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 30 July 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 279 254
Rank change year-on-year +50 -25 +25
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 120 32 115
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.56% 0.34% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.38% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 100 22 47
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,176 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £83,750 £76,690 £68,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £79,825 £82,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - +11.11%

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 20,302 8,419 14,874
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.95% 88.47% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 14,769 4,540 10,701
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -8.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,063 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 +31 64 £80,000 +23.08% 25
North West +17 47 £70,400 +17.33% 37
North East -43 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 30 July 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.

1 119 (99.17%) Platform Engineering
2 64 (53.33%) CI/CD
3 56 (46.67%) DevOps
4 52 (43.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 50 (41.67%) Azure
6 46 (38.33%) Terraform
7 40 (33.33%) Python
8 34 (28.33%) Kubernetes
9 28 (23.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 27 (22.50%) GitHub
10 27 (22.50%) GitHub Actions
11 26 (21.67%) AWS
11 26 (21.67%) Observability
12 24 (20.00%) Containerisation
12 24 (20.00%) Docker
13 21 (17.50%) Oracle
14 20 (16.67%) Linux
15 19 (15.83%) SQL
16 18 (15.00%) Jenkins
17 17 (14.17%) AWS CloudFormation
17 17 (14.17%) Azure DevOps
18 16 (13.33%) Cost Optimisation
18 16 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
18 16 (13.33%) Progress Chef
19 15 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
19 15 (12.50%) Bash
20 14 (11.67%) Databricks
20 14 (11.67%) OCI
20 14 (11.67%) Software Engineering
21 13 (10.83%) Azure Data Factory

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 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 50 (41.67%) Azure
2 27 (22.50%) GitHub
2 27 (22.50%) GitHub Actions
3 26 (21.67%) AWS
4 17 (14.17%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (14.17%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
6 14 (11.67%) OCI
7 13 (10.83%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (7.50%) Azure Functions
8 9 (7.50%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (7.50%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (7.50%) Serverless
9 6 (5.00%) GCP
9 6 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (4.17%) PaaS
10 5 (4.17%) SaaS
10 5 (4.17%) Snowflake
11 4 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (3.33%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.50%) Firewall
1 3 (2.50%) SAN
2 2 (1.67%) DNS
2 2 (1.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.67%) VPN
3 1 (0.83%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (0.83%) iSCSI
3 1 (0.83%) NAS
3 1 (0.83%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.83%) Spark SQL
2 10 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.50%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.67%) Redis
6 1 (0.83%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (15.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.33%) Git
2 4 (3.33%) GitLab
3 2 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (1.67%) Bitbucket
General
1 14 (11.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.50%) Finance
3 2 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (0.83%) Advertising
4 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.83%) PySpark
1 13 (10.83%) Web Services
2 9 (7.50%) ARM Templates
2 9 (7.50%) REST
3 4 (3.33%) Node.js
3 4 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (3.33%) RESTful
4 3 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.50%) Kafka
5 2 (1.67%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 23 (19.17%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.83%) Clustering
6 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.83%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.83%) Replication
6 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.67%) Linux
2 3 (2.50%) Unix
3 1 (0.83%) Debian
3 1 (0.83%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.83%) Windows
3 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (99.17%) Platform Engineering
2 64 (53.33%) CI/CD
3 56 (46.67%) DevOps
4 52 (43.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (23.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 26 (21.67%) Observability
7 24 (20.00%) Containerisation
8 16 (13.33%) Cost Optimisation
8 16 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
9 14 (11.67%) Software Engineering
10 13 (10.83%) Data Engineering
10 13 (10.83%) Test Automation
11 12 (10.00%) Network Load Balancing
11 12 (10.00%) Software Delivery
12 9 (7.50%) AI
12 9 (7.50%) Computer Science
12 9 (7.50%) Data Integration
12 9 (7.50%) Data Modelling
12 9 (7.50%) ETL
12 9 (7.50%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (33.33%) Python
2 19 (15.83%) SQL
3 15 (12.50%) Bash
4 13 (10.83%) Groovy
5 7 (5.83%) Go
6 5 (4.17%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.67%) Bicep
7 2 (1.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (9.17%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (7.50%) Degree
3 8 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.50%) GDPR
2 3 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (20.00%) Docker
2 5 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 46 (38.33%) Terraform
2 34 (28.33%) Kubernetes
3 16 (13.33%) Progress Chef
4 7 (5.83%) Istio
4 7 (5.83%) linkerd
5 5 (4.17%) Argo
6 4 (3.33%) Grafana
7 3 (2.50%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.50%) Puppet
8 2 (1.67%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.83%) Ansible
9 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.83%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (17.50%) Oracle
2 14 (11.67%) Databricks
3 5 (4.17%) Google
3 5 (4.17%) VMware
4 3 (2.50%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.83%) Commvault
5 1 (0.83%) Dell
5 1 (0.83%) NetApp
5 1 (0.83%) Veeam
5 1 (0.83%) Zerto