Platform Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Platform Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Platform Engineer salary in Manchester is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 179 160 241
Rank change year-on-year -19 +81 -87
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 41 73 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.73% 1.60% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 1.74% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 29 57 18
10th Percentile £47,700 £53,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,500 £98,000 £85,625
North West median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year -10.71% +14.29% +2.08%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 5,318 4,194 5,551
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.85% 96.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,022 2,562 3,594
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,526
25th Percentile £40,988 £43,563 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,392 £82,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Manchester

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in Manchester

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in Manchester

Platform Engineer
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
Oldham +24 3 - -
Salford - 1 £90,000 -
Platform Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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 Manchester region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 40 (97.56%) Platform Engineering
2 30 (73.17%) DevOps
3 29 (70.73%) Azure
4 24 (58.54%) CI/CD
5 22 (53.66%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (48.78%) Terraform
7 19 (46.34%) Python
8 18 (43.90%) DataOps
9 16 (39.02%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (36.59%) GCP
11 14 (34.15%) Data Science
11 14 (34.15%) PowerShell
12 13 (31.71%) Agile
12 13 (31.71%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (31.71%) Data Engineering
13 12 (29.27%) BigQuery
13 12 (29.27%) Microsoft
13 12 (29.27%) Analytics
14 11 (26.83%) Go
15 10 (24.39%) Machine Learning
15 10 (24.39%) Google
16 9 (21.95%) Change Management
16 9 (21.95%) Continuous Improvement
16 9 (21.95%) Bash
17 8 (19.51%) Git
17 8 (19.51%) Firewall
17 8 (19.51%) Retail
17 8 (19.51%) Ansible
17 8 (19.51%) Mentoring
17 8 (19.51%) Analytical Skills

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.88%) Apache Spark
1 2 (4.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 29 (70.73%) Azure
2 16 (39.02%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (36.59%) GCP
4 7 (17.07%) GitHub
4 7 (17.07%) Power Platform
5 6 (14.63%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (14.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (12.20%) Anthos
6 5 (12.20%) AWS
6 5 (12.20%) Azure Key Vault
6 5 (12.20%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (12.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 5 (12.20%) IaaS
6 5 (12.20%) PaaS
7 2 (4.88%) Apigee
7 2 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (4.88%) Datadog
7 2 (4.88%) Stackdriver
8 1 (2.44%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.44%) Azure Cognitive Search
Communications & Networking
1 8 (19.51%) Firewall
2 4 (9.76%) DNS
3 2 (4.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (29.27%) BigQuery
2 7 (17.07%) Power BI
3 6 (14.63%) Looker
4 2 (4.88%) Big Data
5 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (19.51%) Git
2 6 (14.63%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.32%) GitLab
3 3 (7.32%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (4.88%) Bitbucket
4 2 (4.88%) JIRA
4 2 (4.88%) NUnit
General
1 8 (19.51%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (19.51%) Retail
2 6 (14.63%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.32%) Finance
4 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.76%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.44%) Loki
2 1 (2.44%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Hybrid Cloud
1 6 (14.63%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (12.20%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.63%) Windows
1 6 (14.63%) Windows Server
2 3 (7.32%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (97.56%) Platform Engineering
2 30 (73.17%) DevOps
3 24 (58.54%) CI/CD
4 22 (53.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (43.90%) DataOps
6 14 (34.15%) Data Science
7 13 (31.71%) Agile
7 13 (31.71%) Data Engineering
7 13 (31.71%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (29.27%) Analytics
9 10 (24.39%) Machine Learning
10 9 (21.95%) Change Management
10 9 (21.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (19.51%) Data Pipeline
11 8 (19.51%) Mentoring
12 7 (17.07%) ETL
12 7 (17.07%) Network Virtualisation
12 7 (17.07%) Visualisation
13 5 (12.20%) Continuous Integration
13 5 (12.20%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 19 (46.34%) Python
2 14 (34.15%) PowerShell
3 11 (26.83%) Go
4 9 (21.95%) Bash
5 5 (12.20%) Bicep
6 3 (7.32%) Ruby
7 2 (4.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.51%) GDPR
2 2 (4.88%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.88%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.44%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (9.76%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (4.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (48.78%) Terraform
2 8 (19.51%) Ansible
3 7 (17.07%) Kubernetes
4 3 (7.32%) Grafana
4 3 (7.32%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.88%) Puppet
5 2 (4.88%) Rundeck
6 1 (2.44%) Packer
Vendors
1 12 (29.27%) Microsoft
2 10 (24.39%) Google
3 6 (14.63%) Databricks
4 5 (12.20%) LogicMonitor
4 5 (12.20%) PagerDuty
5 2 (4.88%) Atlassian
5 2 (4.88%) New Relic
5 2 (4.88%) Splunk