Platform Engineering Jobs in Manchester

Platform Engineering
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Platform Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 158 156 213
Rank change year-on-year -2 +57 -121
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 54 84 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 1.06% 1.68% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.74% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 33 63 38
10th Percentile - £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,625 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +36.84%
75th Percentile £82,500 £84,375 £73,750
90th Percentile £96,539 £102,000 £76,375
North West median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Platform Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,432 4,825 5,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 86.78% 96.69% 96.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3,396 2,560 3,652
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,443
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,100 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Manchester

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in Manchester

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in Manchester over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in Manchester

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 28 April 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 +32 3 - -
Platform Engineering
North West

Platform Engineering
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 5 (9.26%) Confluence
2 2 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.70%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 42 (77.78%) Azure
2 32 (59.26%) GCP
3 19 (35.19%) AWS
4 15 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (18.52%) GitHub
6 6 (11.11%) Power Platform
7 5 (9.26%) Anthos
7 5 (9.26%) Collibra
7 5 (9.26%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (9.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 5 (9.26%) IaaS
7 5 (9.26%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (7.41%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (7.41%) PaaS
9 2 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (3.70%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.96%) Firewall
2 3 (5.56%) DNS
3 2 (3.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (37.04%) BigQuery
2 14 (25.93%) Looker
3 8 (14.81%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (12.96%) NoSQL
5 6 (11.11%) MySQL
5 6 (11.11%) Power BI
6 5 (9.26%) Metadata
7 3 (5.56%) MongoDB
7 3 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (3.70%) Big Data
8 2 (3.70%) DynamoDB
8 2 (3.70%) Redis
8 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (18.52%) Jenkins
2 6 (11.11%) Git
3 5 (9.26%) JIRA
3 5 (9.26%) Spinnaker
4 3 (5.56%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 16 (29.63%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (20.37%) Social Skills
3 8 (14.81%) Finance
3 8 (14.81%) Retail
4 5 (9.26%) Banking
5 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (61.11%) Platform Engineer
2 19 (35.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 17 (31.48%) Data Engineer
4 11 (20.37%) Azure Engineer
4 11 (20.37%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 11 (20.37%) Lead
5 10 (18.52%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (14.81%) Architect
6 8 (14.81%) Data Architect
6 8 (14.81%) Developer
6 8 (14.81%) Principal Data Engineer
6 8 (14.81%) Principal Engineer
7 6 (11.11%) .NET Developer
7 6 (11.11%) Lead .NET Developer
7 6 (11.11%) Lead Developer
8 5 (9.26%) Lead Data Engineer
9 4 (7.41%) GCP Engineer
10 3 (5.56%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 3 (5.56%) Senior
10 3 (5.56%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.81%) .NET
1 8 (14.81%) .NET Framework
2 6 (11.11%) Web Services
3 4 (7.41%) ARM Templates
4 3 (5.56%) CSS
4 3 (5.56%) HTML
5 2 (3.70%) .NET Core
5 2 (3.70%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.70%) ASP.NET
5 2 (3.70%) AWS CDK
5 2 (3.70%) Node.js
6 1 (1.85%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.93%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 6 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (11.11%) Video\Live Streaming
4 5 (9.26%) Product Ownership
5 4 (7.41%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.96%) Windows
1 7 (12.96%) Windows Server
2 5 (9.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (57.41%) DevOps
2 26 (48.15%) Mentoring
3 25 (46.30%) Data Engineering
4 22 (40.74%) Agile
4 22 (40.74%) CI/CD
4 22 (40.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (40.74%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (29.63%) DataOps
6 14 (25.93%) ETL
7 13 (24.07%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (24.07%) Data Science
8 11 (20.37%) OOP
9 10 (18.52%) Analytics
10 9 (16.67%) Change Management
11 8 (14.81%) Data Architecture
11 8 (14.81%) Data Governance
11 8 (14.81%) Data Integration
11 8 (14.81%) Data Modelling
11 8 (14.81%) Data Security
11 8 (14.81%) ERD
Programming Languages
1 16 (29.63%) Python
2 10 (18.52%) PowerShell
3 9 (16.67%) Bash
3 9 (16.67%) Go
4 8 (14.81%) C#
5 7 (12.96%) SQL
6 6 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 4 (7.41%) Bicep
8 3 (5.56%) JavaScript
8 3 (5.56%) Ruby
9 2 (3.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (14.81%) AWS Certification
2 7 (12.96%) Azure Certification
3 6 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (11.11%) Degree
4 2 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (29.63%) GDPR
2 13 (24.07%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (33.33%) Terraform
2 6 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 5 (9.26%) Ansible
4 3 (5.56%) Grafana
4 3 (5.56%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.70%) Puppet
5 2 (3.70%) Rundeck
6 1 (1.85%) Packer
Vendors
1 23 (42.59%) Google
2 11 (20.37%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.26%) LogicMonitor
3 5 (9.26%) PagerDuty
4 4 (7.41%) Databricks
5 2 (3.70%) New Relic
5 2 (3.70%) Splunk