DevOps Platform Engineer Job Trends in Manchester

Platform Engineer - DevOps
North West > Manchester

The median Platform Engineer - DevOps salary in Manchester is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 July 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Platform Engineer 12 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.19% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% - -
Number of salaries quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile £46,750 - -
25th Percentile £56,688 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £65,250 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 6,100 2,285 4,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.50% 91.66% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4,812 1,364 3,541
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

DevOps Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

DevOps Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Manchester

DevOps Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Platform Engineer job vacancies in Manchester.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Platform Engineer job vacancies in Manchester

DevOps Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Platform Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps Platform Engineer in Manchester

DevOps Platform Engineer
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Platform Engineer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 21 July 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
Bolton - 1 £35,000 -
DevOps Platform Engineer
North West

DevOps Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 21 July 2026, DevOps 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 Manchester region featuring DevOps Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
1 12 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 11 (91.67%) Azure
2 11 (91.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (33.33%) Firewall
3 4 (33.33%) GitHub
3 4 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (33.33%) Terraform
4 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (25.00%) Linux
4 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (16.67%) AI
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (16.67%) Ansible
5 2 (16.67%) Azure AKS
5 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (16.67%) Bicep
5 2 (16.67%) Debian
5 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 2 (16.67%) GitLab
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 2 (16.67%) Python
5 2 (16.67%) SAN

DevOps Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) GitHub
2 4 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (16.67%) Azure AKS
3 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (16.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Mobile App
1 2 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Debian
2 2 (16.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
1 12 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 11 (91.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (16.67%) AI
4 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (8.33%) GitOps
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) Bicep
2 2 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (16.67%) Ansible
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (16.67%) VMware