Platform Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Platform Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Platform Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 148 142
Rank change year-on-year +42 -6 -42
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 16 6 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.04% 0.28% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 0.29% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 12 5 7
10th Percentile - - £41,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,000 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,447 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +38.89% +5.26%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,715 £51,875
90th Percentile £103,500 - £56,250
Scotland median annual salary £65,000 £69,447 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.40% +38.89% +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 1,478 2,083 2,236
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.79% 95.55% 97.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,044 1,223 1,396
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,331 £33,488
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £77,715 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,934 £90,597 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Edinburgh

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in Edinburgh

Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 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 Edinburgh region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (43.75%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (31.25%) OpenShift
3 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
3 5 (31.25%) Terraform
3 5 (31.25%) JIRA
3 5 (31.25%) Linux
3 5 (31.25%) Python
3 5 (31.25%) AWS
3 5 (31.25%) Bash
3 5 (31.25%) Artifactory
3 5 (31.25%) Containerisation
3 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
4 4 (25.00%) Finance
4 4 (25.00%) Agile
4 4 (25.00%) Banking
4 4 (25.00%) Network Security
4 4 (25.00%) DevOps
4 4 (25.00%) Retail Banking
4 4 (25.00%) Azure
4 4 (25.00%) Istio
4 4 (25.00%) GitHub
4 4 (25.00%) Snyk
5 3 (18.75%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (18.75%) Data Science
5 3 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (18.75%) DataOps
5 3 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (18.75%) Data Engineering

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
1 5 (31.25%) OpenShift
2 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) GitHub
3 3 (18.75%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.25%) Route 53
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) BigQuery
1 3 (18.75%) Looker
2 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (6.25%) InfluxDB
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Artifactory
1 5 (31.25%) JIRA
2 4 (25.00%) Snyk
3 1 (6.25%) GitLab
3 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (25.00%) Banking
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
1 4 (25.00%) Retail Banking
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) AWS CDK
1 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (43.75%) Platform Engineering
2 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 5 (31.25%) Containerisation
4 4 (25.00%) Agile
4 4 (25.00%) DevOps
5 3 (18.75%) Change Management
5 3 (18.75%) Data Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (18.75%) Data Science
5 3 (18.75%) DataOps
5 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
6 1 (6.25%) Architecture Roadmap
6 1 (6.25%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (6.25%) Observability
6 1 (6.25%) Roadmaps
6 1 (6.25%) Software Delivery
6 1 (6.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Bash
1 5 (31.25%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) Groovy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
1 5 (31.25%) Terraform
2 4 (25.00%) Istio
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Grafana
3 1 (6.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Google