Platform Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Platform Engineer
England > North of England

The median Platform Engineer salary in the North of England is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 307 353
Rank change year-on-year +29 +46 -123
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 124 120 105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.63% 0.76% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.85% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 49 99 83
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £69,447 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +26.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,250 £82,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 18,721 14,174 18,106
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.91% 89.32% 96.30%
Number of salaries quoted 14,116 7,963 10,982
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,136 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in the North of England

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in the North of England

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in the North of England

Platform Engineer
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
North West -15 66 £62,500 -10.36% 13
Yorkshire +67 48 £60,000 -11.11% 2
North East -4 12 £80,000 +14.29%
Platform Engineer
England

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 9 June 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 North of England region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 123 (99.19%) Platform Engineering
2 102 (82.26%) DevOps
3 78 (62.90%) Problem-Solving
4 71 (57.26%) GCP
5 70 (56.45%) Agile
5 70 (56.45%) DataOps
6 66 (53.23%) Data Science
6 66 (53.23%) Data Engineering
7 65 (52.42%) Analytical Skills
8 64 (51.61%) Google
9 63 (50.81%) BigQuery
10 61 (49.19%) Mentoring
11 60 (48.39%) Change Management
12 59 (47.58%) GDPR
12 59 (47.58%) Data Pipeline
13 57 (45.97%) Looker
13 57 (45.97%) Self-Motivation
14 55 (44.35%) Azure
15 41 (33.06%) Infrastructure as Code
16 36 (29.03%) CI/CD
17 31 (25.00%) Python
18 28 (22.58%) PowerShell
18 28 (22.58%) Azure DevOps
18 28 (22.58%) Terraform
19 24 (19.35%) Kubernetes
20 20 (16.13%) Bash
20 20 (16.13%) Analytics
21 19 (15.32%) AWS
22 18 (14.52%) Continuous Improvement
22 18 (14.52%) Ansible

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.61%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.61%) Confluence
2 1 (0.81%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 71 (57.26%) GCP
2 55 (44.35%) Azure
3 28 (22.58%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (15.32%) AWS
5 11 (8.87%) Power Platform
6 10 (8.06%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (7.26%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (6.45%) Azure AKS
9 7 (5.65%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (5.65%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (5.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 7 (5.65%) Datadog
9 7 (5.65%) GitHub
9 7 (5.65%) IaaS
9 7 (5.65%) SaaS
10 6 (4.84%) PaaS
11 5 (4.03%) Anthos
11 5 (4.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (4.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (4.03%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.06%) Firewall
2 8 (6.45%) Network Security
3 4 (3.23%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (50.81%) BigQuery
2 57 (45.97%) Looker
3 10 (8.06%) Power BI
4 8 (6.45%) MongoDB
4 8 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (5.65%) MySQL
6 6 (4.84%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (4.03%) MariaDB
7 5 (4.03%) Redis
8 3 (2.42%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.61%) Big Data
9 2 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.81%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 12 (9.68%) Jenkins
2 10 (8.06%) Git
3 5 (4.03%) GitLab
3 5 (4.03%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (2.42%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.61%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.61%) JIRA
5 2 (1.61%) NUnit
6 1 (0.81%) Artifactory
General
1 65 (52.42%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (12.90%) Retail
3 15 (12.10%) Social Skills
4 10 (8.06%) Finance
5 2 (1.61%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.81%) Games
6 1 (0.81%) Law
6 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.06%) ARM Templates
2 2 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.81%) Loki
3 1 (0.81%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (45.97%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (4.84%) Data Centre
2 6 (4.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.03%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (4.03%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.42%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.42%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.61%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.81%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.68%) Linux
1 12 (9.68%) Windows
2 7 (5.65%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.81%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (99.19%) Platform Engineering
2 102 (82.26%) DevOps
3 78 (62.90%) Problem-Solving
4 70 (56.45%) Agile
4 70 (56.45%) DataOps
5 66 (53.23%) Data Engineering
5 66 (53.23%) Data Science
6 61 (49.19%) Mentoring
7 60 (48.39%) Change Management
8 59 (47.58%) Data Pipeline
9 41 (33.06%) Infrastructure as Code
10 36 (29.03%) CI/CD
11 20 (16.13%) Analytics
12 18 (14.52%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (12.10%) Containerisation
14 13 (10.48%) Network Virtualisation
15 12 (9.68%) Infrastructure Automation
16 11 (8.87%) Continuous Integration
16 11 (8.87%) Machine Learning
17 10 (8.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 31 (25.00%) Python
2 28 (22.58%) PowerShell
3 20 (16.13%) Bash
4 16 (12.90%) Go
5 13 (10.48%) SQL
6 11 (8.87%) Bicep
7 8 (6.45%) Ruby
8 5 (4.03%) C#
8 5 (4.03%) Groovy
8 5 (4.03%) Java
8 5 (4.03%) JavaScript
8 5 (4.03%) PHP
8 5 (4.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (5.65%) Azure Certification
2 1 (0.81%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (47.58%) GDPR
2 6 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.61%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.81%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (14.52%) Docker
2 6 (4.84%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (22.58%) Terraform
2 24 (19.35%) Kubernetes
3 18 (14.52%) Ansible
4 10 (8.06%) Grafana
4 10 (8.06%) Prometheus
5 7 (5.65%) Puppet
6 6 (4.84%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.61%) Kibana
7 2 (1.61%) logstash
7 2 (1.61%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.81%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.81%) Packer
8 1 (0.81%) Podman
Vendors
1 64 (51.61%) Google
2 17 (13.71%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.65%) Databricks
3 7 (5.65%) New Relic
4 5 (4.03%) LogicMonitor
4 5 (4.03%) PagerDuty
4 5 (4.03%) SaltStack
5 4 (3.23%) Splunk
6 2 (1.61%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.61%) Red Hat