Platform Engineer Jobs in Salford

Platform Engineer
Manchester > Salford

The median Platform Engineer salary in Salford is £69,384 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 May 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 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 26 -
Rank change year-on-year +14 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 2 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Salford 4.88% 0.76% -
As % of the Job Titles category 5.26% 0.77% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £64,509 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £90,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.91% - -
75th Percentile £74,258 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Salford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Salford. 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 Salford with a recognized job title 38 130 147
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.68% 98.48% 85.47%
Number of salaries quoted 27 89 57
10th Percentile £29,750 £24,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £48,398
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.76% -4.55% +24.29%
75th Percentile £69,380 £62,200 £65,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £75,000
Manchester median annual salary £58,750 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +6.82% -4.35% +4.55%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Salford

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Salford

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Salford

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in Salford.

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in Salford

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Salford

For the 6 months to 15 May 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 Salford region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Unix
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) Django
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Redis
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CodeBuild

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Salford 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 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (100.00%) dbt
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Redis
General
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Django
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Copilot
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google