Senior Platform Engineer Job Trends in Manchester

Senior Platform Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Senior Platform Engineer salary in Manchester is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 154 147
Rank change year-on-year +25 -7 +93
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 3 2 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.10% 0.075% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.080% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £70,550 - £56,288
25th Percentile £73,156 £64,471 £60,281
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.43% +6.63% -8.77%
75th Percentile £82,500 £74,144 £71,844
90th Percentile - - £78,988
North West median annual salary £80,000 £68,404 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.95% +5.24% -8.77%

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 2,606 2,502 2,404
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.34% 93.81% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,701 1,211 1,937
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £89,000 £86,250 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -5.87%

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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 Manchester.

Senior Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Manchester

Senior Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary distribution trend for Senior Platform Engineer job vacancies in Manchester

Senior 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 Senior Platform Engineer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Salford +3 1 £73,801 +6.48%
Senior Platform Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 14 January 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 Manchester region featuring Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) GitOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Security Hardening
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
2 2 (66.67%) vSphere
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (33.33%) Azure

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) dbt
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) PaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Pulumi
3 1 (33.33%) Sentry
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Unix
3 1 (33.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) GitOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Security Hardening
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 1 (33.33%) Service-Level Objective
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
2 2 (66.67%) vSphere
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Google