Senior Platform Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Senior Platform Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Senior Platform Engineer salary in Manchester is £69,384 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 May 2025.

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

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 220 230
Rank change year-on-year +63 +10 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 2 3 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.090% 0.058% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.099% 0.061% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 12
10th Percentile - £60,500 £54,375
25th Percentile £64,509 £61,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.74% -10.34% -3.33%
75th Percentile £74,258 £68,750 £76,250
90th Percentile - £69,500 -
North West median annual salary £68,442 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +5.30% -10.34% -3.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 2,013 4,891 4,477
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.23% 94.40% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,276 3,774 2,630
10th Percentile £32,125 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,017 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,334 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.43% -5.51% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £81,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Senior Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Platform Engineer in Manchester

Senior Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Senior Platform Engineer 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 9 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
Salford - 2 £69,384 -
Senior Platform Engineer
North West

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, Senior Platform Engineer 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 Manchester region featuring Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Unix
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) Django
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Redis
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CodeBuild

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (100.00%) dbt
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Redis
General
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Django
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Copilot
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google