Platform Engineering Contracts in Glasgow

Platform Engineering
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 68 63 55
Rank change year-on-year -5 -8 -5
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 11 19 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.38% 2.17% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 2.36% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 12 20
10th Percentile - £434 £512
25th Percentile £457 £440 £620
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £453 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -30.31% +18.18%
75th Percentile £472 £478 £676
90th Percentile - £643 -
Scotland median daily rate £525 £453 £650
% change year-on-year +15.89% -30.31% +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 747 806 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.61% 91.90% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 515 629
10th Percentile £311 £280 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £603 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 40 27
10th Percentile £16.18 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £21.13 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +56.50% -66.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.14 £35.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £63.75 £59.47
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 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
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) IaaS
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Git
1 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 11 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) Linux Scripter
2 6 (54.55%) Network Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) Unix Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) Unix Linux Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) Unix Scripter
2 6 (54.55%) Unix Scripting Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Python Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Management Information System
1 4 (36.36%) Virtual Team
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (90.91%) Unix
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) OO
2 4 (36.36%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) Collaborative Working
2 4 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (36.36%) High Availability
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Python
2 10 (90.91%) Perl
3 4 (36.36%) Erlang
3 4 (36.36%) Prolog
3 4 (36.36%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) Bash
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) VMware
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat