Platform Engineer Jobs in Cheshire

Platform Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Platform Engineer salary in Cheshire is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 - 97
Rank change year-on-year - - -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 7 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.46% - 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% - 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - -
75th Percentile £57,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year -7.14% +14.29% +22.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 1,481 834 988
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.92% 89.29% 94.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,113 485 532
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,420 £24,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £33,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £66,250 £58,188
90th Percentile £71,915 £88,750 £72,375
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 Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Cheshire

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Cheshire

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in Cheshire

Platform Engineer
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 4 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
Chester - 3 - -
Warrington - 3 - -
Winsford - 1 £55,000 -
Platform Engineer
North West

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 4 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 Cheshire region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Change Management
2 6 (85.71%) Mentoring
2 6 (85.71%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (85.71%) BigQuery
2 6 (85.71%) GCP
2 6 (85.71%) Data Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Looker
2 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) Google
2 6 (85.71%) GDPR
2 6 (85.71%) Data Science
2 6 (85.71%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (85.71%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (85.71%) DataOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) SQL

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) BigQuery
1 6 (85.71%) Looker
General
1 6 (85.71%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) Change Management
2 6 (85.71%) Data Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (85.71%) Data Science
2 6 (85.71%) DataOps
2 6 (85.71%) Mentoring
2 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) GDPR
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Google