Platform Manager Jobs

Platform Manager
UK

The median Platform Manager salary in the UK is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 846 911 1181
Rank change year-on-year +65 +270 -269
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Manager 76 34 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.070% 0.037% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.040% 0.061%
Number of salaries quoted 47 23 51
10th Percentile £57,500 £59,700 £65,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £66,250 £74,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -9.09% +6.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £105,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £112,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £90,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% - +15.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 102,753 84,908 164,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.21% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 72,538 55,143 85,388
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,524 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

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 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Manager in the UK

Platform Manager
Top 14 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 9 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
England +68 69 £85,000 +13.33% 14
UK excluding London -26 52 £90,000 +20.00% 6
Work from Home +82 37 £85,000 +13.33% 7
North of England +47 25 £83,750 -20.24% 2
London +71 21 £82,500 +13.79% 8
North West +8 19 £95,000 -9.52% 1
South East -2 9 £90,000 +16.13% 2
Midlands -25 9 - - 1
East Midlands - 9 - - 1
Scotland -62 5 £99,500 +39.65%
North East - 4 £65,000 -
East of England - 3 - -
Yorkshire - 2 £59,250 - 1
South West - 1 £90,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, 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 25 (32.89%) Azure
2 20 (26.32%) Power Platform
3 19 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 18 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (21.05%) Project Management
6 15 (19.74%) Data Science
7 13 (17.11%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (17.11%) Low-Code
8 12 (15.79%) Product Ownership
9 11 (14.47%) Machine Learning
9 11 (14.47%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (14.47%) SQL
9 11 (14.47%) Artificial Intelligence
10 10 (13.16%) Microsoft
10 10 (13.16%) Finance
10 10 (13.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 10 (13.16%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (11.84%) Databricks
11 9 (11.84%) Collaborative Working
11 9 (11.84%) Analytics
11 9 (11.84%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
12 8 (10.53%) SharePoint
12 8 (10.53%) Agile
12 8 (10.53%) Asset Management
12 8 (10.53%) NoSQL
12 8 (10.53%) DevOps
12 8 (10.53%) GCP
12 8 (10.53%) HDInsight
12 8 (10.53%) Power BI

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 8 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (10.53%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.63%) CMS
3 1 (1.32%) Kentico
3 1 (1.32%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (32.89%) Azure
2 20 (26.32%) Power Platform
3 11 (14.47%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (13.16%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (13.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 8 (10.53%) GCP
6 6 (7.89%) Power Automate
6 6 (7.89%) PowerApps
7 5 (6.58%) SaaS
8 4 (5.26%) IaaS
8 4 (5.26%) PaaS
9 3 (3.95%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (1.32%) AWS
11 1 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.32%) Serverless
11 1 (1.32%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.84%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (10.53%) Data Lake
2 8 (10.53%) HDInsight
2 8 (10.53%) NoSQL
2 8 (10.53%) Power BI
3 6 (7.89%) Big Data
4 4 (5.26%) Looker
4 4 (5.26%) QlikView
4 4 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 4 (5.26%) Tableau
5 2 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.32%) JIRA
General
1 19 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (17.11%) Presentation Skills
4 10 (13.16%) Finance
5 5 (6.58%) Marketing
6 3 (3.95%) Law
6 3 (3.95%) Retail
7 1 (1.32%) Legal
7 1 (1.32%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.58%) Web Services
2 4 (5.26%) XML
2 4 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.11%) Low-Code
2 12 (15.79%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.26%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (21.05%) Project Management
2 15 (19.74%) Data Science
3 11 (14.47%) Artificial Intelligence
3 11 (14.47%) Machine Learning
4 9 (11.84%) Analytics
4 9 (11.84%) Collaborative Working
5 8 (10.53%) Acceptance Criteria
5 8 (10.53%) Agile
5 8 (10.53%) Asset Management
5 8 (10.53%) DevOps
5 8 (10.53%) Epics
6 7 (9.21%) Data Engineering
6 7 (9.21%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (7.89%) Business Case
7 6 (7.89%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (7.89%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 6 (7.89%) Roadmaps
7 6 (7.89%) Thought Leadership
8 5 (6.58%) Customer-Centricity
8 5 (6.58%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.47%) SQL
2 4 (5.26%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.32%) C#
3 1 (1.32%) Python
3 1 (1.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (5.26%) Degree
2 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.32%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 4 (5.26%) GDPR
2 1 (1.32%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.32%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (13.16%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.84%) Databricks
3 4 (5.26%) Foundry
4 3 (3.95%) Tealium
4 3 (3.95%) UiPath
5 1 (1.32%) Palantir