Platform Engineer Contracts in Edinburgh

Platform Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Edinburgh is £530, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 68 106
Rank change year-on-year +6 +38 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 5 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.80% 0.49% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 0.51% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile £489 £479 £493
25th Percentile £504 £499 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.91% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £554 £525 £538
90th Percentile £558 £534 £545
Scotland median daily rate £525 £460 £525
% change year-on-year +14.13% -12.38% +3.45%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Edinburgh with a recognized job title 581 778 1,245
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 95.46% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 441 887
10th Percentile £211 £206 £247
25th Percentile £400 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £479 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% +0.84% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £545
90th Percentile £638 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 55 12
10th Percentile - £16.10 £13.62
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.86 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £50.00 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -55.13% +135.18% -10.48%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 £66.00 £54.43
Scotland median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
% change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Edinburgh region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) Bash
2 4 (80.00%) OpenShift
2 4 (80.00%) Ansible
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon S3
2 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (80.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (80.00%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (80.00%) Serverless
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) AWS CDK
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 3 (60.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 3 (60.00%) AWS CodeBuild
3 3 (60.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (60.00%) AWS Fargate
3 3 (60.00%) Kanban
3 3 (60.00%) Groovy
3 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (60.00%) Git
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 3 (60.00%) Firewall
3 3 (60.00%) Scrum

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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (80.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (80.00%) OpenShift
1 4 (80.00%) Serverless
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 3 (60.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 3 (60.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 3 (60.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Fargate
2 3 (60.00%) Route 53
3 2 (40.00%) PaaS
3 2 (40.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (20.00%) InfluxDB
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) Artifactory
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Kanban
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (20.00%) Human-Centred Design
4 1 (20.00%) Observability
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Bash
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Groovy
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Grafana
2 2 (40.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Imperva
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (20.00%) VMware