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 3 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 53 67
Rank change year-on-year -12 +14 -18
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 13 19 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.75% 2.32% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 2.52% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 13
10th Percentile £479 £433 £620
25th Percentile £512 £440 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £453 £665
Median % change year-on-year +25.77% -31.88% +20.91%
75th Percentile £624 £460 £676
90th Percentile £655 £533 -
Scotland median daily rate £525 £453 £665
% change year-on-year +15.89% -31.88% +18.75%

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 695 754 853
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.41% 92.18% 94.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 494 596
10th Percentile £300 £275 £350
25th Percentile £392 £376 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +3.78% -7.69% +6.85%
75th Percentile £550 £561 £583
90th Percentile £600 £618 £682
Scotland median daily rate £463 £463 £475
% change year-on-year - -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 36 34
10th Percentile £15.61 £11.94 -
25th Percentile £16.84 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.71 £36.22 £13.88
Median % change year-on-year -45.58% +161.05% -62.93%
75th Percentile £23.86 £54.69 £22.50
90th Percentile £72.17 £68.75 £58.75
Scotland median hourly rate £19.97 £19.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year +2.41% +34.48% -61.26%

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 3 June 2025.

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 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) IaaS
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Slack
Development Applications
1 8 (61.54%) Git
2 7 (53.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.69%) JIRA
3 1 (7.69%) Terragrunt
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Linux Engineer
1 12 (92.31%) Platform Engineer
2 7 (53.85%) Python Engineer
2 7 (53.85%) VMware Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Linux Scripter
3 4 (30.77%) Network Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Unix Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Unix Linux Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Unix Scripter
3 4 (30.77%) Unix Scripting Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Distributed Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Management Information System
1 7 (53.85%) Virtual Team
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 11 (84.62%) Unix
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Agile
2 7 (53.85%) Collaborative Working
2 7 (53.85%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (53.85%) High Availability
3 4 (30.77%) OO
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (7.69%) Architecture Roadmap
5 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.69%) Coaching
5 1 (7.69%) Configuration Management
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) GitOps
5 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
5 1 (7.69%) Migration
5 1 (7.69%) Prototyping
5 1 (7.69%) Roadmaps
5 1 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (7.69%) Secrets Management
5 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Python
2 11 (84.62%) Perl
3 7 (53.85%) Erlang
3 7 (53.85%) Prolog
3 7 (53.85%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) Java
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
1 1 (7.69%) Argo
1 1 (7.69%) Istio
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) VMware
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat