Platform Engineer Jobs in Yorkshire

Platform Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Platform Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 174 255 225
Rank change year-on-year +81 -30 -66
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 46 55 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.80% 0.66% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 0.73% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 18 44 49
10th Percentile £36,598 £49,000 £44,500
25th Percentile £46,875 £54,375 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £68,474 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.37% +24.50% +15.79%
75th Percentile £64,375 £75,000 -
90th Percentile £73,000 £76,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 5,500 7,584 6,959
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.32% 91.20% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 4,233 3,583 4,722
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £28,195
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £54,882 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.81% +9.76% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Yorkshire

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in Yorkshire

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in Yorkshire

Platform Engineer
Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
West Yorkshire +59 25 £55,000 -20.80% 6
East Yorkshire - 9 £60,000 -
North Yorkshire +47 8 £70,000 +3.70% 1
South Yorkshire +54 4 - -
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, 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 Yorkshire region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 46 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 38 (82.61%) DevOps
3 34 (73.91%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (58.70%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (56.52%) Agile
6 24 (52.17%) Google
6 24 (52.17%) GCP
7 23 (50.00%) Mentoring
8 22 (47.83%) Data Engineering
8 22 (47.83%) Data Science
9 21 (45.65%) Self-Motivation
9 21 (45.65%) Data Pipeline
9 21 (45.65%) DataOps
9 21 (45.65%) BigQuery
9 21 (45.65%) Looker
9 21 (45.65%) GDPR
9 21 (45.65%) Change Management
10 19 (41.30%) Azure
11 17 (36.96%) Infrastructure as Code
12 14 (30.43%) Kubernetes
13 13 (28.26%) Docker
14 12 (26.09%) AWS
14 12 (26.09%) PowerShell
15 11 (23.91%) Containerisation
16 10 (21.74%) Cloud Security
16 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure Automation
16 10 (21.74%) Bash
16 10 (21.74%) Python
17 9 (19.57%) SQL
17 9 (19.57%) Linux

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.17%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 24 (52.17%) GCP
2 19 (41.30%) Azure
3 12 (26.09%) AWS
4 9 (19.57%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (15.22%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (15.22%) SaaS
6 6 (13.04%) Azure AKS
6 6 (13.04%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (8.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 4 (8.70%) Datadog
7 4 (8.70%) Pulumi
8 3 (6.52%) Power Platform
8 3 (6.52%) PowerApps
9 2 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (4.35%) Power Automate
9 2 (4.35%) Serverless
10 1 (2.17%) IaaS
10 1 (2.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.04%) Network Security
2 1 (2.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (45.65%) BigQuery
1 21 (45.65%) Looker
2 6 (13.04%) MongoDB
2 6 (13.04%) MySQL
2 6 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (8.70%) MariaDB
3 4 (8.70%) Redis
4 2 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.35%) Power BI
5 1 (2.17%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.70%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (4.35%) Git
4 1 (2.17%) Artifactory
General
1 27 (58.70%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (19.57%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.22%) Finance
3 7 (15.22%) Retail
4 1 (2.17%) Games
4 1 (2.17%) Law
4 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.70%) ARM Templates
2 2 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 21 (45.65%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (8.70%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.52%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.17%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 9 (19.57%) Linux
2 5 (10.87%) Windows
3 3 (6.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 38 (82.61%) DevOps
3 34 (73.91%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (56.52%) Agile
5 23 (50.00%) Mentoring
6 22 (47.83%) Data Engineering
6 22 (47.83%) Data Science
7 21 (45.65%) Change Management
7 21 (45.65%) Data Pipeline
7 21 (45.65%) DataOps
8 17 (36.96%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (23.91%) Containerisation
10 10 (21.74%) Cloud Security
10 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure Automation
11 8 (17.39%) CI/CD
11 8 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (15.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 6 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
13 6 (13.04%) Data Protection
13 6 (13.04%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.09%) PowerShell
2 10 (21.74%) Bash
2 10 (21.74%) Python
3 9 (19.57%) SQL
4 6 (13.04%) Bicep
5 4 (8.70%) C#
5 4 (8.70%) Go
5 4 (8.70%) Groovy
5 4 (8.70%) Java
5 4 (8.70%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.70%) PHP
5 4 (8.70%) Ruby
5 4 (8.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (8.70%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (45.65%) GDPR
2 6 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (28.26%) Docker
2 2 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (30.43%) Kubernetes
2 8 (17.39%) Ansible
3 7 (15.22%) Terraform
4 6 (13.04%) Grafana
4 6 (13.04%) Prometheus
5 4 (8.70%) Progress Chef
5 4 (8.70%) Puppet
6 2 (4.35%) Kibana
6 2 (4.35%) logstash
7 1 (2.17%) FortiGate
7 1 (2.17%) Podman
Vendors
1 24 (52.17%) Google
2 4 (8.70%) New Relic
2 4 (8.70%) SaltStack
3 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.35%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.35%) Splunk