Platform Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Platform Engineer
UK > Scotland

As of 1 May 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Platform Engineer salary in Scotland.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 230 215
Rank change year-on-year +86 -15 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 1 47 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.035% 0.70% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.039% 0.72% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 0 16 5
10th Percentile - £40,833 -
25th Percentile - £52,000 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £62,500 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +38.89%
75th Percentile - £70,000 £77,715
90th Percentile - £97,500 -
UK median annual salary £71,750 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.33% +7.14% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 2,557 6,524 4,262
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.74% 96.85% 90.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,368 2,620 2,315
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,750 £31,569
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £73,449
90th Percentile £83,738 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Scotland

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in Scotland.

Salary trend for Platform Engineer in Scotland

Platform Engineer
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +149 1 - - 4
Platform Engineer
UK

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Platform Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Scotland region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas
1 1 (100.00%) VMware