Platform Engineering Job Trends in Salford

Platform Engineering
Manchester > Salford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Salford requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 19 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 2 6 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Salford 1.53% 6.19% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 6.74% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £66,363 - -
25th Percentile £66,771 £64,471 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,940 £69,308 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% - -
75th Percentile £77,609 £74,144 -
90th Percentile £78,317 - -
Manchester median annual salary £70,000 £69,308 £79,632
% change year-on-year +1.00% -12.97% +17.97%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Salford

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 Salford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 101 89 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Salford 77.10% 91.75% 87.50%
Number of salaries quoted 64 21 41
10th Percentile £27,525 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £30,750 £46,713 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £59,430 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.28% +3.36% +9.52%
75th Percentile £71,017 £68,750 £69,800
90th Percentile £78,646 £74,144 £80,070
Manchester median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Salford

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Salford

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in Salford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Salford citing Platform Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Salford citing Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Salford 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) dbt
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Datadog
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) Locust
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Django
1 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) FinOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Copilot
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google