Platform Engineer Jobs in Merseyside

Platform Engineer
North West > Merseyside

The median Platform Engineer salary in Merseyside is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 88 103
Rank change year-on-year +40 +15 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 3 3 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 0.73% 0.23% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 0.24% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £43,700
25th Percentile £63,750 - £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - £51,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 - £56,500
90th Percentile - - £58,300
North West median annual salary £57,560 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.45% -7.14% +14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Merseyside

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Merseyside. 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 Merseyside with a recognized job title 303 1,225 872
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 73.90% 94.52% 79.93%
Number of salaries quoted 196 854 449
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,150 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -7.78% -2.75%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,625 £75,000 £70,730
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year +0.11% -8.90% +4.54%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Merseyside

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Merseyside

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in Merseyside

Platform Engineer
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 4 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
Liverpool +43 3 £67,500 - 2
Platform Engineer
North West

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 9 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, 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 Merseyside region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
1 3 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Bicep
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Distributed Systems

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bicep
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform