Platform Engineering Jobs in the North West

Platform Engineering
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Platform Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 217 200
Rank change year-on-year +139 -17 +76
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 349 78 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.36% 0.79% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.55% 0.96% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 81 35 76
10th Percentile - - £50,625
25th Percentile £56,176 £55,000 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,560 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.73% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £96,539 £97,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Platform Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,665 8,164 7,468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.84% 82.78% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,991 6,201 3,904
10th Percentile £25,856 £27,500 £31,077
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

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 15 May 2025.

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 15 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
Lancashire +35 228 £57,560 -17.77% 23
Manchester +64 60 £67,192 -0.46% 53
Cheshire +40 42 £72,500 +31.82% 9
Cumbria -64 11 £72,500 -
Merseyside +46 8 £67,500 - 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 1 (0.29%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 65 (18.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 65 (18.62%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 22 (6.30%) Azure
2 14 (4.01%) AWS
3 11 (3.15%) GitHub
4 6 (1.72%) GCP
5 4 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (1.15%) Amazon S3
5 4 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.57%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (0.57%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (0.57%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 2 (0.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (0.57%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (0.57%) dbt
7 2 (0.57%) IaaS
7 2 (0.57%) PaaS
7 2 (0.57%) Pulumi
7 2 (0.57%) SaaS
8 1 (0.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 250 (71.63%) Cisco IOS
1 250 (71.63%) VPN
2 2 (0.57%) Internet
2 2 (0.57%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.29%) DNS
3 1 (0.29%) MPLS
3 1 (0.29%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.15%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.57%) Redis
4 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.29%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 65 (18.62%) Rational DOORS
2 12 (3.44%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.87%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.29%) JIRA
General
1 252 (72.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 250 (71.63%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (2.87%) Finance
4 3 (0.86%) Social Skills
5 1 (0.29%) Aviation
5 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.29%) Marketing
5 1 (0.29%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 250 (71.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 87 (24.93%) Platform Engineer
3 65 (18.62%) Systems Engineer
4 14 (4.01%) Lead
5 7 (2.01%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 6 (1.72%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (1.43%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (1.43%) Senior
8 4 (1.15%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 3 (0.86%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (0.86%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 2 (0.57%) AWS Engineer
10 2 (0.57%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 2 (0.57%) Lead DevOps
10 2 (0.57%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.29%) Azure Architect
11 1 (0.29%) Azure Data Architect
11 1 (0.29%) Head of Infrastructure
11 1 (0.29%) Lead Java Engineer
11 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 250 (71.63%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (2.58%) ADO
3 2 (0.57%) AWS CDK
3 2 (0.57%) Django
4 1 (0.29%) .NET
4 1 (0.29%) Spring
4 1 (0.29%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 250 (71.63%) Cyberattack
2 65 (18.62%) Product Ownership
3 5 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (0.57%) Cloud Native
4 2 (0.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.29%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.29%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 256 (73.35%) Linux
2 254 (72.78%) Windows
3 250 (71.63%) Android
4 2 (0.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (75.36%) DevOps
2 254 (72.78%) Line Management
3 253 (72.49%) Problem-Solving
4 251 (71.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 251 (71.92%) Task Automation
5 250 (71.63%) Mathematics
5 250 (71.63%) Risk Management
5 250 (71.63%) Storage Management
6 67 (19.20%) Agile
7 65 (18.62%) ArchiMate
7 65 (18.62%) MODAF
7 65 (18.62%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 65 (18.62%) Programme Delivery
7 65 (18.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 65 (18.62%) SysML
7 65 (18.62%) TOGAF
8 23 (6.59%) CI/CD
9 22 (6.30%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (3.72%) Roadmaps
11 12 (3.44%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 266 (76.22%) Python
2 263 (75.36%) Bash
3 252 (72.21%) PowerShell
4 16 (4.58%) Bicep
5 10 (2.87%) Ruby
6 2 (0.57%) Go
7 1 (0.29%) Java
7 1 (0.29%) PHP
7 1 (0.29%) SQL
7 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 65 (18.62%) BPSS Clearance
1 65 (18.62%) Degree
1 65 (18.62%) TOGAF Certification
2 3 (0.86%) SC Cleared
2 3 (0.86%) Security Cleared
3 2 (0.57%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (0.29%) CCSP
4 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.29%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (0.86%) QA
2 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.57%) NIST
2 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 261 (74.79%) Docker
2 250 (71.63%) Hyper-V
2 250 (71.63%) VMware NSX
2 250 (71.63%) vSphere
3 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 277 (79.37%) Terraform
2 266 (76.22%) Ansible
3 13 (3.72%) Puppet
4 10 (2.87%) Kubernetes
4 10 (2.87%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.57%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 250 (71.63%) 3PAR
1 250 (71.63%) Cisco
1 250 (71.63%) Juniper
1 250 (71.63%) Splunk
2 65 (18.62%) Sparx
3 2 (0.57%) Google
3 2 (0.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.29%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.29%) Databricks
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle