Senior Platform Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Senior Platform Engineer
England > North of England

The median Senior Platform Engineer salary in the North of England is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 386 419 445
Rank change year-on-year +33 +26 -93
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 5 16 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.029% 0.093% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.10% 0.046%
Number of salaries quoted 5 13 7
10th Percentile £61,000 £55,000 £59,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £74,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% -2.68% +49.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £82,500
90th Percentile - £77,250 -
England median annual salary £92,500 £86,250 £85,000
% change year-on-year +7.25% +1.47% +17.24%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,488 15,406 17,329
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.96% 89.33% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,754 8,145 11,008
10th Percentile £27,075 £30,500 £27,875
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Senior Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Platform Engineer in the North of England

Senior Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Senior Platform Engineer in the North of England

Senior Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Platform Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Platform Engineer in the North of England

Senior 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 Senior Platform Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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 +2 3 £65,000 -10.34% 2
Yorkshire +82 2 £80,000 +6.67%
North East - 2 £80,000 -
Senior Platform Engineer
England

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Senior Platform Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) Performance Metrics
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
4 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (40.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (40.00%) Splunk
4 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (40.00%) SQL
4 2 (40.00%) MySQL
4 2 (40.00%) Windows
4 2 (40.00%) BCP
4 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) Kibana
4 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity Planning

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) BCP
4 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
4 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity Planning
4 2 (40.00%) Client Onboarding
4 2 (40.00%) Dashboard Development
4 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (40.00%) Fintech
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Performance Metrics
4 2 (40.00%) Secure Coding
4 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Coaching
5 1 (20.00%) Data Science
5 1 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Go
2 1 (20.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Grafana
2 2 (40.00%) Kibana
2 2 (40.00%) logstash
2 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk