Platform Engineering Job Trends in Yorkshire

Platform Engineering
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 140 146
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 +52
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 26 12 34
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.77% 0.39% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.43% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 25 10 27
10th Percentile £46,750 £34,225 £38,890
25th Percentile £57,500 £38,750 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -14.10%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £71,250 £84,056
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.25%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,643 2,821 2,948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 78.26% 90.62% 89.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,534 1,086 2,314
10th Percentile £27,575 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £41,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Platform Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Platform Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in Yorkshire

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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 -8 23 £62,500 -5.66% 18
East Yorkshire - 2 £47,500 - 3
South Yorkshire +1 1 £170,000 +385.71% 9
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 15 (57.69%) AWS
2 13 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 12 (46.15%) Amazon EKS
4 9 (34.62%) Azure
5 6 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (23.08%) Serverless
6 4 (15.38%) SaaS
7 3 (11.54%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (7.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (3.85%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (3.85%) GCP
9 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Network Security
2 1 (3.85%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (7.69%) RDBMS
2 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
2 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 2 (7.69%) Back Office
1 2 (7.69%) Law
1 2 (7.69%) Legal
2 1 (3.85%) Finance
2 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (3.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Platform Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Senior
2 7 (26.92%) Software Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Security Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Head of Service Management
5 1 (3.85%) IT Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Applications Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (46.15%) Node.js
1 12 (46.15%) React
2 7 (26.92%) REST
3 5 (19.23%) RESTful
4 1 (3.85%) Software Packaging
4 1 (3.85%) Spring
4 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.85%) CMDB
3 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
1 2 (7.69%) Mac OS
1 2 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (73.08%) CI/CD
2 13 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 12 (46.15%) Microservices
4 11 (42.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (38.46%) Agile
5 10 (38.46%) DevOps
6 9 (34.62%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (30.77%) Observability
8 7 (26.92%) Mentoring
9 6 (23.08%) Coaching
10 5 (19.23%) API Design
11 4 (15.38%) Cloud Security
11 4 (15.38%) Incident Response
11 4 (15.38%) ITIL
11 4 (15.38%) ITSM
12 3 (11.54%) Computer Science
12 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
12 3 (11.54%) Identity Management
12 3 (11.54%) Incident Management
12 3 (11.54%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) TypeScript
2 8 (30.77%) JavaScript
3 4 (15.38%) PowerShell
3 4 (15.38%) Python
4 2 (7.69%) Bash
4 2 (7.69%) Bicep
4 2 (7.69%) PL/SQL
4 2 (7.69%) SQL
5 1 (3.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (3.85%) Grafana
2 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) Nexthink
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle
2 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow