Platform Engineer Jobs in West Yorkshire

Platform Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Platform Engineer salary in West Yorkshire is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 134 190
Rank change year-on-year +25 +56 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 2 26 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.15% 0.86% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.90% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2 11 37
10th Percentile £64,250 £31,250 £50,500
25th Percentile £66,875 £38,890 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% -21.43% +27.27%
75th Percentile £76,875 £66,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £77,586
Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +8.33% -13.60% +26.27%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,225 2,898 4,725
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.67% 96.12% 93.09%
Number of salaries quoted 657 2,134 2,286
10th Percentile £28,650 £28,000 £31,535
25th Percentile £40,750 £37,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% -9.09% +7.84%
75th Percentile £76,250 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £82,548 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,683 £48,750 £54,590
% change year-on-year -2.19% -10.70% +9.18%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings that featured Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in West Yorkshire

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in West Yorkshire.

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in West Yorkshire

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in West Yorkshire

Platform Engineer
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the West Yorkshire 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
Leeds +37 2 £72,500 +31.82% 9
Platform Engineer
Yorkshire

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, 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 West Yorkshire region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (50.00%) SCOM
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat