Platform Engineering Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Platform Engineering
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 75 87
Rank change year-on-year +21 +12 -9
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 1 24 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 0.22% 1.80% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 2.06% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 7
10th Percentile - £49,250 £34,125
25th Percentile £61,250 £59,375 £41,649
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £47,672
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +62.57% -23.72%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £63,836
90th Percentile - £83,500 £80,000
North East median annual salary £74,000 £77,500 £47,672
% change year-on-year -4.52% +62.57% -31.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 420 1,165 900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 94.17% 87.59% 96.77%
Number of salaries quoted 297 980 455
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,074 £38,697
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,820 £75,600
North East median annual salary £47,750 £47,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year +0.53% -2.06% +14.12%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Tyne and Wear

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in Tyne and Wear.

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in Tyne and Wear

Platform Engineering
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineering within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 7 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +18 1 £72,500 -6.45% 6
Platform Engineering
North East

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks