Platform Engineer Jobs in the North West

Platform Engineer
England > North West

The median Platform Engineer salary in the North West is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 231 225 295
Rank change year-on-year -6 +70 -113
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 58 79 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.61% 0.97% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 1.09% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 25 68 29
10th Percentile £52,950 £48,375 £51,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,938 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,938 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,500 £101,100 £82,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 9,086 7,244 9,089
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.93% 89.30% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7,011 4,162 5,539
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £28,996
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +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 19 April 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 19 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 -4 35 £65,000 -7.14% 10
Lancashire +3 7 - -
Cheshire +1 7 £55,000 +10.00%
Cumbria - 6 - - 1
Merseyside +7 3 - -
Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 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 56 (96.55%) Platform Engineering
2 46 (79.31%) DevOps
3 37 (63.79%) DataOps
4 34 (58.62%) Data Science
4 34 (58.62%) GCP
5 33 (56.90%) BigQuery
5 33 (56.90%) Data Engineering
5 33 (56.90%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (55.17%) Agile
7 31 (53.45%) Google
8 30 (51.72%) Change Management
9 29 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
9 29 (50.00%) GDPR
9 29 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
10 28 (48.28%) Mentoring
11 27 (46.55%) Looker
11 27 (46.55%) Self-Motivation
12 23 (39.66%) Azure
13 20 (34.48%) Infrastructure as Code
13 20 (34.48%) CI/CD
14 16 (27.59%) Terraform
15 14 (24.14%) Azure DevOps
15 14 (24.14%) Python
16 10 (17.24%) PowerShell
16 10 (17.24%) Analytics
17 9 (15.52%) Go
17 9 (15.52%) Bash
17 9 (15.52%) Microsoft
17 9 (15.52%) Retail
18 8 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement

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 2 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (3.45%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 34 (58.62%) GCP
2 23 (39.66%) Azure
3 14 (24.14%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (10.34%) Power Platform
5 5 (8.62%) Anthos
5 5 (8.62%) GitHub
5 5 (8.62%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (8.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 5 (8.62%) IaaS
6 4 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (6.90%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (6.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (6.90%) PaaS
7 3 (5.17%) AWS
8 2 (3.45%) Apigee
8 2 (3.45%) Datadog
8 2 (3.45%) Stackdriver
9 1 (1.72%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.07%) Firewall
2 3 (5.17%) DNS
3 2 (3.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (56.90%) BigQuery
2 27 (46.55%) Looker
3 6 (10.34%) Power BI
4 2 (3.45%) Big Data
5 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (10.34%) Git
2 5 (8.62%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.17%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 29 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (15.52%) Retail
3 6 (10.34%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.17%) Finance
5 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.90%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.72%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 27 (46.55%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (10.34%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (8.62%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.17%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.62%) Windows
1 5 (8.62%) Windows Server
2 4 (6.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (96.55%) Platform Engineering
2 46 (79.31%) DevOps
3 37 (63.79%) DataOps
4 34 (58.62%) Data Science
5 33 (56.90%) Data Engineering
5 33 (56.90%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (55.17%) Agile
7 30 (51.72%) Change Management
8 29 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
9 28 (48.28%) Mentoring
10 20 (34.48%) CI/CD
10 20 (34.48%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (17.24%) Analytics
12 8 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (13.79%) Machine Learning
13 7 (12.07%) Network Virtualisation
14 6 (10.34%) ETL
14 6 (10.34%) Visualisation
15 5 (8.62%) Identity Management
15 5 (8.62%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 14 (24.14%) Python
2 10 (17.24%) PowerShell
3 9 (15.52%) Bash
3 9 (15.52%) Go
4 4 (6.90%) Bicep
5 3 (5.17%) Ruby
6 2 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
1 1 (1.72%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (50.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.72%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (27.59%) Terraform
2 6 (10.34%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.62%) Ansible
4 3 (5.17%) Grafana
4 3 (5.17%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.45%) Puppet
5 2 (3.45%) Rundeck
6 1 (1.72%) Packer
Vendors
1 31 (53.45%) Google
2 9 (15.52%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.62%) LogicMonitor
3 5 (8.62%) PagerDuty
4 4 (6.90%) Databricks
5 2 (3.45%) New Relic
5 2 (3.45%) Splunk
6 1 (1.72%) VMware