Senior Platform Engineer Contracts in Edinburgh

Senior Platform Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Senior Platform Engineer daily rate in Edinburgh is £479, 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 66 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Platform Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.16% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 - -
Scotland median daily rate £479 - £645
% change year-on-year - - +20.00%

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%

Senior Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Platform Engineer in Edinburgh

Senior Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Platform Engineer in Edinburgh

Senior Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service

Senior 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware