Platform Manager Jobs

Platform Manager
UK

The median Platform Manager salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 653 826 947
Rank change year-on-year +173 +121 +171
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Manager 39 70 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.075% 0.071% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.083% 0.075% 0.044%
Number of salaries quoted 29 49 27
10th Percentile £58,441 - £61,100
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £82,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% +13.79% -12.12%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £97,950 £101,250 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year - -9.68% +3.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 46,902 93,183 95,132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,275 66,883 59,840
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Platform Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Manager in the UK

Platform Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Platform Manager in the UK

Platform Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Manager over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Platform Manager in the UK

Platform Manager
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +145 32 £73,125 -10.00% 22
UK excluding London +183 21 £70,000 - 17
Work from Home +177 14 £60,743 -28.54% 7
London +101 11 £95,000 +13.43% 12
Midlands +86 9 £72,500 - 1
West Midlands - 9 £72,500 -
Scotland +129 4 £60,743 -6.55% 2
South West +110 4 £60,125 -33.19%
South East +102 2 £90,000 +38.46% 7
North of England +65 2 £91,500 +9.25% 5
North West +15 2 £91,500 +9.25% 3

Platform Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Platform Manager 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 featuring Platform Manager in the job title.

1 19 (48.72%) Microsoft
2 18 (46.15%) Azure
3 17 (43.59%) Agile
4 15 (38.46%) Finance
5 11 (28.21%) Project Management
6 10 (25.64%) Roadmaps
7 9 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
7 9 (23.08%) Degree
7 9 (23.08%) DevOps
8 8 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (20.51%) Platform Engineering
8 8 (20.51%) Containerisation
9 7 (17.95%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (17.95%) Power Platform
9 7 (17.95%) High Availability
9 7 (17.95%) Computer Science
9 7 (17.95%) AWS
10 6 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (15.38%) GCP
10 6 (15.38%) Docker
10 6 (15.38%) Management Information System
10 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (15.38%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 6 (15.38%) Budget Management
10 6 (15.38%) CI/CD
10 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
11 5 (12.82%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (12.82%) Decision-Making

Platform Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.56%) Apache
2 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (7.69%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 18 (46.15%) Azure
2 7 (17.95%) AWS
2 7 (17.95%) Dynamics 365
2 7 (17.95%) Power Platform
3 6 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (15.38%) GCP
4 4 (10.26%) IaaS
4 4 (10.26%) PaaS
4 4 (10.26%) SaaS
5 3 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.13%) Datadog
6 2 (5.13%) Power Automate
6 2 (5.13%) PowerApps
6 2 (5.13%) Serverless
7 1 (2.56%) Cohesity
7 1 (2.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) ADSL
1 2 (5.13%) Firewall
1 2 (5.13%) Internet
2 1 (2.56%) MPLS
2 1 (2.56%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) BigQuery
1 3 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (7.69%) Essbase
1 3 (7.69%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.13%) Power BI
2 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.56%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (38.46%) Finance
2 8 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 5 (12.82%) Banking
5 4 (10.26%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (7.69%) Law
6 3 (7.69%) Legal
7 2 (5.13%) Advertising
7 2 (5.13%) Investment Banking
7 2 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (5.13%) Retail
8 1 (2.56%) Russian Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) MDX
2 2 (5.13%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (5.13%) PySpark
3 1 (2.56%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.13%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (5.13%) Clustering
2 2 (5.13%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (5.13%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.13%) Low-Code
2 2 (5.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.82%) Linux
2 4 (10.26%) Windows
3 1 (2.56%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (43.59%) Agile
2 11 (28.21%) Project Management
3 10 (25.64%) Roadmaps
4 9 (23.08%) DevOps
4 9 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
5 8 (20.51%) Containerisation
5 8 (20.51%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (17.95%) Computer Science
6 7 (17.95%) High Availability
7 6 (15.38%) Budget Management
7 6 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 6 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (15.38%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (12.82%) CRM
8 5 (12.82%) Decision-Making
8 5 (12.82%) ITIL
8 5 (12.82%) Software Engineering
9 4 (10.26%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.26%) Python
2 3 (7.69%) Groovy
3 2 (5.13%) Bash
3 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.13%) R
3 2 (5.13%) SQL
3 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (23.08%) Degree
2 5 (12.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 3 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) GDPR
1 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.56%) SLA
1 1 (2.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (15.38%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.13%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.69%) Terraform
3 2 (5.13%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (5.13%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (48.72%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.82%) VMware
3 3 (7.69%) Informatica
3 3 (7.69%) Oracle
3 3 (7.69%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.13%) Apple
4 2 (5.13%) Databricks
5 1 (2.56%) Brocade
5 1 (2.56%) Cisco
5 1 (2.56%) Citrix
5 1 (2.56%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.56%) Pure Storage