Platform Engineer Job Trends in Stockport

Platform Engineer
Manchester > Stockport

The median Platform Engineer salary in Stockport is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Stockport 1.45% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.89% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
Manchester median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £65,904
% change year-on-year +20.00% -5.16% -5.85%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Stockport

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Stockport. 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 Stockport with a recognized job title 53 58 78
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 76.81% 93.55% 81.25%
Number of salaries quoted 34 21 30
10th Percentile £27,450 £30,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £45,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £38,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.72% -27.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,125 £57,500 £65,000
Manchester median annual salary £60,000 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.21% -3.64% -8.33%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Stockport

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Stockport.

Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Stockport

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Stockport

Salary distribution trend for Platform Engineer job vacancies in Stockport.

Salary distribution trend for Platform Engineer job vacancies in Stockport

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stockport

For the 6 months to 23 September 2026, Platform Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Stockport region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stockport 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google