Platform Engineering Job Trends in Northampton

Platform Engineering
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 1 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Northampton 0.37% - 4.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% - 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67,500 - £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £63,750
75th Percentile £72,500 - £81,875
90th Percentile - - £87,500
Northamptonshire median annual salary £70,000 - £63,750

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 224 193 176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northampton 83.90% 77.51% 89.34%
Number of salaries quoted 151 86 146
10th Percentile £28,500 £24,875 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,313 £36,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,813 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,500 £78,125
Northamptonshire median annual salary £50,000 £52,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.31% -5.00% +15.79%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Northampton

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in Northampton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Platform Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform