Platform Manager Jobs in England

Platform Manager
UK > England

The median Platform Manager salary in England is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 658 791 855
Rank change year-on-year +133 +64 +241
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Manager 24 71 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.049% 0.074% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.054% 0.078% 0.035%
Number of salaries quoted 19 41 19
10th Percentile £55,500 £57,500 £58,400
25th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +13.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £103,050 £95,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +13.33% -9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 44,621 90,711 74,498
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.59% 94.63% 91.18%
Number of salaries quoted 23,807 66,089 49,198
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -13.32% +0.95%
75th Percentile £73,886 £70,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Platform Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Manager in England

Platform Manager
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Platform Manager in England

Platform Manager
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Manager in England over the 6 months to 14 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Platform Manager in England

Platform Manager
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
London +103 8 £91,500 +10.91% 21
Midlands +77 6 £75,000 - 2
West Midlands - 6 £75,000 -
South West +119 4 £60,125 -33.19% 1
South East +91 2 £90,000 - 6
North of England +37 2 £91,500 +9.25%
North West +9 2 £91,500 -3.68%
Platform Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 June 2025, 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 across the England region featuring Platform Manager in the job title.

1 14 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 9 (37.50%) Azure
3 8 (33.33%) Agile
4 7 (29.17%) Project Management
4 7 (29.17%) Finance
4 7 (29.17%) Roadmaps
5 6 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 6 (25.00%) Budget Management
5 6 (25.00%) DevOps
5 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (20.83%) High Availability
6 5 (20.83%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 5 (20.83%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
6 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (20.83%) Degree
7 4 (16.67%) AWS
7 4 (16.67%) Salesforce
7 4 (16.67%) CRM
7 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (16.67%) Decision-Making
7 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (12.50%) Data Strategy
8 3 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
8 3 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (12.50%) Power Platform
8 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring

Platform Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (4.17%) Apache
1 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
1 1 (4.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (37.50%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) AWS
3 3 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.33%) IaaS
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (8.33%) PaaS
4 2 (8.33%) SaaS
4 2 (8.33%) Serverless
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.17%) Cohesity
5 1 (4.17%) GCP
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.17%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) MPLS
1 1 (4.17%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (29.17%) Finance
2 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Banking
4 3 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (12.50%) Investment Banking
5 2 (8.33%) Law
6 1 (4.17%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
1 3 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Windows
3 1 (4.17%) Ubuntu
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Agile
2 7 (29.17%) Project Management
2 7 (29.17%) Roadmaps
3 6 (25.00%) Budget Management
3 6 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 6 (25.00%) DevOps
4 5 (20.83%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 5 (20.83%) High Availability
4 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (20.83%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (16.67%) CRM
5 4 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
6 3 (12.50%) Data Governance
6 3 (12.50%) Data Strategy
6 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Salesforce
3 3 (12.50%) Informatica
4 1 (4.17%) Blue Prism
4 1 (4.17%) Brocade
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco
4 1 (4.17%) Citrix
4 1 (4.17%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.17%) Pure Storage
4 1 (4.17%) UiPath
4 1 (4.17%) VMware