Platform Engineering Job Trends in the North of England

Platform Engineering
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 98 210
Rank change year-on-year -39 +112 +36
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 234 300 200
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.17% 3.67% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 3.92% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 190 46 75
10th Percentile £53,050 £53,125 £38,890
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,132 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,750 £68,442 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.83% +14.07% -11.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,625 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,750 £88,125 £81,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% +3.45% -3.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Platform Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,779 7,644 15,669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 69.00% 93.47% 79.18%
Number of salaries quoted 10,233 3,653 11,900
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,125 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £79,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Platform Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in the North of England

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Platform Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in the North of England

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 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
North West -37 149 £70,400 +0.57% 49
Yorkshire +3 64 £80,000 +23.08% 23
North East -27 21 £60,000 -20.53% 11
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
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 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.85%) Apache
3 2 (0.85%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.43%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 88 (37.61%) AWS
2 83 (35.47%) Azure
3 39 (16.67%) GitHub
4 27 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
5 25 (10.68%) AWS CloudFormation
5 25 (10.68%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (10.68%) Serverless
6 24 (10.26%) GCP
7 16 (6.84%) SaaS
8 15 (6.41%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (5.98%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (5.98%) Amazon S3
9 14 (5.98%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (5.13%) Azure Monitor
12 11 (4.70%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (4.27%) Azure Functions
13 10 (4.27%) Datadog
14 9 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.28%) Firewall
2 2 (0.85%) DHCP
2 2 (0.85%) DNS
2 2 (0.85%) SAN
2 2 (0.85%) SD-WAN
2 2 (0.85%) SNMP
2 2 (0.85%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.85%) WAN
3 1 (0.43%) BIG-IP
3 1 (0.43%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (0.43%) iSCSI
3 1 (0.43%) NAS
3 1 (0.43%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.98%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (5.56%) Spark SQL
3 12 (5.13%) DynamoDB
4 9 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (2.56%) BigQuery
6 5 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.28%) ClickHouse
8 3 (1.28%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.85%) Big Data
9 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.85%) Redis
10 1 (0.43%) MySQL
10 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 16 (6.84%) Git
3 12 (5.13%) GitLab
4 4 (1.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.85%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.43%) JIRA
6 1 (0.43%) JMeter
6 1 (0.43%) Locust
6 1 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.43%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (11.97%) Social Skills
2 8 (3.42%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (3.42%) Finance
3 7 (2.99%) Banking
3 7 (2.99%) Public Sector
3 7 (2.99%) Retail Banking
4 6 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (1.28%) Advertising
6 2 (0.85%) Aerospace
6 2 (0.85%) Law
6 2 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.43%) Legal
Job Titles
1 87 (37.18%) Platform Engineer
2 61 (26.07%) Senior
3 49 (20.94%) Cloud Engineer
4 45 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
5 39 (16.67%) Lead
6 32 (13.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 28 (11.97%) Data Engineer
8 26 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
9 23 (9.83%) Software Engineer
10 20 (8.55%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 19 (8.12%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 16 (6.84%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 16 (6.84%) Developer
13 13 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
13 13 (5.56%) Lead Data Engineer
13 13 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
14 11 (4.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 9 (3.85%) Architect
15 9 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
15 9 (3.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.55%) Node.js
2 17 (7.26%) .NET
2 17 (7.26%) ARM Templates
3 13 (5.56%) PySpark
3 13 (5.56%) React
4 12 (5.13%) YAML
5 11 (4.70%) Kafka
5 11 (4.70%) REST
5 11 (4.70%) Web Services
6 9 (3.85%) RESTful
7 7 (2.99%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (2.56%) JWT
8 6 (2.56%) OAuth
8 6 (2.56%) OAuth2
8 6 (2.56%) OpenID
8 6 (2.56%) SAML
9 4 (1.71%) Backbone.js
9 4 (1.71%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (1.28%) AngularJS
10 3 (1.28%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.84%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (2.99%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.71%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.71%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (0.85%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.43%) Clustering
7 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.43%) IoT
7 1 (0.43%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.43%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.43%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.43%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.43%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 30 (12.82%) Linux
2 10 (4.27%) Windows
3 4 (1.71%) Unix
4 3 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.28%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.28%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.85%) CentOS
5 2 (0.85%) Debian
5 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.43%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (58.97%) DevOps
2 107 (45.73%) CI/CD
3 96 (41.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 61 (26.07%) Observability
5 44 (18.80%) AI
6 43 (18.38%) Containerisation
7 41 (17.52%) Software Engineering
8 40 (17.09%) Agile
9 32 (13.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (13.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 27 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 25 (10.68%) Mentoring
13 24 (10.26%) Analytics
13 24 (10.26%) Cost Optimisation
14 23 (9.83%) Cybersecurity
15 21 (8.97%) Microservices
16 18 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
17 17 (7.26%) Data Engineering
17 17 (7.26%) Deployment Automation
17 17 (7.26%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 69 (29.49%) Python
2 33 (14.10%) SQL
3 27 (11.54%) Bash
4 16 (6.84%) C#
5 13 (5.56%) PowerShell
5 13 (5.56%) TypeScript
6 11 (4.70%) Bicep
6 11 (4.70%) Groovy
7 8 (3.42%) Go
8 7 (2.99%) Java
8 7 (2.99%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.28%) C
9 3 (1.28%) C++
10 2 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 40 (17.09%) Security Cleared
2 35 (14.96%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (5.13%) Degree
4 7 (2.99%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.56%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.28%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.85%) GDPR
1 9 (3.85%) QA
2 3 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.28%) SOC 2
3 2 (0.85%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 42 (17.95%) Docker
2 9 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.14%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.28%) vSphere
5 2 (0.85%) DFS Replication
5 2 (0.85%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 106 (45.30%) Terraform
2 68 (29.06%) Kubernetes
3 19 (8.12%) Ansible
4 13 (5.56%) Progress Chef
5 7 (2.99%) Istio
5 7 (2.99%) linkerd
6 6 (2.56%) Argo
6 6 (2.56%) Grafana
7 4 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.71%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.85%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.85%) Puppet
8 2 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.43%) Podman
9 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (8.97%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.69%) Oracle
3 14 (5.98%) Databricks
4 12 (5.13%) Google
4 12 (5.13%) VMware
5 7 (2.99%) HubSpot
6 2 (0.85%) New Relic
6 2 (0.85%) SolarWinds
6 2 (0.85%) Splunk
7 1 (0.43%) Commvault
7 1 (0.43%) Dell
7 1 (0.43%) F5
7 1 (0.43%) HP
7 1 (0.43%) Mirantis
7 1 (0.43%) NetApp
7 1 (0.43%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.43%) Veeam
7 1 (0.43%) Zerto