Platform Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Platform Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Platform Engineer salary in Manchester is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 185 168 238
Rank change year-on-year -17 +70 -88
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 34 74 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.66% 1.49% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 1.63% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 23 61 21
10th Percentile - £53,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,000 £102,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% +25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 4,849 4,545 5,477
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.50% 91.60% 97.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3,739 2,664 3,681
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,988 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £57,413 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +4.39% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +10.53%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Manchester

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in Manchester.

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in Manchester

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in Manchester

Platform Engineer
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Oldham +33 3 - -
Salford - 1 £90,000 -
Platform Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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 Manchester region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 33 (97.06%) Platform Engineering
2 24 (70.59%) DevOps
3 21 (61.76%) Azure
4 20 (58.82%) CI/CD
4 20 (58.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (47.06%) DataOps
5 16 (47.06%) Terraform
6 14 (41.18%) Python
7 13 (38.24%) GCP
7 13 (38.24%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (38.24%) Data Science
8 12 (35.29%) Data Engineering
8 12 (35.29%) BigQuery
8 12 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (32.35%) Agile
10 10 (29.41%) Google
10 10 (29.41%) PowerShell
10 10 (29.41%) Analytics
11 9 (26.47%) Go
11 9 (26.47%) Bash
11 9 (26.47%) Microsoft
11 9 (26.47%) Change Management
12 8 (23.53%) Retail
12 8 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (23.53%) Machine Learning
12 8 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
12 8 (23.53%) GDPR
12 8 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
13 7 (20.59%) Network Virtualisation
13 7 (20.59%) Mentoring

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (5.88%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 21 (61.76%) Azure
2 13 (38.24%) Azure DevOps
2 13 (38.24%) GCP
3 6 (17.65%) Power Platform
4 5 (14.71%) Anthos
4 5 (14.71%) GitHub
4 5 (14.71%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (14.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 5 (14.71%) IaaS
5 4 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (11.76%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (11.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (11.76%) PaaS
6 3 (8.82%) AWS
7 2 (5.88%) Apigee
7 2 (5.88%) Datadog
7 2 (5.88%) Stackdriver
8 1 (2.94%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.59%) Firewall
2 3 (8.82%) DNS
3 2 (5.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (35.29%) BigQuery
2 6 (17.65%) Looker
2 6 (17.65%) Power BI
3 2 (5.88%) Big Data
4 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Git
2 5 (14.71%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.82%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 8 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (23.53%) Retail
2 6 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Finance
4 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.94%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Hybrid Cloud
1 6 (17.65%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Windows
1 5 (14.71%) Windows Server
2 3 (8.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (97.06%) Platform Engineering
2 24 (70.59%) DevOps
3 20 (58.82%) CI/CD
3 20 (58.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (47.06%) DataOps
5 13 (38.24%) Data Science
6 12 (35.29%) Data Engineering
6 12 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (32.35%) Agile
8 10 (29.41%) Analytics
9 9 (26.47%) Change Management
10 8 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
10 8 (23.53%) Machine Learning
11 7 (20.59%) Mentoring
11 7 (20.59%) Network Virtualisation
12 6 (17.65%) ETL
12 6 (17.65%) Visualisation
13 5 (14.71%) Observability
14 4 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (41.18%) Python
2 10 (29.41%) PowerShell
3 9 (26.47%) Bash
3 9 (26.47%) Go
4 4 (11.76%) Bicep
5 3 (8.82%) Ruby
6 1 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (23.53%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (47.06%) Terraform
2 6 (17.65%) Kubernetes
3 5 (14.71%) Ansible
4 3 (8.82%) Grafana
4 3 (8.82%) Prometheus
5 2 (5.88%) Puppet
5 2 (5.88%) Rundeck
6 1 (2.94%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) Google
2 9 (26.47%) Microsoft
3 5 (14.71%) LogicMonitor
3 5 (14.71%) PagerDuty
4 4 (11.76%) Databricks
5 2 (5.88%) New Relic
5 2 (5.88%) Splunk