Platform Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Platform Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Platform Engineer salary in Scotland is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 241 220 243
Rank change year-on-year -21 +23 -94
Permanent jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 46 7 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.69% 0.15% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.16% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 15 5 8
10th Percentile £40,833 - £42,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,000 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,447 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +38.89% +5.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,715 £54,688
90th Percentile £99,000 - £58,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 6,492 4,293 5,478
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.85% 90.28% 96.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,614 2,331 2,944
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,058
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,635
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%

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
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram 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 25 April 2024. 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 - 27 £42,202 - 6
Edinburgh +48 16 £70,000 +0.80% 6
Aberdeen - 3 - - 2
Platform Engineer
UK

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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 30 (65.22%) Agile
2 28 (60.87%) Software Engineering
2 28 (60.87%) Python
3 25 (54.35%) CI/CD
4 24 (52.17%) Finance
5 23 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (50.00%) Task Automation
6 22 (47.83%) Jenkins
7 20 (43.48%) Spring Boot
7 20 (43.48%) SDLC
7 20 (43.48%) Pega
7 20 (43.48%) Build Automation
7 20 (43.48%) Gradle
7 20 (43.48%) Law
7 20 (43.48%) Legal
7 20 (43.48%) Risk Management
7 20 (43.48%) Workflow
7 20 (43.48%) Java
7 20 (43.48%) Ruby
7 20 (43.48%) Spring
7 20 (43.48%) Maven
7 20 (43.48%) CircleCI
7 20 (43.48%) Travis CI
7 20 (43.48%) Decision-Making
7 20 (43.48%) Camunda
7 20 (43.48%) Operational Stability
8 17 (36.96%) Platform Engineering
9 13 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (23.91%) DevOps
11 10 (21.74%) Mentoring

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:

Application Platforms
1 20 (43.48%) Camunda
2 1 (2.17%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (19.57%) GCP
2 7 (15.22%) Azure
3 6 (13.04%) AWS
3 6 (13.04%) OpenShift
4 4 (8.70%) GitHub
5 3 (6.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.17%) Route 53
6 1 (2.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.57%) BigQuery
1 9 (19.57%) Looker
2 3 (6.52%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (6.52%) Ingres
2 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.17%) InfluxDB
3 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (47.83%) Jenkins
2 20 (43.48%) CircleCI
2 20 (43.48%) Gradle
2 20 (43.48%) Maven
2 20 (43.48%) Travis CI
3 5 (10.87%) Artifactory
3 5 (10.87%) JIRA
4 4 (8.70%) Snyk
5 1 (2.17%) GitLab
General
1 24 (52.17%) Finance
2 23 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 20 (43.48%) Law
3 20 (43.48%) Legal
4 9 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.70%) Banking
5 4 (8.70%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.17%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (43.48%) Spring
1 20 (43.48%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.17%) AWS CDK
2 1 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.39%) Linux
2 3 (6.52%) Unix
2 3 (6.52%) Windows
3 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (65.22%) Agile
2 28 (60.87%) Software Engineering
3 25 (54.35%) CI/CD
4 23 (50.00%) Task Automation
5 20 (43.48%) Build Automation
5 20 (43.48%) Decision-Making
5 20 (43.48%) Operational Stability
5 20 (43.48%) Risk Management
5 20 (43.48%) SDLC
5 20 (43.48%) Workflow
6 17 (36.96%) Platform Engineering
7 13 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (23.91%) DevOps
9 10 (21.74%) Mentoring
10 9 (19.57%) Change Management
10 9 (19.57%) Data Engineering
10 9 (19.57%) Data Pipeline
10 9 (19.57%) Data Science
10 9 (19.57%) DataOps
11 5 (10.87%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 28 (60.87%) Python
2 20 (43.48%) Java
2 20 (43.48%) Ruby
3 8 (17.39%) Bash
4 3 (6.52%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.52%) SQL
4 3 (6.52%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.17%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (6.52%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.57%) GDPR
2 1 (2.17%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (13.04%) Terraform
2 5 (10.87%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.70%) Istio
4 1 (2.17%) Ansible
4 1 (2.17%) Grafana
4 1 (2.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 20 (43.48%) Pega
2 9 (19.57%) Google
3 3 (6.52%) VMware