Platform Manager
UK

The median Platform Manager salary in the UK is £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 828 939 1112
Rank change year-on-year +111 +173 -229
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Manager 70 41 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.071% 0.041% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.044% 0.059%
Number of salaries quoted 49 26 51
10th Percentile - £60,750 £61,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £72,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.79% -12.12% +10.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £101,875
90th Percentile £101,250 £112,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -12.90% +3.33% +14.94%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 93,878 92,381 151,160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,248 58,258 84,340
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Platform Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Manager in the UK

Platform Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Platform Manager in the UK

Platform Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Manager over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Manager in the UK

Platform Manager
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England +125 61 £80,000 +10.34% 15
UK excluding London +22 47 £67,500 -12.90% 6
Work from Home +84 33 £85,000 +25.93% 14
North of England +68 23 £72,500 -30.95% 3
London +114 20 £83,750 +17.96% 8
North West +19 19 £83,750 -20.24% 1
South East +10 8 £65,000 -21.21% 2
Scotland -54 7 £65,000 -13.33% 1
Midlands -12 5 - -
East Midlands - 5 - -
North East - 4 £65,000 - 1
East of England - 3 - -
South West - 1 £90,000 -

Platform Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Platform Manager 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 featuring Platform Manager in the job title.

1 23 (32.86%) Azure
2 21 (30.00%) Product Ownership
3 19 (27.14%) Finance
4 18 (25.71%) Power Platform
5 17 (24.29%) Social Skills
6 15 (21.43%) Data Science
6 15 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (21.43%) Project Management
7 13 (18.57%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (18.57%) Low-Code
8 11 (15.71%) SQL
8 11 (15.71%) Machine Learning
8 11 (15.71%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (15.71%) Artificial Intelligence
8 11 (15.71%) Wealth Management
9 10 (14.29%) Problem Management
9 10 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
9 10 (14.29%) Trend Analysis
9 10 (14.29%) SLA
9 10 (14.29%) Product Strategy
9 10 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (14.29%) Programme Delivery
9 10 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (12.86%) Databricks
10 9 (12.86%) Analytics
10 9 (12.86%) Collaborative Working
10 9 (12.86%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (11.43%) Microsoft Exchange
11 8 (11.43%) Microsoft
11 8 (11.43%) SharePoint

Platform Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (11.43%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (11.43%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.43%) CMS
2 1 (1.43%) Kentico
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 23 (32.86%) Azure
2 18 (25.71%) Power Platform
3 11 (15.71%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 8 (11.43%) GCP
6 5 (7.14%) SaaS
7 4 (5.71%) IaaS
7 4 (5.71%) PaaS
7 4 (5.71%) Power Automate
7 4 (5.71%) PowerApps
8 3 (4.29%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.43%) AWS
9 1 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.43%) Serverless
9 1 (1.43%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.86%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (11.43%) Data Lake
2 8 (11.43%) HDInsight
2 8 (11.43%) NoSQL
2 8 (11.43%) Power BI
3 6 (8.57%) Big Data
4 4 (5.71%) Looker
4 4 (5.71%) QlikView
4 4 (5.71%) Relational Database
4 4 (5.71%) Tableau
5 2 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 19 (27.14%) Finance
2 17 (24.29%) Social Skills
3 15 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (18.57%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (5.71%) Marketing
6 3 (4.29%) Retail
7 1 (1.43%) Law
7 1 (1.43%) Legal
7 1 (1.43%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.71%) Web Services
1 4 (5.71%) XML
1 4 (5.71%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 13 (18.57%) Low-Code
3 4 (5.71%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (21.43%) Data Science
1 15 (21.43%) Project Management
2 11 (15.71%) Artificial Intelligence
2 11 (15.71%) Machine Learning
2 11 (15.71%) Wealth Management
3 10 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
3 10 (14.29%) Problem Management
3 10 (14.29%) Product Strategy
3 10 (14.29%) Programme Delivery
3 10 (14.29%) Trend Analysis
4 9 (12.86%) Analytics
4 9 (12.86%) Collaborative Working
5 8 (11.43%) Acceptance Criteria
5 8 (11.43%) Asset Management
5 8 (11.43%) DevOps
5 8 (11.43%) Epics
6 7 (10.00%) Agile
6 7 (10.00%) Data Engineering
7 6 (8.57%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 6 (8.57%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.71%) SQL
2 2 (2.86%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.43%) C#
3 1 (1.43%) Python
3 1 (1.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (5.71%) Degree
2 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.29%) SLA
2 4 (5.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 4 (5.71%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (1.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (12.86%) Databricks
2 8 (11.43%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.29%) Tealium
4 1 (1.43%) UiPath