Platform Engineering Jobs in Glasgow

Platform Engineering
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 224 122
Rank change year-on-year +177 -102 +3
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 7 12 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.43% 0.30% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 0.31% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £40,833 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,360 £42,202 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +78.57% -26.61% +6.98%
75th Percentile - £44,928 £58,750
90th Percentile - £47,371 -
Scotland median annual salary £75,360 £72,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year +3.94% +18.85% +10.91%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 439 3,855 1,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 89.59% 96.64% 96.19%
Number of salaries quoted 254 831 646
10th Percentile £33,121 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,813 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.47% -1.82% +12.24%
75th Percentile £76,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,750 £78,750 £77,500
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +6.20%

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
Salary Trend in Glasgow

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

Salary 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) Apache
1 4 (57.14%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) CloudBees
2 4 (57.14%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon MSK
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
4 1 (14.29%) IaaS
4 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Senior
1 4 (57.14%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Junior
2 1 (14.29%) Junior Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Junior Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (57.14%) Continuous Deployment
3 4 (57.14%) Deployment Automation
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (28.57%) Cloud Enablement
5 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
5 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
5 2 (28.57%) Operational Stability
5 2 (28.57%) SDLC
5 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Change Management
6 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (14.29%) ITIL
6 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Ansible
2 4 (57.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) IBM
1 4 (57.14%) IBM Sterling
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) Veritas
2 1 (14.29%) VMware