Platform Engineer Job Trends in Edinburgh

Platform Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Platform Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £73,801 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 85 102
Rank change year-on-year +12 +17 +51
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 7 8 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.88% 0.64% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 0.67% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile - £52,894 -
25th Percentile £68,813 £57,235 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% - -
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 -
90th Percentile - £74,144 -
Scotland median annual salary £73,801 £59,654 -
% change year-on-year +23.72% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Edinburgh with a recognized job title 661 1,189 995
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 83.04% 95.66% 96.23%
Number of salaries quoted 283 542 809
10th Percentile £25,000 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £29,375 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +0.80%
75th Percentile £72,500 £74,080 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,250 £87,419
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -9.09%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for Platform Engineer job vacancies in Edinburgh.

Salary distribution trend for Platform Engineer job vacancies in Edinburgh

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 27 October 2025, Platform Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) dbt
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 7 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (100.00%) Python
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (57.14%) Accessibility
2 4 (57.14%) AI
2 4 (57.14%) Asset Management
2 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Coaching
2 4 (57.14%) Data Architecture
2 4 (57.14%) Data Security
2 4 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 4 (57.14%) Product Governance
2 4 (57.14%) Snowflake
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon ECR
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (42.86%) AWS Copilot

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) dbt
2 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Snowflake
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon ECR
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (42.86%) GCP
3 3 (42.86%) PaaS
3 3 (42.86%) Pulumi
3 3 (42.86%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (42.86%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (42.86%) Redis
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 7 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) AI
2 4 (57.14%) Asset Management
2 4 (57.14%) Coaching
2 4 (57.14%) Data Architecture
2 4 (57.14%) Data Security
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (57.14%) Product Governance
3 3 (42.86%) Clean Code
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 3 (42.86%) Observability
3 3 (42.86%) Open Source
3 3 (42.86%) Prototyping
3 3 (42.86%) Service-Level Objective
3 3 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Google