Platform Engineer Job Trends in Scotland

Platform Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Platform Engineer salary in Scotland 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 148 136 150
Rank change year-on-year -12 +14 +77
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 7 10 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.26% 0.31% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.32% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile - £42,125 -
25th Percentile £68,813 £47,188 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £59,654 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.72% - -
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 -
90th Percentile - £74,144 -
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% +15.38% -16.13%

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 2,192 3,122 2,354
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 81.79% 95.80% 96.83%
Number of salaries quoted 934 1,572 1,886
10th Percentile £25,600 £30,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £33,735
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,750 £68,813 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,627
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% -

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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 Scotland.

Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Scotland

Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for Platform Engineer job vacancies in Scotland.

Salary distribution trend for Platform Engineer job vacancies 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 27 October 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
Edinburgh +12 7 £73,801 +6.48% 4
Platform Engineer
UK

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

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 Scotland 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 Scotland 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