Platform Engineer Jobs in the North West

Platform Engineer
England > North West

The median Platform Engineer salary in the North West is £57,560 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 232 223
Rank change year-on-year +100 -9 +71
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 146 57 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.93% 0.59% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.13% 0.62% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 73 24 66
10th Percentile - £53,250 £50,625
25th Percentile £56,176 £55,000 £54,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,560 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.45% -7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £91,750 £98,750
England median annual salary £71,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.33% +7.14% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 the North West with a recognized job title 6,852 9,205 7,037
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.47% 94.71% 89.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4,054 7,083 4,090
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,620 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £68,938
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,700 £81,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in the North West

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in the North West.

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in the North West

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in the North West

Platform Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Cumbria -27 70 £71,250 - 1
Lancashire +4 65 £57,560 - 10
Manchester +44 7 £65,000 - 28
Merseyside +40 3 £67,500 - 3
Cheshire +35 1 £55,000 - 7
Platform Engineer
England

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 1 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 North West region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 122 (83.56%) Degree
1 122 (83.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 89 (60.96%) Platform Engineering
3 66 (45.21%) Agile
4 65 (44.52%) TOGAF
4 65 (44.52%) Teamcenter
4 65 (44.52%) MODAF
4 65 (44.52%) SysML
4 65 (44.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 65 (44.52%) Rational DOORS
4 65 (44.52%) ArchiMate
4 65 (44.52%) Product Ownership
4 65 (44.52%) Sparx
4 65 (44.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 65 (44.52%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 65 (44.52%) Programme Delivery
4 65 (44.52%) TOGAF Certification
5 60 (41.10%) Mentoring
6 57 (39.04%) Microsoft Office
6 57 (39.04%) CAD
7 23 (15.75%) Terraform
8 20 (13.70%) CI/CD
9 19 (13.01%) Azure
10 17 (11.64%) Bicep
10 17 (11.64%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (10.27%) Python
12 12 (8.22%) Bash
12 12 (8.22%) GitHub
12 12 (8.22%) Ansible
13 11 (7.53%) Roadmaps

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (0.68%) Confluence
Applications
1 57 (39.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 65 (44.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 65 (44.52%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 19 (13.01%) Azure
2 12 (8.22%) GitHub
3 5 (3.42%) AWS
4 4 (2.74%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (1.37%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (1.37%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 2 (1.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (1.37%) AWS CodeBuild
5 2 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.37%) dbt
5 2 (1.37%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.37%) GCP
5 2 (1.37%) Pulumi
6 1 (0.68%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.68%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.68%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (0.68%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.68%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.37%) Internet
1 2 (1.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (2.05%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 65 (44.52%) Rational DOORS
2 11 (7.53%) Jenkins
2 11 (7.53%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.68%) JIRA
General
1 11 (7.53%) Finance
2 2 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (0.68%) Aviation
3 1 (0.68%) Marketing
3 1 (0.68%) Public Sector
3 1 (0.68%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.16%) ADO
2 2 (1.37%) Django
3 1 (0.68%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 65 (44.52%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (0.68%) Cloud Native
3 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.05%) Linux
2 2 (1.37%) Unix
3 1 (0.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (60.96%) Platform Engineering
2 66 (45.21%) Agile
3 65 (44.52%) ArchiMate
3 65 (44.52%) MODAF
3 65 (44.52%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 65 (44.52%) Programme Delivery
3 65 (44.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 65 (44.52%) SysML
3 65 (44.52%) TOGAF
4 60 (41.10%) Mentoring
5 57 (39.04%) CAD
6 20 (13.70%) CI/CD
7 17 (11.64%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (7.53%) Roadmaps
9 9 (6.16%) Strategic Roadmap
10 6 (4.11%) Containerisation
10 6 (4.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (3.42%) Deployment Automation
12 4 (2.74%) DevOps
12 4 (2.74%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (11.64%) Bicep
2 15 (10.27%) Python
3 12 (8.22%) Bash
4 11 (7.53%) Ruby
5 2 (1.37%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.68%) Go
6 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 122 (83.56%) BPSS Clearance
1 122 (83.56%) Degree
2 65 (44.52%) TOGAF Certification
3 3 (2.05%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.05%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.68%) CCSP
4 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.68%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.37%) NIST
1 2 (1.37%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.68%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (2.05%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (15.75%) Terraform
2 12 (8.22%) Ansible
3 11 (7.53%) Progress Chef
3 11 (7.53%) Puppet
4 2 (1.37%) AWS Copilot
4 2 (1.37%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 65 (44.52%) Sparx
2 2 (1.37%) Google
3 1 (0.68%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle