Senior Platform Engineer Job Trends in Cheshire

Senior Platform Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Senior Platform Engineer salary in Cheshire is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 May 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 0.054% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - -
75th Percentile £66,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £72,351 £68,442 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.71% +5.30% -10.34%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 1,643 437 1,537
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.33% 79.17% 96.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,113 177 1,152
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,312 £25,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.46% -12.90% -2.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,500 £71,848
North West median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% +6.00% -9.09%

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Senior Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Senior 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 Senior Platform Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 24 May 2026. 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 - 1 £62,500 - 1
Senior Platform Engineer
North West

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 13 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 24 May 2026, Senior Platform Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) linkerd
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) linkerd