Platform Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Platform Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £460 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

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

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 151 161
Rank change year-on-year +45 +10 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 21 16 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.97% 0.57% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% 0.60% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 11 9
10th Percentile £436 £481 £463
25th Percentile £447 £508 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £525 £508
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% +3.45% +12.78%
75th Percentile £519 £544 £550
90th Percentile £537 £650 £563
UK median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +1.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £49.54
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £76.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -28.10% +27.50% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 2,054 2,681 3,374
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 95.24% 95.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 1,919 2,400
10th Percentile £200 £231 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £580 £556 £550
90th Percentile £654 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 44 52
10th Percentile £12.32 £12.86 £14.65
25th Percentile £16.06 £15.93 £17.50
Median hourly rate £24.27 £22.13 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year +9.71% -17.60% -28.40%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.82 £48.19
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.22 £54.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Scotland

Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer in Scotland

Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineer in Scotland

Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +20 16 £453 -22.23% 1
Edinburgh +43 4 £515 -1.90% 1
Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Platform Engineer contract 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 contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (95.24%) Python
2 17 (80.95%) Platform Engineering
3 15 (71.43%) AWS
3 15 (71.43%) DevOps
4 14 (66.67%) Kubernetes
5 13 (61.90%) Linux
6 12 (57.14%) Terraform
7 9 (42.86%) GitOps
7 9 (42.86%) Java
8 8 (38.10%) Computer Science
8 8 (38.10%) Scala
8 8 (38.10%) Azure
8 8 (38.10%) Docker
8 8 (38.10%) Apache Airflow
8 8 (38.10%) Databricks
8 8 (38.10%) Data Engineering
8 8 (38.10%) Data Pipeline
8 8 (38.10%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (38.10%) DataOps
8 8 (38.10%) MLOps
8 8 (38.10%) Snowflake
9 7 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (28.57%) Unix
10 6 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (28.57%) Amazon S3
10 6 (28.57%) Bash
10 6 (28.57%) Ubuntu
10 6 (28.57%) Perl
10 6 (28.57%) OO
10 6 (28.57%) Elasticsearch

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (38.10%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (71.43%) AWS
2 8 (38.10%) Azure
2 8 (38.10%) Snowflake
3 6 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (28.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 6 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 6 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (28.57%) OpenShift
3 6 (28.57%) Serverless
4 5 (23.81%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (23.81%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (4.76%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (14.29%) InfluxDB
2 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.76%) MariaDB
3 1 (4.76%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Artifactory
1 6 (28.57%) GitLab
1 6 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.76%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (4.76%) Terragrunt
General
1 5 (23.81%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) AWS CDK
2 3 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (61.90%) Linux
2 7 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (28.57%) Ubuntu
3 6 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (80.95%) Platform Engineering
2 15 (71.43%) DevOps
3 9 (42.86%) GitOps
4 8 (38.10%) Computer Science
4 8 (38.10%) Data Engineering
4 8 (38.10%) Data Pipeline
4 8 (38.10%) DataOps
4 8 (38.10%) MLOps
5 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 6 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (28.57%) OO
6 4 (19.05%) Agile
6 4 (19.05%) Observability
6 4 (19.05%) Software Delivery
6 4 (19.05%) Test Automation
7 2 (9.52%) Continuous Delivery
7 2 (9.52%) Kanban
7 2 (9.52%) Scrum
8 1 (4.76%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (95.24%) Python
2 9 (42.86%) Java
3 8 (38.10%) Scala
4 6 (28.57%) Bash
4 6 (28.57%) Perl
5 5 (23.81%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 8 (38.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 12 (57.14%) Terraform
3 6 (28.57%) Ansible
3 6 (28.57%) Grafana
3 6 (28.57%) Kibana
4 2 (9.52%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (4.76%) FreeIPA
5 1 (4.76%) Icinga
5 1 (4.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Databricks
2 2 (9.52%) BMC
3 1 (4.76%) Splunk