Platform Engineering Contracts in Edinburgh

Platform Engineering
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Platform Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 70 109
Rank change year-on-year +9 +39 +16
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 6 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.96% 0.25% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.28% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £489 - £488
25th Percentile £504 £465 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £480 £519
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -7.47% -20.19%
75th Percentile £554 £495 £536
90th Percentile £558 - £544
Scotland median daily rate £525 £453 £650
% change year-on-year +15.89% -30.31% +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Platform Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Edinburgh

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in Edinburgh

Platform Engineering
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 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
1 4 (66.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) AWS Fargate
1 4 (66.67%) Serverless
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (50.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 3 (50.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 3 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (50.00%) Route 53
3 2 (33.33%) PaaS
3 2 (33.33%) SaaS
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (16.67%) InfluxDB
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) Artifactory
2 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (16.67%) GitLab
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) AWS CDK
1 3 (50.00%) React
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (50.00%) Kanban
3 3 (50.00%) Scrum
3 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Balanced Scorecard
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (16.67%) Generative AI
4 1 (16.67%) Human-Centred Design
4 1 (16.67%) Inclusive Design
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 1 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
4 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) Bash
3 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (33.33%) Groovy
5 1 (16.67%) Java
5 1 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
3 2 (33.33%) Grafana
3 2 (33.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Imperva
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
1 1 (16.67%) VMware