Platform Engineer Jobs in the North West

Platform Engineer
England > North West

The median Platform Engineer salary in the North West is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 209 222 302
Rank change year-on-year +13 +80 -105
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 68 47 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.73% 0.73% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.81% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 34 34 27
10th Percentile £47,575 £43,400 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,938 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £68,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% -1.79% +16.67%
75th Percentile £71,875 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,750 £87,500 £91,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +20.00%

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 8,848 5,805 9,684
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.54% 89.71% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 6,232 3,732 5,883
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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
Manchester +8 43 £62,500 -10.71% 3
Lancashire -17 8 £60,000 +41.18%
Cheshire -20 7 £55,000 -4.35% 1
Cumbria - 6 - -
Merseyside +21 3 - -
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 67 (98.53%) Platform Engineering
2 53 (77.94%) DevOps
3 38 (55.88%) DataOps
4 35 (51.47%) Data Science
4 35 (51.47%) Agile
4 35 (51.47%) Azure
5 34 (50.00%) GCP
6 33 (48.53%) Data Engineering
6 33 (48.53%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (45.59%) BigQuery
8 29 (42.65%) Mentoring
8 29 (42.65%) Google
8 29 (42.65%) CI/CD
9 28 (41.18%) Change Management
10 27 (39.71%) Analytical Skills
10 27 (39.71%) Looker
10 27 (39.71%) GDPR
10 27 (39.71%) Self-Motivation
10 27 (39.71%) Data Pipeline
11 25 (36.76%) Infrastructure as Code
11 25 (36.76%) Python
12 23 (33.82%) Terraform
13 19 (27.94%) PowerShell
14 18 (26.47%) Azure DevOps
15 16 (23.53%) Microsoft
16 15 (22.06%) Go
17 14 (20.59%) Analytics
18 11 (16.18%) Ansible
18 11 (16.18%) Machine Learning
19 10 (14.71%) Bash

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 5 (7.35%) Confluence
2 2 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.94%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.47%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 35 (51.47%) Azure
2 34 (50.00%) GCP
3 18 (26.47%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (11.76%) Power Platform
5 7 (10.29%) AWS
5 7 (10.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (10.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 7 (10.29%) GitHub
6 6 (8.82%) IaaS
7 5 (7.35%) Anthos
7 5 (7.35%) Azure Key Vault
7 5 (7.35%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (7.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 5 (7.35%) PaaS
8 3 (4.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (4.41%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.94%) Apigee
9 2 (2.94%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.94%) Datadog
9 2 (2.94%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.24%) Firewall
2 4 (5.88%) DNS
3 2 (2.94%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (45.59%) BigQuery
2 27 (39.71%) Looker
3 8 (11.76%) Power BI
4 3 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.94%) Big Data
5 2 (2.94%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.94%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.47%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 8 (11.76%) Git
2 5 (7.35%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.35%) JIRA
3 3 (4.41%) GitLab
3 3 (4.41%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (2.94%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.94%) NUnit
5 1 (1.47%) JMeter
General
1 27 (39.71%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (11.76%) Retail
2 8 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.41%) Finance
4 2 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.47%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.35%) ARM Templates
2 3 (4.41%) AWS CDK
3 2 (2.94%) Loki
4 1 (1.47%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (39.71%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (10.29%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (8.82%) Data Centre
3 6 (8.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (7.35%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (5.88%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.29%) Windows
1 7 (10.29%) Windows Server
2 4 (5.88%) Linux
3 1 (1.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (98.53%) Platform Engineering
2 53 (77.94%) DevOps
3 38 (55.88%) DataOps
4 35 (51.47%) Agile
4 35 (51.47%) Data Science
5 33 (48.53%) Data Engineering
5 33 (48.53%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (42.65%) CI/CD
6 29 (42.65%) Mentoring
7 28 (41.18%) Change Management
8 27 (39.71%) Data Pipeline
9 25 (36.76%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (20.59%) Analytics
11 11 (16.18%) Machine Learning
12 10 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (11.76%) ETL
13 8 (11.76%) Visualisation
14 7 (10.29%) Network Virtualisation
15 6 (8.82%) Observability
15 6 (8.82%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 25 (36.76%) Python
2 19 (27.94%) PowerShell
3 15 (22.06%) Go
4 10 (14.71%) Bash
5 5 (7.35%) Bicep
6 4 (5.88%) SQL
7 3 (4.41%) Ruby
7 3 (4.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (2.94%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.47%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (39.71%) GDPR
2 5 (7.35%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (7.35%) PCI DSS
3 4 (5.88%) NIST
4 3 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.94%) Docker
3 1 (1.47%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (33.82%) Terraform
2 11 (16.18%) Ansible
3 8 (11.76%) Kubernetes
4 5 (7.35%) Grafana
4 5 (7.35%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.94%) Packer
5 2 (2.94%) Puppet
5 2 (2.94%) Rundeck
6 1 (1.47%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 29 (42.65%) Google
2 16 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 7 (10.29%) Databricks
4 5 (7.35%) Atlassian
4 5 (7.35%) LogicMonitor
4 5 (7.35%) PagerDuty
5 2 (2.94%) New Relic
5 2 (2.94%) Splunk
6 1 (1.47%) IBM
6 1 (1.47%) Red Hat