Platform Engineer Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Platform Engineer
UK > Northern Ireland

The median Platform Engineer salary in Northern Ireland is £73,801 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 October 2025.

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

6 months to
10 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 - 53
Rank change year-on-year - - +56
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.31% - 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% - 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68,813 - £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 - £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 - £77,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +11.11% -10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Northern Ireland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Northern Ireland. 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 Northern Ireland with a recognized job title 293 494 365
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.15% 97.24% 96.31%
Number of salaries quoted 143 255 284
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,600 £29,400
25th Percentile £37,625 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £72,129 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £53,688 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.39% -8.33% -

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for Platform Engineer job vacancies in Northern Ireland.

Salary distribution trend for Platform Engineer job vacancies in Northern Ireland

Platform Engineer
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 10 October 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
County Antrim - 1 £73,801 - 2
Platform Engineer
UK

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland

For the 6 months to 10 October 2025, 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 Northern Ireland region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Pulumi
1 1 (100.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google