Platform Engineering Job Trends in Oldham

Platform Engineering
Manchester > Oldham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Oldham requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Oldham 10.53% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.81% - -
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 £65,000 £57,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -23.33% +27.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oldham

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 Oldham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37 38 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oldham 97.37% 90.48% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 10 8 16
10th Percentile £31,500 £22,500 £42,116
25th Percentile £32,063 £29,250 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,136 £45,500 £52,690
Median % change year-on-year +5.79% -13.65% +17.09%
75th Percentile £54,878 £60,000 £60,800
90th Percentile £60,264 £67,875 £70,000
Manchester median annual salary £52,250 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% -8.33% +9.09%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Oldham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Platform Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Oldham.

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Oldham

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in Oldham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oldham citing Platform Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oldham citing Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oldham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Datadog
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Android
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Task Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Line Management
2 3 (75.00%) Mathematics
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (75.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Deep Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) Go
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
2 3 (75.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (75.00%) VMware NSX
2 3 (75.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) 3PAR
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) Juniper
1 3 (75.00%) Splunk