree
2 5 (6.49%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.19%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.69%) GDPR
2 3 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.90%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (22.08%) Docker
2 5 (6.49%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.90%) vSphere
5 2 (2.60%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 40 (51.95%) Terraform
2 22 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 9 (11.69%) Progress Chef
4 7 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (6.49%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (5.19%) Ansible
6 4 (5.19%) Argo
7 2 (2.60%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (2.60%) Grafana
7 2 (2.60%) Istio
7 2 (2.60%) linkerd
8 1 (1.30%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.30%) Puppet
8 1 (1.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (19.48%) Oracle
2 14 (18.18%) Databricks
3 8 (10.39%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.49%) New Relic
4 5 (6.49%) Splunk
4 5 (6.49%) VMware
5 4 (5.19%) Google
6 1 (1.30%) Commvault
6 1 (1.30%) Dell
6 1 (1.30%) NetApp
6 1 (1.30%) Veeam
6 1 (1.30%) Zerto