Platform Engineering Jobs in Manchester

Platform Engineering
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 158 151
Rank change year-on-year +54 -7 +71
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 60 55 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 2.62% 1.05% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 1.22% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 14 34 66
10th Percentile £51,125 - £53,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,192 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.46% -3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £88,438 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £107,125 £96,539 £101,250
North West median annual salary £57,560 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -14.73% -3.57% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,181 4,509 4,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 95.37% 86.18% 96.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,290 3,436 2,499
10th Percentile £30,750 £30,000 £32,888
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% -5.22% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,250 £68,857 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,000 £82,500 £83,750
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 Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Manchester

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in Manchester

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in Manchester over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in Manchester

Platform Engineering
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineering within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 17 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
Oldham -2 3 - -
Bury - 3 - - 1
Cheadle - 3 - -
Sale - 3 - -
Salford - 2 £69,384 -
Stalybridge - 2 - -
Stockport - 2 - -
Wigan - 2 - -
Dukinfield - 2 - -
Heywood - 2 - -
Altrincham - 2 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 - - 3
Bolton - 2 - - 3
Rochdale - 1 - -
Littleborough - 1 - -
Platform Engineering
North West

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (1.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (21.67%) AWS
2 5 (8.33%) Azure
2 5 (8.33%) GCP
3 4 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (6.67%) Amazon S3
3 4 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (3.33%) Amazon ECR
4 2 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (3.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 2 (3.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (3.33%) AWS CodeBuild
4 2 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (3.33%) dbt
4 2 (3.33%) Pulumi
4 2 (3.33%) SaaS
5 1 (1.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.67%) OCI
5 1 (1.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 43 (71.67%) Cisco IOS
1 43 (71.67%) VPN
2 2 (3.33%) Internet
2 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.67%) DNS
3 1 (1.67%) MPLS
3 1 (1.67%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.33%) Redis
3 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.67%) JIRA
General
1 45 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 43 (71.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (1.67%) Aviation
3 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (1.67%) Marketing
3 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.67%) Retail
3 1 (1.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (71.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (11.67%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Lead
5 3 (5.00%) Senior
6 2 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) Lead DevOps
6 2 (3.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 1 (1.67%) Architect
7 1 (1.67%) Azure Architect
7 1 (1.67%) Azure Data Architect
7 1 (1.67%) Data Architect
7 1 (1.67%) Lead Java Engineer
7 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.67%) Network Manager
7 1 (1.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (71.67%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (3.33%) Django
3 1 (1.67%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.67%) Spring
3 1 (1.67%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 43 (71.67%) Cyberattack
2 2 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 49 (81.67%) Linux
2 47 (78.33%) Windows
3 43 (71.67%) Android
4 2 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (88.33%) DevOps
2 44 (73.33%) Line Management
2 44 (73.33%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (73.33%) Task Automation
3 43 (71.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 43 (71.67%) Mathematics
3 43 (71.67%) Risk Management
3 43 (71.67%) Storage Management
4 8 (13.33%) Containerisation
4 8 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (11.67%) CI/CD
6 5 (8.33%) Roadmaps
7 4 (6.67%) Configuration Management
7 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Management
8 3 (5.00%) Continuous Delivery
8 3 (5.00%) Decision-Making
8 3 (5.00%) Performance Monitoring
9 2 (3.33%) Clean Code
9 2 (3.33%) Contract Negotiation
9 2 (3.33%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 48 (80.00%) Python
2 45 (75.00%) Bash
3 44 (73.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.33%) Go
5 1 (1.67%) Java
5 1 (1.67%) PHP
5 1 (1.67%) SQL
5 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) QA
2 2 (3.33%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.67%) GDPR
3 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.67%) NIST
System Software
1 52 (86.67%) Docker
2 43 (71.67%) Hyper-V
2 43 (71.67%) VMware NSX
2 43 (71.67%) vSphere
3 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (90.00%) Terraform
2 49 (81.67%) Ansible
3 9 (15.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (5.00%) Puppet
5 2 (3.33%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 43 (71.67%) 3PAR
1 43 (71.67%) Cisco
1 43 (71.67%) Juniper
1 43 (71.67%) Splunk
2 2 (3.33%) Google
3 1 (1.67%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.67%) Databricks
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle