Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Dumfries and Galloway

Platform Engineer
Scotland > Dumfries and Galloway

As of 12 September 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Platform Engineer daily rate in Dumfries and Galloway.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dumfries and Galloway 10.53% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 11.76% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Scotland median daily rate £425 £503 £500
% change year-on-year -15.42% +0.50% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Dumfries and Galloway

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Dumfries and Galloway. 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 Dumfries and Galloway with a recognized job title 17 3 0
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.47% 100.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £430 £293 -
25th Percentile £475 £354 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% - -
75th Percentile - £494 -
90th Percentile - £509 -
Scotland median daily rate £463 £463 £450
% change year-on-year - +2.78% -5.26%

Platform Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Dumfries and Galloway

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 Dumfries and Galloway region over the 6 months to 12 September 2026. 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
Moffat - 2 - -
Platform Engineer
Scotland

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dumfries and Galloway

For the 6 months to 12 September 2026, Platform Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Dumfries and Galloway region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dumfries and Galloway by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible