Platform Engineering Jobs in Cheshire

Platform Engineering
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Platform Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 96 -
Rank change year-on-year +20 - -
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 3 7 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.42% 0.46% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.57% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £58,250 - -
25th Percentile £63,125 £52,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £55,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% - -
75th Percentile £79,375 £57,500 -
90th Percentile £82,750 - -
North West median annual salary £57,560 £66,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.12% -5.36% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Platform Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 598 1,221 884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 83.52% 79.39% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 242 923 467
10th Percentile £20,280 £25,000 £25,420
25th Percentile £23,504 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £74,782 £89,250
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Cheshire

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in Cheshire

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in Cheshire

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in Cheshire over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in Cheshire

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 8 May 2025. 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 +19 1 £72,500 - 2
Crewe - 1 £55,000 -
Knutsford - 1 £80,000 -
Platform Engineering
North West

Platform Engineering
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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) IaaS
3 1 (33.33%) PaaS
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bicep
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (33.33%) CCSP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft