Platform Engineering Jobs in Scotland

Platform Engineering
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Platform Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 243 214 227
Rank change year-on-year -29 +13 -130
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 41 14 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.61% 0.30% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.31% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 16 9 18
10th Percentile £40,833 £56,250 £48,000
25th Percentile £42,458 £58,000 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £69,447 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% +20.78% +21.05%
75th Percentile £100,105 £77,715 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £79,172 £86,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% +20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Platform Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,252 4,454 5,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.81% 94.28% 90.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,422 2,240 2,807
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,231 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,577 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +9.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,906 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Scotland

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in Scotland.

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in Scotland

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in Scotland

Platform Engineering
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineering within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +46 18 £92,319 +32.93% 8
Glasgow -97 12 £42,202 -26.61% 3
Lanarkshire - 8 - - 1
Aberdeen - 3 - -
Platform Engineering
UK

Platform Engineering
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:

Cloud Services
1 21 (51.22%) Azure
2 20 (48.78%) AWS
3 19 (46.34%) GCP
4 7 (17.07%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (14.63%) GitHub
5 6 (14.63%) OpenShift
6 4 (9.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (7.32%) Datadog
7 3 (7.32%) Power Platform
7 3 (7.32%) Serverless
7 3 (7.32%) Snowflake
8 2 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.44%) Azure App Service
9 1 (2.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (41.46%) BigQuery
1 17 (41.46%) Looker
2 10 (24.39%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (7.32%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (7.32%) Ingres
3 3 (7.32%) Power BI
3 3 (7.32%) SQL Server
3 3 (7.32%) Tableau
4 1 (2.44%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 6 (14.63%) JIRA
2 4 (9.76%) Artifactory
2 4 (9.76%) Git
2 4 (9.76%) Jenkins
2 4 (9.76%) Snyk
3 2 (4.88%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (4.88%) Spinnaker
4 1 (2.44%) GoCD
4 1 (2.44%) Gradle
4 1 (2.44%) Maven
4 1 (2.44%) Spock
General
1 16 (39.02%) Analytical Skills
1 16 (39.02%) Finance
2 14 (34.15%) Banking
3 9 (21.95%) Retail Banking
4 7 (17.07%) Billing
5 5 (12.20%) Social Skills
6 4 (9.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (9.76%) Law
6 4 (9.76%) Marketing
7 3 (7.32%) Investment Banking
8 2 (4.88%) Retail
9 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (43.90%) Platform Engineer
2 10 (24.39%) Data Engineer
2 10 (24.39%) Principal Data Engineer
2 10 (24.39%) Principal Engineer
3 8 (19.51%) Lead
4 7 (17.07%) Data Manager
4 7 (17.07%) Engineering Manager
5 5 (12.20%) Architect
5 5 (12.20%) Technical Architect
6 4 (9.76%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Software Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) AWS Software Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Database Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Java Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Java Software Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Mainframe Architect
9 1 (2.44%) Azure Engineer
9 1 (2.44%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.32%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (2.44%) Spring
2 1 (2.44%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (24.39%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (19.51%) Product Ownership
3 5 (12.20%) Public Cloud
4 3 (7.32%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.88%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.63%) Linux
2 4 (9.76%) Windows
3 3 (7.32%) Unix
4 1 (2.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (65.85%) Agile
2 25 (60.98%) DevOps
3 20 (48.78%) Data Engineering
4 18 (43.90%) CI/CD
5 17 (41.46%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (31.71%) Data Science
6 13 (31.71%) Mentoring
7 11 (26.83%) Change Management
7 11 (26.83%) ETL
8 10 (24.39%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (21.95%) Data Modelling
9 9 (21.95%) DataOps
9 9 (21.95%) Line Management
10 8 (19.51%) Microservices
10 8 (19.51%) Scrum
11 7 (17.07%) Backlog Management
11 7 (17.07%) Business Strategy
11 7 (17.07%) Containerisation
11 7 (17.07%) Product Backlog
11 7 (17.07%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (19.51%) Python
2 6 (14.63%) Bash
2 6 (14.63%) PowerShell
3 5 (12.20%) SQL
4 4 (9.76%) Java
5 3 (7.32%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.44%) Bicep
6 1 (2.44%) Groovy
6 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.44%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.44%) Scala
6 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (7.32%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.95%) GDPR
2 7 (17.07%) QA
3 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (14.63%) Docker
2 3 (7.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.88%) KVM
3 2 (4.88%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (26.83%) Terraform
2 10 (24.39%) Kubernetes
3 5 (12.20%) Prometheus
4 4 (9.76%) Grafana
4 4 (9.76%) Istio
5 2 (4.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (46.34%) Google
2 4 (9.76%) VMware
3 3 (7.32%) Splunk