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 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 275 302 357
Rank change year-on-year +27 +55 -124
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 122 128 106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.65% 0.79% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.89% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 49 105 84
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £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 £68,125
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,750 £81,750
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 17,953 14,401 17,753
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.20% 89.25% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 13,711 7,947 10,940
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,627 £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 1 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 1 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 -19 64 £62,500 -10.71% 14
Yorkshire +63 48 £60,000 -13.60% 3
North East +1 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 1 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.

1 121 (99.18%) Platform Engineering
2 100 (81.97%) DevOps
3 78 (63.93%) Problem-Solving
4 71 (58.20%) GCP
5 70 (57.38%) Agile
6 69 (56.56%) DataOps
7 66 (54.10%) Data Science
8 65 (53.28%) Data Engineering
8 65 (53.28%) Analytical Skills
9 64 (52.46%) Google
10 63 (51.64%) BigQuery
11 61 (50.00%) Mentoring
12 60 (49.18%) Change Management
13 59 (48.36%) GDPR
13 59 (48.36%) Data Pipeline
14 57 (46.72%) Self-Motivation
14 57 (46.72%) Looker
15 53 (43.44%) Azure
16 40 (32.79%) Infrastructure as Code
17 34 (27.87%) CI/CD
18 30 (24.59%) Python
19 28 (22.95%) Terraform
20 27 (22.13%) Azure DevOps
20 27 (22.13%) PowerShell
21 24 (19.67%) Kubernetes
22 20 (16.39%) Bash
23 19 (15.57%) AWS
24 18 (14.75%) Analytics
24 18 (14.75%) Docker
25 17 (13.93%) 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 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.64%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.64%) Confluence
2 1 (0.82%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 71 (58.20%) GCP
2 53 (43.44%) Azure
3 27 (22.13%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (15.57%) AWS
5 10 (8.20%) Power Platform
6 9 (7.38%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (7.38%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (6.56%) Azure AKS
8 7 (5.74%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (5.74%) Datadog
8 7 (5.74%) GitHub
8 7 (5.74%) SaaS
9 6 (4.92%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (4.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (4.92%) IaaS
9 6 (4.92%) PaaS
10 5 (4.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (4.10%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (4.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (4.10%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.38%) Firewall
2 8 (6.56%) Network Security
3 4 (3.28%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (51.64%) BigQuery
2 57 (46.72%) Looker
3 9 (7.38%) Power BI
4 8 (6.56%) MongoDB
4 8 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (5.74%) MySQL
6 6 (4.92%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (4.10%) MariaDB
7 5 (4.10%) Redis
8 3 (2.46%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.64%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.64%) Big Data
9 2 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.82%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 12 (9.84%) Jenkins
2 10 (8.20%) Git
3 5 (4.10%) GitLab
3 5 (4.10%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (2.46%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.64%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.64%) JIRA
5 2 (1.64%) NUnit
6 1 (0.82%) Artifactory
General
1 65 (53.28%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (13.11%) Retail
3 15 (12.30%) Social Skills
4 10 (8.20%) Finance
5 2 (1.64%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.82%) Games
6 1 (0.82%) Law
6 1 (0.82%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.38%) ARM Templates
2 2 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.82%) Loki
3 1 (0.82%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (46.72%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (4.92%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.10%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.10%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (4.10%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.46%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.46%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.64%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.82%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.84%) Linux
2 11 (9.02%) Windows
3 6 (4.92%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (99.18%) Platform Engineering
2 100 (81.97%) DevOps
3 78 (63.93%) Problem-Solving
4 70 (57.38%) Agile
5 69 (56.56%) DataOps
6 66 (54.10%) Data Science
7 65 (53.28%) Data Engineering
8 61 (50.00%) Mentoring
9 60 (49.18%) Change Management
10 59 (48.36%) Data Pipeline
11 40 (32.79%) Infrastructure as Code
12 34 (27.87%) CI/CD
13 18 (14.75%) Analytics
14 17 (13.93%) Continuous Improvement
15 15 (12.30%) Containerisation
16 13 (10.66%) Network Virtualisation
17 11 (9.02%) Continuous Integration
17 11 (9.02%) Infrastructure Automation
18 10 (8.20%) Machine Learning
18 10 (8.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (24.59%) Python
2 27 (22.13%) PowerShell
3 20 (16.39%) Bash
4 16 (13.11%) Go
5 13 (10.66%) SQL
6 11 (9.02%) Bicep
7 8 (6.56%) Ruby
8 5 (4.10%) C#
8 5 (4.10%) Groovy
8 5 (4.10%) Java
8 5 (4.10%) JavaScript
8 5 (4.10%) PHP
8 5 (4.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (4.92%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (48.36%) GDPR
2 6 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.64%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.82%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (14.75%) Docker
2 6 (4.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (22.95%) Terraform
2 24 (19.67%) Kubernetes
3 17 (13.93%) Ansible
4 10 (8.20%) Grafana
4 10 (8.20%) Prometheus
5 7 (5.74%) Puppet
6 5 (4.10%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.64%) Kibana
7 2 (1.64%) logstash
7 2 (1.64%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.82%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.82%) Packer
8 1 (0.82%) Podman
Vendors
1 64 (52.46%) Google
2 15 (12.30%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.74%) New Relic
4 6 (4.92%) Databricks
5 5 (4.10%) LogicMonitor
5 5 (4.10%) PagerDuty
5 5 (4.10%) SaltStack
6 4 (3.28%) Splunk
7 2 (1.64%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.64%) Red Hat