Platform Engineering Jobs in the North of England

Platform Engineering
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Platform Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 226 253
Rank change year-on-year +112 +27 -9
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 370 180 188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.16% 1.02% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.32% 1.23% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 101 64 155
10th Percentile £55,000 £38,890 £44,450
25th Percentile £56,176 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,560 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.07% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £74,258 £72,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £92,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%

All Process and 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 11,141 14,663 16,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 95.00% 83.15% 96.84%
Number of salaries quoted 5,753 11,257 7,869
10th Percentile £25,480 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the North of England

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in the North of England.

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in the North of England

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 May 2025.

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 May 2025. 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 +136 349 £57,560 -14.73% 63
Yorkshire +5 19 £65,000 +18.18% 26
North East +17 2 £74,000 -7.50% 11
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.27%) Apache
1 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.27%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 65 (17.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 65 (17.57%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (9.19%) Azure
2 23 (6.22%) AWS
3 12 (3.24%) GitHub
4 10 (2.70%) GCP
5 7 (1.89%) Amazon S3
6 6 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (1.62%) Power Automate
6 6 (1.62%) Power Platform
6 6 (1.62%) PowerApps
7 5 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (1.08%) Entra ID
9 3 (0.81%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (0.81%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (0.81%) dbt
9 3 (0.81%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (0.81%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 251 (67.84%) Cisco IOS
1 251 (67.84%) VPN
2 2 (0.54%) DNS
2 2 (0.54%) Internet
2 2 (0.54%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.27%) DHCP
3 1 (0.27%) MPLS
3 1 (0.27%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (1.08%) Power BI
1 4 (1.08%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (0.81%) DynamoDB
2 3 (0.81%) MySQL
3 2 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.54%) Redis
4 1 (0.27%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.27%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.27%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 65 (17.57%) Rational DOORS
2 13 (3.51%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.70%) TeamCity
4 3 (0.81%) JIRA
5 1 (0.27%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.27%) GitLab
General
1 254 (68.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 252 (68.11%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (4.32%) Finance
4 13 (3.51%) Social Skills
5 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.27%) Aviation
6 1 (0.27%) Banking
6 1 (0.27%) Electronics
6 1 (0.27%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.27%) Marketing
6 1 (0.27%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 251 (67.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 93 (25.14%) Platform Engineer
3 65 (17.57%) Systems Engineer
4 18 (4.86%) Lead
5 12 (3.24%) Senior
6 8 (2.16%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (2.16%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 6 (1.62%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (1.62%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 4 (1.08%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (1.08%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 4 (1.08%) Support Engineer
9 3 (0.81%) Applications Engineer
9 3 (0.81%) Applications Support
9 3 (0.81%) Applications Support Engineer
9 3 (0.81%) Power Apps Engineer
9 3 (0.81%) Power Platform Engineer
10 2 (0.54%) Agile Project Manager
10 2 (0.54%) Delivery Manager
10 2 (0.54%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (67.84%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (2.43%) ADO
3 5 (1.35%) REST
4 4 (1.08%) Kafka
4 4 (1.08%) Spring
5 3 (0.81%) Node.js
5 3 (0.81%) React
5 3 (0.81%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.54%) .NET
6 2 (0.54%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.54%) Django
7 1 (0.27%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.27%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.27%) YAML
7 1 (0.27%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 251 (67.84%) Cyberattack
2 65 (17.57%) Product Ownership
3 5 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.08%) Cloud Native
5 3 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.54%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.54%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.27%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.27%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 259 (70.00%) Linux
2 256 (69.19%) Windows
3 251 (67.84%) Android
4 2 (0.54%) Unix
5 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (72.16%) DevOps
2 259 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
3 255 (68.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 255 (68.92%) Line Management
4 252 (68.11%) Risk Management
4 252 (68.11%) Task Automation
5 251 (67.84%) Mathematics
5 251 (67.84%) Storage Management
6 78 (21.08%) Agile
7 67 (18.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 65 (17.57%) ArchiMate
8 65 (17.57%) MODAF
8 65 (17.57%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 65 (17.57%) Programme Delivery
8 65 (17.57%) SysML
8 65 (17.57%) TOGAF
9 31 (8.38%) CI/CD
10 28 (7.57%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (3.78%) Containerisation
11 14 (3.78%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 274 (74.05%) Python
2 265 (71.62%) Bash
3 255 (68.92%) PowerShell
4 17 (4.59%) Bicep
5 10 (2.70%) Ruby
6 7 (1.89%) Java
6 7 (1.89%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.62%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.35%) SQL
9 4 (1.08%) Go
10 2 (0.54%) C#
11 1 (0.27%) PHP
11 1 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 65 (17.57%) BPSS Clearance
1 65 (17.57%) Degree
1 65 (17.57%) TOGAF Certification
2 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (0.81%) SC Cleared
3 3 (0.81%) Security Cleared
4 2 (0.54%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.27%) CCSP
5 1 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.27%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (0.81%) QA
2 2 (0.54%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.54%) NIST
2 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 264 (71.35%) Docker
2 252 (68.11%) Hyper-V
3 251 (67.84%) VMware NSX
3 251 (67.84%) vSphere
4 4 (1.08%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 286 (77.30%) Terraform
2 269 (72.70%) Ansible
3 14 (3.78%) Kubernetes
4 13 (3.51%) Puppet
5 10 (2.70%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.54%) AWS Copilot
6 2 (0.54%) Grafana
6 2 (0.54%) SCCM
7 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.27%) SCOM
7 1 (0.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 251 (67.84%) 3PAR
1 251 (67.84%) Cisco
1 251 (67.84%) Juniper
1 251 (67.84%) Splunk
2 65 (17.57%) Sparx
3 9 (2.43%) Microsoft
4 4 (1.08%) Databricks
5 2 (0.54%) Google
5 2 (0.54%) Oracle
6 1 (0.27%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.27%) Red Hat