Platform Engineering Jobs in the North of England

Platform Engineering
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Platform Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 227 264 280
Rank change year-on-year +37 +16 -184
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 198 166 201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.99% 1.06% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.09% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 73 134 159
10th Percentile £38,890 £42,875 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,419 £80,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +16.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16,081 15,203 17,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.10% 96.75% 94.21%
Number of salaries quoted 11,841 7,774 10,691
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £79,225 £81,500 £80,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the North of England

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in the North of England

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in the North of England

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 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 -33 88 £65,000 -7.14% 24
Yorkshire +85 83 £55,000 -15.38% 7
North East +7 29 £77,500 +62.57% 1
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
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 4 (2.02%) Confluence
2 3 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.51%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 115 (58.08%) GCP
2 113 (57.07%) Azure
3 65 (32.83%) AWS
4 36 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (12.12%) Power Platform
6 13 (6.57%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (6.57%) PowerApps
7 12 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
8 11 (5.56%) Power Automate
9 10 (5.05%) Azure Monitor
9 10 (5.05%) Cloud Computing
10 9 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
10 9 (4.55%) Entra ID
11 8 (4.04%) Azure AKS
11 8 (4.04%) GitHub
11 8 (4.04%) SaaS
12 7 (3.54%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (3.54%) Azure Key Vault
12 7 (3.54%) Datadog
12 7 (3.54%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.05%) Firewall
2 8 (4.04%) Network Security
3 4 (2.02%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (50.00%) BigQuery
2 91 (45.96%) Looker
3 35 (17.68%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (9.60%) Power BI
5 15 (7.58%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (7.07%) MySQL
7 10 (5.05%) MongoDB
7 10 (5.05%) NoSQL
7 10 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (3.54%) Redis
9 5 (2.53%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.01%) Big Data
10 2 (1.01%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.01%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.51%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.51%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 13 (6.57%) Git
1 13 (6.57%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.03%) GitLab
3 5 (2.53%) JIRA
3 5 (2.53%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (1.52%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.01%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.01%) NUnit
6 1 (0.51%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.51%) Spinnaker
General
1 99 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 27 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 18 (9.09%) Finance
4 17 (8.59%) Retail
5 3 (1.52%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.01%) Law
6 2 (1.01%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.51%) Banking
7 1 (0.51%) Billing
7 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.51%) Games
7 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.51%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 124 (62.63%) Platform Engineer
2 68 (34.34%) Data Engineer
3 60 (30.30%) Principal Data Engineer
3 60 (30.30%) Principal Engineer
4 44 (22.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 33 (16.67%) Architect
5 33 (16.67%) Data Architect
6 24 (12.12%) Cloud Engineer
7 23 (11.62%) Azure Engineer
8 22 (11.11%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 16 (8.08%) Senior
10 10 (5.05%) Lead
11 9 (4.55%) Developer
12 7 (3.54%) .NET Developer
12 7 (3.54%) Applications Engineer
12 7 (3.54%) Lead .NET Developer
12 7 (3.54%) Lead Developer
12 7 (3.54%) Product Manager
12 7 (3.54%) Senior Manager
12 7 (3.54%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.56%) .NET
2 10 (5.05%) ARM Templates
3 9 (4.55%) .NET Framework
4 7 (3.54%) Web Services
5 3 (1.52%) AWS CDK
5 3 (1.52%) CSS
5 3 (1.52%) HTML
6 2 (1.01%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.01%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.01%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.01%) Node.js
7 1 (0.51%) Loki
7 1 (0.51%) SAML
7 1 (0.51%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 90 (45.45%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (6.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (5.05%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.05%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.54%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.54%) Video\Live Streaming
5 6 (3.03%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.52%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.01%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.51%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.58%) Linux
2 14 (7.07%) Windows
3 9 (4.55%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.51%) Unix
5 1 (0.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (62.63%) Problem-Solving
2 117 (59.09%) DevOps
3 111 (56.06%) Mentoring
4 102 (51.52%) Data Engineering
5 97 (48.99%) Agile
6 70 (35.35%) DataOps
7 66 (33.33%) Data Science
8 61 (30.81%) Data Pipeline
9 60 (30.30%) Change Management
10 49 (24.75%) Infrastructure as Code
11 45 (22.73%) Data Modelling
12 44 (22.22%) CI/CD
12 44 (22.22%) ETL
13 35 (17.68%) Data Governance
14 34 (17.17%) Data Architecture
14 34 (17.17%) Data Security
15 32 (16.16%) Data Integration
15 32 (16.16%) ERD
15 32 (16.16%) Innovative Thinking
16 21 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 38 (19.19%) Python
2 33 (16.67%) SQL
3 31 (15.66%) PowerShell
4 22 (11.11%) Bash
5 17 (8.59%) Go
6 16 (8.08%) C#
7 13 (6.57%) TypeScript
8 11 (5.56%) Bicep
9 10 (5.05%) Java
10 8 (4.04%) JavaScript
10 8 (4.04%) Ruby
11 5 (2.53%) Groovy
11 5 (2.53%) PHP
12 2 (1.01%) C++
13 1 (0.51%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (7.07%) Azure Certification
2 9 (4.55%) AWS Certification
2 9 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (4.04%) Degree
4 7 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (47.98%) GDPR
2 33 (16.67%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.52%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.01%) NIST
6 1 (0.51%) QA
System Software
1 20 (10.10%) Docker
2 9 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.51%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 33 (16.67%) Terraform
2 26 (13.13%) Kubernetes
3 19 (9.60%) Ansible
4 10 (5.05%) Grafana
4 10 (5.05%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.54%) Puppet
6 6 (3.03%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.01%) Kibana
7 2 (1.01%) logstash
7 2 (1.01%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.51%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.51%) Packer
8 1 (0.51%) Podman
Vendors
1 99 (50.00%) Google
2 37 (18.69%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.54%) Databricks
3 7 (3.54%) New Relic
4 5 (2.53%) LogicMonitor
4 5 (2.53%) PagerDuty
4 5 (2.53%) SaltStack
5 4 (2.02%) Splunk
6 3 (1.52%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.01%) Red Hat