Platform Engineering Jobs in the North West

Platform Engineering
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Platform Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 214 210 281
Rank change year-on-year -4 +71 -149
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 78 94 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.80% 1.17% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 1.23% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 35 74 45
10th Percentile - £47,875 £52,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +30.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £96,539 £98,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% +20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Platform Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,063 7,671 8,963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.18% 95.78% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,139 3,964 5,357
10th Percentile £27,950 £30,500 £30,150
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.03%
75th Percentile £65,603 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in the North West

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in the North West

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in the North West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in the North West

Platform Engineering
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 Engineering within the North West region over the 6 months to 25 April 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 +3 54 £65,000 -7.14% 12
Lancashire -1 8 £70,000 +64.71% 2
Cheshire -8 7 £55,000 +10.00%
Cumbria - 6 - - 1
Merseyside +7 3 - -
Platform Engineering
England

Platform Engineering
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 (6.41%) Confluence
2 2 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.56%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 54 (69.23%) GCP
2 45 (57.69%) Azure
3 20 (25.64%) AWS
4 16 (20.51%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (12.82%) GitHub
6 6 (7.69%) Power Platform
7 5 (6.41%) Anthos
7 5 (6.41%) Collibra
7 5 (6.41%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (6.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 5 (6.41%) IaaS
7 5 (6.41%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (5.13%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (5.13%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (5.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (5.13%) PaaS
9 2 (2.56%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.56%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (2.56%) CloudFront
9 2 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.97%) Firewall
2 3 (3.85%) DNS
3 2 (2.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (53.85%) BigQuery
2 35 (44.87%) Looker
3 9 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (8.97%) NoSQL
5 6 (7.69%) MySQL
5 6 (7.69%) Power BI
6 5 (6.41%) Metadata
7 3 (3.85%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.56%) Big Data
8 2 (2.56%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.56%) Redis
8 2 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (12.82%) Jenkins
2 6 (7.69%) Git
3 5 (6.41%) JIRA
3 5 (6.41%) Spinnaker
4 3 (3.85%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 38 (48.72%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (14.10%) Social Skills
3 9 (11.54%) Retail
4 8 (10.26%) Finance
5 5 (6.41%) Banking
6 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.28%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 56 (71.79%) Platform Engineer
2 38 (48.72%) Data Engineer
3 29 (37.18%) Principal Data Engineer
3 29 (37.18%) Principal Engineer
4 20 (25.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 12 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
5 12 (15.38%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 11 (14.10%) Lead
7 10 (12.82%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (11.54%) Architect
8 9 (11.54%) Data Architect
9 8 (10.26%) Developer
10 6 (7.69%) .NET Developer
10 6 (7.69%) Lead .NET Developer
10 6 (7.69%) Lead Developer
11 5 (6.41%) Lead Data Engineer
12 4 (5.13%) GCP Engineer
13 3 (3.85%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 3 (3.85%) Senior
13 3 (3.85%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.26%) .NET
1 8 (10.26%) .NET Framework
2 6 (7.69%) Web Services
3 4 (5.13%) ARM Templates
4 3 (3.85%) CSS
4 3 (3.85%) HTML
5 2 (2.56%) .NET Core
5 2 (2.56%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.56%) ASP.NET
5 2 (2.56%) AWS CDK
5 2 (2.56%) Node.js
6 1 (1.28%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 35 (44.87%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (12.82%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (7.69%) Video\Live Streaming
4 5 (6.41%) Product Ownership
5 4 (5.13%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.97%) Windows
1 7 (8.97%) Windows Server
2 5 (6.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (67.95%) DevOps
2 48 (61.54%) Mentoring
3 46 (58.97%) Data Engineering
4 44 (56.41%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (55.13%) Agile
6 37 (47.44%) DataOps
7 34 (43.59%) Data Science
8 30 (38.46%) Change Management
9 29 (37.18%) Data Pipeline
10 22 (28.21%) CI/CD
10 22 (28.21%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (19.23%) ETL
12 13 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (14.10%) OOP
14 10 (12.82%) Analytics
15 9 (11.54%) Data Architecture
15 9 (11.54%) Data Governance
15 9 (11.54%) Data Modelling
15 9 (11.54%) Data Security
16 8 (10.26%) ERD
Programming Languages
1 16 (20.51%) Python
2 10 (12.82%) PowerShell
3 9 (11.54%) Bash
3 9 (11.54%) Go
4 8 (10.26%) C#
4 8 (10.26%) SQL
5 6 (7.69%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.13%) Bicep
7 3 (3.85%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.85%) Ruby
8 2 (2.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (10.26%) AWS Certification
2 7 (8.97%) Azure Certification
3 6 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (7.69%) Degree
4 2 (2.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (48.72%) GDPR
2 13 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (23.08%) Terraform
2 6 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.41%) Ansible
4 3 (3.85%) Grafana
4 3 (3.85%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.56%) Puppet
5 2 (2.56%) Rundeck
6 1 (1.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 44 (56.41%) Google
2 11 (14.10%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.41%) LogicMonitor
3 5 (6.41%) PagerDuty
4 4 (5.13%) Databricks
5 2 (2.56%) New Relic
5 2 (2.56%) Splunk