Platform Engineer Jobs in the North West

Platform Engineer
England > North West

The median Platform Engineer salary in the North West is £62,500 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 233 214 302
Rank change year-on-year -19 +88 -119
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 64 79 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.60% 1.07% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 1.20% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 30 63 28
10th Percentile £47,725 £48,750 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +14.29% +2.08%
75th Percentile £71,875 £80,000 £78,125
90th Percentile £90,250 £93,500 £82,875
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 North West with a recognized job title 10,124 6,596 9,240
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.88% 89.24% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 7,670 3,972 5,398
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,138 £28,250
25th Percentile £36,500 £40,791 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,525 £81,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in the North West

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in the North West.

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in the North West

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

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

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in the North West

Platform Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the North West 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
Manchester -19 41 £65,000 -7.14% 14
Cheshire -7 7 £55,000 -4.35%
Lancashire -13 7 - -
Cumbria - 6 - -
Merseyside +11 3 - -
Platform Engineer
England

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

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 North West region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 63 (98.44%) Platform Engineering
2 52 (81.25%) DevOps
3 39 (60.94%) DataOps
4 36 (56.25%) GCP
5 35 (54.69%) Data Science
6 34 (53.13%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (53.13%) Data Engineering
6 34 (53.13%) Agile
7 33 (51.56%) BigQuery
8 31 (48.44%) Google
8 31 (48.44%) Azure
9 30 (46.88%) Change Management
10 29 (45.31%) GDPR
10 29 (45.31%) Analytical Skills
10 29 (45.31%) Mentoring
10 29 (45.31%) Data Pipeline
11 27 (42.19%) Looker
11 27 (42.19%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (37.50%) CI/CD
13 22 (34.38%) Infrastructure as Code
14 20 (31.25%) Terraform
15 19 (29.69%) Python
16 17 (26.56%) Azure DevOps
17 14 (21.88%) PowerShell
18 12 (18.75%) Analytics
18 12 (18.75%) Microsoft
19 11 (17.19%) Go
20 10 (15.63%) Machine Learning
21 9 (14.06%) Bash
21 9 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (3.13%) Apache Spark
1 2 (3.13%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 36 (56.25%) GCP
2 31 (48.44%) Azure
3 17 (26.56%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (10.94%) GitHub
4 7 (10.94%) Power Platform
5 6 (9.38%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (9.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (7.81%) Anthos
6 5 (7.81%) AWS
6 5 (7.81%) Azure Key Vault
6 5 (7.81%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (7.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 5 (7.81%) IaaS
6 5 (7.81%) PaaS
7 2 (3.13%) Apigee
7 2 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (3.13%) Datadog
7 2 (3.13%) Stackdriver
8 1 (1.56%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Cognitive Search
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.50%) Firewall
2 4 (6.25%) DNS
3 2 (3.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (51.56%) BigQuery
2 27 (42.19%) Looker
3 7 (10.94%) Power BI
4 2 (3.13%) Big Data
5 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (12.50%) Git
2 6 (9.38%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.69%) GitLab
3 3 (4.69%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (3.13%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.13%) JIRA
4 2 (3.13%) NUnit
General
1 29 (45.31%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (12.50%) Retail
3 6 (9.38%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.69%) Finance
5 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.25%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.56%) Loki
2 1 (1.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (42.19%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (9.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (7.81%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.69%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.38%) Windows
1 6 (9.38%) Windows Server
2 3 (4.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (98.44%) Platform Engineering
2 52 (81.25%) DevOps
3 39 (60.94%) DataOps
4 35 (54.69%) Data Science
5 34 (53.13%) Agile
5 34 (53.13%) Data Engineering
5 34 (53.13%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (46.88%) Change Management
7 29 (45.31%) Data Pipeline
7 29 (45.31%) Mentoring
8 24 (37.50%) CI/CD
9 22 (34.38%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (18.75%) Analytics
11 10 (15.63%) Machine Learning
12 9 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (10.94%) ETL
13 7 (10.94%) Network Virtualisation
13 7 (10.94%) Visualisation
14 5 (7.81%) ITIL
14 5 (7.81%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (29.69%) Python
2 14 (21.88%) PowerShell
3 11 (17.19%) Go
4 9 (14.06%) Bash
5 5 (7.81%) Bicep
6 3 (4.69%) Ruby
6 3 (4.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (45.31%) GDPR
2 2 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.13%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.56%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (31.25%) Terraform
2 8 (12.50%) Ansible
3 7 (10.94%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.69%) Grafana
4 3 (4.69%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.13%) Puppet
5 2 (3.13%) Rundeck
6 1 (1.56%) Packer
Vendors
1 31 (48.44%) Google
2 12 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.38%) Databricks
4 5 (7.81%) LogicMonitor
4 5 (7.81%) PagerDuty
5 2 (3.13%) Atlassian
5 2 (3.13%) New Relic
5 2 (3.13%) Splunk