Platform Engineering Contracts in Glasgow

Platform Engineering
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for Platform Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 59 53
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 -
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 19 27 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.24% 3.04% 3.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.42% 3.23% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 18 27
10th Percentile £434 £511 £475
25th Percentile £440 £620 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -30.31% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £478 £676 £606
90th Percentile £643 - £630
Scotland median daily rate £453 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -30.31% +18.18% +31.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 786 837 902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 92.47% 94.36% 92.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 607 684
10th Percentile £275 £348 £257
25th Percentile £390 £410 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £538
90th Percentile £638 £700 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £471
% change year-on-year - +0.96% +10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 31 13
10th Percentile £12.11 - £21.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £10.63 £23.70
Median hourly rate £27.88 £14.25 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +95.63% -61.93% +113.89%
75th Percentile £50.55 £29.38 £42.93
90th Percentile £66.25 £58.75 £47.10
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £16.50 £38.71
% change year-on-year +17.18% -57.38% -3.23%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Glasgow

Platform Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in Glasgow

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in Glasgow over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in Glasgow

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (47.37%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (10.53%) Confluence
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) AWS
2 9 (47.37%) Azure
2 9 (47.37%) Snowflake
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.26%) Route 53
4 1 (5.26%) Serverless
4 1 (5.26%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.26%) InfluxDB
1 1 (5.26%) MariaDB
1 1 (5.26%) MySQL
1 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
1 2 (10.53%) Terragrunt
2 1 (5.26%) Artifactory
2 1 (5.26%) GitLab
2 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.26%) Banking
2 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (84.21%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (42.11%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (36.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 6 (31.58%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 6 (31.58%) Linux Engineer
4 6 (31.58%) Network Engineer
4 6 (31.58%) Unix Engineer
4 6 (31.58%) Unix Linux Engineer
5 4 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (21.05%) Linux Scripter
5 4 (21.05%) Python Engineer
5 4 (21.05%) Unix Scripter
5 4 (21.05%) Unix Scripting Engineer
6 3 (15.79%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (15.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (10.53%) AWS Data Engineer
7 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (10.53%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
7 2 (10.53%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) AWS CDK
1 1 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (47.37%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (52.63%) Linux
2 6 (31.58%) Unix
3 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) DevOps
2 11 (57.89%) GitOps
3 9 (47.37%) Computer Science
3 9 (47.37%) Data Engineering
3 9 (47.37%) Data Pipeline
3 9 (47.37%) DataOps
3 9 (47.37%) MLOps
4 6 (31.58%) OO
5 3 (15.79%) Agile
5 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
5 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (15.79%) Roadmaps
6 2 (10.53%) Architecture Roadmap
6 2 (10.53%) Coaching
6 2 (10.53%) Configuration Management
6 2 (10.53%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (10.53%) Mentoring
7 1 (5.26%) Microservices
7 1 (5.26%) Software Delivery
7 1 (5.26%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 17 (89.47%) Python
2 11 (57.89%) Java
3 9 (47.37%) Scala
4 6 (31.58%) Perl
5 1 (5.26%) Bash
5 1 (5.26%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (63.16%) Terraform
2 11 (57.89%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.53%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (5.26%) Ansible
4 1 (5.26%) Argo
4 1 (5.26%) FreeIPA
4 1 (5.26%) Grafana
4 1 (5.26%) Icinga
4 1 (5.26%) Istio
4 1 (5.26%) Kibana
4 1 (5.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Databricks
2 2 (10.53%) BMC
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk