Platform Engineer Jobs in Oldham

Platform Engineer
Manchester > Oldham

The median Platform Engineer salary in Oldham is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 August 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 14 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 1 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oldham 2.04% 2.63% -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.22% 2.70% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - -
75th Percentile £67,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median annual salary £62,500 £61,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.04% -12.50% -1.75%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Oldham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Oldham. 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 Oldham with a recognized job title 45 37 56
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.84% 97.37% 65.88%
Number of salaries quoted 23 7 30
10th Percentile £26,750 - £37,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £22,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £25,000 £51,940
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -51.87% +9.15%
75th Percentile £52,320 £37,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £57,500 £57,200 £63,900
Manchester median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Oldham

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Oldham

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oldham

For the 6 months to 15 August 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 Oldham region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oldham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform