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 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 155 230
Rank change year-on-year -13 +75 -130
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 59 91 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 1.10% 1.94% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 2.01% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 38 63 28
10th Percentile £49,325 £53,750 £51,375
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -3.45% +31.82%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,875 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £101,000 £83,250
North West median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +18.18%

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 4,571 4,527 5,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 85.09% 96.28% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,465 2,480 3,566
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 27 May 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 27 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 +30 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 (8.47%) Confluence
2 2 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.39%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 48 (81.36%) Azure
2 33 (55.93%) GCP
3 22 (37.29%) AWS
4 17 (28.81%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (16.95%) GitHub
6 6 (10.17%) Power Platform
7 5 (8.47%) Anthos
7 5 (8.47%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (8.47%) Azure Key Vault
7 5 (8.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (8.47%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (8.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 5 (8.47%) IaaS
7 5 (8.47%) PaaS
8 3 (5.08%) Collibra
8 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (3.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (3.39%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (3.39%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (3.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.86%) Firewall
2 4 (6.78%) DNS
3 2 (3.39%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (33.90%) BigQuery
2 14 (23.73%) Looker
3 8 (13.56%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (13.56%) NoSQL
4 7 (11.86%) MySQL
5 6 (10.17%) Power BI
6 3 (5.08%) Metadata
6 3 (5.08%) MongoDB
6 3 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (3.39%) Big Data
7 2 (3.39%) DynamoDB
7 2 (3.39%) Redis
7 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 9 (15.25%) Jenkins
2 8 (13.56%) Git
3 5 (8.47%) JIRA
4 3 (5.08%) GitLab
4 3 (5.08%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (5.08%) Spinnaker
5 2 (3.39%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.39%) NUnit
General
1 16 (27.12%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (15.25%) Social Skills
3 8 (13.56%) Retail
4 6 (10.17%) Finance
5 3 (5.08%) Banking
6 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 39 (66.10%) Platform Engineer
2 21 (35.59%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 15 (25.42%) Data Engineer
4 12 (20.34%) Cloud Engineer
5 11 (18.64%) Azure Engineer
5 11 (18.64%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 10 (16.95%) Lead
7 9 (15.25%) Developer
8 8 (13.56%) Architect
8 8 (13.56%) Data Architect
8 8 (13.56%) Principal Data Engineer
8 8 (13.56%) Principal Engineer
9 7 (11.86%) .NET Developer
9 7 (11.86%) Lead .NET Developer
9 7 (11.86%) Lead Developer
10 4 (6.78%) GCP Engineer
11 3 (5.08%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 3 (5.08%) Lead Data Engineer
11 3 (5.08%) Senior
11 3 (5.08%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.25%) .NET
1 9 (15.25%) .NET Framework
2 7 (11.86%) Web Services
3 4 (6.78%) ARM Templates
4 3 (5.08%) CSS
4 3 (5.08%) HTML
5 2 (3.39%) .NET Core
5 2 (3.39%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.39%) ASP.NET
5 2 (3.39%) AWS CDK
5 2 (3.39%) Node.js
6 1 (1.69%) Loki
6 1 (1.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (23.73%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (11.86%) Cloud Native
2 7 (11.86%) Video\Live Streaming
3 6 (10.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (6.78%) Data Centre
5 3 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (5.08%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.86%) Windows
1 7 (11.86%) Windows Server
2 5 (8.47%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (57.63%) DevOps
2 26 (44.07%) Mentoring
3 25 (42.37%) CI/CD
4 24 (40.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (38.98%) Agile
5 23 (38.98%) Data Engineering
5 23 (38.98%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (28.81%) DataOps
7 14 (23.73%) Data Science
7 14 (23.73%) ETL
8 11 (18.64%) Analytics
8 11 (18.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (16.95%) OOP
10 9 (15.25%) Change Management
10 9 (15.25%) Data Architecture
10 9 (15.25%) Data Security
10 9 (15.25%) Machine Learning
10 9 (15.25%) TDD
11 8 (13.56%) Data Governance
11 8 (13.56%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 20 (33.90%) Python
2 14 (23.73%) PowerShell
3 11 (18.64%) Go
4 9 (15.25%) Bash
4 9 (15.25%) C#
4 9 (15.25%) SQL
5 7 (11.86%) TypeScript
6 5 (8.47%) Bicep
7 3 (5.08%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.08%) Ruby
8 2 (3.39%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (15.25%) AWS Certification
2 8 (13.56%) Azure Certification
3 7 (11.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (11.86%) Degree
4 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (27.12%) GDPR
2 11 (18.64%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.39%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.39%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.69%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (6.78%) Docker
1 4 (6.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (37.29%) Terraform
2 8 (13.56%) Ansible
3 7 (11.86%) Kubernetes
4 3 (5.08%) Grafana
4 3 (5.08%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.39%) Puppet
5 2 (3.39%) Rundeck
6 1 (1.69%) Packer
Vendors
1 21 (35.59%) Google
2 13 (22.03%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.47%) Databricks
3 5 (8.47%) LogicMonitor
3 5 (8.47%) PagerDuty
4 2 (3.39%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.39%) New Relic
4 2 (3.39%) Splunk