Platform Engineering Jobs in Edinburgh

Platform Engineering
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Platform Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 90 137
Rank change year-on-year +11 +47 +3
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 11 19 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.23% 1.27% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 1.42% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 11 13 5
10th Percentile £70,097 £58,500 -
25th Percentile £72,548 £66,250 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,360 £90,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -16.27% +29.60% +15.75%
75th Percentile £85,000 £105,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £97,500 £119,500 -
Scotland median annual salary £75,360 £72,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year +3.94% +18.85% +6.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Platform Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 869 1,338 1,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 97.42% 89.74% 95.88%
Number of salaries quoted 397 941 1,154
10th Percentile £26,929 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £97,500 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £54,471 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.75% -8.70% +4.78%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Edinburgh

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in Edinburgh

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in Edinburgh

Platform Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) Apache
1 4 (36.36%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) CloudBees
2 4 (36.36%) GitHub
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (18.18%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (18.18%) SaaS
3 2 (18.18%) Serverless
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Electronics
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Senior
2 4 (36.36%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Developer
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Java Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Lead
4 2 (18.18%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Principal Java Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Head of Development
5 1 (9.09%) Principal DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
1 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
1 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
1 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (18.18%) Java EE
1 2 (18.18%) Spring
1 2 (18.18%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 6 (54.55%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (36.36%) Continuous Deployment
3 4 (36.36%) Deployment Automation
3 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (36.36%) Microservices
4 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
5 2 (18.18%) API Development
5 2 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (18.18%) Design Patterns
5 2 (18.18%) DevSecOps
5 2 (18.18%) MVC
5 2 (18.18%) Non-Blocking Code
5 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Software Architecture
5 2 (18.18%) Storytelling
5 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) C#
2 2 (18.18%) Go
2 2 (18.18%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Terraform
2 4 (36.36%) Ansible
3 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) IBM
1 4 (36.36%) IBM Sterling