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 leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 156 223 247
Rank change year-on-year +67 +24 -85
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 38 29 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.70% 0.52% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.59% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 13 27 34
10th Percentile £40,112 £50,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £60,938
90th Percentile £67,000 - £77,550
England median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 5,107 4,953 7,297
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 89.29% 96.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3,567 3,177 4,507
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £28,189
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,039 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +4.64% +5.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,548 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +41 19 £55,000 -15.38% 1
East Yorkshire - 9 £60,000 -
North Yorkshire +27 7 £70,000 +55.56%
South Yorkshire - 3 - -
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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 38 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 30 (78.95%) DevOps
2 30 (78.95%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (71.05%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (68.42%) GCP
5 24 (63.16%) Google
6 22 (57.89%) Agile
6 22 (57.89%) Data Engineering
6 22 (57.89%) Data Science
7 21 (55.26%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (55.26%) GDPR
7 21 (55.26%) Data Pipeline
7 21 (55.26%) DataOps
7 21 (55.26%) Looker
7 21 (55.26%) BigQuery
7 21 (55.26%) Mentoring
7 21 (55.26%) Change Management
8 13 (34.21%) Azure
9 12 (31.58%) AWS
10 11 (28.95%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (26.32%) Kubernetes
11 10 (26.32%) CI/CD
11 10 (26.32%) Cloud Security
12 9 (23.68%) Containerisation
12 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
12 9 (23.68%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (23.68%) Docker
13 8 (21.05%) PowerShell
13 8 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
14 7 (18.42%) Site Reliability Engineering

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 (2.63%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 26 (68.42%) GCP
2 13 (34.21%) Azure
3 12 (31.58%) AWS
4 9 (23.68%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (7.89%) Power Platform
5 3 (7.89%) PowerApps
5 3 (7.89%) SaaS
6 2 (5.26%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.63%) IaaS
7 1 (2.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.79%) Network Security
2 1 (2.63%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (55.26%) BigQuery
1 21 (55.26%) Looker
2 2 (5.26%) Power BI
3 1 (2.63%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Git
1 2 (5.26%) GitLab
2 1 (2.63%) Artifactory
2 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
General
1 27 (71.05%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.89%) Finance
3 3 (7.89%) Retail
4 1 (2.63%) Games
4 1 (2.63%) Law
4 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 21 (55.26%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (7.89%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.63%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.16%) Linux
2 3 (7.89%) Windows
3 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 30 (78.95%) DevOps
2 30 (78.95%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (57.89%) Agile
3 22 (57.89%) Data Engineering
3 22 (57.89%) Data Science
4 21 (55.26%) Change Management
4 21 (55.26%) Data Pipeline
4 21 (55.26%) DataOps
4 21 (55.26%) Mentoring
5 11 (28.95%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (26.32%) CI/CD
6 10 (26.32%) Cloud Security
7 9 (23.68%) Containerisation
8 8 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (18.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 6 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (15.79%) Data Protection
10 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure Automation
10 6 (15.79%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.05%) PowerShell
2 6 (15.79%) Bash
2 6 (15.79%) Bicep
2 6 (15.79%) Python
3 3 (7.89%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (55.26%) GDPR
2 6 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (23.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (26.32%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.63%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.63%) Podman
2 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (63.16%) Google
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft